Calling an event For the Love Music Festival might leave you wondering, “For the love of what?” For the love of music? The love of festivals? The love of pursuing love? “It’s all those things, but it’s for the love of the art, of our town, Fort Lauderdale.” said event…
After a week on the high seas, soaking up equal parts sun and sounds of Satan, what’s the first thing passengers of the hard-rock-festival-on-a-boat Shiprocked are going to want? Tacos, and more metal. Duh. The first Metal Taco Fest, to be held this weekend at Kreepy Tiki in Fort Lauderdale,…
Bob Seger is the consummate road warrior. Even before Bruce Springsteen was kicking off his career playing college campuses or the beachside haunts of the Jersey shore, when John Mellencamp was still referring to himself by the nom de plume Johnny Cougar and John Fogerty was still at the helm…
Rapper Wale had an unpredictable and odd 2014. The D.C. representative of Maybach Music Group punched a heckling fan while attending a WWE event in April, left Jay Z’s Roc Nation management in August in favor of 77 North — run by LeBron’s buddies — and had a one-sided “beef”…
After a successful indie band plays nine years and then breaks up, you might think members would take their earnings and leave the music scene entirely. They might travel the world, experiment with drugs, hit rock bottom, try to hook up with someone more famous to get back on the…
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 his Facebook…
Music can make you feel old. Standing in the aisles of a record shop waiting for an in-store performance, you come upon used records from your youth. You scratch your head wondering if that can be right, that it has been 26 years since De La Soul’s 3 Feet High…
Miami’s large tree has long overshadowed other artistic enterprises in South Florida. But if the tree image is to be pursued, then it is safe to assume the tree has entered the fall season and the leaves have begun to fall. With the flagship Art Basel now known more for…
Aubriana Fumagali, better-known to lovers of independent, heartfelt music as Fauna Halø, has had a busy life since leaving her native Boca Raton and relocating to Nashville to pursue her musical dreams. Slowly but surely, she built a fan base in both Florida and Tennessee. The momentum she’s created has…
Alt-music fans familiar with Fort Lauderdale’s Bleubird know the local MC releases his fresh blend of music through Fake Four Records, and some may know that label is headed by Connecticut’s genre-twisting Ceschi. It’s not often South Florida is treated to a performance from the multitalented songwriter in charge. The…
Five years ago, Dan Schimpf and Alex Anfanger were fresh out of New York University, living in Brooklyn, trying to break into film. They wrote a script — a television show about two guys trying to make it as filmmakers — but no one read it. So they started making…
Listening to the old-timey Americana of Nashville-based Forlorn Strangers’ new EP American Magic Tricks, you’d never guess the band formed in Palm Beach County. But it was at a local writer’s group, attended by Hannah Leigh Lusk, Benjamin Lusk, and Chris Banke, where its harmonic seeds were sown. “There’s not…
Author Phillip Crandall made his way into the Swap Shop last Saturday at 6 a.m. It was still dark outside and humid as he set up a table in his little rented area. Even at the crack of dawn, there was a long line of people down Sunrise Boulevard. When…
In 2013, Steve Grand became a viral sensation when he released the music video for his single “All-American Boy.” It featured a bonfire, a party, hot girls, some beers, and a poppy, feel-good country song. But the direction of the video shifts, and you realize that Grand doesn’t really have…
Lately, one local musician, Steve Kleisath (best known for his work behind the kit for pioneering emo group Further Seems Forever), has been making national headlines — not for his stage antics, but rather for his exploits behind a gaming console. Last September, we mentioned that this locally-celebrated drummer had…
Drum ‘n’ bass is making a weird comeback lately, which is great news for South Florida, since we were basically the cradle of all things grimy in the premillennial USA. “Beat Camp was really influential,” Dale Nibbe, AKA Element, says of the popular, late-’90s/early-aughts party that blew up Mission on…
5. Thursday Sound Series Featuring Lather Up and Alligator Wine 8 p.m. Thursday, January 29, at Stache, 109 SW Second Ave., Fort Lauderdale. No cover. Visit Facebook. Stache will be opening its doors to some funk on Thursday night to start the weekend out right. Lather Up, a jazzy trio…
No matter that he’s been awake some 36 hours straight, Graham Drout finds himself traveling the roads of America’s Deep South, symbolically following in the footsteps of many of his blues idols. He’s working his way back from Memphis, where his band Iko-Iko ably represented the South Florida Blues Society…
The members of Bluejay moved back to Miami from Tallahassee in 2012 after finishing school as a pretty much acoustic alt-folk band. But after playing live more frequently and with an increasingly wide variety of other bands, their sound grew in significant ways. “The musical and artistic climate of Miami…
“A conductor is a lot like a football coach,” explains Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops. Football comes up a lot in the conversation, probably because his beloved New England Patriots are days away from playing in the Super Bowl but also because of what he sees as obvious…
Hypoluxo is a band on the move. Born on the mean streets of Lake Worth and currently based in New York, the young indie rockers have already completed two excellent EPs — It’s a Beautiful Day to Leave and Feelings — that they will promote with an East Coast tour…
The late, great Jacob “Killer” Miller said, “Dreadlocks can’t live in a tenement yard.” He was sick of nosy neighbors messing with his vibe. Just as the world could relate to his words then, it still can today. That’s why Inner Circle has made the song “Tenement Yard” a hit…
