Fort Lauderdale’s Gouge Away Announces New Album, Burnt Sugar

After months of being asked the same question over and over again, Christina Michelle and her bandmates are finally able to give a concise answer: September 28. This past Monday, Gouge Away, the posthardcore group that hails from South Florida, dropped a bunch of new content and information, including an album-release date, within the span of a few hours.

Mike Kinsella on the Surprising Comeback of American Football

Few names in indie rock (dare we say “emo”?) can evoke the same reaction as mentioning the Kinsella brothers. Mike, Tim, and Nate have all played in bands acknowledged as towering influences: Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Owen, and the often-gushed-about American Football. Even a cover of that band’s 1999 album…

Warped Tour Comes to Coral Sky Amphitheatre for Last Time

One day, you’re a young punk, body-surfing shirtless across a sweaty crowd of high schoolers. The next, you’re worrying about your own kid behaving like a little punk in his seventh-period history class. Life is impermanent and ever-changing. Time can temper and mold even the most hard-core into mortgage-having, child-rearing,…

The Top Five South Florida Tattoo Parlors Offering Friday the 13th Deals

Although the exact origin of getting inked on Friday the 13th is unknown, it is speculated that Oliver Peck of Elm Street Tattoo in Dallas started the tradition of charging only $13 for tats on every Friday the 13th since 2001. If his name rings a bell, this is because Peck made the Guinness Book of World Records in 2008 for “Most Tattoos” drawn in 24 hours. How many did he ink, you ask? Exactly 415. We’re hoping the last ones didn’t come out too shaky. Here’s a list of five tattoo parlors in Broward and Palm Beach counties that are keeping the tradition going strong.

Sam Smith’s Seven Saddest Sad Bastard Songs

There is a famous line from Kurt Vonnegut’s time-traveling World War II satire Slaughterhouse-Five, which reads, “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.” It’s an ironic sentiment the author believes to be the perfect epitaph for his gravestone. For both Vonnegut and humanity, this is of course untrue, and no one…