Well this should rattle everything within 100 yards. DJ Khaled assembles Florida’s blue-chip rappers Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and Plies for a verse each on “Welcome to My Hood,” a song detailing an enormous neighborhood of strip clubs, liquor stores, old-school Chevys, hopscotch (!), and the sort of place the…
The Methodaires S/T EP (Self-released) www.methodaires.com For a while there I honestly believed that The Methodaires were not gonna get it together and make studio time. But no, they did get themselves together and recorded this delicious six song EP.Comprised of the deliciously esoteric Nia Devine on vocals, Joe Basi…
Chalk another high-profile friendship up for Mayday! Miami’s premier live hip-hop crew may be best known in mainstream circles for rocking with Weezy, but a new single released yesterday could give them some more crossover momentum. “Highs and Lows” is the group’s first collaboration with 22-year-old Deerfield Beach-based Ace Hood, a Def…
Over its multidecade history, Little Feat has undergone a tangled trajectory. Founded by guitarist Lowell George, a former member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, Little Feat evolved from two earlier outfits, the Fraternity of Man and the Factory. Fusing rock, blues, country, boogie, and R&B, songs like “Willin’,” “Dixie…
In a five-year span between 1996 and 2001, the eclectic hip-hop and rock act Cake experienced a massive breakout. Led by frontman John McCrea’s deadpan vocals, the crew scored hits “The Distance,” “Never There,” and “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” and kept up a consistent touring schedule and a seemingly ever-widening following…
Kid Sister’s Kiss Kiss Kiss mixtape just dropped, and it drops hard. As Kid Sister whispers sweet nothings into our ear over a sample of Digital Underground’s “Kiss You Back” on the intro of the mixtape, it’s clear that the next 30 minutes are going to be a fun ride…
Combat Wounded Veteran 11 Song 7″ (Suppose… I Break Your Neck Records) combatwoundedveteran.com Combat Wounded Veteran was one of the most influential bands in the short-lived power-violence movement of the ’90s. This seven-inch record, simply titled 11 Song 7″, is just that: a pure testament to the simplicity by which…
For anyone who gawked at that headline and wondered, “where the hell has Cake been for the past six years,” there are some clarifications that come from Christopher Lopez’s interview with trumpet player Vince DiFiore. Apparently, part of the reason there’s been such a lag in new material is that…
West Palm Beach’s Luna Rex is putting its spacy rock on wax. New Times has learned that the four-piece — named after a ghost that inhabits its rehearsal space — has taken its first foray into studio recording. According to the group’s Facebook fan page, the band is putting the…
The good things about Kanye West’s and Jay-Z’s initial collaboration from joint album Watch the Throne: It’s futuristic, it can go on your mixtape between “General Patton” (thanks, Rob) and that Mobb Deep song ripping off Thomas Dolby, and there’s this intensity about it different from anything these two guys…
This will never, ever happen, but just imagine if Britney Spears walked up to you in a bar. She’s got her hands twirled through her blond hair, and she’s wearing something risque in your favorite color — yes, that one. After making eye contact, she says in her slightly drawly…
On Friday, we gave some suggestions for five local bands we’d like to see reunite in 2011; we also want to see some national bands from the rest of America get back together. If last year’s Pavement reunion taught us anything, it’s that people will travel for thousands of miles…
The more cynical among us would insist James Blunt’s one-hit-wonder status is a fate well-deserved. A vapid song so pandering and puerile, “You’re Beautiful” was curse enough to those who find soft rock, adult rock, easy pop, and the like an anathema in any of form. Two successive albums found…
It’s probably only a matter of seconds before Ted Williams, the homeless man with the golden voice, makes his hip-hop crossover. Even if he’s not game for a ribald voice-over on Dr. Dre’s long-delayed Detox album, there’s no way the depth-plumbing “You know you love it” tag line from his…
When the Pixies got back together in 2004, we didn’t care if it was about the money. For many of us, the band we grew up listening to had broken up before we were old enough to even ask our parents for a ride to see them play. Yeah, they…
Raped Ape In Ape We Trust Demo (Self-released) www.rapedape.net Ahh! Sunny, breezy and beachy Palm Beach recalls the idylls of the upper crust and yachting. But like all objects of beauty, there is a darker and more sinister side lurking beneath. Look at all the times Dayle Hinman got called…
This is a serious question, actually. The Detroit News dropped quite a bombshell earlier today following the arrest of alleged Miami Companions madam Laurie Carr. According to a 2007 e-mail to TV execs, one of Carr’s clients was “a lead singer of one of the most successful modern rock bands…
Rap music fuses street slang with a heavy hip-hop beat, but the lyrical nuances are often too nuanced for our painfully Caucasian brain to decode. We grew up in the era of Biggie, Snoop, and Puff Daddy — is he going by a different name now? — and you’d think…
Just in case yesterday’s nudge to read about Millionyoung’s emergent synth-rock artistry wasn’t enough, we’re back and just handing you this informative piece of writing from this week’s print edition. It was more than a little bit pleasant to see that I Guess I’m Floating posted up the title track…
Nostalgia is a tricky word.” Mike Diaz takes a long pause and surveys his surroundings. It’s an unseasonably warm, cloudless day in late November, and we’re seated on a park bench at the edge of a small pond in Coral Springs. In this neighborhood, Diaz and former and now-once-again bandmate…
Hard Mix is doing its part to officially change the city of Greenville, South Carolina, to “Chillville.” And while this might take more than sculpting mellow, soulful artifacts and blasting them on the city streets, we can’t blame him for trying. His original “Alright” does plenty to regulate the heart…
New Times Broward-Palm Beach has been a fan of Millionyoung even longer than I’ve been at this paper. It’s not difficult to grasp why a kind, introspective fellow like Mike Diaz, the electronic music mastermind behind it all, would be an easy target for adoration. One of the most fascinating…
