“We’ve come too far to leave it all behind,” crooned Chicago’s former bassist Peter Cetera. Those lyrics, from the 1977 hit “If You Leave Me Now,” are still relevant for a band that’s sold more than 100 million albums in a career spanning 45 years. Chicago is one of the…
When spoken-word duo the Weeds came back from their second hiatus, they had a completely different mentality from before their first two stints, and more than a decade, as a band. Adam Matza had always been the vocals in the group, growing up writing poetry in high school and later…
Editor’s note: Jason Budjinski, AKA Billy Boloby, is a former New Times Broward-Palm Beach music editor and South Florida musician. His friends are joining musical forces at an upcoming concert to help raise funds for his liver transplant, which is necessary due to the effects of Crohn’s disease and primary sclerosing cholangitis…
Better than: Anything that’s ever happened at your house. Lots of people have art in their homes. Many of them have art outside of them too. But few have murals like the one Shane Watt painted on the back of Andie Sweetswirl’s house in Fort Lauderdale. After two months of…
Continuing with our list of the top tier, grimiest joints to have a drink, here are the top ten dive bars in Palm Beach County. See also – Top Ten Dive Bars in Broward County 10. The Ugly Mug About half an hour after the Eastside of Atlantic Avenue shuts…
There is something bigger at work than just Auto Tune or electronic beats or guitars on the eponymous debut album of South Florida natives, Gravel Kings. What’s at work is a group of musicians who not only understand vocal harmony, but the harmony of acoustics in a fashion that surrenders…
For the offspring of most famed musicians, stepping out of lengthy shadows cast by their parents’ careers is an all-consuming, motivating force. However, for Doyle Bramhall II, son of the late Austin blues legend best-known for his work with the brothers Vaughan, a name was not the only thing passed…
Say what you will about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian as potential parents: We’re positive their baby is going to turn out nothing short of superballin’. But first things first: These modest lovebirds need a title for the joint masterpiece of their respective careers. And they probably shouldn’t name it…
When you can woo an Indigo Girl over dinner one night with just your vocal talents, it’s clear you’ve got it good. The Shadowboxers did just that and ended up the backing musicians for the “girls” on a handful of tours. But this trio isn’t just a bunch of good…
To put it simply, Queen Latifah is a goddess. This isn’t like one of those compliments you give to your dudely pal ’cause she finally put on a dress. No, Latifah is divine in the way of Athena or Yemaya: a powerful natural force. Though everyone knows Latifah as a…
Delray Beach-based hip-hop artist Eric Biddines is not your run-of-the-mill aspiring rap star. Born in Ocala, Florida, he moved to Palm Beach County when he was 6. Biddines was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, but his strict religious upbringing isn’t what makes him such an unusual rapper. Mainly it’s his fascination…
Busted! Reefer maniac and pop-R&B sensation Rihanna is now among the hallowed ranks of musical celebrities with tours derailed by drug-sniffing dogs. TMZ reports that ten of the caravan’s buses were stopped on the border between Michigan and Canada and that when officers smelled weed, the routine stop evolved into…
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony didn’t just invent the quick-tongued R&B-rap style that spawned a thousand A$APs and Kendrick Lamars. They are also one of the most 420 friendly ensembles in the history of hip-hop. All rappers love weed. But none with the insatiability of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, who would smoke their own mothers…
Melancholic indie-rock bard, Jason Molina, has passed away from complications related to alcoholism at 39. As the news makes its away around the internet via news sites, blogs, and status updates, the reaction to his passing has been as emotionally visceral as the songwriter, vocalist and guitarist’s prolific catalogue. Molina didn’t just…
Late Friday afternoon, TMZ reported that Cash Money Millionaire and global superstar extraordinaire, Lil’ Wayne, was hospitalized following another series of uncontrollable seizures.However, unlike Wayne’s other brushes with neurological uncertainty, these tremors didn’t cease. And by the time the story hit the web, Weezy F. Baby was in critical condition -…
David Bowie quietly put out his first album in ten years on Tuesday. The Next Day sold about 90,000 copies in its first week of release which might give Bowie the first number one album of his career. All this in spite of Bowie not doing any interviews or performances to…
Yesterday, TMZ reported that Justin Bieber had woken up on the wrong side of the bong – excuse us – wrong side of the bed, and was talkin’ some mad smack about Lindsay Lohan for no good reason. Before noon, Le Biebz and his PRmy had already issued an apology…
Over the summer, Snoop Dogg (born Calvin Broadus) announced he was tired of rap. Even more bizarre, the superstar — best known for hits such as “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and “Gin & Juice” — revealed he’d change his name and go in a new artistic direction: reggae. Turns…
Florida is a swamp filled with crazy people — mostly rednecks and political refugees — who are so far removed from the rest of civilization and its myriad, sanity-sustaining social contracts that their screws can’t help but loosen more every day. To be fair, crazy people have their place in…
Better than: Just about anything else to come from the shores of Jersey in the past 30 years, particularly the past five. There is an indelible timelessness to Southside Johnny’s music that is right up there with summertime on the beach, vintage American steel, and young love. Perhaps that was a…
Picture Marvin Gaye, Morrissey, and Amy Winehouse all rolled up in one,” a big name mélange, which accomplished Coral Springs musician Christopher Moll uses to describe the R&B-infected vocals of Maco Monthervil, Moll’s newest musical discovery. Moll is the gifted multi-instrumentalist behind the saccharine chamber-pop sounds of the Postmarks. Monthervil is a…
It seems like the majority of holidays these days exist for the sole purpose of playing on Americans’ addiction to buying pointless things and feeding the hungrier-than-ever corporate beast. But not Record Store Day. See also- PHOTOS: Record Store Day 2012 at Radio-Active RecordsEach year on 4/20, appropriately aligned with…
