via myspace.com/thelegendaryjcsFew frontmen are as wildly energetic as The Legendary JC’s Eugene Snowden. Backed by a badass eight-piece, he confidently recreates the soul revue sensations of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Snowden brings his own explosive quirks to the indelible personas created by such greats as James Brown and…
Jacob KatelA Real Vinyl Record Spinning On A Turn Table Walking home from Omni Station last night some kid sitting on a bike’s handlebars as his buddy pedalled south on Miami Ave. waved his hands and said, “Listen to that jazz music” in a mocking tone. So I stumbled into…
Once upon a time a man named Ace Roller was walking down a canyon wearing a fury coat of arms and carrying a deranged, damaged instrument that seemed like it might have at some point been a guitar. At the lowest point in the valley he came across two musical…
When you’ve spent a quarter century reinventing rock music, altering the landscape not only for yourself, but for pretty much every band to come after, releasing a new album can be a tricky affair. It’s not just a matter of increased expectations — of course everyone expects their musical gods…
The Mission Veo is a local favorite on Nova’s Radio X.Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists for South Florida’s campus radio stations. Click here to read past installments.University of Miami – WVUM 90.5 FM, “The Voice”The Voice is dedicated to playing music that commercial…
This is old news, but bears repeating: The version of 2 Live Crew does not feature Luke. Ok, that’s out of the way. But as the remaining members of the group — Fresh Kid Ice and Brother Marquis — told Miami New Times last year, that doesn’t really matter. Luke…
Is this you, Trash?Despite the bad economy, the city is buzzing with rumors about nightclubs opening and closing. There is already a deathlist circulating of mostly South Beach clubs that soon will be shutting their doors due to poor sales. We aren’t going to mention names, but any place that…
More acts need to do this: Start or end their tours in South Florida. Way too often, when acts are touring the U.S. they’ll make a stop in Atlanta and call that the southern leg. It seems like too much of a problem to travel all the way down here…
As part of its grand opening Saturday, Tim Finnegans in Delray Beach is inviting musicians to bring their instruments and participate in an Irish Open Mic. If you don’t have an Irish bodhran lying around, don’t fret. You can still pretend your heart pumps green blood by covering Cockles and Mussels (a.k.a…
Can’t afford/don’t want to spend a few hundred dollars to get Ship Rocked? That’s understandable, but no excuse to eschew your responsibility as an American to support heavy metal. Queensryche is touring all summer and has announced a date at Revolution just before heading off to Grand Cayman and Jamaica. On…
Photo by Brooke McInnes JacquesSouth Florida jam favorite The Heavy Pets will come back for two shows after their Bonnaroo debut this weekend. The quintet is heading to Georgia for two nights right after the festival, but will play Roxy’s in West Palm on June 23. Then three weeks later, the band will come around…
Every revolution has its heroes. You know, the legendary figures, poster children for their given cause. They usually get T-shirts, eventually to be worn by teenaged mall-dwellers who were nowhere near the revolution in the first place and who have little notion of what it all meant. Then there are…
Imagine for a moment what it would be like to grow up on a 40-foot boat, sailing around the Caribbean, taking in the various island cultures, and soaking up their sounds. By day, you study — math and geography by charting courses on maps, history by talking to the natives,…
The rock-country hybrid is nothing new. Employed by everyone from Garth Brooks to Country Western Troubadour of the Dead Unknown Hinson, subgenres have popped up ad nauseam since the 1950s. See, for example, rockabilly, punkabilly, and even gothabilly. (Who would have ever expected the term hillbilly to get reappropriated by…
Few frontmen are as wildly energetic as the Legendary J.C.s’ Eugene Snowden. Backed by a fierce, taut eight-piece, he adroitly re-creates the soul-revue sensations of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Snowden brings his own endearing quirks to the indelible personas created by such greats as James Brown and Al…
Hippies of South Florida, unite! Grab that favorite tie-dyed T-shirt from the pile of clothes in the corner of your room — you know, the one composed of stuff too dirty for the closet but not quite ready for a wash. Shine up your Birkenstocks, break out your hacky sacks,…
Fans of Los Straitjackets may have first come for the novelty, but they’ve stayed for the sound — a furious instrumental assault of twangy surf, hard rockabilly, and psychedelic garage. Oh, the Nashville band still sports the Mexican wrestler masks and Chuck Taylors, and it still knows a marketing angle…
Carlton “King” Coleman is one of the most musically influential dudes to ever set foot in Dade County. Read this great New Times profile on him from 2003 to find out how some say he invented rap music, but first enjoy “The Boo Boo Song.”…
Yesterday I posted an introduction to Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, and a link to a free Amazon download of the band’s excellent song “Sugarfoot.” Forgive me for waxing ecstatic, but this is one of my favorite new acts to come along in a while. In the music there’s…
Mark Pollack is expanding his involvement with Cinema Paradiso, at least for one night, bringing back memories of Sunday nights at Tavern 213. The record collector, promoter, personal trainer and walking musical encyclopedia is staging a record swap, punk show and movie screening at the awesome downtown Fort Lauderdale space…
To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. It’s the middle of June, so that means it’s about time for the monthly Keirin Cycles open sprints. The event takes place tomorrow night, June 11. At last month’s events, we had a debut local screening of Maca…
Los StraitjacketsThe Hukilau is a little slice of tiki culture a.k.a. the best current approximation of a mid-century approximation of Polynesian culture. Think aloha shirts, high socks, flip-up sunglasses, wood carvings, fruity drinks of uncommon potency and lots of music. In this specific instance we are talking about surf music,…
