There’s been a lot of ink about Ringo Starr in the last week or so, spurred on by yet another return engagement of Mr. Starkey’s All Starr Band. The opinions shared in these digital pages have been split. My colleague Rich Abdill recently gave the ex-Beatle some love relative to…
Last month, we introduced you to Subculture, a company of community organizers and music enthusiasts led by Phillip Roffman. In our interview with Roffman, he expressed a desire to band together likeminded locals from various artistic scenes, and mount cross-disciplinary events. Now, the first of these is coming. Mark your…
It’s Monday, folks. Wake up! Chances are, dear reader, that you overindulged this weekend and are having a difficult time getting into the swing of things over there at the workplace? Cold sweats, baggy eyes, severe dehydration — all part of the Monday blues. No sweat; drink lots of water…
From cutting his teeth in dingy Little Haiti haunt Churchill’s Pub to experiencing the spine-tingling rush of performing before a sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden, 37-year-old musician Mike Marsh has enjoyed a career that has been an epic rock ‘n’ roll roller-coaster ride. Spanning 20 years, Marsh’s time behind…
Livid Records releases final record.With the death of Boca label Livid Records, South Florida mourns the loss of a significant appendage in our local music scene. If Churchill’s is the heart, then Livid’s like a foot or something, a foot that’s wearing brightly colored Converse lo-top, if you will (see…
Heroes and Cons have been quietly etching their mark on the South Florida punk scene for the last three years and they might possibly be one of the better local bands you haven’t heard about. Lord knows I’m new to their racket and from the opening instrumental of “I’m Sorry…
Yesterday, after decades of everyone already knowing, Anderson Cooper came out of the closet publicly. He’s gay, a homosexual, light in the loafers. He’s got twinkletoes. Anderson Cooper is gay! Wait, is this news? The sexy Silver Fox revealed his preference via letter to the Daily Beast writer Andrew Sullivan…
With a little more than 20 years as a performer and six platinum-certified records to boast, Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott hit her 41st year this July 1. Though she’s been largely absent from the public eye these past couple of years, her impact on the modern hip-hop and R&B scene is…
Our post on the fifth-year anniversary of Livid Records.Boca-based Livid Records has been a staple in the local music scene for just over five years. Now, the label that has released music by such acts as the Getback, Lil Daggers, Pool Party, and the Crumbs is closing up shop. Is…
Adele, the most popular human looking songstress of the past decade (sorry, Gaga, but sometimes you resemble an anime heroine), is doing something really, really human. She’s gestating offspring. That’s right, this British crooner is preggers with bf Simon Konecki’s fetus. She’s rife with child. Bitch is knocked up. And…
Read Abel’s review of Debbie Harry’s show with Blondie at Hard Rock Live.Raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey, Debbie Harry is actually a Miami native. July 1 is her 67th year on this planet and she shows no signs of slowing down. Her career began in New York City in the…
Read about President Obama’s recent visit to South Florida and his opening act Marc Anthony.Much to the chagrin of Republicans and fans of disease everywhere, today the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Obamacare. Formerly called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the law will help you in your…
Best Broward Dance Club 2012When Off the Hookah burst onto the scene in 2007, it quickly became a Las Olas favorite, especially on its Thursday ladies’ nights. The décor and outdoor lounge area, along with the free-flowing drinks for women, quickly brought in a female crowd to the riverfront location…
Matt Beck and Destiny Spang are, together, a musical-production powerhouse. As Boca-based Brotherly Love Productions, this couple takes its talent for business and its sharp ears for quality acts and is building a budding dynasty in the South Florida live music scene. Beck launched the jam-band-centric, full-service, live music production…
Review of the Tech N9ne show at Club Cinema.Before his epic concert last night at Club Cinema in Pompano, we jumped at the chance to chat with Strange Music mogul Tech N9ne about the Hostile Takeover Tour and his recent outspoken defense of hip-hop leading man Lil Wayne. Tech, born…
It goes without saying that in South Florida harbors a diverse pool of immigrants. We are in a constant state of flux, with different ideas anchored in life outside our world intermingling with our own. Many Diasporic communities meet in our little tip of the US, usually with excellent results.Chilean-born…
Though Jackson Valiente, AKA Kreepy Tiki Jaksin, has been tattooing for over a decade, he reveals, “My first job as an artist was as a tiki carver.” Luckily for tattoo collectors, especially those fortunate enough to have a piece of this hellcat’s work on their flesh, the new millennium had…
Pool Party Teenage Weirdo (Mooster Records) moosterrecords.tk Well, summer is upon us yet again, and the unrelenting heat can be quelled only with a nervous mixture of pool partying necessities like booze, drugs, pools, sun, floaties, and rock ‘n’ roll. But of course, it would take those happening cats over…
If you were at the Heat parade earlier today, you might have seen a moving sign that asked the question on all of our minds: “Where the fuck is DJ Laz?” Sure, he’s in L.A. these days, but well, he’s also about to be back in South Florida. That’s right,…
Seattle-based blogger and photographer Marianne Spellman, who sometimes works with our sister paper Seattle Weekly, has been rooting through dusty old record bins here in South Florida and coming out with gold. On her blog Popthomology, she shared the post “31 Weird Album Covers From Florida Thrift/Record Stores,” proving, yet…
You ever get all dancey in your kitchen? Everyone’s sweaty, their limbs are flailing about in awkward and sexy ways, and you think to yourself, “Man, I wish I a new Prince song that sounded like an old Prince song on my iPod,” before pressing play on “Erotic City?” Well,…
For a man whose career began innocuously enough, George Michael has managed to scale the heights of superstardom while also embroiling himself in enough controversy to last a lifetime. These were some of his own doing and some thrust upon him as a result of his success. George Michael was born…
