Have you been naughty or nice this year? And no, Miley, no one is asking you. Because it doesn’t take Santa’s omniscience to know you’ve been a very bad girl. This year, we’ve seen your flat booty more times than we’ve seen our mother’s face. So you’re getting a sexy…
It’s December, and we’re still shvitzing in South Florida. Though winter seems to have gotten lost on its way to this peninsula, the holidays have booked their flights, packed their bathing suits, and are coming to stress you the hell out. Everyone needs a break from his or her kinfolk…
On Tuesday, October 29, the band Ghost Cat was part of a tragic accident that left its fans, friends, and family completely devastated. On their way back from a gig at the Speakeasy in Lake Worth, a car carrying three band members and their gear was a part of an…
Lately, it seems like the only news we hear about pop megastar vocalist and international muse, Beyoncé Knowles, is that which screams a bloodthirsty cry of “Domesticity!” Is Queen B. pregnant? Where did she and Jay-Z travel last? And what was she wearing when they went there? She even named…
Despite all the tours and T-shirts declaring otherwise, pop-punk is now officially dead. New Found Glory, a band that has often prided itself on maintaining all of its original members over 16 years of recording, has fired its guitarist and songwriter. In a Facebook post this morning, the Coral Springs…
As Miami’s reigning lords of volume, Holly Hunt spent most of 2013 bludgeoning, crushing, and rearranging the molecules of people and places at home and across the country. The band, comprising guitarist/fuzz-wrangler Gavin Perry and drummer/human-sledgehammer Beatriz Monteavaro, has had its sound analyzed and extolled by plenty of high-profile metal…
We’ve all witnessed the meteoric rise of indie-rock starlets and West Palm natives Surfer Blood. Starting out like most local bands do, they spent time begging promoters for a shot and hustling for gigs, but this quartet rode a lightning bolt of success that ultimately landed them on Universal Records…
Dave Neri is no stranger to helping out people out by raising cash for their good causes through music. A Fort Lauderdale resident for almost 40 years, he’s hosted and performed benefits since he was 17, first with the Muscular Dystrophy Association. He’s done the toy run for Joe DiMaggio…
Nepotism or rightly earned respect? Thus is the universal debate that arises anytime we see the son or daughter of a celebrated celebrity try to branch out on their own. It’s only a natural cynicism. Let’s face it, when daddy is Bob Dylan, doors seem to open easier than if…
Before the honey-sweet vocal harmonies of indie-folk darlings Tegan and Sara, there were the Indigo Girls. Their brand of heartfelt folk rock had commercial appeal from the beginning, leading to a quarter-century-long career for the singer/songwriters, who continue to write and tour today. But as two openly gay best friends…
During a career that — so far — has spanned well over 40 years, Bonnie Raitt has established herself as an indomitable force in the music community. Known for her brilliant guitar work, bluesy ballads, searing soulful vocals, and, of course, that mass of flaming red hair, it turns out…
Chris Corsano is one of the most sought-after percussionists in the nebulous sphere of intentional aural insanity that constitutes free music and its various iterations as noise, psychedelia, and having-something-to-do-with-jazz. Since the late ’90s, Corsano has performed solo and in infinite combinations of players — both heartily obscure and incredibly…
Following in the steps of Avicii’s “Wake Me Up,” Ke$ha and hometown boy Pitbull have gone country. The two performed their newest duet “Timber” at the American Music Awards this past weekend, and now released a video for the thing. And whaddya know? It was filmed in Davie, at Round…
Millennials, you still do all the drugs and have all the sex, but I have to break it to you — #realtalk — you do not know how to party. And it’s bringing me down. Heading over to what’s supposed to be the “jam,” hosted by 24-year-old “scenesters,” I always…
Billboard Magazine reported the mind-blowing news earlier this week that Outkast may reunite to headline Coachella in 2014. The internet then cried with joy. Over the years, organizers of the massive California festival have made a point to facilitate the reunions of other classic acts, like the Pixies, Rage Against…
From the Shangri La art Tell this guy about the death of the album. By Michael Corcoran “The album is dying in front of our very eyes,” Variety columnist and music business know-it-all Bob Lefsetz wrote recently based on weak LP sales, including Katy Perry’s Prism, which sold only about…
The excess that characterized the 1980s has since been decried, extolled, and examined ad nauseam. The musical landscape that developed during that decade was one of the most compelling in history, not necessarily based on the content that flowed through the mainstream (which was unique in its own right) but…
Stephen Marley is a man of few words. Asked what it’s like to follow in the footsteps of his famous father, Bob Marley, a man who comes as close to deification as our popular culture will allow, Stephen replies with only a sentence fragment: “Rastaman vibration positive.” That response could…
Deriving as much influence from Pink Floyd as it did from Primus, Smitty started off in 2004 as the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist/bass virtuoso Matthew Mackle and ace ax man Brian Liebman. Rounding out their funky, ethereal sound with a regularly changing cast of drummers over the course of a decade,…
When you look up Miami on Wikipedia and you do a search for the word “cocaine,” you will find nothing. As a native that has spent most of my life in, ahem, the Magic City, I am most definitely bored-to-fucking-death of your Scarface-themed man cave and/or ya day-glo “I’m in…
Patrons and employees were swaddled in pearl necklaces, fishnet, boas, and other prohibition era attire this Saturday at the grand opening of Fort Lauderdale speakeasy Stache. The sax was the instrument of choice at this Great Gatsby-style event and the decor consisted of sophisticated bookshelves, sparkling chandeliers and, oddly enough,…
Back at the end of 2011 and beginning of 2012, when Avicii’s “Le7els” was pumping out of any device with a speaker attached, I couldn’t get enough. I cherish pop sensibility as much as chops or technical prowess. Baby-faced Swedish producer, Tim Bergling, does not exactly conjure the most complicated…
