Daniel ToshFort Lauderdale ImprovBetter than: Granny takes a squirtBefore I begin, I want you all to know that I had absolutely no date to bring to see Daniel Tosh. Not that my friends didn’t want to go see the host of Comedy Central’s surprisingly good clip show, Tosh.0. It’s just…
StonefoxWith Alexander, Green Mantles and Astari NiteThe Poor House, Fort LauderdaleSaturday, May 1, 2010View a slideshow from the concert here.What follows is an actual online chat, more or less, between New Times Broward-Palm Beach Music Editor Reed Fischer, and regular contributor and Mood Vane Editrix Courtney Hambright regarding Saturday evening’s…
Miami-alt rockers Alukard toy with Walt Disney’s animation and Salvador Dalí in their latest video incarnation for “Doubtful Optimism.” First started in 1946 and not completed until just a few years ago, the collaboration between two legendary artists seemed the perfect intermingling for the band’s latest track…
There is little that’s revolutionary, either politically or musically, about Buena Fe, the Cuban duo of Rojas Fiel and Yoel Martinez Rodriguez. Perhaps that’s because the pair are truly products of the studiously apolitical pop music scene in late Castro Cuba; they formed as a musical act in 1999 and…
Electric Bunnies have been disappointingly quiet lately, but while the band hibernates, erstwhile member Teepee, has taken flight as a solo artist. Born Eric Lopez-Zareno, he’s also sometimes known as That Guy Who Seems to Play In Every Band That Ever Plays at the American Legion. His solo work, however,…
Among the many fine things going on this weekend, the Bubble is hosting a massive birthday bash this weekend in Fort Lauderdale. The experimental art space, which is located at 810 NE 4th Ave. in the Flagler Village section of town, has become the lifeblood of a passionate group of…
Fuacata! Spam Allstars are getting it in tonight at their weekly residency at Hoy Como Ayer in the heart of Little Havana alongside Rumberos De La 8, a bangin’ Miami percussion group with members from Cuba and Puerto Rico produced by DJ Le Spam. Doors open at 9 p.m. and…
SunFest New Music Night With Weezer, We Are Scientists, Constellations, Crash Kings Gringo Star, Locksley, and These United States West Palm Beach Waterfront Check out Ian Witlen’s slideshow of photos from SunFest’s New Music Night here. Better than: Mud balls in your face Considering all the rain we’ve had the…
It was the end of the ’90s and I found myself without a car and relying on Miami’s public transportation. It was Sunset Drive, a couple doors down from the liquor store and across from the Winn-Dixie and the sun was at its blistering best and I was on a…
Band of HorsesThe Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason TheaterApril 28, 2010Better than: A hot, endless afternoon of barbecue and horseshoes off the Carolina coast.Somewhere in the middle of “Ode to the LRC,” a revelation hit. My head was nodding along and my eyes were closed as Ben Bridwell’s…
Local superindie label Destroyio Records made it all the way to the finals of Miami New Times’ recent Mastermind Awards contest this past winter. That was no small feat, considering the artsy-fartsy, more “establishment”-type entries in the pool. The one-man operation deserves plenty of credit for keeping proper punk rock…
A cappella music is a strange thing. It conjures images of either old-man barbershop quartets or, more likely, those overeager, overly animated dudes on your freshman dorm floor. Yes, these days, single-sex a cappella groups are largely confined to campus life, but every so often, a group breaks through to…
Just a couple of weeks before an extensive national tour that will keep them on the road for two months, the Jacuzzi Boys released a new video for their song “Smells Dead.” In a sign of the band’s growing national cred, the director here is John McSwain, a young filmographer…
The latest full-length album by Long Island band As Tall as Lions, You Can’t Take It With You, might seem pretty high-concept at first listen. That’s because it is. The band name-checks influences such as performance art piece Fuerza Bruta, for example, along the literary insights of Daniel Quinn’s mythological…
Nocturnal, the other major superclub on NE Eleventh Street, has suffered ups and downs, surviving through its share of closing and re-opening rumors over the years. But that’s just par for the course in nightlife, where longevity is rare and a fifth birthday, which the dance warehouse celebrates this weekend,…
The ’90s were full of bands who put the “hard” in “hardcore,” but Skarhead, repping the outer boroughs of New York City, gave many of them a run for their tough-guy money. The band started originally as a side project, formed by members of Madball and Subzero, along with notorious…
dOP is the production/performance outfit of French multi-instrumentalists Damian Van de Sande, Clement Zemstov, and Jonathan Illel, whose eclectic individual backgrounds in jazz, hip-hop and rock have contributed to an idiosyncratic brand of live electronics. The quirky trio alighted on the international EDM scene in 2007 with the release of…
You’ll have a hell of a time this Friday at Churchill’s with “Pogo! A tribute to 80’s punk and hardcore.” The show features local bands Trust No One, Knock Em’ Dead, Hardware Youth, Routine Scheme, and Unit Six doing covers of your favorite songs from back in the day. Whether…
Time to break out the kinder-whore dresses and Mary Janes kids, because rock’s ultimate HBIC — er, that’s head bitch in charge — is coming to the Fillmore Miami Beach on July 2. Courtney Love has resurrected Hole, but she’s the only original band member in the new incarnation. But…
It’s not easy to live up to some types of hype and it can be especially crippling artistically when you come from great struggle getting better and better all the time. So before we get into some biographical stuff about Juan-Carlos Formell, let’s see the comparisons first so that we…
TopSpot USA’s Sean Russell, a local music industry player and subject of a recent New Times Broward-Palm Beach profile, tracks down the latest news and adds insight from the front row of local concerts. On Monday, Russell attended the Rocket Summer’s performance at Culture Room featuring South Florida acts Easton…
For this concert review, Sammy Gonzalez, bassist of Miami’s Jacobs Ladder, weighs in on a show this past Sunday by some of his favorite bands. Local musicians, if you’d like to contribute a review of a show by some of your favorites or influences, e-mail me. Torche, Circa Survive, and Coheed &…
