Before we get to the music section, let’s take a spin through this week’s feature, penned by Leslie Minora. It’s about a gay couple who traveled to Panama at considerable expense to adopt a couple of adorable babies, and proves to be a fascinating read about a process necessitated by…
The news business had a field day yesterday with this grand piano that somehow ended up on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay near North Miami. While this would be a great place for Yanni to compose, with the inspiration of nature literally lapping at his toes, the origin of this…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Ghost Arm.Miami duo Ghost Arm — Robert “Rolodex” Hodgkins and David “SPF” Golding — make the kind of hip-hop…
According to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech last night, this country is on its way back from its economic woes of the past two years. Could it be possible that this sound recovery from the recession is trickling down locally, especially in our local live music hub…
Many people are really excited for Coachella and its coifed, stately musicality this year. However, there are surely (ahem) some people who think that Coachella is a party for wimps and that we need more old-school, flame-throwing, bug-eyed aggression in our musical landscape. Well, the prayers, or rather “demands” (the…
Nothing saddens me more than when a record store, especially a cool one like Tampa’s Vinyl Fever, closes its doors forever. But such is the case with this place that has brought much joy and a steady counterpoint to the inflated egos of corporate giants in the southern end of…
Voodoo Idols We Dig Nixon Seven-Inch (Vee Dee Records) The Voodoo Idols were a Cramps-inspired band that toiled in the greater Tampa Bay area between the end of the ’70s and sometime in the mid-’80s. While the verdict’s out on the fans’ appreciation of their two full-length albums, one thing…
Ever flipped around the radio until you come to a song like “With Arms Wide Open” and found yourself frantically trying to change the channel? That same fear of Creed is apparently shared by wolves. Thirteen-year-old Walter Eikrem tells TV2 in Norway that he was on his way home from…
The Drive-By Truckers aren’t exactly known for bright and cheery songs about rainbows and butterflies and happy shit like that. The alt-country/southern rock/swamp stomp band that co-frontmen Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley founded in Athens, Georgia some 15 years back like their tunes raw and real and rough around the…
Enabler War Begins With You EP (Volatile Recordings) www.myspace.com/volatilerecordings Enabler hails out of the winter wonderland that is Milwaukee, Wisconsin and I had a chance to catch their set last week at Churchill’s after Steven Blush’s presentation on his book, American Hardcore: A Tribal History at Sweat Records. And while…
Drive-By Truckers’ 1998 debut could have easily been called Country Crack, Meth and Moonshine, Ballads of Blue Collar Woe, or Shit-Kicking Swamp Stomp. Instead, this alt-country, Southern-rock masterpiece was christened Gangstabilly, which adds up to much more than just a great title or a spot-on description of the poignant tales…
Riding shotgun in Chester Bennington’s car right now has to be unquestionably pleasant. He has the means to purchase any vehicle on the planet, he’s got a credible collection of relevant tunes (which we’ll get to later), and he’s way past feeling like he’s crawling in his own skin. “We’re…
If Linkin Park’s first album had been 2010’s experimental, Rick Rubin-produced suite A Thousand Suns, perhaps the world would see the nü-metal vets differently today. Then again, there’s a good chance that the band wouldn’t be embarking upon a huge headlining tour Thursday evening at BankAtlantic Center.In my candid conversation…
Nectar & The Wrecking Ball, inside Coconut Creek Casino 5550 NW 40th Street, Coconut Creek. Call 954-977-6700, or visit here.The Coconut Creek Seminole Casino gets a little (OK, a lot) overshadowed by the Hard Rock. But with its recent construction-themed addition (approximately 16,000 new square feet of gaming, dining and…
Since scoring a deal with DJ Khaled’s We the Best/Def Jam imprint, Deerfield Beach native Ace Hood has spent the last couple years creeping in and out of the spotlight’s edge. He scored a minor urban video/radio hit with the poppy, female-friendly “Ride or Die” — but that was largely…
For sentimental and professional reasons, the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop poll of rock critics (who may or may not be able to name every member of New Edition from memory) is a personal favorite. Anyone who is surprised that Kanye West was a dominant force in said poll…
Legendary song publisher and rock producer Don Kirshner died Monday, January 17, of heart failure in Boca Raton. Kirshner was a hitmaker who’s stable of artists included the Monkees, Connie Francis, the Archies, Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond, Tony Orlando, and the rock group Kansas, to name a few. …
In its initial state, Toro Y Moi’s first single from his second full-length, Underneath the Pine, boasts the nebulous title “Still Sound” and a hard-to-nail blend of vintage funk and something out of Phoenix’s energetic songbook. All in all, very promising remix material for one of our favorite Miami-based producer/artists…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, The Get.Edwin Jantunen, AKA the Get, has the ability to take any track he remixes and put it through a juicer of…
Heavy metal is a seriously fan-driven musical world, possibly more so than any other scene going. It’s fans who have kept metal thriving for years, even when it went back underground or served as a punchline. Metal fans are some of the most passionate around — they will call favorite…
Florida’s proud history of music extends beyond borders. We’re talking about things that fall under the categories of “region rock” and certain interstates that have built impromptu bridges between communities… so I want to go on the horn here and say that we have as much in common with Atlanta,…
CavityFuck Diablo(Arm Records)Fuck websitesIt is no mystery for South Floridians the love that I harbor for the almighty Cavity. While this is not the first time that we see them within our Blast From the Past column, it will most certainly not be the last time either because as of…
