Music

It’s the late-’90s inside a dingy club, hardcore music echoes throughout the room, and a female-fronted band takes the stage. A chubby-faced girl with scraggly short hair walks onto the stage and picks up the mic. She’s dressed in baggy jeans with an inside-out, over-sized T-shirt and some heavily worn-in…

Shooting the breeze with 28-year-old Fort Lauderdale native Travis Newbill will lead to whimsical conversations about artistic stimuli, meditational transformations, and botched relationships. Delivered with a starry glaze through larger-than-life spectacles and with an eccentric-yet-welcoming style, one can’t help be but wonder: Is he serious? Truth be told, Trav is…..

Nothing about Between the Buried and Me is predictable, starting with the band’s appearance. Although the guys look like laid-back surfer dudes, the band’s sound is a fierce combination of nearly every kind of metal in existence. But where other bands attempting an “experimental” tack wind up with a disjointed…

Spend enough time around South Broward and northern Miami-Dade and with a little luck, you’ll eventually have your own Yngwie Malmsteen sighting. And he’s quite a sight indeed — the Swedish-born, Miami-based shredder usually appears in full metal glory, rocking a sort of gravity-defying mane of long curls and tight…

Over the past two decades, Fishbone has changed markedly. Past members now outnumber current ones, and a few considered part of the classic lineup have quit, rejoined, and then faded away again. However, the important stuff about Fishbone has remained through thick and thin. The band still freely mixes metal,…

Nothing will probably ever match the exhausting, seven-hour Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party at Grand Central in February. County Grind had no voice, no wits, and nothing left to sweat out after that, and yet, it would be ideal to see so many energetic bands and bodies fill that space again.Well,…

Fitz & the TantrumsCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, November 1, 2011Better Than:  Almost anything that calls itself “soul” these days.Nearly 3,000 miles from their native city of Los Angeles, Fitz & the Tantrums made their Fort Lauderdale debut to a packed house at the Culture Room. Channeling the soulful funkability of…

Anthrax, the thrash-metal legends led by iconically bearded guitarist Scott Ian, has never fallen off. While other heavy-music peers with as much longevity have taken time to get weird or experimental, this act has always stuck to searing, soaring, anti-gravity riffs and melodies with a charging punk fury. Anthrax has…

Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions and observations about the local scene. This week: Ed Hale talks music, mobility and his attempts to save the world… When translated into Latin, the word Transcendence suggests an upward motion and a feeling of going beyond, freely tempered…

Just in case there’s any doubt, Lil Wayne can upstage anyone by doing virtually nothing. Take last night’s Odd Future/OFWGKTA performance at Fillmore Miami, which did not feature a performance by Weezy. (It also did not feature an assault on a female photographer, to our knowledge, because shooters are reportedly…

Los Angeles’ Fitz & the Tantrums offer up a grassroots success story built on unadulterated creativity, elbow grease and and just the right amount of luck. All systems were a go after the practice session in late 2008, and the band played their first gig just a week later. Six…