It’s fashionable, isn’t it, pulling an In Rainbows and giving away your music or letting people pick their own price. It’s also fashionable to like the Pittsburgh DJ/producer/remixer guy Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk… Sooooo is it any surprise you can download the latest Girl Talk CD for…
The Counting Crows kick off their summer tour at the end of July in Virginia Beach. It doesn’t roll down to South Florida until October 4 at the Cruzan Ampitheatre in West Palm Beach, but it’ll still be hot as hell then so we’ll still count it as summer. As…
If you haven’t heard of the Fort Lauderdale based hip-hop group, Major League, they’ve been making a strong name for themselves as one of the hardest working groups in South Florida for close to a year now. They gig all over town, throw a weekly every Friday at the White…
One could say that Jamaican singer Papa Winnie had a serendipitous hand in the creation of O Rappa, the Rio de Janeiro-based reggae/funk-rock band that performs this weekend in Pompano Beach. In 1993, Winnie arrived in Brazil for an extended tour with no backing musicians. A pickup band was quickly…
For a long time, there was a roadside billboard in Little Haiti that read “Soul Is Waterproof.” It was an ode to Hurricane Katrina survivors, and those words ring true when it comes to one of New Orleans’ finest exports, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. It’s been a force in…
Like Green Day, Rancid was once reviled as a band of poseurs by much of the punk-rock intelligentsia but is now seen as a standard-bearer for the genre — and sheer persistence is a big reason. Early discs such as 1995’s And Out Come the Wolves were so derivative of…
After making his name in the mid-1960s when he joined drummer Chico Hamilton’s band, Central Florida-based guitarist Larry Coryell went on to become a major proponent of jazz-rock fusion alongside the likes of Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. In fact, he recorded and performed in the 1970s with both of…
Mudhoney With Birds of Avalon and the Getback Friday, June 13, 2008 Churchill’s Pub, Miami Better Than: Most other new-jack “indie” shows I’ve seen in the past couple of months. The Review: I was originally going to take a vacation from scribbling notes at shows and just check out this…
Ivon David Rojas Last Night: The Cure Friday, June 13, 2008 BankAtlantic Center Better Than: Explaining to your parents why straight guys can wear lipstick. Diehard fans of the Cure were in luck this Friday the 13th when the band performed a set lasting more than three hours, including four…
According to a press release that was forwarded to me a couple of days ago from the incomparable Afrobella (who you all need to check out), Bejan superstar Alison Hinds is performing an intimate concert tonight in Fort Lauderdale. Her gig tomorrow night in West Palm Beach at the South…
Pearl Jam Wednesday, June 11 Cruzan Ampitheatre, West Palm Beach Better Than: Waiting another five years for the guys to come to town. Flashing lights, smuggled cameras, and lots of hoopla inside of the Cruzan Amphitheatre signaled that something big was going on. Last night, Pearl Jam opened up their…
If you’re on the hunt for one of South Florida’s hottest up and coming MCs, let us end your quest right now. Rahsaan has been making a strong name for himself in the local hip-hop world in a very short amount of time. He’s got old school swagger, versatile rhymes,…
Much like a lover who keeps threatening to pack up and leave but never pulls the trigger, the Cure’s Robert Smith has suggested that the band’s albums/tours would be its last so many times that fans have little reason to even bat an eyelash anymore. But, as the band hits…
There’s a line in Gogol Bordello’s 2002 song “Let’s Get Radical” that goes something like: “You know mother, some things are actually sacred, and tapping your foot to the ceremony just won’t do.” The song has one of the New York group’s more abrasive and melancholy lyrics (it actually starts…
Over the course of 20 years and nearly a dozen albums, Melissa Etheridge has been through quite a lot: breast cancer, a struggle with her sexuality, fickle fans, and the difficulties of being a high profile (out) entertainer in a conservative society. Etheridge has taken these hurdles and employed them…
High Times magazine’s “Stoner Band of the Year” in 2006; two-time guest judges at Amsterdam’s “Cannabis Cup”; Hidden Stash parts one, two, and three. It’s no secret what the Kottonmouth Kings like to do in their spare time. And by spare time, I mean all the time. The Orange County-based…
Regardless of if you’re headed to the Pearl Jam show tonight in West Palm Beach, within the next two weeks, you’ll be able to buy or download a live bootleg of the concert to your computer or Verizon cell phone. Known for their ability to stay one step ahead of…
Stevie Nicks Saturday, June 7 Hard Rock Live Better than: Watching Stevie Nicks 10 years from now. The body of Stevie Nicks turned 60 last month. Her voice has been 60 for a while. Maybe it was all that coke in the ’70s, or maybe it was that her vocal…
Little Brother with Double-O of Kidz in the Hall Paid Dues Tour Saturday, June 7 Club Cinema Better Than: Believing hip-hop is deceased. It would be great to say the hip-hop extravaganza known as the Paid Dues Tour went off without a hitch this past Saturday night. The vibes were…
She whirls like a dervish and seems to evoke thoughts of witches, dreams, leather, and lace. But Stevie Nicks’ career extends further than the chiffon-garbed earth mother she portrays on stage. When she and former lover/collaborator Lindsey Buckingham were recruited into the ranks of Fleetwood Mac — after attracting the…
You know you’re off to a pretty kick-ass start when Spoon’s producer (Jim Eno) offers to help make your debut album. Thanks to Eno, in September 2007, the quartet recorded its full-length album Say Something and gained a bit of acclaim among certain music critics. That disc is full of…
We Americans often seem averse to immersing ourselves in other cultures, especially when it comes to the arts. Take, for example, Indian music. To the untrained ear, it conjures up notions of studious musicians plunking out sitar scales or furiously thumping tablas, all the while caught up in a meditative…
