For a little over a year, Mike Linder filled Green Room with dark dance tunes and a crowd that loves the nighttime with Black Fridays. The weekly Fort Lauderdale party featured everything from suspension piercing and girls using power tools on their crotches, to folks dressed up like dead celebs…
Up here in BroCo and PBC, we have plenty of festivals to keep us occupied. Miami, well, that’s another story. Festivals seem much rarer down there than the standalone blowout concert. That’s why the announcement of the three-day III Points music and arts fest in Wynwood is particularly notable South…
Who would have guessed that in 2013, we’d still be writing about the guy who serenaded “I Believe I Can Fly” to Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan in the movie Space Jam? But R. Kelly’s career trajectory changed with his creation of the epic 33-chapter R&B opera “Trapped in The…
Ominous, bass-heavy beats rumble the wall speakers inside a two-story house that’s been converted into a music recording studio. SpaceGhostPurrp slowly nods along, pausing to sip from a cup of Gatorade mixed with prescription cough syrup and to puff on a blunt stuffed with California dank. Dressed in a red…
We all remember those unforgivably awful words uttered by John Mayer, the ones that made tasteful folks around the planet cringe: “I wanna run through the halls of my high school; I wanna scream at the top of my lungs!” Oh, and then there were those other horrifying words printed…
You know intimately what a cassette is. You remember the delicate surgery of unraveling the magnetic tape from your brown, boxy, Fisher Price player. You can taste those tears you shed when the procedure didn’t go so well. There were many failed attempts to salvage the mix you recorded off…
If you were on the rag or expecting to be last July 12, and you were bold enough to bring tampons or pads along with you to the Texas capitol that day, you got quite a surprise. The state Senate was voting, and Gov. Rick Perry signing off on some…
Throughout the 21st century, a common complaint for Miami Dolphins fans is that their team would too often settle for a field goal, with its near certain three points, rather than go for a touchdown and its far less certain seven points. With the Dolphins wallowing in mediocrity for much…
Maitejosune Urrechaga is a South Florida artist working in so many creative areas, that there’s too many to mention in this intro: comic books, films, novels. She is perhaps best known as the “better half” of Miami’s Pocket of Lollipops, a husband and wife outfit where she plays bass and…
For the former lead singer of the Runaways, Cherie Currie, life has been an intense ride. While a portion of the Runaways’ story has finally been told thanks to a 2010 biopic starring Dakota Fanning as Cherie and Kristen Stewart in the role of guitarist and foil Joan Jett, the…
It’s almost noon. So by now, you’ve at least seen a clip of Miley Cyrus’ 2013 MTV Video Music Awards performance. And you’re still cringing. We can actually feel the heat the whole world is generating in the collective horrified blush that this set into motion, right here from our…
South Florida’s Serum is one of the most prolific dudes in the underground hip-hop game. A creative force who has dispensed with the bullshit glitz and glam of mainstream rap, Serum’s efforts have been featured within these digital pages in the past but we had not had a chance to…
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the National League East was still up for grabs. Having taken three of four games against the Marlins, the third-place New York Mets squad was within five games of its division rival, the Atlanta Braves, and set to start a series against the…
Evan Rowe has been a part of Fort Lauderdale’s music scene for over a decade now. If you’re a newcomer or a young-ish millennial following music around these parts, you probably know him as the often-tutued half of the cross-dressing outfit Travalonia, a band name that mashes the moniker of…
Album release parties can be a snoozer. We get it: You made an album. But the fine gentlemen of Boca’s Phantomime are doing their best to smash that potential boredom into tiny little pieces with one explosive formula. Their The Heist EP release party is for the people. Because it…
FastForward is a column documenting the nighttime scene in Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach County. It’s a weeknight stop at your neighborhood dive; it’s a blurry, bass-filled Friday night in the club; it’s that one moment in a conversation you hope you’ll remember the next morning. For hundreds of suburban-dwelling,…
The Beatles would have been the Beatles even with Pete Best behind the drum kit. The Yardbirds went from Eric Clapton to Jeff Beck to Jimmy Page without skipping a beat. Nobody can ever name the bassist. But if you change the lead singer, a band is transformed completely and…
Laying down bars about the five-star three-course meal you just consumed with the foreign mistress you approved to ride shotgun in your Bugatti is no simple task. Well, actually, it’s the simplest task in modern rap. But to do so in the raunchiesta, most perverse, and glorified comedic way requires…
Exhibit A for why so many people born in the 1970s experimented with drugs is The Muppet Show. This primetime, half-hour variety show aimed at kids was possibly the most whacked out craziest bit of insanity to ever play on television. Running from 1976 to 1981, and starring Kermit the…
Dance music isn’t a religion, but taking a look around today’s dance floor might lead you to believe it’s possible. It’s not all sex and hedonism. These beat freaks are having life-changing experiences. They flock from all over the world to pray at the altar of light and bpms. And…
Mayer Hawthorne was excused for running a few minutes late. The Ann Arbor native returned from a European tour and was on his way from L.A. to New York as part of a promotional push for his album Where Does This Door Go. He is currently supporting OneRepublic on its…
You think studying Beer Pong-ology with a minor in Rage-onomics at frat parties helped you prepare for real-life, grown-up drinking activities. But when faced with a drunken spelling bee, the distinct possibility of failure looms large. The smell of stale keg beer, one night stands, and regret has dissipated, and…
