During Memorial Day weekend in South Florida, even if it doesn’t rain, there will be a perfect storm of liquor, music, and dancing from South Beach to downtown Miami and up I-95 to King of Diamonds — not to mention every strip club in between. From all-day festivals at Bicentennial…
Will Oldham is one of the most gifted avant-garde singer/songwriters of our day, but he remains criminally unheard outside of a tight indie following and a few famous devotees. Johnny Cash was a fan and covered Oldham’s “I See a Darkness” on American III: Solitary Man. Equally enamored of his…
Like a good country band, the guys of Harvey and the Buckets boast a knack for storytelling. It extends well beyond the lyrics, right into the music, till the guitars and drums themselves are singing the song’s tale right along with vocalist Nick Petakas. …
Even if a bearded man may seem like a stoic man, Will Oldham actually has a wonderful sense of humor tucked under his curly facial hair. Alex Rendon got him to admit that the upcoming Free Florida Tour, which stops at Radio-Active Records this coming weekend, is an opportunity to…
Rok:Brgr Burger Bar & Gastropub 208 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-525-7656, or visit here. Rok:Brgr is revitalizing the stretch of Himmarshee Village that’s home to otherwise boring boozeholes and tired dives. This gastropub vends excellence in the form of sundry beers, potions, bacon-flavored bourbon, and of course, the…
All the way in the second sentence of the press release, Matador scion Gerard Cosloy divulges that the ’90s preeminent slacker heroes are together at last. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks will enjoy the multi-faceted production touches of Beck Hansen on Mirror Traffic, S.M.’s fifth since he broke up the…
County Grind is 1 year old this week!OK, so technically Saturday, May 21, was the one-year anniversary of County Grind’s painful but necessary split from the Miami New Times’ Crossfade blog. We decided to wait and see if any sort of “rapture” would occur before assembling any link montages or…
The title of this posting is nearly as misleading as the title of Team Jaguar’s new mixtape, Rick Scott Loves Dubstep. First of all, the Florida governor is less concerned about beats per minute than he is about bludgeoning public transportation money. Also, he didn’t even get Justin Bieber to…
Minor quibble that Cee Lo Green’s reminder of the general loveliness ahead for today came so late in the afternoon, but otherwise hearing him open up his pipes on the Bill Withers classic “Lovely Day” is on point.The clip comes from the Gnarls Barkley/Goodie Mob vocalist’s ever-approaching special, Vh1 Storytellers:…
We’ve been following developments involving area jam hero Jimmy Pagano since his tragic death one month ago. Now we want to hear from the countless friends, followers, and fans who have lifetimes worth of memories to share regarding the fallen drummer.As his June 5 Memorial Tribute at America’s Backyard approaches,…
Crocodiles’ transition from a posthardcore past is complete. The San Diego duo of Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell still had a bit of the brute force of their old outfits, the Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower and Some Girls, bottled up their first record, 2009’s Summer of Hate…
No one’s accusing Deftones of resting on their laurels, even though the band certainly deserves a little R&R. It’s been a whopping 23 years since the sextet formed in Sacramento. And nearly all of those since the band’s debut album, 1995’s Adrenaline, have been spent doggedly on the road. Each…
Have you ever slipped into a pair of wet jeans, popped a pill, shared drinks with a stranger, rubbed private parts with 4,000 people, and danced so hard that you blacked out before waking up for another night of the exact same thing? If not, get ready for your first…
This week’s music section is daring you to match its intensity. Top of the heap is Girl Talk, who is taking over Fillmore Miami for two evenings of sweaty dancing and squirming. Sean Pajot got in Gregg Gillis’ ear to discuss how there really is a science to these frenzy-inducing…
Guitarist Russ Rogers is shifting his focus away from electro-thrash group Kill Miss Pretty and is reviving his alternative rock project A New Way to Live Forever. Receiving rave reviews from this very publication back in 2008 ANWTLF auspicious debut EP, Avalanches, raised many eyebrows. Our former music editor Jonathan…
Johnny Cash’s “I Still Miss Someone” has traveled plenty since it was first recorded as the b-side for the almost equally forlorn “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” back in the late ’50s. The song about never getting over someone with blue eyes will forever be linked to Cash’s legacy,…
Cibo Matto’s brief, but charming run filled the world with the finest Japanese lounge pop about delightful edible creations. With only two full-length albums, 1996’s Viva! La Woman and 1999’s Stereo * Type A, Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori still managed to corner the enticing market before breaking up in…
South Florida had some of the funkiest and baddest mothers the planet has seen! And it is high time we pay respect (or rather, pay our dues) to all the dudes and gals who paved the way for our current multicultural leanings! Ladies and germs, enjoy the funky disco sounds…
Jonathan Michael Richman — we like to call him “JoJo” — is 60 years young today. He has spent 40 of these making the kind of music to make you fall in love. Some was created with the Modern Lovers and some without. Whether the songs are in English or Spanish…
Finally, a more-than-two-year thirst for official, new Bon Iver material can be quenched. “Calgary” is among many geography-related songs on his upcoming Bon Iver, Bon Iver record arriving June 21. (Here’s betting that “Minnesota, WI” — not an actual place — is even more wintry, winsome, and anthemic.)Calgary is the…
Nick Eberhardt started playing live at the tender age of 16, long before he settled in Florida — and just before he started training under master finger-picker Tim Sparks. With stints playing in blues bars, being on the road, and sleeping on couches, Eberhardt has had enough rugged grooming to…
Wild Olives by Todd English5050 Town Center Circle, Ste. 245, Boca Raton. Call 561-544-8000, or visit here. Wild Olives by Todd English: The best of Boca’s booze-slogging crowd comes out to sip wine, sample flatbread, and shoot the shit. Possibly, they also come to peek at the epic cleavage that…
