Busta Rhymes

Between his acting career, his unsavory legal troubles, and the simple fact that he seemingly has been around forever, it’s sometimes easy to forget Busta Rhymes is still an active recording artist — especially when you consider that beyond the awesomely Daft Punk-jacking “Touch It,” dude hasn’t really made an…

Kate Voegele

Everywhere we look — USA Today, iTunes, the CW — we see 21-year-old Cleveland singer-songwriter Kate Voegele’s face. There she is — singing songs from, talking about, and inviting you to download her albums. Voegele has been slowly building buzz over the past couple of years with her personal pop…

KMFDM to Play Respectable Street on October 30

All of your future holiday plans are falling into place: New Year’s is covered with STS9, and now you can get an early start on Halloween with German industrial/goth band KMFDM coming to Respectable Street on October 30. These uber-political (see what I did there?) industrial pioneers have been blasting…

Soniko Celebrates its CD Release, Tomorrow Night at Transit Lounge

After their widely touted debut Kombustion, locally groomed rock group Soniko prepares to capitalize on the buzz they first generated five years ago with their long awaited sophomore release, Antidoto Parcial. On Kombustion the foursome received heavy acclaim for their churning brand of alt-rock. A vamp on 1990s grunge with…

Stryper to Play Culture Room on October 25

Back in the day when two sweet Sweet brothers linked up with a hot shot guitarist who went by Oz Fox, a revolution in heavy metal was caused to occur. No longer would the genre be forced to walk in sin with Satan worshiping denizens of sleazy back alleys. Stryper…

Camp Kill Yourself Playing Culture Room July 28

Camp Kill Yourself, aka CKY, is coming to town on July 28 to play the Culture Room. If you’re at all familiar with the CKY videos or have paid attention to the music in Jackass and all its spinoffs, you’ve certainly heard CKY’s music. Deron Miller, Chad Ginsburg, Matt Deis, and Jess…

Reik Announces Show at Santo

Mexican pop group Reik has come a long way since its inception in 2004. For one thing, two thirds of the trio can legally drink in the venues they frequently pack (in the States…in Mexico they’ve been legal since they were seven). But more importantly, they’ve evolved as artists and…

Smif-N-Wessun Live! at the White Room this Friday, May 22

If you are in your late 20s/early 30s and you listened to a lot of underground HC hip-hop in your formative years, then you probably played Dah Shinin’ a whole hell of a lot and you probably loved “Bucktown.” Well here is your chance to see Smif-n-Wessun live in action…

Friday Night: Coldplay at Cruzan Amphitheatre

Dear Chris Martin: Thanks for the show on Friday night. It was excellent.But before I go all gushy with praise — which I will, I promise — I should tell you that I was dreading your concert. Ever since I first heard your band in the early Aughts, I thought…

Kill Miss Pretty to Play Propaganda May 23, the White Room in June

Boynton Beach’s elctro-punksters Kill Miss Pretty are reviving Florida’s music scene one rock sideshow at a time. The trio, which is the best local band since the Freakin Hott, is made up of vocalist Alicia, guitarist Russ, and bassist Martin. They will bring their carnivalesque raunch-pop to Propaganda on May…

A Reunited Blink 182 to Play Cruzan on September 26

They haven’t released a new album in six years, but that won’t stop Blink 182 from touring. Nope, not even drummers getting into plane crashes can keep these pop-punk rockers apart. Blink 182 has announced its much-heralded reunion tour will make a stop in West Palm Beach at Cruzan Amphitheater…

Last Night: The Crystal Method at Revolution

The Crystal MethodThursday, May 14, 2009Revolution Live, Fort LauderdaleBetter than: Revenge of the NerdsWhen I spoke with The Crystal Method’s Ken Jordan last week, he assured me that when he and his cohort Scott Kirkland hit town “they’d be pulling out all the stops.”Unfortunately, the stage at Revolution reportedly wasn’t…

Judas Priest and Whitesnake Playing Hard Rock Live August 17

If you’ve seen Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg, you know (at least Hollywood’s version) the story of how Tim “Ripper” Owens came to be lead singer of the Rob Halford-less Judas Priest. Long story very short: Halford left the band to thrash solo. Meanwhile Ripper Owens was in a Judas…

BFGF at PS 14 on May 22

Chris Video, visual artist, man about town, lover, and conspiracy investigator and Me She join together like a two headed Voltron to form fun electronic dancy duo BFGF.  He is boyfriend and she is girlfriend.  If you haven’t had a chance to peep their music, check it out on myspace. …

Stone Love Music Hosts “Finally,” a Memorial Weekend Party

Once a year Memorial Weekend comes along and pumps the tri-county full of Caribbean energy. Here’s one such example. “Finally,” a party hosted by Stone Love Music at the Floridian Ballroom (17850 NW 2nd Street, Pembroke Pines) goes down on Friday, May 22. It’s scheduled from 11 p.m til 7…

Tori Amos Bringing Sin to Miami Beach on July 29

Piano Goddess Tori Amos just announced a tour of theaters across the U.S., and the Fillmore Miami Beach islucky enough to have her on July 29. Tori is promoting her newest album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, which is set for a May 19 release date. Last year, Amos hooked back…

Palo! Performs at the Van Dyke Tomorrow, May 16

Guess who’s playing the Van Dyke this Saturday? I know, I know. Enough with the Van Dyke already. I promise, it’ll be the last time I mention it … at least for this week. Don’t blame me if they’re killing it with cool Latin bookings. And I’d be remiss if…