The Soul Rebels There couldn’t have been a more fitting moniker for legendary NOLA brass band the Soul Rebels than the Soul Rebels. “We named it after the Bob Marley song,” explained Lumar LeBlanc, the snare player of the eight-piece collective, to New Times earlier this year of their name. “We wanted to be…
No opener. No mistakes. No messing about. The best word to describe Saturday night’s Hall & Oates show is perfect. The 5500 fans attending the sold-out concert saw two masters of their craft show up on time, bang out a fourteen-song setlist (with two encores) containing the very best of…
Mr. Entertainment is a South Florida musician and herald of the local scene since the 19-somethings and serves as the unofficial Musical Mayor of Hollywood. The Art Scavenger Hunt started 15 years ago with a dozen or so artists having some fun, making works of art, then hiding them up…
Photo by Chad Kamenshine “Shreveport, Louisiana is a weird, isolated place with a strong musical history we’re constantly reminded of,” says Seratones singer and guitarist AJ Haynes from her Southern hometown. Though they came together as Seratones less than two years ago, guitarist Connor Davis, bassist Adam Davis, drummer Jesse…
On the blackest of Fridays, shock-rockers and self-proclaimed “heavy metal holocaust” GWAR brought their hilarious freak show to Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. Touring in celebration of their thirtieth anniversary, the band elicited more bloodshed and gratuitous violence than a pair of brawling moms at a Wal-Mart on the day…
Greetings, fellow penny-pinchers! It’s time for your weekly rundown of all the supercool, yet refreshingly cheap stuff you should do this weekend. Read on for details on a LGBT benefit, an autumn-themed Art Walk, a scary-good Black Friday event at Radio-Active Records, and more. The world is your oyster, friends!…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Follow him on SoundCloud, and like him on Facebook. Open the doors. Roll down your car windows. Pull your…
Delray Beach Playhouse will host Larry Parr’s loving musical tribute to Hattie McDaniel, Hi-Hat Hattie! for a two-week run starring singer-actress Evelyn Russell. McDaniel, aside from her special place in America’s less-enlightened past, was born to former slaves in 1895. In her short 57 years on Earth, she became an…
Florida might not be known for the blues but boy, is that profile changing with the steadily rising talent that is Selwyn Birchwood. The Orlando-native Tampa resident has been praised by Rolling Stone as a “young, powerhouse guitarist and soulful vocalist” and by the Washington Post as an “indelibly modern…
How does someone over the age of 21 survive a Borgore concert? Pre-game. Hard. Last night at Club Cinema in Fort Lauderdale, Israeli dubstep/gorestep DJ Borgore played to a full house of half-naked teenagers. While his demographic does normally extend into the college age range, this particular concert was 16…
Science, or at least Google, now claims that eating turkey does not make you sleepy — which gives you one less excuse not to go party with your back-in-town friends on Thursday night. As an added bonus, here’s one less excuse (think of it as your first Christmas or Hanukkah…
“I’d have to say the biggest change, among the many, would be the freedom to finally have free shows a lot more often,” says Jump the Shark owner Garo Gallo ahead of this weekend’s one-year anniversary party. “Allowing even the most niche and fringe artists and performers a chance to…
“You all want this in character, right?” Brent Purgason is the most recent addition to GWAR, the world’s greatest alien-themed, comedy-heavy metal band. His on-stage alias, Pustulus Maximus, is a fearsome and, as the name suggests, disgusting-looking creature. We start our conversation by deciding on whether or not to do…
If we had to pitch a new pseudoreality sitcom to the Disney Channel that could give the grown-up and moved-on Jonas Brothers a fair run for their money, we’d easily recommend the boys of Blast. Made up of bass player Benji Roberts (age 17), synth and percussionist Logan Moreno (age…
Take one look at ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons and you’ll get the picture: This is a guy who likes to be different. As one-third of the legendary blues-rock band, Gibbons boasts a distinctive, cascading beard typically complemented by headwear resembling a tentacled sea creature — not to mention more…
Feeling like a giant stuffed turkey? Eaten more pumpkin pie than you ever thought imaginable? Had way too much spiked eggnog? All that and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet? Good thing there’s a solution for that: burning all those pre- and post-Turkey Day calories on the dance floor! So grab…
Snakehole’s S/T 12” EP Released October 30, 2015 via Wharf Cat Records. Snakehole consists of Miami-based Autumn Casey and KC Toimil. They have been playing together since 2011 and have one previous release, a cassette put out by No Work Records. Casey plays guitar, sings, and also is an interesting conceptual artist…
Pioneers of the Philly sound that incorporated funk, R&B, and soul music (which, for better or worse, eventually birthed smooth jazz and quiet storm) as well as new wave and rock, Hall & Oates were and are songwriting geniuses. Both graduates of Temple University, Daryl Hall and John Oates met…
JACO, the stunningly real portrait of electric bass legend Jaco Pastorius, enjoyed a near-capacity draw at its South Florida debut during the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival earlier this month. The November 6 screening, which was held at a temporarily repurposed Hard Rock Live, drew producer and documentary champion Robert…
Chili, beer, and cowboy hats — these are the essence of the annual KISS 99.9 Chili Cook Off. Oh yeah, that and good old American country music. This year’s 31st-annual Cook Off will feature headliners Little Big Town, Jake Owen, and Chris Young as the ideal, twangy backdrop to the…
A hazy rock club thick with cigarette smoke is the last place anyone would expect a marathon, but Thursday night, Revolution Live was the site of more cardio workouts than any gym in Fort Lauderdale. A horde of Converse wearing punks and emo kids descended upon the venue for a…
Greetings, fellow penny-pinchers! It’s time for your weekly rundown of all the supercool yet refreshingly cheap stuff you should do this weekend. Read on for details on a disco concert, musical event at Vintage Tap, and more! The world is your oyster, friends. The Van Gogh-gos Midnight Market 9 p.m…
