Ron Cogswell / FlickrThe open road is calling your name. By Drew Ailes As musicians love to explain to anyone stupid enough to listen to them, organizing and playing shows can be a lot of work for little reward. In addition to wrangling multiple groups of morons in the same…
By Tracy Block AURA Music & Arts Festival is the brainchild of two South Florida musicians who became hugely successful event curators. The hard work and dedication of Daryl Wolff and Cameron Ferguson attracted a record-breaking crowd of 5K to the grounds of the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park…
By Amy McCarthy As I angled for a good spot at a concert a couple weeks back, an elbow descended from on high at dizzying speed, only to directly and sharply make contact with my boobs. I hollered, “Hey, asshole!” but whatever the DJ was playing was too loud for…
St. Patrick’s Day is on each March 17, a day set aside to celebrate Ireland’s conversion to Catholicism, which we honor by drinking in excess and basically acting a fool. 2015 will be not unlike every other year — an all-out boozefest with plenty of traditional Irish food, awesome music,…
Two bands responsible for some of the finest drunken-karaoke performances of all time are gracing the massive stage at Coral Sky Amphitheatre (most recently known as Cruzan Amphitheatre). Journey and the Steve Miller Band will be keeping rock ‘n’ roll at its most wailing and folksy alive and kicking in…
Before Girls’ Club’s writer-in-residence, Laura McDermott Matheric, was allowed to take her driving test, her father presented the then-16-year-old with a painstaking checklist of required tasks and memorizations that — if she remembers correctly — went something like this: Be able to change a flat in under five minutes, parallel-park…
“In New Orleans, jazz is a tradition, a way of life. Louis Armstrong here is like the grass that grows from the ground,” explained the easygoing Lumar LeBlanc about his hometown. LeBlanc handles the snare for the eight-piece brass band the Soul Rebels, which will headline the CrawDebauchery Food and…
The Sing-Off Live! Tour, an offshoot of NBC’s a cappella singing competition, is making its way to South Florida tomorrow. This is the second time they’ve taken their impressive vocal feats on the road nationally. The popular television show propelled a cappella groups Pentatonix and Home Free into the spotlight…
That debate on whether your favorite little-known musician was selling out by striving to expand their reach toward mainstream popularity seems antiquated these days. Some would call it so 20th Century. But there are still pockets in certain subcultures where authenticity and integrity are major reasons to support an artist…
“Kismet has always been a hangout for local musicians and artists. We’ve always had local bands play. It seemed like the perfect time to have a big party!” explains co-owner of Delray fashion anchor Kismet Vintage, Aly Gore. She and partner Liam Milano are hosting the store’s seven year anniversary…
Maybe it’s the glasses, but ever since Elvis Costello burst on to the scene with his 1977 album My Aim Is True, the British New Waver has dabbled in a wide range of activities that have nothing to do with strumming a guitar and shouting “Pump it Up” into a…
5. Rockin’ Jake Band 9 p.m., Friday, March 6, at the Downtowner, 10 S. New River Dr. E, Fort Lauderdale. No cover. Visit downtownersaloon.com. Saturdays at the Downtowner Saloon are all blues all the time. Catch Rockin’ Jake on the harmonica at this haven on the South side of the river, take…
Aside from dancing together with her partner and husband Billy Fajardo since 1999, Katie Marlow of FaMa Studios has traveled worldwide to compete for about five or six years. Now, however, Marlow had a change of rhythm. “It’s time to come home, you know?” she says. “It’s time to come…
In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit his Facebook and Soundcloud. Derek Walin is a South Florida native, born and in Boca Raton. He has made his own way in the music business, creating two careers, both as a successful…
“‘Bluegrass is going to be big this year’ is what I heard when I started playing around 1964, and every year after that for 20 years!” John McEuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band recalls. And while “big” remains a relative term, he notes there has been an upward trend…
Writers all over have been complaining that they can’t find information on L.A. band Corners. “I’m not really sure what that all means,” said the band’s lead singer and guitarist, Tracy Bryant. He spoke to New Times by phone as the band drove from Des Moines to Milwaukee, where it’d…
“Jittery, Zeitgeist, wither by the watering hole” is not from a Shakespeare sonnet but rather the second line from an Aesop Rock song. As you could guess from that one snippet, the New York-raised, San Francisco-residing Aesop Rock spent some time with a thesaurus. The rapper made his name in…
Reverend Peyton is the first to admit that the name he gave his outfit — Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band — is somewhat misleading. “We’ve had so many soundboard people ask us over the years, ‘How many channels do you need? I don’t know if our board is big enough!’…
It’s not until you’ve heard Gogol Bordello that you realize your life was lacking loud punk rock with festive Gypsy roots. Formed in New York City at the turn of the century, Gogol Bordello combines violins and accordions with lead singer Eugene Hütz’s Eastern European lilt. It gives listeners the…
At present, things are going very, very well for Behemoth, the Polish-bred band of extreme-metal demigods. Not so long ago, a cloud of uncertainty loomed over these titans when mastermind and frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski was sidelined by leukemia. However, not only did Nergal recover, the band returned with its…
By Tracy Block There’s not much quite like AURA Music & Arts Festival. Though in its sixth incarnation, for the past three years, this celebration of all things art, sound, mind, and body has returned to Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. It’s a time and…
One of the worst things that can happen to your favorite stand up comic is wild, unbridled success. Once they start selling out arenas, the end is near. There’s something about reaching the top that triggers that self-destructive part of the brain that’s usually a bit more pronounced in all…
