So aside from seeing South Florida’s finest Guitar Hero players in South Florida open for Aerosmith at the BankAtlantic Center on July 13, fans have a very special treat in store. Just a couple shows into their current tour, Aerosmith has announced that every stop throughout their summer run will…
Their website claims they’re the original British Invasion band, just above a scrolling banner begging visitors to “Call your local Oldies station and request a Herman’s Hermits song TODAY!!!” It’s alternately sad and cute, especially after doing a little research and finding out they actually rivaled The Beatles for a…
Initially catching a break as an opening DJ for progressive figurehead Sasha, U.K. DJ/producer James Zabiela funneled an interest in acid house’s tightly pitched trills and the instant editing potential of the Pioneer CDJ decks into a blissfully slick sound that’s both sci-fi and hi-fi. Digitally assisted by MIDI controllers,…
I’m not going to make the usual references to Teenage Bottlerocket being from the small town of Laramie, Wyoming and then go on to say that they remind people of the Ramones even though they are from this really small town in a western state and the Ramones are from…
You wouldn’t think the American Civil War and reggae music would be closely associated. Nothing’s less Rasta than people warring over states rights and abolition, but John Brown’s Body begs to differ, at least when it comes to their name. Originally a marching song for the Union, John Brown’s Body…
She of the haunting, breathy voice and unpredictable stage shows is coming to Culture Room on July 13. Cat Power aka Chan Marshall recently announced a new U.S. tour in support of her most recent album Jukebox.Just be forewarned if you buy tickets to this show. If she’s on, you’re…
Featuring the Spam Allstars, Suenalo, and more Saturday, June 13, 2009 Jazid, Miami Beach Better than: Bottle service and a roomful of fake tits. It was 9:13 p.m. and across the street on Washington Ave., a couple hundred members of the steroid and cosmetic surgery set were waiting outside one…
Steely Dan should have belonged to the oughties. Their particular blend of soft-rock bears so many of the hallmarks of latter-day indie royalty that one begins to wonder whether it’s a coincidence at all, or if Walter Becker and Don Fagen are actually time-traveling sonic explorers sent from the far…
Fatboy Slim will be forever preserved in the mainstream pop culture annals as that funk soul brother who all but left so-called “electronica” behind as he crafted commercial-ready dance hits. Seriously, his late Nineties/early 2000 hits are so massive that they need not even be named. (Oh, here are a…
I just saw this on the Off the Radar blog. Richard Haig aka Panic Bomber gets down with MJ and B-Robb of Awesome New Republic on a collabo remix. This is like a Miami New Times Best of 2009 love fest for dance fans. It’s FreeFreeFree.com. Follow the link below…
Remember when Eddie Murphy decided it was time to turn away from the silver screen and dive into pop music? If you said yes, you’re officially old and probably hesitant to give another actor a shot at a music career. The difference between Mr. Foxx and Mr. Murphy, aside from…
If you missed her last month, there’s no need to continue crying. Britney is coming back to American Airlines Arena on September 2. Continuing along her ‘Circus’ tour, Britney herself is promising that even those who caught her the first time will be in for a surprise. Her blog states…
Vous etre un chien! That means, “you are a dog” in French. It’s not terribly impressive, but it’s all I managed to retain from a year of introductory French in freshman year of Christopher Columbus High School, before I got kicked out and began my extensive tour of SoFla’s high…
New York Dolls Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale Better than: A half-authentic tribute act. Maybe I’m a natural-born negative creep. Or maybe my inner lonely planet boy has been shocked out of his bubble a few too many times by the cruel, harsh realities of our post-punk…
Few frontmen are as wildly energetic as The Legendary JC’s Eugene Snowden. Backed by a badass eight-piece, he confidently recreates the soul revue sensations of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Snowden brings his own explosive quirks to the indelible personas created by such greats as James Brown and Al…
Once upon a time a man named Ace Roller was walking down a canyon wearing a fury coat of arms and carrying a deranged, damaged instrument that seemed like it might have at some point been a guitar. At the lowest point in the valley he came across two musical…
More acts need to do this: Start or end their tours in South Florida. Way too often, when acts are touring the U.S. they’ll make a stop in Atlanta and call that the southern leg. It seems like too much of a problem to travel all the way down here…
Can’t afford/don’t want to spend a few hundred dollars to get Ship Rocked? That’s understandable, but no excuse to eschew your responsibility as an American to support heavy metal. Queensryche is touring all summer and has announced a date at Revolution just before heading off to Grand Cayman and Jamaica. On…
South Florida jam favorite The Heavy Pets will come back for two shows after their Bonnaroo debut this weekend. The quintet is heading to Georgia for two nights right after the festival, but will play Roxy’s in West Palm on June 23. Then three weeks later, the band will come around again to share a bill…
If genre-jumping was considered a test of athletic dexterity, Cat Shell would be an Olympic contender. That’s evident in the way the Boca-based chanteuse nimbly treads the divide that intersects jazz, blues, pop, and country, excelling in all without compromising any. Though a 20-something might be a bit hazy when…
Every revolution has its heroes. You know, the legendary figures, poster children for their given cause. They usually get their image on T-shirts, eventually to be worn by teenage mall-dwellers who were nowhere near the revolution in the first place and who have little notion of what it all meant…
Damian Lazarus came to performing music from the enemy’s side: He started out as a music journalist, a notorious profession in his native England. Still, even as he worked as an editor at the legendary lifestyle mag Dazed & Confused, it was all part of a planned gradual move into…
