If a karaoke bar had a baby with Dave and Busters, and then that baby grew up to have another baby with an even larger Dave and Busters, you’d probably have something close to Shout, the new 6,500 square foot karaoke complex in downtown West Palm Beach. The karaoke compound…
Sure, South Florida may have its fair share of corrupt cops, shady characters, and dad bars, but you gotta admit one thing: no other region beats our live music scene. Here, it doesn’t matter what genre you’re into. Whether it’s Lori Garrote’s “grunge/pop,” Jimmy Buffett’s classic beach jams, or Tortuga Music…
Sibling bands have long had a special place in music fans’ hearts. There’s always been an intrigue to how a family that plays together can stay together. Part of the fun of watching a family band jam out onstage is the uncertainty that at any moment they might start strangling…
Last year was only the second time Mad Decent Block Party came to Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale, but despite its short South Florida history, it’s easily one of the most anticipated shows of the year. In 2014, the tour grew by 9 cities from the previous year. And now…
Katie White. That’s her fucking name. And when you put her together with fellow Brit Jules De Martino, you have The Ting Tings, an electro-pop act hailing from the United Kingdom. The two met in London when White was 19, and bonded over their love of well-crafted pop music. Soon,…
The audience at Revolution Live on Saturday night was no doubt looking for a bit of posthardcore nostalgia. After all, the crowd — made up of folks in their late 20s and early 30s — were there to see Taking Back Sunday, a band that probably single-handedly helped them get…
“I feel like I’m closing a circle,” Tom Paxton, one of America’s most iconic folk singers, reflects. “I’m looking forward to way off in the future, November 14, when I play in Alexandria, Virginia, at the Birchmere Theater, which is only ten minutes from my home. And then I’m going…
Being a dad in Fort Lauderdale is tough. The rent is too damn high, your daughter probably dates a guy that looks like a sunburnt Skrillex, and your wife’s parents are are constantly in town. But, thankfully, God invented alcohol and chicken wings. Every Fort Lauderdale dad needs a chill-ass place…
Now in its seventh season, RuPaul’s Drag Race is the definition of progressive reality television. In case you’ve been living under a rock, here’s a quick and dirty summary of the show’s premise: Iconic drag queen RuPaul finds the best up-and-coming queens, puts them all in one place, and has…
Florida country singer Brooke Eden is doing pretty well for a young girl in her early 20s. She’s blessed with a set of pipes, and has been graced with numerous opportunities in her budding career. In 2008, she made it to the top 65 of American Idol. The young blonde…
With Easter coming up on Sunday — let’s face it — you need an escape from the family. There are only so many questions about why you’re still single and not doing anything with your life a person can take before they snap. Although we can’t get you out of…
The 305’s Telekinetic Walrus and the Pride of Ions may have started their Magic City voyage in 2009. But according to legend, their journey actually began galaxies away and eons ago when the Prime Primordial Walrus was placed at the center of the ancient universe to lead the Primordial Pride…
On Sunday night, some of music’s biggest names changed their social media profile pictures to a solid blue hue. Beyoncé, Rhianna, Kanye, Madonna and others went teal, and tweeted messages like this. And this. And even Coldplay’s suitably lame attempt at excitement. What the hell was going on? What was…
Now in its third year, Tortuga Music Festival is bigger than ever. The two-day music festival is set to take over a chunk of Fort Lauderdale beach on Saturday, April 11, with some of the biggest acts in country like Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown Band, The Band Perry, Little Big…
Although West Palm Beach’s Respectable Street has been around for 27 years, its weekly party, Flaunt, is barely reaching puberty. So now seems like a good a time as any to corrupt it with one hell of a birthday party. Flaunt’s 10 year anniversary party is happening tonight, April 2…
Before Marilyn Manson was making parents nervous and teenage closets darker, we was a skinny goth kid going to Broward Community College, playing scary music in dark Broward County dive bars with his Fort Lauderdale band Spooky Kids. Soon, his band would change its name, sign with Trent Reznor’s new…
Ultra Music Festival is 36 solid hours of EDM-themed overstimulation. Superfamous DJs! Pop-star cameos! Half-naked ladies! Oiled-up beefcakes! Dancing robots! Human tacos! Toothpaste Man! Pyrotechnics! Cryo cannons! Fireworks! Everything at Ultra deserves an exclamation point. Or maybe ten. And there’s never less than 120 decibels rumbling through your already stimuli-flooded…
Mo is something special. The middle-aged blonde bartender grabs a fresh Bud Light from behind the bar, reaches back, and sticks the business end of the bottle between her butt cheeks. She tenses for a moment, and then yanks it out with a pop. “Drink!” she yells, slamming down the…
This Saturday, at midnight, it will have been 21 years since Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain was found dead in his home in Seattle, Washington. But if it still smells like teen spirit up in Palm Beach County, there’s a reason. West Palm Beach’s very own Smells Like Grunge, a Nirvana tribute…
Any veteran of Ultra Music Festival who attended this year’s three-day event was pleasantly surprised by the increased organization and overall maturity of the audience. Certain seemingly simple measures, like an 18-and-over age policy and significantly improved perimeter security, taken following 2014’s trampling of security guard Erica Mack and the…
Few bands in South Florida, or anywhere for that matter, have put in the hours of effort that the Heavy Pets have clocked in their nearly ten-year lifespan. And for the R&B, jazz-funk, reggae-fusion rock band, all of that work has really paid off. After traveling across the country, the…
Close your eyes for a moment and go back to the posthardcore days of 2002, when lyrics were screamed through greasy bangs and guitars were strummed with gusto by black-clad guitarists. These were the songs that got you through middle school or high school — maybe even college. These songs…
