Chuck Berry

Ben Westbeech Talks Latest Album, New Label, and White-Boy Soul

Virtuoso is a word that immediately comes to mind to describe Ben Westbeech. Singer, producer, DJ, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist -- he's even mastered the über-classy cello. And the breadth of Westbeech's creativity is not limited to his solo work. He's also a prolific collaborator whose 2011 ... More >>

Deaf Poets Bring the Noise With Heartline Fits at The Stage for Rebel Run Tuesdays

​What's got six strings, four hands, a kit full of skins, and a fuzz box? The Deaf Poets, a two-man band from the MIA featuring guitarist-songwriter Sean Wouters and drummer Nicolas Espinosa.The duo's catchy garage sound tempers lo-fi wildness with digital recording value for an ear-friendly dos ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: Top 10 Musicians Who Have Served Time in Prison

Many famous musicians have spent a day or three in jail for driving drunk, holding drugs, or something really stupid. But only the select few have spent a serious stretch of time in prison, which brings us to David Allan Coe. The original country outlaw performs Friday at the Culture Room in Fort La ... More >>

Concert Review: Alligator Alley's Friday Night Closing Party, October 23

photo by Alex RendonThe Alligator Alley Allstars played the bar's send-off party on Friday night.​Alligator Alley was one of the most distinctive venues we had in South Florida. Where else could you munch on savory gator ribs, sip on a crisp microbrew, and listen to funky New Orleans zydeco all at ... More >>

Fresh to Mos Def

photo by Alex RendonThe Alligator Alley Allstars played the bar's send-off party on Friday night.​Alligator Alley was one of the most distinctive venues we had in South Florida. Where else could you munch on savory gator ribs, sip on a crisp microbrew, and listen to funky New Orleans zydeco all at ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: The Top Ten Songs From John Hughes Soundtracks

​As a baby of the '80s (well, I was actually born in '78), John Hughes' films played an important role in entertaining and, in all likelihood, shaping me. VHS copies of Vacation, Christmas Vacation, The Great Outdoors, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Mr. ... More >>

Woodstock Promoter Michael Lang Started Out A Miami Dude

  The above video is from an 8mm film transfer shot by a fifteen year old South Florida kid on May 18, 1968. The images come from the Miami Pop Festival, which featured The Mothers Of Invention (Frank Zappa's band), Chuck Berry, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and more ... More >>

Concert Review: Square One MusicFest in Downtown Delray, July 31

Miami swing revivalists Ever So Klever​Square One MusicFestThe Pavilion, downtown Delray BeachWith Elastic Bond, the Pretty Faces, and Ever So KleverFriday, July 31, 2009Better Than: Barbie's 50th Birthday exhibit at Old School Square's Cornell MuseumThe Review:When a state's revenue shrinks, it's ... More >>

Cellar Beware

Miami swing revivalists Ever So Klever​Square One MusicFestThe Pavilion, downtown Delray BeachWith Elastic Bond, the Pretty Faces, and Ever So KleverFriday, July 31, 2009Better Than: Barbie's 50th Birthday exhibit at Old School Square's Cornell MuseumThe Review:When a state's revenue shrinks, it's ... More >>

Celia Cruz Tribute Night

Miami swing revivalists Ever So Klever​Square One MusicFestThe Pavilion, downtown Delray BeachWith Elastic Bond, the Pretty Faces, and Ever So KleverFriday, July 31, 2009Better Than: Barbie's 50th Birthday exhibit at Old School Square's Cornell MuseumThe Review:When a state's revenue shrinks, it's ... More >>

Street Punk Revolution

Five Across the Eyes lashes out

Vampires of Moscow

DVD releases for the week of June 20, 2006

Los Lonely Boys

DVD releases for the week of June 20, 2006

Everybody Dance Now

It's a three-hour halftime show

Jump, Jive, and Wail

After 50 years onstage, vintage rocker Jimmy Cavallo gets his due

World Got the Blues

Jon Paris doesn't need the government to ratify his music or his memories

Los Piojos

Los Piojos Ritual "Delanuca"

Los Piojos Verde Paisaje del Infierno "Delanuca"

Spinning Meal

Los Piojos Ritual "Delanuca"

Los Piojos Verde Paisaje del Infierno "Delanuca"

Toots and Mouth Disease

Harmonica Baron Thielemans suffers the jazz bug gladly

Room with a Vue

Vue's Jonah Buffa wants you to know his band doesn't just stand there like the Strokes

Various Artists

New Beats from the Delta
Fat Possum

Outkast

Stankonia (Arista/LaFace)

Alvin Youngblood Hart

Start with the Soul (Hannibal)

MC5

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Letters

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Rotations

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

I Wanna Be Distorted

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Rotations

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Generation Beck

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Reverb

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Lost in America

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Presidents' Daze

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Rotations

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Son Voltage

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Alas Poor Rock, We Knew It Well

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Living in the Past

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

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The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Don't Wanna Hold Your Hand

Who in his right mind would have passed up the chance to join the Beatles? Rock-and-raving pianist Roy Young did. Regrets? Don't get him started.

Pulp Nation

If Quentin Taratino were cool, he wouldv'e gone to Finland

Sittin' to the Rock of the Bay

What accounts for the alarming shortage of happy feet among South Florida's rock crowds?

Walker Blues

Bluesman Phillip Walker's musical sojourn comes full circle

Romancing the Bean

The rich brown joe flow has been the grounds for plenty of perky pop

Take the Muddy and Run

Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin treads deep Waters

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Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin treads deep Waters

Irrefutable Evidence

One lable hopes to prove the blues deserve a fair hearing

Wild Bill's Big List

One lable hopes to prove the blues deserve a fair hearing

Letters

One lable hopes to prove the blues deserve a fair hearing

The Dangers of Pop Music

It's still a pornographer's playground, and it's killing our society

Guitars R Us

They pick guitar as their instrument, and then they stick their necks out

An Open Letter to the Mavericks

They pick guitar as their instrument, and then they stick their necks out