Harrison Snow Benefit at Coco Palm Beach Tonight

New Times has diligently followed the progress of our little “baby metalhead” Harrison Daum Snow. Readers might remember our prenatal celebrity who struck the most rocking pose known to ultrasound? Well since his premature birth in November 1, 2010, the little son of local musician Jeff Snow and his wife…

Lady Gaga Releases Born This Way Album Art

As the release date for Lady Gaga’s highly anticipated album Born This Way approaches, the pop star has been giving fans a little taste of what they should expect. Two tracks, “Born This Way” and “Judas,” have already hit the airwaves, and on Saturday, Gaga tweeted the cover art for…

MP3: Lil Daggers’ Unveil “Sweetwater” Ahead of Seven-Inch Release

Leave it to Miami’s Lil Daggers to provide one more reason to get off your behind for Saturday’s celebration of recorded and live music, Record Store Day. For the Miami-Dade enthusiasts, the Daggers have a new seven-inch, “Slave Exchange”/”Sweetwater,” and it comes available during the Sweatstock madness hosted at Sweat…

The Ever-Refining Songcraft of Dr. Dog

Decked in a work shirt rolled up to the elbows, suspenders, and a stocking cap, Toby Leaman often looks like he’s just as ready to build a birdhouse as he is to play bass and sing for Philadelphia-bred sunny psychedelic act Dr. Dog. Appropriately, in between tours, he does fix…

Music Is the Sex in Iron Maiden’s Metal Marriage

Iron Maiden’s a little fixated on death, but that’s part of what gives this British heavy-metal band its grim-reaper-peeking-in-your-window-about-to-chop-you-into-pieces-with-a-very-sharp-object appeal. The albums have titles like Killers (1981), No Prayer for the Dying (1990), Dance of Death (2003), and A Matter of Life and Death (2006). The band’s mascot, Eddie, is…

Download Beings’ Self-Titled Album Free Till Sunday

Not to get forceful, but it’s time to grab Beings’ self-titled album. It was already named County Grind’s sixth-best local album of 2010 before ever receiving an official release, and it’s friggin free — for a limited time. The Miami experimental punk trio has decided to offer the album (an…

Local Motion: To Be Hated – Live at Churchill’s

To Be Hated Live at Churchill’s (Sour Grapes Records) myspace.com/tobehated Most people, i.e., fans, approach live recordings with a certain amount of tepidness and/or acquiescence. This is especially true for punk-rock bands and their usually limited budgets. This recording went down in Churchill’s on January 1, 2010, when To Be…

Charlie Crist, David Byrne Settle Campaign Song Lawsuit

Last May, now-former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist got legally entangled with now-former Talking Head David Byrne over using the hit “Road to Nowhere” in a campaign ad without permission. On Monday, that rift was settled, and Crist publicly apologized in a rather strange YouTube video embedded below. “The use of…

Stream: Tune-Yards’ w h o k i l l is Spastic Brilliance

Begin today (or any day) with a proper burst of energy courtesy of Tune-Yards’ (we’re going with this more traditional capitalization scheme from here on out) w h o k i l l. “Bizness” has already been a fave for a little while now.Now streaming free over at NPR, the…

Sweat Records Robbed Over the Weekend

Sad news coming out of the Sweat Records camp today. The Little Haiti shop was burglarized sometime overnight on Saturday, and the thieves made off with a computer, cash drawer, and other electronics. This is not the first time the shop has been hit, unfortunately…

MP3: Panda Bear “You Can Count on Me” (The Get Remix)

On Tuesday, Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox, finally unveils Tomboy, his follow-up to 2007’s watershed moment (to some) Person Pitch. Now it remains to be seen if Lennox can ever put lightning back into the bottle quite the same way, but even if there are aspects of the…

Frantik’s “Dead Grass in Graveyards” is Another Righteous Jam

Frantik’s been bombarding South Florida now for some time with some righteous lyrics that are equal parts thought-provoking, tongue-in-cheek, positive and tough. And what makes the seemingly disparate amalgam is predicated by the fact that the toughness is not macho posing, it is inflection and execution that toughens the joint…

MP3: Rachel Goodrich “Light Bulb” (ANR Remix)

Which is more jarring? Pairing a song like Rachel Goodrich’s sweet ukulele number “Light Bulb” with a bunch of gun-toting gangstas for a video, or subtracting the ukulele altogether? Well, the second scenario happens when the ex-Miami songstress gets the remix treatment from South Florida electro-pop specialists ANR.The track loses…

Blast From the Past: Cavity – Crawling/Perseverance Seven Inch

Cavity Crawling/Perseverance seven inch (Bacteria Sour) bacteriasour.com While the two songs on this delicious seven-inch can be found on the incredibly awesome full-length CD release Drowning, there is something special about this little record that commands its own entry to these Blast From the Past columns. There are two versions,…

The Radiators Say a Long Goodbye at Revolution

The Radiators have survived — and thrived — longer than most bands. This New Orleans-based outfit, known for an eclectic blend of rock and blues, features all of its original members — guitarist Dave Malone, vocalist/keyboardist Ed Volker, guitarist/vocalist Camile Baudoin, bassist Reggie Scanlon, and drummer Frank Bua Jr. —…

Lady Gaga to Make Stadium-Sized Return to South Florida

The week before Memorial Day 2008, a girl with feathered blond hair, flesh-colored lipstick, and movie-star sunglasses sat at a table at Georgie’s Alibi, the venerable Wilton Manors gay bar. She asked to speak with a manager. “I’m Stefani,” she told Mark Negrete, one of Georgie’s owners. “I’m a singer,…