When The Psychedelic Furs burst onto the art rock scene in the late ’70’s, the English outfit were helping to create said scene. Labeled post-punk for their arrival after the punk explosion, yet preceding the torrent of new wave that engulfed the ’80’s, The Psychedelic Furs scored huge hits both…
Don’t ask Chris Carrabba why his band Dashboard Confessional is making a comeback. Never mind the fact that he and his outfit have been on a self-imposed hiatus for the past six years and that they haven’t had a tour or a new album since late in the last decade…
Last night in West Palm Beach, there was enough camo and American flag combos that, at times, Coral Sky Ampitheatre looked more like Fort Bragg. Ladies in booty shorts with boots searched for a good spot on the lawn, and thousands were ready to see a band that some have…
Around this time every year, Cameo frontman Larry Blackmon gets calls from people he hardly knows saying, “Larry I love you! Happy birthday, man!” But they never know when his birthday is — it’s listed as May 24 by some sources and May 29 by others. Few beyond close friends…
On the telephone Dave Davidson sounds like an ordinary guy. You’d never guess his was the booming, guttural voice of Boston death metal band Revocation. Davidson laughed when the contrast was brought up. “I have to work on my voice. Especially before a tour with vocal warm-ups. But I’ve been…
It’s tough to make it in music, and that’s true for every musician in any genre. Breaking into the music industry is like trying to climb a wall that grows taller the more you climb. This is especially true for jazz, one of America’s greatest and fastest shrinking genres. For…
Like talent, it can’t be taught. Like the wind, it can’t be caught. And like cool, it can’t be bought. Not at any price. It can’t be bottled, it can’t be boxed, and it won’t go in your pocket. It can’t be touched either, but it wants to be touching…
In just a few years, Florida Georgia Line has evolved from self-proclaimed hillbillies to country-music superstars. They’ve shelved almost 20 music awards since 2013. Their debut single, “Cruise,” is the best-selling country digital song of all time. And yet the band is among the most insufferable acts to ever muck…
The sometimes-glorious, often-notorious Miami rapper-slash-actor Notorious Nastie is an enigma. And we’re no Alan Turing, but we think we’ve sort of cracked the code to South Florida’s underground hip-hop scene by letting Nastie drop his insight on us like a firebomb. Notorious Nastie brands himself a nightlife impresario and entertainer…
Rap has always been a genre of shifting themes, varied messages, and ever-evolving production. At its best, it can be like a mirror, a voice that reflects the current climate of American affairs at any given moment. Other times, it’s just really fun music you move your head to. In…
For those of us whose Memorial Day Weekend consisted of nothing but sun bathing and Corona bottles, today will definitely be one of those days you really wish you could stay in bed forever. While you can’t take a “personal” day to recuperate from that MDW hangover, there is one…
Last Memorial Day, we took a chance on a relatively unknown DJ duo called Goshfather and Jinco to come play at Vibe during one of the biggest weekends of the year. Playing on the West Coast (especially L.A., where these guys are from) is quite different from playing in South…
On any given weekend you can walk into Fort Lauderdale’s Jump the Shark and expect to find a loud and bright smorgasbord of art and music. And this weekend is no different. The Shark Valley Sisters are bringing its raw, attitudinal rock to a wonderfully eclectic line-up at Jewel’s Squeaky Wheels Get…
The long state of Florida holds nothing but inspiration for the five members of the Americana band Mylo Ranger. From their southeast home in Delray Beach to the shores of Pensacola to forgotten spots in between, the band has found fuel for their country-tinged rock sprinkled throughout this beautifully weird…
Let’s just say it: There aren’t a whole lot of black people in country music. In fact, if you do a Google image search right now for “black country music stars,” Darius Rucker pops up on the front row four times. Charley Pride shows up once. Country singer Clint Black…
Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us, and with that comes a number of beer-soaked beach and poolside parties to launch us into the summer months. From Fort Lauderdale Beach’s 6th Annual Great American Beach Party on Saturday, May 23, to the Salvation Memorial Day Pool Party at the W…
Already counting down the days till the start of Memorial Day Weekend … and it’s only Tuesday? Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner, but still so far away. But fear not, weekend warriors. We’re hooking you up with back-to-back live shows (and some kick ass parties) from some pretty…
“Wide Eyes”, the sunny new single released today by West Palm indie rockers, Rivers, is a sign of maturity explained singer/songwriter/guitarist Danny Brunjes. “The first EP we were throwing as many darts as we could and waited to see what hit. Our songwriting evolution has taken a stronger form.” The…
What’s love? We sing about it, write about it, and fight about it. But we hardly understand it. Ernest Hemingway admitted he could write well only when he was in love. Schopenhauer relates us to hedgehogs who can never get intimate without pricking a lover with our proverbial quills. Outkast’s…
Hip-hop and health don’t go together. Who’s ever dropped the mic after a sick rhyme about pilates? It’s better to spit about blacked-out lungs and kidney stones than nutrition and exercise. Kale and grass-fed beef — the kind you eat — are utterly absent from rap lyrics. The only cardio…
Florida is a bizarre, sunburned place, there’s no question about that. Thankfully however, not everything strange in our state ends up as a joke on The Daily Show. Sometimes we actually manage to produce oddities that are quite delightful. Makers Square, a membership-based makerspace and social club in Fort Lauderdale,…
“We owe it to the fans who have kept us going all these years,” says Strung Out’s Jake Kiley. “They’ve kept us fired up to keep going.” This has been the ethos for the Simi Valley band, now in its twenty-sixth year in existence. The band’s latest album, Transmission.Alpha.Delta, its eighth,…
