One of the most honored solo female artists of all time, a member of hit female vocal group Destiny’s Child, an actress, the wife of a music mogul, and a new mom… What’s left for Beyonce to achieve? It seems there’s no end to the various pinnacles this diva has…
See also Ten Resons the MTV VIdeo Music Awards Are a Joke Smell that? No, we didn’t crap our pants. It’s bullshit season! Music Television is a fiction. At one point, somewhere around 1992, it was a real thing. But now, the chief network responsible for providing us with concurrent melodic…
See also:Bee Gee Barry Gibb’s First U.S. Solo Appearance at Home in South FloridaThis was bound to be a somewhat bittersweet birthday for Barry Gibb, the only surviving brother in a family that bred one of the most successful sibling singing groups of all time. Born September 1 1946, he…
Goddamn, it’s been a good reblogging cycle for the near-deflated balloon that is American Idol. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: O.G. Idol Judge Randy Jackson is officially out! The good news? Looks like Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj will be officiating this season. And the show’s…
Side note: Today is my grandmother’s birthday. Happy birthday, Grandma! However, this publication does not care too much about my nana. And while they are not entirely heartless, they would prefer it if I wrote about music and/or musicians, which we all know my grandmother is not. But still, we…
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, better-known as John Peel, was one of the preeminent English disc jockeys of the past half century. Born August 30, 1939, Peel was an important tastemaker in the history of music. Peel’s distinctive musical voice was formed by his eclectic musical predilections and willingness to nurture…
See alsoGWAR’s Five Most Bizarre Recent Stage TricksLet’s see if we have these muddled facts straight: Oderus Urungus (Dave Brockie) hails from planet Scumdogia (somewhere between Neptune and your anus), born to a supercomputer father and petri dish ma in a “Syntho Womb 5” that reassembled his galaxy-strewn pieces. Somehow,…
Black Friday at Green Room will host one of its most impressively interesting events to date. The weekly goth fest is the set for the filming of Hollywood suspense thriller Exposure. The filmmakers, we are told, are hitting up the South Florida party looking for the most worthy goths and…
Devalued is one of the newer, younger, and hardest-playing successful metal acts performing in South Florida. You probably saw Nico Suave singing and playing guitar, Matt Stoyka beating the shit out of the drums, and Conor Barbato breaking his bass at the County Grind showcase at Green Room in July…
Where in hell did Meek Mill come from? Of course, we know the literal answer to that question: Mill was born Robert Williams, grew up in Philadelphia, and spent his rookie season as an MC under the wing of rapper T.I.’s Grand Hustle imprint before ultimately aligning with Ricky Rozay’s…
See also: Slideshow: Black Locust Society Kicks Off Florida Tour at Green RoomBlack Locust Society Florida Tour at the Speakeasy Lounge, August 23Remember the days of trading mixtapes with friends or giving them to your favorite crush? Before the iPod existed, we spent countless hours pushing record and stop buttons…
Forget about the scandals, the accusations of child molestation, the dangling baby, the skin bleaching, the increasingly bizarre appearance, drug abuse, the pet monkey, all the tabloid trash talk, even the hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Elvis had his own reputation for misbehavior. The Stones were busted on more than one occasion…
See alsoSwans’ Piercing Assault on Respectable Street, September 14, 2011Today marks the official release date of the Swans’ extraordinary two-hour journey into delicate sounds and furious din with The Seer. The New York-based group’s figurehead, Michael Gira, resurrected Swans in 2010, after the band had officially broken up following a…
See also: Kiss Superfan and String Strangler Juan Montoya Got His Nose Broken Defending the BandKiss and Motley Crue at Cruzan Amphitheatre SlideshowA Birthday Kiss to Ace FrehleyYou can’t miss Kiss. There are Kiss comics, Kiss coffins, Kiss movies, Kiss condoms, Kiss trading cards, Kiss radios, Kiss record players… Well, just…
Misfits’ bassist and current vocalist Jerry Only (born Gerald Caiafa) has made a career out of playing dress-up. With his ghoulish getups and pointy, trademark Eddie Munster tribute “devilock” ‘do, Only sports one of punk’s most recognizable looks. His band is an innovator of the horror-punk movement, an antiestablishment culture…
Word on the street — a dirty, dark street, crawling with hairy-palmed mouthbreathers — is that Mariah Carey’s ’bout to stick a bitch over a mad coveted seat on American Idol. The female who needs to watch her back is none other than the baddest bitch since Da Baddest Bitch: Nicki Minaj.The…
Kevin Hart is the latest comedian to be crowned host of the MTV Video Music Awards. In the past, this honor was granted to funny folks from Chris Rock to Arsenio Hall to Chelsea Handler, and even to no one in 2007 (#fail). But unlike those other people who actually…
Born August 16, 1958, Madonna Louise Ciccone has come a long way since she first burst on the scene as pop music’s “It Girl” of the early 1980s. Known by various names — Madge, Esther, the Material Girl, and some unfit for a family news source — Madonna is easily…
Chris Carrabba’s short time in influential posthardcore group Further Seems Forever amounted to a mere blip in the group’s seven-year history. But those formative days held great value for the singer/songwriter. Carrabba sang lead on The Moon Is Down. Released in 2001, it is considered the preeminent album of the…
See also: In Remembrance of Guitarist Dan Hosker (VIDEO)Dan Hosker: South Florida Loses a Musical Hero We in the South Florida music community are saddened by the loss of our brother and local guitar legend Dan Hosker this past weekend. It is becoming increasingly tougher to express the communal sorrow of…
Yesterday afternoon, Pitchfork released some pretty heavy information on Surfer Blood frontman John Paul Pitts’ past. According to an incident report, the West Palm Beach musician was arrested back in March on domestic battery charges. On July 13, he was charged and obtained a “plea and pass” agreement. No clue why…
Can Jack White save music? No, Jack White cannot save music. Generally, the public’s taste just isn’t that good. But he can save my type of music. And he is. I landed at LAX on Friday afternoon, and as per out-of-state residency requirements, my first stop was In-N-Out burger. I met…
