Moonfest, featuring Glass CandyWith Millionyoung, Under Every Green Tree, Brobrah Nation, Sweet Chariots, Darling Sweets, Dharmata, Luna Rex, Doorway 27, Hard Richards, Band in Heaven, and Loxahatchee Sinners Union500 Block of Clematis Street, West Palm BeachSaturday, October 29, 2011View a slide show from Moonfest here.Better Than: Digging under a car…
Plenty of songs have been repurposed for Halloween use. “Thriller,” “Monster Mash,” and Rebecca Black’s “Friday” (because that shit is scary) will all figure into this evening’s festivities, but what about arguably the greatest song expressly written for the holiday, Danny Elfman’s “This Is Halloween.”Featured in Tim Burton’s 1993 film…
Fans of Butch Walker & the Black Widows rejoice! We’re giving away tickets for the band’s Wednesday show at Culture Room. Don’t snooze on this…
Spaghetti WarholWith the Heavy PetsSaturday, October 29, 2011Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery, Boca Raton Shedding their questionably suggestive nomenclature for something a bit more on the silly side, Fort Lauderdale’s the Heavy Pets transformed into their Halloween-enhanced doppelgänger act Spaghetti Warhol at the Funk Buddha Lounge & Brewery on Saturday…
Kendrick Lamar Revolution, Fort LauderdaleFriday, October 28, 2011Better Than: White girls from Oakland yelling “Gucci Gucci.”Judging by the crowd screaming “Kendrick Lamar” ten minutes before he stepped onstage as if they were calling for an encore, the up-and-coming California native is no longer a secret. The Compton MC, who has already received…
The bicycle has always been a great prop. And even if you don’t possess Lance Armstrong’s bulging calf muscles, using a bike (or several) in a music video is a creative way to show that you’re a baller without bothering with the wildly overused SUV.All types of music are pedal-worthy,…
Last month, Fernando Perdomo’s Forward Motion Records put on a showcase of the label’s artists at Revolution. In a quick evening, 14 artists from the Miami label’s stable brought forth a wealth of material that our writer Travis Newbill described as “catchy at times but undeniably safe.”Now, anyone who didn’t…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Astrea Corporation.It’s been established that Astrea Corporation make music for and from the future: somewhere between trip-hop and dubstep and…
Until Tortoise records in a haunted house, at least we’ll have Bonnet People. Not much is known yet about this Fort Lauderdale crew of eccentric post-rockers — County Grind was somehow the first “like” on the band’s Facebook page — but the creeping crawl of the five-track Demo(n) comes just…
The live electronic five-piece Zoogma has left its Northern Mississippi home to tear it up all festival season. In between touring, some noteworthy appearances included major festivals like Wakarusa to Camp Bisco X. The quintet uses the auditory diversity and pinpoint musicality of DJs to reproduce a traditional dance music…
Plenty of Prince albums will always sell at a decent clip — Purple Rain and 1999 among them — but it’s a sign o’ the times that the three-disc Lotusflow3r is getting pulled from shelves.Two years and seven months after its physical release, available exclusively at Target stores, the backstock…
After providing you a high-quality Heavy Pets bootleg last month, we bring you news that another South Florida staple, Surfer Blood, has received the NYCtaper treatment.In short, this site is an invaluable source of live recordings that don’t suffer from the limitations of that shitty microphone packed into your iPhone…
Who among our money-grabbing readers would like to attend next Tuesday’s predictably soulful Fitz & the Tantrums show at Culture Room free of charge? It’s a simple question with a very simple solution if you follow along…
Little more than a homemade demo, Memoryhouse’s The Years has snowballed, and its sweeping cinematic soundscapes have rolled with increasing heft and purpose ever since. Barely out of their teens, the Canadian duo of vocalist Denise Nouvion and classically trained producer Evan Abeele’s lo-fi amorphous-yet-resilient recordings got them inked to…
Scott Weiland has not only been an iconic frontman for several juggernaut groups but he is the poster boy for rock ‘n’ roll excess and a sad example of what it takes to disable a career. Born October 27, 1967, Weiland has built a legacy that is quite successful on…
Born and raised in Compton, 24-year-old rising rapper Kendrick Lamar unsurprisingly counts Tupac and Dr. Dre among his musical idols. But rather than just aping the gangster posturing without any of the depth, Lamar has put his own fresh spin on West Coast hip-hop. Some have tagged him as “conscious…
The average Talent Farm showgoer was in elementary school during the first, early-’00s heyday of the Savannah, Georgia, act Circle Takes the Square. The band’s influence on the posthardcore, DIY scene can still be felt several generations removed. Thus, hopefully, if there is any musical justice, this show will draw…
Wednesday’s show at Revolution is a rare coup for area metalheads, with an intimate club performance by two of the top legends of thrash metal: Anthrax and Testament. The former, led by the always-goateed and outspoken guitarist Scott Ian, has remained steadily in the public eye over the past four…
Butch Walker’s multiple musical lives have developed as the only-in-Hollywood variety since he first headed west from his native Georgia in the late ’80s. His early musical projects included straight-up Sunset Strip-style acts with creatively spelled names like Byte the Bullet. Following that came the power-guitar-rock act Marvelous 3, which…
Johnny Jewel can’t do it any way other than DIY. As a result, the producer and icy-cool synth-wielder for disco-noir duo Glass Candy has carved his own niche in the underground dance world entirely on his own terms. During the past five years, Jewel has been a key component in…
Fort Lauderdale power trio Dooms de Pop’s long-gestating album Ticker is slowly making its way to the masses. Back in June, Monica Uszerowicz caught up with Garo Gallo, the group’s frontman and cofounder of the Bubble, to discuss the band’s current existence and when we all can grip a hold…
As you may well know, blood and guts are the new black. There are “Zombie Response Team” bumper stickers everywhere you look, people have shoddy zombiefied profile pictures on Facebook year round, and the undead have even eaten their way onto mainstream television with AMC’s adaptation of the graphic novels…
