John Hood Henry Rollins speaks to a crowd gathered at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale Sunday night. Henry Rollins Sunday September 28th 2008 Revolution Live, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: The same ol’ hipster shtick. Fitting that I’d have to drive through a torrential rain storm in order to catch the latest…
Sayre Berman Fergie performs as the Seminole Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, as part of the Ambassadors of Rock Tour. Click here to view the full slideshow. Fergie Ambassadors of Rock Tour And VIP Party Friday, Sept. 26 Seminole Hard Rock Hotel, Hollywood Fergie’s The Duchess. Fergie’s a fashion…
Jason Handelsman Cash Money Records CEO and co-founder, Ronald “Slim” Williams. Last night, Miami’s Hobie Beach – located on Virginia Key, just over the Rickenbacker Causeway — was filled with tour buses, Maybachs, an orange Lamborghini, a couple of Bentleys, and some limousines. Lil Wayne was in one of the…
Friday, September 26: *Smart-guy metal bands the Sword and Clutch play at Culture Room in Ft. Lauderdale. Click here to read more about both. *The South Dakota-based, Nakota nation band Indigenous performs at the Seminole Hard Rock, blending classic rock riffage with Native American traditions. Click here to read more…
One of my favorite things about the Friday night party about the Vagabond is its mixture of just enough live music — one band on the patio a week — with the usual DJ fun. But beyond that, since the party is co-presented by Sweat Records, the live lineup is…
We’re exhausted just thinking about the packed weekend schedule ahead of us that we aren’t sure if we’ll survive come Monday. But that’s the fall season for you. Things are finally in full swing and there are so many things to do that we’re sure we are leaving out plenty…
It was really cool talking to Henry Rollins over the phone. The man has the gift of gab, and he spoke non-stop for almost twenty minutes. In this episode of PrunkTV, we talk about last week’s guest, HR of the Bad Brains, and pumping iron. He also told me about…
It all started out as a pleasant Sunday. Lauren Reskin, owner of Miami staple Sweat Records, was trying to relax two weeks ago and enjoy her lone day off. Unfortunately, the day’s tone changed dramatically when she swung by her business for a quick meeting and found out that her…
Onstage and in interviews, Lee “Scratch” Perry’s persona is a mix of giddy surrealism, folk wisdom, apocalyptic theology, and simple crudity (fart jokes, raw sex talk, etc.). Although there’s fun to be had in listening to him ramble, when you unpack his riffs, there are deep worries in there —…
Once upon a time, grasshopper, instrumental rock bands were common. Groups like the Ventures, Champs, Shadows, Dick Dale, and (the occasionally vocal) Link Wray & the Raymen rocked both sides of the Atlantic waithout the “benefit” of a singer. (The Who’s Pete Townshend remarked that were it not for Wray,…
For the second time in as many years, the Langerado Music Festival is on the move. In a news release sent out last week, the festival organizers announced that the three-day event will be held March 6-8 at Bicentennial Park in Miami next year. It’s the fifth location the festival…
There used to be a time when South Florida was a haven for good, ol’-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll, not just old-timey stuff that was stuck in a time warp. Rootsy Americana bands could make a living here, and crowds appreciated them for their efforts. Fort Lauderdale’s Hep Cat Boo Daddies,…
Few musicians were as popular as Nelly at the beginning of the decade. His debut, Country Grammar, came out of nowhere in 2000 to sell more than 9 million copies, popularizing the St. Louis sing-songy rap sound in the process. His 2002 follow-up, Nellyville, featuring the then-annoyingly ubiquitous “Hot in…
The buzz surrounding the release of Metallica’s new album has centered on one — and only one — argument: Does Death Magnetic succeed in its attempt to recapture Metallica’s glory days? The answer, as most discerning music fans know, is irrelevant. Metallica’s glory days were more than 20 years ago,…
If you’re in the West Palm Beach area this Thursday and looking for a dose of culture, the seven-piece band known as Jahfe (which means “creation” in Creole) is bringing its reggae musical vibes to Clematis by Night. Dreadlocked singers Sasha Sanon, a Haitian native, and Esther Fortune, who was…
It’s something of an understatement to say that Henry Rollins is one of the hardest-working men in show business. For the past quarter century, he’s averaged more than 100 shows a year in more countries than most people can identify on a map, and he’s covered more ground — politically,…
Shemekia Copeland is a woman who knows the blues. She grew up listening to it every night as a child in Harlem at a time when most of her friends were stuck on hip-hop. “I used to get in trouble when I was a kid for coming to school singing…
Within local hip-hop circles, there seems to be a resurgence lately of quality MC-ing, both in the live setting and on new album releases. South Florida has never been known for having a strong hip-hop scene (and it still doesn’t), but individually, there’s a sizable list of talented lyricists here,…
Patrick Bloom Moses Memorable melodies, haunting refrains, and breathtaking performances find Moses echoing the influences of earlier pop prophets. No matter that Bloom hails from Iowa — here’s an album etched in the tradition of Jackson Browne, Brian Wilson, and other singer/songwriter types of the ’60s and ’70s. This music…
Metallica didn’t commit its biggest sin when it exposed its dirty laundry in gory, self-indulgent detail in the 2003 film Some Kind of Monster. No, Metallica disgraced itself 12 years earlier on the wretched “Black Album,” when it abandoned the thrash-metal art form it helped invent. Then the band insultingly…
Ann Arbor’s futuristic Afrobeat group NOMO sure knows how to fling out expectations and stereotypes. Just two years ago, critics and anyone in ear range were justifiably lumping this nine-person collective as a group of Fela followers and putting them in the Konono N°1/Antibalas camp because of their strong resemblance…
It’s a sure sign that an album is nasty when it takes a strong stomach just to review it. Miami-bred rapper Blowfly’s latest release, Live at the Platypussery, is just that type of hilariously crass disc. It was recorded live in Melbourne, Australia, and it’s full of funny yet crude…
