Perhaps you’ve heard of Lady Gaga. And it shouldn’t be surprising that she’s coming to South Florida for a pair of shows (one in Sunrise, one in Miami) likely to draw a cross-section of big and little monsters.But what is less known is her history down here prior to the…
Well, free “digital” shit anyways, which is what all you kids like because you’re all iPod-heads. But it’s good; it’s a 25-track mixtape from pretty much everyone on the Livid Records roster who has delivered and/or will deliver soon. There’s a new Getback tune that will be coming out on…
At the moment, it’s coming in from England like it’s dial-up, but at some point today, it’ll likely be possible to stream TV on the Radio’s new album, Nine Types of Light, at the Guardian’s website.The description here suggests that this record is “more relaxed” than Dear Science and attributes…
Just in case you were wondering, Lil Wayne makes a lot of money. Just think about how much he must have saved while he was in prison and not constantly purchasing lollipops. In any case, the IRS dropped a massive tax lien on Weezy last week in Miami. Let’s hope…
Boo Riley’s 2528 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-567-1212. The bartender, Tina, wore a tight black Bebe shirt, a shiny studded belt, and a confident glow. She flicked the cap off my beer and plopped the bottle down in front of me in one swift movement, and then she…
Every so often, the all-consuming brand that is Lil Wayne stops by the ESPN studios to dazzle sports journalists and former jocks alike with his reasonable (and often correct) sports predictions. Two years ago, he perfectly predicted the NCAA Tournament’s final four teams. (Last year he didn’t get to make…
What better way to find new love than to reach for the same Serge Gainsbourg record as your potential mate? Until iTunes’ Ping social networking (this does exist) really catches on, the hunt for the perfect music boo still must happen in spots like Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records.Miami singer/songwriter Kim…
Laser Wolf 901 Progresso Drive, Ste. 101, Fort Lauderdale. Visit here. “Basically, this is a Fort Lauderdale bar without all the frat boys and douches that you see on Himmarshee these days,” said Pat, who is the financial backer and one-third of the hipster triumvirate behind Laser Wolf, SoFla’s coolest…
With Ultra now an already-blurry memory, the hordes of electronic music tourists have pretty much cleared out. That leaves us locals to business as usual, and that doesn’t meant the music stops. It just gets a little more pop over the next week, with the arrival of a couple of…
A week-long cruise in the Caribbean and a seven-day music festival featuring top-notch performers may seem hard to combine. But, like our current cover story on the Bruise Cruise proves, setting music afloat on the high seas isn’t so strange any more.Before the Bruise Cruise, though, for the past four…
Late last year we featured Hear Hums, an experimentally inclined duo from Gainesville by way of West Palm Beach, in our Glimpses of the South Florida Scene blog column. Now, the twosome hopes to launch a lengthy tour from Florida up to the northeast and into Canada in May. Like…
The “furthur” mentality was brought into this world by a group of young California freaks back in the mid-’60s called the Merry Pranksters. The idea was to always go further: further into the deep mystery of their own consciousness, further into each other’s lives, and further down the roads of…
In 2003, rapper Lil Twist was riding high in his hometown of Dallas. His debut single, “Texas Twist,” was a massive ground-level hit, thanks to its rolling, piano-driven commands to hit the floor. (The twist in question is a longstanding urban line dance.) Based on club and street heat, the…
It has happened! West Palm Beach’s pride and joy Surfer Blood has released its first MP3 as part of a multinational conglomerate, and it’s a live recording of “I’m Not Ready.”Culled from a concert in Washington, D.C. last fall, this song has been a fixture of live shows for a…
Starting last year, South Florida emo legends Further Seems Forever slowly let details of the original lineup’s reunion slip out. Frontman Chris Carrabba and drummer Steve Kleisath spoke to New Times about the pending unification, but now things are officially taking shape.As announced and promoted by TheHoneycomb.com, on Thursday, April…
However this isn’t the popstar’s only magazine cover this month. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, RiRi appears on the cover of Vogue’s April issue in a sheer floral look from Chanel’s Pre-Fall 2011 Collection. But we have to wonder…what will Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour have to say about the risque cover? In 2009,…
Team Beyonce made the official announcement on Monday that the R&B superstar has decided to cut management ties with her father Mathew Knowles (and not just because he spells his name with only one T). She’s not the only Destiny’s Child member to go independent woman on Mathew Knowles, in 2009 Kelly Rowland…
It’s been over a decade since Hole’s original lineup has appeared together at a public event — let alone in the same room. But for one night at MoMA’s New Directors/New Films Festival, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Patty Schemel, and Melissa Auf der Maur will come together in honor of…
Probably no one knows just how prolific Sweet Bronco frontman (and New Times pal) Chris Horgan is — and that likely includes Horgan himself. With so many projects of the Fort Lauderdale songcrafter’s own, and a constant stream of assists for other musicians in the bi-county area, how can one…
The Crumbs Shakespeare 7″ (Lookout! Records) myspace.com/thecrumbs Now that I’ve had time to think about it, it seems like last year’s Gator Kicks album was one big put-on concerning this band’s demise. Nah, I’m looking at it as a hiatus from South Florida and with six full-lengths, two 7″ers, one…
New Fort Lauderdale warehouse venue the Collide Factory is opening up its space this evening for the Art = Aid benefit, which kicks off a weekly beer garden event at the space. This time, it’s in conjuction with the Miami and Tokyo Beer Tour events.The event, which continues Saturday, is…
Peter Murphy’s career fronting Bauhaus in the late ’70s and early ’80s jump-started a movement toward darkness and beautiful pain in rock music. Bauhaus’ hit single “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is the template for much modern goth, while the band’s cameo in the 1983 vampire film The Hunger cemented the subculture’s…
