Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge With Hussle Club Revolution, Fort LauderdaleThursday, November 10, 2011For a slide show from the concert, click here.Better than: Any goth night anywhere.It’s interesting to watch bands play the same show as a legend whose style they clearly admire and imitate. Last night, Hussle Club and…
Curiosity will lead plenty of folks to Opium Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock on Saturday for Kreayshawn’s live performance. Over the course of the past few months, the “Gucci Gucci” rapper from Oakland has immersed herself in the popular culture stream, and now is the chance to find out…
Simply put, Neil Young is an artist of remarkable dexterity and durability. Aside from the fact that he boasts a song catalog rivaling that of Dylan, McCartney and, in fact, every other popular artist of the past half century, he’s one of the few musicians whose every move is subject…
This Saturday, beacons of responsibility Missing People play their fourth show in two and a half years at Radio-Active Records’ new location with Pocket of Lollipops. Their last show was at Sweat Records just a week ago and the band is finally showing some signs of momentum. I played with…
This weekend, many of the live music fans among us will be making the trek up to Central Florida in search of the smorgasbord of sounds that will be the inaugural Orlando Calling Festival. Put the Pixies and Dr. Dog atop this writer’s personal list. Especially with the gaping void…
It’s impressive what folks pay — or what some other folks think they can get — for concert tickets. Before you drop coin for the $1,750 Radiohead show in February, there’s another bargain awaiting on Craigslist for Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne date next week at American Airlines…
There’s nothing better to call Malcom Lacey’s Arrange than Tumblr-wave. Over the past few months, the Fort Lauderdale resident has provided glimpses into his life and mind through his electronic music and a rather personal blog. Since Lacey has yet to perform a live show — in spite of many…
It’s been tough for internet poon hounds to score some eye-filling views of the Jacuzzi Boys’ (un)official “Glazin'” video the past few days because the thing keeps getting taken down and put up somewhere else. The Jacuzzi Gals — who semi-notoriously dressed up their vaginas as famous mouths to sing…
Update: The winners have been announced! Click here.You probably have a friend who claims to be an expert in politics and another in where to go out to eat and another in… well, any conversation that’s brought up. But beer? Everybody knows good beer.What we’re looking for here, however, is…
Geoff Tate, lead singer of prog-metal band Queensrÿche, is known for his four-octave vocal range as well for his band’s conceptual epic albums. On its 30th-anniversary tour, the group’s newest, Dedicated to Chaos, is a break from that format.Tate recently shaved his tresses not because he wanted a new look but to…
Been a long time since you rock ‘n’ rolled? It has been 40 years since Led Zeppelin released its colossal fourth album in November 1971, birthing such epic classic rock paragons like “Stairway to Heaven,” “Rock and Roll” and “Misty Mountain Hop.” Now, 31 years have also passed since Led…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions and observations about the local scene. This week: Ed Hale speaks. We listen… After catching up with Ed Hale last week in the first part of my interview with the singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboard player for the former Miami based band Transcendence,…
The postpostpostposthardcore scene has seen a number of bands with names cribbed from famous books. We’ve had an Across Five Aprils, and the Devil Wears Prada is still going. Now there’s Of Mice & Men, a Southern California quintet whose sound sometimes veers into George’s smarts but more often into…
While many heavy bands dubbed “progressive metal” have been forced to toil on the fringes of the rock world at large, Queensrÿche is one of the few acts to come out of that scene and into mainstream success. That’s because, despite any early noodly leanings during its beginning in the…
There are about a million current underground rock microscenes that, at one point, shared an evolutionary branch way back in punk rock. Trends in them are born, copied, and then summarily killed seemingly before anyone can even blog on Tumblr about them. Yet somehow, the national glossy Alternative Press remains…
In the spring of 1789, a quiet revolutionary fervor seized the rebellious bourgeoisie in France. While King Louis XVI and his cake-eating wife, Marie Antoinette, fattened in Château de Versailles, war, economic strife, and class inequality swept the land. A good 222 years after the rebels sharpened the guillotine and…
The Pixies’ victory lap continues widening almost a full two decades after the band last put out a new album. After originating in Boston in the late ’80s and creating a hook-filled rock boilerplate inspiring everyone from Nirvana to Surfer Blood, internal tensions tore them apart. Now, the core of…
There’s something in the air. It’s the aroma of a freshly popping beer froth, the bustle of bodies gently brushing past one another, the anticipation of carefully concocted liquid refreshment about to rush past your taste buds, and the thrill of the extra oxygen rushing through your head as a…
Bane with Defeater, Miles Away, Dead End Path, and Hive MindThe Talent Farm, Pembroke Pines Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Better Than: Practicing your mosh moves in front of the mirror. Last night, new-school hardcore fusionists Bane played to a frenzied audience at all-ages, DIY hot-spot institution the Talent Farm. And, in the process,…
Somebody call the Karma Police! Tickets for Radiohead’s U.S. tour opener in Miami have hit the resellers’ market, and they’re not cheap.For those who did not score any seats during Wednesday morning’s fan presale — the band’s site says “allocation now SOLD OUT” — take heart. Many of these tickets…
It has been nearly 15 months since the runaway success of Cee Lo Green’s “Fuck You.” The song netted him a third Grammy and turned out to be the added punch a lot of movie trailers in the intervening months needed. The song came from the Goodie Mob/Gnarls Barkley founding…
Saves the Day with Bayside Revolution, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, November 8, 2011Better Than: Sweating your ass off and being packed in like a bunch of sardines the last time Saves the Day was here. At the ripe age of 15, I had a crush on Chris Conley, but who didn’t? Saves…
