Yesterday we chatted with the fantastically hilarious Mario Cantone who’s coming to town with his very musical and comedic one man show. In the first part of our interview, we got his pick for the Dancing with the Stars winner and a seriously wonderful tale of Obama turning all fanboy on Cantone,…
There’s an old saw in south Florida that says “everybody goes south.” It harkens back to a time when BroCo was still seen as backwater suburbs and the retirement communities of Palm Beach were solely a winter playground for old snowbirds. Culture, at that time, dropped like a stone in…
Everyone loves a good music mix. And on last night’s episode of Parks and Rec, super cutie Ben Wyatt (played by Adam Scott) showed off his skills with Benji’s Cool Times Summer Jamz Mix. All you need to know is the first song is “Shoop.” Can you improve upon that?…
What is an artists den? Is it a place where painters in the ’70s gathered to watch the Brady Bunch? Is it a dusty cellar somewhere where musicians play under the watchful eye of an cruel conductor? Nope, not even a little. It’s part of the title of the public…
Kids across America will be swimming in Bantha poodoo come Saturday, as Lucasfilm launches their first wave of attacks against the evil empire that is illiteracy with Star Wars Reads. Maybe if little Anakin had been read to more when he was a kid, he wouldn’t have grown up into…
Since the early 1980s, Victor Wooten has been a sonic force, nurtured and tempered by his musical family — four older brothers and parents, all supportive and all innovative musicians themselves. Better known for the rhythm section he shares with his brother Roy “Future Man” Wooten in the long-running progressive jazz fusion…
If Mario Cantone hasn’t amused you from the tele on The View, then you’ve laughed at his character Anthony, Charlotte’s bestie on Sex and the City. The comedian is a gigantic force, he’s all energy, drama, and humor, whether on the screen or live and singing in person.He’s bringing his…
Breakups aren’t easy — but sometimes they’re for the better. That seems especially true since the abrupt disbanding (and subsequent hiatus) of Hey Monday last year after West Palm-born-and-raised singer Cassadee Pope decided to pursue a solo career, leaving the band’s future uncertain. Former bandmates and brothers — guitarist Mike Gentile and bassist…
Jon Secada, or Juan Francisco Secada Martinez, is one famous South Florida homeboy. Born in Cuba on October 4, 1962, the singer/songwriter emigrated to the U.S. at age 9, growing up in — where else? — Hialeah. Secada made it through days at Miami Dade (Community) College before graduating from the University…
The Bawse is, we suppose, coming of age as a different kind of boss, the chosen kind. With the announcement of his new mixtape The Black Bar Mitzvah it’s like he’s the Sam “Ace” Rothstein of rap. The cover even has him pictured dressed like De Niro’s character in Casino suspended…
EOTORevolution LiveWednesday, Oct. 3, 2012Better than: Any humpday I can remember. It’s been a few years since the String Cheese Incident’s percussion duo Michael Travis and Jason Hann visited South Florida as the notorious EOTO. As I recall, they were last seen booming the flaps off a dinky rage tent…
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Roofless Records Presents Jeff Zagers at Radio-Active Records on October 4
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Beats Antique at Culture Room on October 10
Not sure if you all saw last week, but Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union rode out Miami’s Critical Mass. The popular ride is usually like a mile long (or so it seems), but the addition of these two fancypants cyclists proves that South Florida is 100 percent bike-tastic, and D-Wade…
We hate to tell you we told you so, but…Actually, we don’t hate it at all. Still, somebody out there — probably some American Idol execs and Ryan Seacrest’s mommy — is stressed out by the steaming pile of Didn’t You See This Coming? that is the Nicki Minaj/Mariah Carey…
The Nashville musical duo of Amy Stroup and Trent Dabbs, better-known as Sugar and the Hi Lows, have a new sort of bluesy soul. Their sound pays homage to the classics of yesteryear, but their modern spin makes for an infectious sound. Even if you’ve never heard their record, you…
Tory Lanez’s stage name arose from two very different sources. Neither the first nor last has anything to do with his birth name, Daystar Peterson. A janitor in his community, he says, called him Lanez because he would weave in and out of traffic. And Tory? Well, that title was…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week, the Funky White Boy returns. There are many problems with cover bands, but one of the biggest is that their dance anthem happens to be Wild Cherry’s “Play That Funky…
Forget the flu. This autumn, the germ du jour is Neil Young Fever. The highly esteemed classic-rock singer/songwriter is fucking everywhere. Festivals, New York Times, New York Times magazine, on NPR, and, believe it or not, in Delray Beach. OK, that last one isn’t entirely true. Young will not be appearing in…
Eleven years ago, former nightclub manager and South Florida’s quickly rising luxury car wrapper, Michael Mogilewski, moved from his native Syracuse, New York, to Aventura because — as he puts it — he “lost a bet.” “It was one of those things,” he states coyly, with a wise tone that communicates…
