If you’re headed to the Mad Decent Block Party on Saturday, Australian-born Thomas Jack’s will be one of the only sets that won’t be entirely made up of screaming, thumping, hard electronic music. Thomas Jack is best known as one of the faces of the rising “Tropical House” style: slow…
Last week, while punk rock band Authority Zero enjoyed their off day in San Antonio, they were met with some bad news. Their van had been stolen. “Our Tour Manager went down to the van to grab something and found it had been taken,” lead vocalist Jason DeVore said in…
“I can’t believe people are paying me to travel across the world, collecting influences, building new sounds with different artists.” Diplo, in the voice-over for his 2011 Blackberry ad, was marveling at his life and busy schedule — which was conveniently organized by his Canadian-designed smartphone. Though Wesley Pentz’s charm…
Dave Matthews Band Love them or hate them, it’s not officially summer till the Dave Matthews Band comes crashin’ into town. As expressed by New Times’ biggest DMB fan and six-year concert vet: “You’ll never see a band move a crowd like they do or tease fans expecting one song,…
It’s commonplace for musicians to juggle multiple projects at once, but few mount two tours at once the way guitar virtuoso Tim Reynolds does. It’s not enough that he spends a good portion of every year touring with the Dave Matthews Band. He’s got to spend his free evenings with…
Just when we were getting accustomed to calling the West Palm Beach music venue by its birth name, Live Nation and Perfect Vodka announced today a new, multi-year partnership. Behold, the age of Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre is upon us. During its history, the nearly 20-year-old amphitheatre has gone through more…
Question: Did Bruce Springsteen or Adam Duritz write the following verse? Sidewalk grate, here comes side-street Kate/Mid-Atlantic beauty makes me stay up late/Stuffed panda in her bedroom when she was three/Ten years later I skinned my knee/Meat thermometer on a back alley grill/Katie, she gave me a timely thrill/Where was…
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. In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit him on Facebook…
5. July Artwalk | Silent Disco 6 p.m. Saturday, June 25 at C&I Studios. 541 NW 1st Ave, Fort Lauderdale. No cover. Visit Facebook. Loud clubs are overrated – silent is the new noise. Case in point, the silent disco at C&I Studios this Saturday. At this month’s Artwalk, participants…
This time last year, a co-worker greeted me with “This is your weekend, right?” I nodded sheepishly; somewhat embarrassed that by my weekend — the weekend — when I would be seeing the Dave Matthews Band perform. Yet again. On the days leading up to the close of summer, the…
The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson Bayfront Park Amphitheatre Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Better Than: If you went to a Kiss/Cheap Trick co-headlining tour in 1995. In their peak years The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson would have never toured together. Though they are both of the same genre, the…
It’s difficult to leave something you love behind. It’s even harder when you’ve helped develop that thing and it’s done the same for you. This is where Nina Agzarian — aka Nina Las Vegas — found herself in 2014 when she abdicated her position as DJ of Australia’s electronic radio…
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. In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit him on Facebook…
There’s reason to head up to the Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton three nights in a row this week. The venue is celebrating its 4th anniversary, kicking off on Thursday with a show featuring Fort Lauderdale natives, The Heavy Pets in all their psychedelic splendor. Expect funk-drenched jams, tight harmonies…
The lights are dim. The drinks are flowing. The music is just right for your sensitive eardrums. You stare at your date, dancing in front of you. Your steps are not in sync with hers. You lean over and ask, “What station are you on?” She lifts her headphones to…
From Gulf Coast gigs to CBGB, from local radio stations to international stages, 3 Doors Down established itself as an iconic post-grunge band of the early 2000s. Powerful, emotive, and engaged tracks helped the group branch out beyond its roots in the Deep South to a global audience. Fifteen years…
Amy, the new documentary about gone-too-soon songstress Amy Winehouse, has been getting rave reviews (including one from our own David Rolland) and is easily one of the most buzzed about music docs to come along this year. But our friend Hilary Hughes at the Village Voice points out that there’s…
Marilyn Manson and The Smashing Pumpkins Marilyn Manson may be a ’90s rock revolutionary, but Brian Hugh Warner’s got nothing but respect for SoFla. Mainly because homeboy got his start in Fort Lawdy as Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids back in 1989. Now, Manson’s returning to his former stomping grounds…
Sinead O’Connor believes that Kim Kardashian’s appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone represents the death of music. Her provocative tweet last week blasted both the reality T.V. star and the magazine, and left bloggers split whether the Irish singer was telling it like it is, or trolling to muster…
If there’s one thing Welsh metal band Bullet For My Valentine are most looking forward to when they land in America as one of the acts on Slipknot’s summer tour, it’s this: “Barbeque,” confesses guitarist Michael Paget. “That’s one thing you do amazing.” Paget speaks through a thick accent, which…
I was skeptical about attending an Ariana Grande concert. After the “Donutgate” scandal, I wasn’t sure what to expect from her homecoming show. I braced myself as I stepped into the packed BB&T Center in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday night. Skinny preteen boys and girls romped around in short shorts,…
Lee Tiger, a member of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida and a bad ass rocker, will launch the first of a series of concerts entitled “Native Rock Celebration” this Friday night at Hard Rock Cafe at the Hard Rock Resort and Casino in Hollywood. The inaugural concert will…
