Music lovers have been trickling into Okeechobee’s Sunshine Grove all week, and Friday, March 4, the main stages officially opened to the public, launching Florida’s latest multi-day music festival, with top talent, camping, art installations, and a wellness area dedicated to yoga and meditation. The four-night inaugural music festival had…
While saying he misses performing, Phil Collins on Friday afternoon scoffed at the notion of launching a world tour, which makes sense: How can a guy travel the world when he needs a cane for every step he takes? A scruffy and limping Collins did talk up one concert –…
After several successful albums, and a recent Grammy nomination, Pennsylvania’s own August Burns Red makes its latest South Florida appearance March 7th, at Fort Lauderdale’s Revolution Live. Formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 2003, ABR, as they’ve come to be known, have gone from high school shows in their home state…
While most people are well aware of the massive amount of hits Steve Miller scored on pop radio in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, fewer know of the storied history that began in the mid ‘60s and made him a star of the burgeoning progressive rock scene later on…
Apart from Dilla, Dre, Kanye, and handful of others, producers rarely rise from behind the boards to achieve the same kind of recognition that recording artists garner for their hits. Not that vocalists don’t deserve credit for their tracks, but we’re timing out to show some love to the producers…
Deland’s Roadkill Ghost Choir has quietly grown into the band most expected them to be: hard-rocking, sentient, and fully imbued with a sense of Central Florida rock. That doesn’t mean the band are Tom Petty ripoffs, but their sound and, in particular, the vocals of Andrew Shepard, do call back…
Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach are looking for a part-time clubs listings editor. The job involves keeping track of bars and music in two of the most dynamic markets in the United States for our website. It involves mostly remote work, but presence in the office is…
Headed to Okeechobee Fest this weekend? Still scrambling to put together travel plans to the near-mythologized festival grounds at Sunshine Grove? Trying your best to do this thing on the cheap? Now you can breathe a bit easier since Uber announced it will offer flat fares to and from the…
The two names have always appeared inseparable. Nevertheless, Daryl Hall and John Oates have other priorities these days. Hall’s Live From Daryl’s House has become a cable sensation, while Oates has turned his attention to writing, performing, and producing as part of a new Nashville collective of singers and songwriters…
John Coltrane. Kenny G. Lisa Simpson. These famous names play a mean golden horn, but despite their sexy skills, the saxophone hasn’t always been the coolest craft on the block. “When I first started Big Gigantic, there was no sax [in electronic music],” says Big G’s sexy sax man, Dominic…
It’s a bright Sunday morning in Sunshine Grove as your fellow campers begin to stir, and apart from the fact that your shoulders are red and itchy and your shoes crusted over and soggy from days of trudging through mud, it’s glorious! After breakfast, three hearty, lukewarm PBRs that for…
Vince Gill and Lyle Lovett Brace yourself for a night of Songs and Stories as Vince Gill and Lyle Lovett top off their 13-city tour at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts. Back in 2015, Gill and Lovett joined musical forces for a four-day mini-tour where the two country music giants…
Bands for Bernie was a lot like the Bernie Sanders campaign: full of good ideas, but ultimately you knew it wasn’t going to work out. (Not that it’s over for him, but after the South Carolina smackdown…) Held on J Street in downtown Lake Worth, BFB was an all-day love…
10. Avett Brothers. Though they still retain the down-home, good-old-boy persona that distinguished them early on, the Avett Brothers have advanced headfirst into the major leagues thanks to a major label deal with Republic Records and an expanded lineup featuring five players. It’s earned them some serious bragging rights, including…
It was a crisp 60 degrees out when the Beach Boys brought their sunny surf rock songs to the Hard Rock Live this past Saturday night. Though it didn’t exactly feel like beach weather, it wasn’t hard to imagine rocking out on the hot South Florida sand. Beach Boys cofounder…
Politics. It’s the one topic, aside from religion, that most people avoid in polite conversation. But when the time for politeness has passed and opinions need to be shouted, what better way to do it than with a rock n roll block party? This Sunday, February 28th, J Street in…
Rayland Baxter is a gifted and literate singer/songwriter, but he didn’t begin his career in earnest until the latter half of his 20s. All it took for this late bloomer to get going was a career-ending knee injury and some heartbreak. The son of Bucky Baxter, a distinguished steel pedal…
Iron Maiden made world headlines last week when it was revealed that the massive 747 carrying them from city to city for their world tour would be piloted by Bruce Dickinson —- their lead singer. After becoming on of the biggest metal bands in the world in the 1980s, he…
“When you’re young and you see your vision and you believe in it, I’m kinda the guy who did that,” says Michael Wilton, founder and guitarist of Queensrÿche. “I’m the kind of guy that if I’m going to do something, I’m gonna do it to the utmost and best of…
For a band that’s always espoused the simple joys of growing up in idyllic innocence, replete with surf, sand, girls, hotrods, and whatever else it’s taken to share in the fun, fun, fun, the Beach Boys are no strangers to controversy. Brian Wilson, the band’s mentor and resident genius, suffered…
In a world of high tech and low ambitions, the basics of the blues aren’t always fully appreciated — or even understood. An opportunity to experience the complex and uniquely American form in its purest incarnation, to appreciate its essence and the relevance it still holds today, is thus reason…
With three massive worldwide hits — “Time of the Season,” “Tell Her No,” and “She’s Not There” — that positioned them at the top of the charts during the height of the British Invasion with a style encapsulating jazz, blues, classical, and progressive pop, the Zombies created a sound that…
