Metallica Making 3-D Feature Film With the Director of Predators

​The stars of 2004’s Some Kind of Monster documentary are taking another sojourn into theaters. Except this time it’s in 3-D, and instead of being directed by acclaimed documentary filmmakers, it’s in the hands of Nimród Antal, who directed 2010’s Predators. (If you haven’t seen it, it’s about monsters, not sex offenders.)Metallica will start…

Elton John Brings the Crocodile Rock to BankAtlantic

Elton John With His BandBankAtlantic CenterFriday, March 9, 2012Better than: Any of your mom’s other favorite live acts.He played “Tiny Dancer.” He said it was for the ladies, but I know that deep down, he was playing it for me.The rest of Elton John’s impressive 29-song set list Friday night might…

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

Marco Torres”What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.” — Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don’t have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all…

Invisible Music Gets Seen This Weekend at Speakeasy Lounge

It takes eight people to create Invisible Music. Wait, isn’t all music invisible? Maybe not. We haven’t the time right now to contemplate this complex matter, but we will say that this Lake Worth band is big and visible. Guitarist and singer John Ralston says of his group, “it’s a different…

Five Under $10 For the Weekend of March 9 – 11

Friday, March 9*Tonight, Jacuzzi Boys start a weekend of locally celebrating their upcoming European tour. Tonight finds them in Palm Beach County at the Snooze in Lake Park, supported by Love Handles and Honey Train. Cover details are kinda murky but should be under $10. Click here. *Miami-based live hip-hop…

Five Local Acts Not to be Missed at Aura Music Festival

​Part of the beauty of a good Florida festival is that it provides opportunities to discover acts that don’t make many appearances way down here on the peninsula. This weekend, bands will be traveling from as far away as Philadelphia and Colorado in order to bring their goodness to Aura…

Miami New Times’ Artopia Brought the Goods Last Night to Villa 221

You might recognize the faces up there as those of Miami beat-master Otto Von Schirach. At last night’s all out music, art, and entertainment fete hosted by our sister paper Miami New Times and Miami International Film Festival Artopia, there wasn’t just one Otto onstage, but three. Three is almost…

Five Nightclub and Bar Trends That Need to Die Soon

Mostly, when you go out on the town looking for a relaxing or fun evening, you generally would like things a certain way. You want everyone to be interesting but not annoying. At this theoretical place where you’d like to party, people are doing and wearing things that you think…

The Ghost of Bradley Nowell Discusses Badfish

​​For the full slideshow, click here. Badfish March 7, 2012 Revolution, Fort Lauderdale Last night, Sublime tribute act Badfish brought their lovin’ to Revolution in Fort Lauderdale, and from what I was told, it was a pretty cool scene! You see, I wasn’t there. I was at home on my…

Boca’s Fallen From the Sky Invades Hialeah

The melodic punk rock of Fallen From the Sky has been going strong for about a decade now. Their presence was never fully felt in the 305. Now, we know a thing or two, and we know that if you’re going to start an incursion into new, or even old, territory, you…

The Ever-Evolving Ambassadors Pay First Diplomatic Trip To Florida

With little over a year under its belt as an official band, eclectic Williamsburg-based quartet Ambassadors found its music video for “Tropisms,” the very first single off the group’s self-titled debut EP, featured on MTVu’s Freshman Five. The young band, barley out of college was handpicked as one of five up-and-coming…

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: Numbers 5 to 1

It is with a heavy heart and a vastly underrepresented listing of aural horrors that we come to an end with this list. While our peers over at the LA Weekly blog, West Coast Sound had themselves an easy mark crowning the Dave Matthews Band as the king and queen…

Astari Nite on March 10 at Respectable Street

It’s been a couple of months since Miami band Astari Nite last played north of its county line, but the wait was on purpose. When the group hits favorite stomping grounds Respectable Street on Saturday, it’ll have a little more new material to air out. After several years as a…