If football is life, the New England Patriots give breath to every living Bostonian. And Ken Casey, the raspy voice behind the Celtic punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys, is no exception. “I feel so great about the Pats winning the Super Bowl,” Casey brags of the Patriots’ victory over the Atlanta…
Describing David Grisman means figuring out how to explain how he combines bluegrass, klezmer, jam bands, and jazz. But that’s what the virtuoso mandolin player has done in a 50-year career during which he has played with, among others, fiddler Vassar Clements, French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, klezmer clarinetist Andy Statman, and close friend Jerry Garcia — the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist.
Cuban singer Danay Suarez was born a poet. She doesn’t speak in sound bites, as many singers in the digital age do in interviews. Instead, she answers questions about her music and message with all the thoughtfulness and seriousness of someone giving a speech at the United Nations, occasionally sprinkling…
For the past two years, Steve Aoki and the Dim Mak crew have held an epic Miami Music Week bash at Nikki Beach. Last year was a particularly huge milestone for Aoki’s label. It celebrated its 20th anniversary with a mega-lineup that performed for 17 hours.
The past 12 months have been tragic for Parliament Funkadelic. The grandmasters of funk have seen two members of their collective fall. Last June, keyboardist extraordinaire Bernie Worrell died of cancer, and just this past January, their former musical director, Junie Morrison, passed away. But those expecting the group’s show…
With only days to go, general-admission three-day passes to the 2017 Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival are sold out. Still available, though, are the four-day Portal Passes for $279. It’s a bargain compared to Florida’s other mammoth festival, Ultra, whose tickets normally retail for about 400 bucks apiece. So what…
There’s nothing worse than the wait time between your favorite artist’s announcement of new music and the moment your friend surprises you with an illegal download link. In the case of hip-hop artists Fabolous and Jadakiss, we’re still waiting on the link for the joint project. “Freddy vs. Jason” was…
This coming weekend, the center of Florida’s entertainment universe will be at the Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival far from the city. The four-day event brings together some bright young things and a slew of classic acts. However, for those poor souls left behind during this musical rapture, we have…
Lucinda Williams talks writing about heartbreak, loss, and politics.
Angel Olsen is caustic and refreshingly candid. Coming off a relentless tour schedule in support of last year’s My Woman, she offers the same honesty that has endeared her to audiences since her breakthrough release, 2014’s Burn Your Fire for No Witness. She describes her involvement in “Our First Hundred…
It seems wrong that in this era, when just about every music act, from Hank Williams to Miles Davis, is getting its life story put on the silver screen, no producer has found a way to make a biopic of Exposé. The pitch would seem simple: It’s Dreamgirls taking place…
For a man who shortened his stage name to Sting, Gordon Sumner sure does seem to have a thing for wordy song titles. With his great New Wave band the Police, he burdened radio DJs with weighty names such as “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” and, most brazen, “When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around.” His solo career, with hits such as “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” and “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You,” showed no more appreciation for brevity.
The only thing shocking or scandalous about Coral Orgy is that it took this long for such a title to pop up in Animal Collective’s repertoire. Browsing through the band’s discography and song titles is an extended exercise in absurdity and surrealism, with names pulled straight from the pages of…
The mention of Sting, who will play the Fillmore this Saturday, often elicits a face-contorting “ew” or an apathetic shrug from nonbelievers. He doesn’t always get credit for a three-decade solo career that began with his departure from the Police in 1984.
Pinball competitions, inexpensive drinks, and live rock don’t sound bad for a Sunday night, right? Now add free admission. Local record label Cheap Miami says, “Sundays are for rock ‘n’ roll, cheap drinks, and a killer time,” and we couldn’t agree more. If you’re looking for a cool way to say goodbye to the weekend or if you’re among the lucky ones who don’t have to work Monday, this is the perfect plan.
Urban Dictionary, the old bastion of the English language and Her Spellings and Grammars that it is, defines “inferion” as: “A person with low intellect and amazingly poor moral judgement. Often times [sic] ignores that which discomforts them and clutches to useless ideals for no reason. They have low…
Sometimes between late-night DJ sets and loud, sweaty rock shows; plane boardings and landings; hotel showers and studio sessions that blur into one another and out of society at large, Jesse F. Keeler thinks to himself: “What am I gonna do after I live this life?” Then, before he can answer, he finds himself reinspired and reinvigorated, and suddenly he’s back in the studio or standing behind another set of turntables, and he’s doing what he’s always done: his best at making it up as he goes.
In January, when starfucker-in-chief Donald Trump was looking for some music acts more famous than 3 Doors Down to play his inauguration concert, a vicious rumor was going around that local boy made good Flo Rida had agreed to perform for $1 million. The story circulated so widely that it…
Some women make it look easy. Businesswomen, artists, mothers, partners, friends. Sometimes all at once. A woman can inhabit many lives in just one day while traversing a minefield of societal expectations: Be soft but not weak. Strong but not emasculative. Sexy but chaste. Honest but not biting. Throughout her…
A Fly Guy leads the way as he sends the party back to the ’90s every Tuesday at Rec Room nightclub.
All that anyone could talk after Sunday night’s Grammys was James Hetfield’s microphone issues or Laverne Cox forgetting to namedrop the band in the introduction. But in metal circles, the real controversy was Metallica sharing the stage with Lady Gaga for a performance of “Moth Into Flame.” Setting aside that cries of…
Midway through Nu Deco Ensemble’s second season, cofounder Jacomo Bairos couldn’t be more pleased with the 21st-century chamber orchestra’s success. “It has exceeded all our expectations.” he tells New Times. “We never expected such loyal audiences. We’ve been selling out our concerts, so people who love us now know they…
