Want to make a hipster snarl? Just utter the following innocuous sentence — “Wanna go see the Dave Matthews Band?” — and watch the fun begin. The mere suggestion of attending such a patchwork and patchouli-laced event will make your tight-pants-wearing, electronic-music-loving friends recoil in horror. Few bands are as…
These days, there aren’t a lot of venues left in Broward County to catch live hip-hop. Most of the clubs where the genre used to thrive have either shut down or no longer cater to that type of music. So it forces hip-hop heads to get creative when it comes…
Husband-and-wife team Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner seemingly make gorgeous indie pop songs as easily and casually as the rest of us shower in the morning. Much has changed since their duo Mates of State’s 2006 debut on Barsuk, Bring It Back; they have moved to New York and had…
The Electric Bunnies’ music makes me feel like I’m beating off to pornography while my wife sleeps in the same room. Good thing I ain’t married and can enjoy the Electric Bunnies in public. Wow! It’s a solid follow-up to the Eskimo seven-inch. This four-track, vinyl-only EP is an excellent…
At Sports Rock Lounge, you get more than you’d expect from your neighborhood dive. Here, you get free pool, dirt-cheap alcohol, and animated conversation about topics ranging from the Second Amendment to women’s role in society — though you won’t exactly hear it put in those terms. You also get…
It’s not often that one can claim to have witnessed history, but yours truly had just such an opportunity one fall evening back in 1976. The events transpired in rather innocuous surroundings… specifically, a shithole of a dive in West Palm Beach. I’ve forgotten its name, although I still recall…
Timb has heard all the jokes. At 6-foot-3, with bleached-blond hair, morgue-pale skin, and a wardrobe full of industrial fetish attire, the Fort Lauderdale-based singer can be a magnet for wisecracks whenever he steps out on the town. His attire, along with the massive four-inch boots he typically wears, causes…
Machinery will go head-to-head in a battle for blood at Churchill’s Saturday night. Okay, so probably blood won’t factor into the battle, and the most we could hope for is that someone throws their MacBook across the room. Nope, this is just a simple battle for laptop musicianship supremacy. The…
So there’s already way too much blog fodder out there on Lil Wayne so I’ll keep this one short. A couple of days ago I was watching Wayne’s new video for “A Milli,” which was literally shot on the way to another video shoot and I admired the balls that…
Hey vinyl lovers and electronic fans, the highly under publicized Karma Records in Fort Lauderdale just announced that they’re having a huge sale for the rest of the summer. I normally wouldn’t advertise a business specifically on the blog, but supporting independent record stores is a different animal all together…
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis Two Men with the Blues (Blue Note) Did music really use to be less complicated, or does it just seem that way? Maybe it’s just that life used to be less complicated, and music is simply a mirror of its times. Or something like that…
Based on looks, I think they failed. Cute Is What We Aim For is likely the perfect 21st-century pop band. Almost purpose built for short-attention-span marketing campaigns, the four gents in CIWWAF focus so heavily on pop sheen, hooks, and scenester touchstones that it’s often difficult to figure out just…
Gravy Train!!!! I was debating whether to start this post with “All aboard the Gravy Train!!!!” But, er, I resisted the temptation. But don’t resist on checking out the California quartet Gravy Train!!!! (yes, the exclamation points are part of the name, I suppose to express utter joy) at White…
Maybe it’s the American in me but I’ve always loved the music of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. For as long as I can recall, Petty’s been one of my favorite songwriters when it comes to rock music, mainly because his songs are simple, two-part harmony styled ditties that hone…
I’ll post a full review later on, but I wanted to get the set list up for the very excellent Peter Murphy gig last Saturday at Revolution. Because his current tour is billed as a “retrospective,” I know I’m not alone in obsessively Googling his set lists (hey, I was…
Ernest Barteldes Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil performs at the Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday night. Gilberto Gil Saturday, July 5, 2008 The Fillmore Jackie Gleason Theatre, Miami Beach Playing to an audience mostly formed by his many Brazilian fans, Gilberto Gil closed his six-city U.S. tour with a two-hour set designed…
Lee Zimmerman Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band July 3, 2008 Seminole Hard Rock, Hollywood By now, the traveling nostalgia show that tours annually under the banner of Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band has been honed to a tee. Ringo offers up his best-known Beatles songs and…
John Hood Tom Waits performs before a sold-out crowd at the Times-Union Center in Jacksonville, Fla. Tom Waits July 1, 2008 The Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, Jacksonville Better than: Having a hobo in your home for supper – and having him sing murder songs for it. (Dateline: Jacksonville)…
Jamie Lidell Genre-bending musician Jamie Lidell will be stopping by Heathrow Lounge, a new UK-inspired club on South Beach, July 18. Who else could be behind this booking except the people from Poplife, which will be celebrating 9 years of bringing indie music to the masses that very weekend. The…
Gameboy/Gamegirl sans fourth member and beat producer Miami Horror. Here was what I can’t figure out about Australian quartet Gameboy/Gamegirl, are they embracing hipster culture or are they making an absolute mockery of it? With lyrics like “Vodka and cranberry/Shake it like it’s February/Gin and tonic/The shit is ironic,” it…
Here’s some trivia to bandy about when you’re having conversation over cocktails. Ask who can name a band that’s still intact 30 years after its inception. Better yet, ask how many they can name that still have the entire original lineup. The Stones? The Who? The Allman Brothers? Nope. These…
The setting was Orlando at the peak of the ’90s rave scene. Underground dance culture was arguably at its best, and inside the famed club Edge, the electro group known as Rabbit in the Moon consistently concocted an auditory and visual experience unlike anything most dance fans had ever experienced…
