This Week in Print: Beach House and Duck Down

Photo by Jason Nocito​This week’s New Times Broward Palm Beach harnesses the considerable talents of Arielle Castillo for the main feature of the week. Enough about Vampire Weekend already, let’s read about the moody songscapes of opening act Beach House. Jasper Delaini comes strong with an extended conversation with hip-hop…

Radio-Active Records’ Top 5 Releases for September 28-October 4

In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week. Choosing between prolific Bradford Cox’s solo efforts as Atlas Sound and his output with Deerhunter is sort of like taking sides…

Blast From the Past: Blowfly – Disco (NSFW)

Blowfly Disco (Weird World) blowfly.com It was a matter of time before we got to some real pioneer work within these digital pages of BFTP. Some call him a funk demon, a sex pariah, a freak, a bug that oughta be squashed, his mama calls him Clarence, the original dirty…

Download: ¡MAYDAY! Mixtape: Lords of the Fly

​There’s no doubt that ¡MAYDAY! has been hustling pretty hard these days. Not the sort of rap supergroup content to just jam with a pre-incarcerated Lil Wayne, the guys do it all while rocking some of the freshest Dolphins gear in the history of fresh Dolphins gear. Our discerning sister…

Video: Plains’ “Team Radio” Has Lots of Flash

Facebook.com​Excitement abounds for a new song from Miami power-pop outfit Plains. “Team Radio” has all the fuzz and swagger of umpteen bands who use “Super” as a prefix, and it remains to be heard how loud they play it live — “paint-peeling” would be satisfactory. Night Drive Miami debuted the…

MP3: Chief – “Can’t Stand It” (Featuring Guilty Simpson and Wrekonize)

Photo by Dante Dasaro​Recent Detroit-to-Florida transplant Chief, who was featured in Alex Rendon’s recent piece on Footwork4Self Records’ local rise, has a new song circulating featuring a rhymer from his past locale (Guilty Simpson) and his current one (Mayday’s Wrekonize). The MP3 of “Can’t Stand It,” a smoothed-out track with…

Glimpses of the South Florida Scene: Millionyoung

Stephanie Rae Berzon of Nozreb.com​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, Coral Springs’ Millionyoung.A proper interview with Millionyoung’s Mike Diaz is long overdue. Since getting his…

Blast From the Past: Cavity – Drowning

Cavity Drowning (Bacteria Sour) bacteriasour.com Cavity reigned with doom and sludge at a time (the ’90s) when we all needed a firm kick to the balls. What you’ve heard is true. They started off as Crawl and did an ENTIRE tour in which nary a note was performed! It was…

Electric Six: The Novelty Band That Would Not Die

Plenty of Electric Six’s converted would follow these well-dressed freaks and their amped anthems of social and romantic chaos to the end of the Earth, but not everyone’s that committed. Folks familiar with this Detroit outfit slot nicely into three distinct groups: casual fans with a couple of dance floor…

Night Watch: Da Big Kahuna

​Da Big Kahuna17th S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. Ste. 380Call 954-530-4867, or visit here.I was seated at the palapa bar inside the expansive, open-air Da Big Kahuna, amid beautiful ocean-themed murals, varying sized tikis (shipped from Hawaii), and red and yellow lanterns. Pockets of people dined on authentic…

Moving Units: Radio-Active Records’ Top 5 Releases for September 21-27

Six Swans a-slaying.​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.Following the onslaught of Nick Cave’s second Grinderman album last week would be nearly impossible for any band other than…

The Clementines Need a Drummer Who Can Drive

Facebook.comThat person in the back could be you!​It’s unlikely that Craigslist’s recent removal of the “Adult Section” will affect West Palm Beach indie rockers the Clementines’ quest for a permanent drummer. Still, the “Glimpses of the South Florida Scene” alums have some catchy tunes that are near and dear to…

Night Watch: Lulu’s Bait Shack

​Lulu’s Bait Shack17th S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Ste. 212, Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-463-7425, visit here.Lulu’s is an unadulterated year-round spring-break joint where barely legals sip Technicolor liquor from giant fish bowls and a cover band blasts Blink-182 hits in the background. Photos of bikini-clad, sun-bronzed beach bunnies and New…

MP3: Kill Miss Pretty — “Judy Garland (Mozart & Friends Remix)”

Photo by Ian Witlen​Boynton Beach electro goth act Kill Miss Pretty just dropped one for the dancing zombies this Halloween. The already menacing “Judy Garland” gets some more thuds and post-industrial scrape behind it for the Mozart & Friends remix, now streaming at the group’s YouTube page and lovingly embedded…

Glimpses of the South Florida Scene: Sumsun

​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, Sumsun.It’s hard to talk about Sumsun without mentioning the redundant “chillwave” or its sister term, “glo-fi.” Sumsun has all…