It’s easy to make friends when you wear pasties at EDC. I would know. I did it last weekend at Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. I didn’t plan for this to happen. When I packed for the festival, I chose regular clothes—shorts, tank tops, a sundress. You see, I’m…
Editor’s Note: This article is featured in the June 25 issue of the Broward-West Palm Beach New Times. As the paper went to press, it was announced that Vivian Campbell will undergo treatment for a recurrence of cancer and will miss a number of Def Leppard shows, including the band’s…
A few hours before Electric Daisy Carnival opened in Las Vegas on Friday, Carl Cox sat near the pool at the Flamingo Hotel, ready to explain why he has remained so interested in electronic music after decades of DJing, producing and remixing. He pauses mid-sentence and motions towards the DJ…
Limelight: Sock Hop Do the sock hop! Relive the retro cool days of rock ‘n’ roll and old-school rhythm and blues with “octogenarian band leader,” Otis Cadillac and the El Dorados R&B Revue at BaCa. With Otis Cadillac and the El Dorados R&B Revue. Wednesday, June 24, 5:30 p.m. Bailey Contemporary…
Besides this weekend being Father’s Day or just any ol’ weekend in South Florida, it’s the weekend of Lauderdale Live 2015. What is this type of festivity, you ask? It is three days bands playing at Huizenga Plaza. Bring Dad and tell him it’s a gift for him but really,…
British DJ Fatboy Slim makes his return to South Florida this week, with a show at the Fontainebleau’s LIV Nightclub on Saturday. To most U.S. audiences the DJ, real name Norman Cook, first made his mark with the joyously triumphant, sonically pulverizing 1998 album, You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby,…
Lana Del Rey’s Endless Summer Tour. Lana Del Rey may be bringing the death of the American Dream to the 561, but in South Florida, summer truly is endless. Guess that must be why little Ms. “Blue Jeans” is bringing her Endless Summer Tour to the Coral Sky Amphitheatre. With…
Last February, Exposed PR and C&I Studios joined forces to put on the first ever For the Love music festival. The event brought just about every local band south of Orlando (more than 30 live acts) to Fort Lauderdale’s FAT Village for an entire day of art, beer, and —…
Two equally significant ingredients in Lana Del Rey’s rise to fame were the shockwaves her early crossover singles/videos (“Video Games,” “Born to Die”) sent across the blogosphere, and the critical backlash that spewed from critics’ keyboards when her resulting full-length, Born to Die, and subsequent live performances, didn’t meet their…
While many would be intimidated to replace a lead singer in a band that had found major success, Bobby Amaru says joining Saliva has been no sweat. After 15 years of rapping hits like “Always” for the Tennessee metal band, Josey Scott left Saliva in 2011 to sing Christian music…
The summer tour season brings many curiosities to your doorstep, ghosts of music past sent to stir up emotions long unfelt—or at least buried beneath years of turned-over trends. When Candlebox plays “Far Behind” at Revolution Live this Saturday, will you tear up and hug your grunge poetry-scribbling, flannel-clad high…
Chloe Dolandis.Chloe Dolandis’ debut album, Bring Back the Fever, may have been released as a jazz album in 2011, but, as the Boca-bred artist told New Times in a recent interview, there’s More to her talents than being “pigeon-holed into one genre.” That’s why the “young voice with an old soul”…
Saturday night, Miami’s Bayfront Park Amphitheater hosted an evening of returns and homecomings. Third Eye Blind was back in the South Florida area for the first time since 2013 for its co-headlining tour with Dashboard Confessional. Speaking of which, Chris Carrabba and his old bandmates reunited on stage after a…
With 2015 marking the twentieth summer series at Coral Sky Amphitheatre and with Live Nation always looking for ways to fill out their lawns around the country, the concert behemoth is giving fans a break on tickets this week. From 10 a.m. today through Sunday, lawn tickets will be available…
The War on Drugs is still very much Lost in the Dream of its breakout year. Since the release of its gorgeous, expansive, and undoubtedly brilliant album in 2014, the Philadelphia band has spent the majority of its time dancing on the positive side of almost every critical tongue and…
Miami jam band Suénalo — Spanish slang for “hit it!” — is often described as an Afro-Latin in style. But that’s just doesn’t go far enough. Think Dave Matthews as Davíd Matteos. But then replace Dave’s Creole-seeped scatting with reggaeton influenced raps, a full-time female vocalist and dogged suave. We…
If nothing else, The Gipsy Kings hold the distinction of being the soundtrack to one of the great moments in comedic history. If you’ve never seen The Big Lebowski, you should stop what you’re doing right now and change that. But those sane souls who have seen the Cohen Brothers classic…
Singer Brett Scallions had as good an excuse as any to leave his rock band Fuel for a few years. “Robbie and Ray called me to do the Doors thing.” That would be Robbie Krieger and Ray Manzarek, the original members of the Doors who asked Scallions to step into…
Hate him or tolerate him, Pitbull represents South Florida. Or he at least depicts a corrupted stereotype of our collective counties. When he burst like a boil onto mainstream music he proudly rocked Miami-Dade’s area code as Mr. 305. Mr. 305 now prefers Mr. Worldwide but he nonetheless puts on…
No matter how much work is on your to-do list, sometimes you just gotta turn up the music and take the week on like a boss. While jamming Spotify deep inside your ear canal will definitely help you get through the long days, creeping deadlines, and disastrous inbox, nothing will…
Let’s get this out of the way right here, right now — I’m a Blockhead, AKA a New Kids on the Block fan. Have been since 1989. So if you’re expecting to read a takedown of the 1980s pop group that is still going strong 25 years after it first…
Six hours after Tweeting “ugh boob sweat,” the 22-year-old international pop star Charli XCX shared an even more disheartening message on Twitter. The singer who rose to fame after making appearances on Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” and Icona Pop’s “I Don’t Care,” shared a photo of a handwritten note on Twitter…
