Imitation, it is said, is the sincerest form of flattery. But what do you call an exact replication? A tribute, of course. It’s a musical one in the case of Australian Pink Floyd, the world’s finest tribute band to, well, Pink Floyd. Starting way back in ’88, five Aussie musicians…
These days most gentiles — that’s non-Jews, folks — think Hanukkah is some sort of Christmas equivalent for God’s chosen people. But the truth is, it’s one of Judaism’s more minor holidays, and was moved to the forefront only since secular pop culture believed the religion was getting the shaft…
‘N Sync was so popular around the turn of the millennium that even I — jaded, posturing music critic — bought the band’s second album, No Strings Attached. It sold more than a million copies the day it was released in March 2000, and I was swallowing a lot of…
In today’s world of Cuban music, there’s nothing really exotic about a band as well rehearsed in chamber music as it is in rock. But roll back the clock to the end of the Cold War, and you’ll find Artevivo was at the heart of artistic resourcefulness on the island…
“Vocalese” is a jazz technique in which lyrics are added to instrumental tunes to convey a certain idea or feeling. Its origins can be traced to the Twenties, but it really came into vogue later, in the Fifties and beyond. And it is Kurt Elling’s passion. The Chicago-based musician develops the…
It’s almost guaranteed when you pursue a career in sports that you better have a backup plan in mind. For six-foot-nine former NBA power forward Wayman Tisdale, his plan B was a music career, and it’s gaining him just as much acclaim now as he garnered on the basketball court…
Rock historians regard the glory years of the Stooges to be 1969 and 1970, when the proto-punk act released The Stooges and Fun House, their two most influential albums. But according to Ron Asheton, the voluble guitarist for the combo, which is close to intact after coming apart more than…
At times, the oeuvre of Coheed and Cambria can make classic rock works like The Wall or Tommy seem as though they were based on the flimsiest of gimmicky ideas. Really. The expansive rock quartet from upstate New York has, over the course of about a decade, created a fictional…
Chris Brown has been well known to the screaming underage masses for a minute now, but he broke out to a wider audience at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards show. There he perfectly parroted the Gloved One’s moonwalk dance, prompting Justin Timberlake to tell the world he felt old…
Concert Review: Kelly Clarkson at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace — November 14, 2025: It’s been 22 years since Celine Dion turned the Colosseum at Caesars Palace into the place where female pop stars go to die as publicly as Roman gladiators once did. (But they do this, of course,…
Kicking off Friday’s Suenalo Sound System show at Jazid are Deb Hooks’s do-me pumps. Um, I mean Plastic Parachute. The alt-pop quartet is a road-dog-and-a-half, doing about 250 shows per year. As time has gone on, the band has padded its resumé with opening slots for heavies such as The…
Pete Doherty can skim a police blotter and place tiny red check marks next to all possible offenses. What crime hasn’t our gack-obsessed, Coleridge-invoking roue committed? Time for Heroes: The Best of the Libertines is a crime of sorts too. With the scabs from a recent partial Libertines reunion still…
Frequent New Times contributor Sire Esq has just dropped a new digital mixtape that’s worth checking out. It’s got a solid mix of local and national hip-hop bangers that you need in your life so check it out as links for listening to it and a full tracklist are below:…
It was just a few weeks ago that we covered the story on Cash Money CEO and artist Birdman’s migration to Miami, and just last week we told you about his highly appreciated pre-Thanksgiving turkey giveaway. But as of last night Bryan “Birdman” Williams became a fowl of a different…
One of the coolest music venues in Delray Beach, City Limits, is having a blowout music event over the next four days to celebrate their one-year anniversary. It’s actually their second one-year anniversary, but that’s a story that’s briefly explained below. This should be a rocking good time for anyone…
BY ANDY VIHSTADT My Grammys Weigh a Ton Outkast has been keeping 10 the Hard Way (most likely dropping in 2009 now, according to this) and next year’s solo effort from Big Boi on the down low. While you’re waiting for info, here’s something new from the duo courtesy of…
In case you missed Otto von Schirach’s awesome performance last week at Studio A, now you can at least check it out in shaky video. (And in case you missed the Miami New Times’ recent article on Otto, click here.) The other acts were Juan Montoya of Torche and Chris…
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold In the past, Avenged Sevenfold’s meathead simplicity pretty much excused all its bad behavior and even worse musical choices. It was as if the five members picked up, pored over and appropriated the Metal Band Rulebook before ever learning a single guitar chord. But that’s what…
Following recent under-the-radar performances by legendary (if slept-on) MCs like Jeru the Damaja, PS 14 continues to bring the realness for Miami hip-hop heads. This Sunday features a bill of rising and established stars: the North Carolina duo Little Brother, Philly’s former battle king Reef the Lost Cauze, and Cali…
Zach Lewis is a simple guy. He doesn’t need costumes, gimmicks, or other band members while performing as his one-man laptop act, Disposable Thumbs. Onstage it’s just him, his guitar, and his notebook. “There’s a huge amount of freedom that comes with being a solo performer,” Lewis says. “Onstage I’ve…
Throughout his four-decade career, Caetano Veloso has had a taste for musical innovation, keeping a keen eye on new sounds and tendencies while creating something of his own around them. It was the case in the era of Tropicalia, his native Brazil’s psychedelic response to the Summer of Love. Veloso…
It’s painful to hear the word math used to describe a style of music. And unfortunately, Heavy Heavy Low Low, hailing from San Jose, California, often get pigeonholed into the patently ponderous pseudo-genre mathcore. It’s supposed to mean there’s a lot of technique — meter shifts and such — along…
