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Summer of Weirds II at Churchill's Pub August 19

Ice Cream Talks Dessert Food, Being the Satanic Strokes, and the New Split Release With Animal Tropical

Photo by Marta Xochilt Perez​Ice Cream falls somewhere between punk and psychedelia, DWNTWN and the suburbs, children's lullabies and real rock. This young quartet plays curious, kooky music that pairs moaning, Jim Morrison-like incantations with eerie-but-poppy compositions. The band has been a ... More >>

There is Enough Content: How to Decentralize South Florida's Radio Markets

Photo by Stephanie Rae Berzon​Evan Rowe is a local songwriter and performer best known as Catalonia, a professor of political science and history at Broward College, and a small democratic strategist with no party affiliation. From time to time, we will surrender our space for his thoughts on t ... More >>

Tonight! Alexisonfire, La Dispute, Trash Talk, Therefore I Am at Ground Control in West Palm Beach

​Ontario prog-punks Alexisonfire leads an aggressive bill at West Palm Beach's Ground Control (122 N. Military Trail) this evening. According to On Fire Booking, the doors open at 5 p.m.Also on the bill: Sacramento's hardcore pummelers Trash Talk, aggro-punks La Dispute from Grand Rapids, Michigan ... More >>

MillionYoung

Audio Lobo at Bougie's, This Thursday

​There's not a whole lot of information out there on local one-man act Audio Lobo, so I'll have to talk out my ass.  Then again, you should be used to it by now. Lobo, an obvious play on the musician's real name (Brian Wolfe) plays sax, keyboards, drums and uses computer programs to combine j ... More >>

The Panix

Jacobs Ladder Tour Diary, Part Three: The Austin, Texas Chronicles

​Jacobs Ladder is almost at the end of their national tour. Click here and here to read past installments of the band's tour diary -- and to hear their music, check out their MySpace page. These installments were penned by the band's bassist, Sammy Gonzalez.Wednesday, September 2: General Thoughts ... More >>

The A.R.E. Weapons Show at PS14 on Thursday is a No-Brainer

via myspace.com/areweapons​"Electroclash" is just a hipster punchline at this point, but around the turn of the millennium, it was this new, fresh niche thing birthed at the old club night Berliniamsburg, at the old club Luxx (now Trash Bar, I think) in W-burg Brooklyn. (Also, back then it was sti ... More >>

They're What?

Lanzallamas Monofonica Celebrates Its 3rd Anniversary at Jazid This Friday

​The roof is on fire, party people. Or it will be at Jazid this Friday. And Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three will have had nothing to do with it (or anything else in the last 25 years, for that matter). The culprits responsible for said act of arson and the subsequent conflagration? Lanzall ... More >>

Metal Bands Lazer Beast and Murderous Rampage, Plus Indie Rock Group Fantastic Amazing Play The Bubble Saturday, August 22

​The IWAN concept facility The Bubble in downtown Fort Lauderdale will be hosting another event Saturday starting at 7 p.m. Except this show will break somewhat from the indie rock/punk that usually fills the space and show some love for the metal heads of South Florida. Opener Lazer Beast de ... More >>

West Palm Beach Punk Rockers the Clockouts Release New CD, Play Respectable Street

via myspace.com/theclockoutsLooks like West Palm Beach street punk band the Clockouts have a new CD out called Toxic,and I am listening to it. It's a grittier step away from the more pop-punk projects that three of the four members usually pump out under the guise of the Ridicules. And yes, that cov ... More >>

The Clockouts Get Respectable

Notes From the Soundboard: Let's Get Physical

Notes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing weekly on Crossfade,  focused on pop music's history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. Click here to read past installments.I have a gripe.& ... More >>

Cat Killer Suspect Gets Ordered to Undergo Evaluation, Might Like To Blow Up Own, um, "Stuff"

Tyler's MyspaceShould've stuck to chillin', not alleged cat killin'.Tyler Hayes Weinman, the suspect in the cat killing spree, will not get bail his bail set at a hefty $250,000. He's also being forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. ''I can say the investigation is being led by a lynch-mo ... More >>

The Orb Tour Canceled - Refunds Available for Culture Room Show

So much for getting your ambient-house chill on. The Orb's June 30 date at Culture Room has been cancelled along with the rest of the tour. The Orb's MySpace page only cites "personal reasons" for the cancellation, but the message boards below seem to blame poor ticket sales. Their personal message ... More >>

A Festival We Believe In

Mehkago NT Head Out on Second Tour

Zac WolfDub Getting Some HelpThe crusty grindy HC 305 Death Squad are hitting the road for the second time in their lives.  After a couple of years of toiling in the swampy trenches of South Florida, these guys are getting off to their second tour in less than a year. Big ups to them. Their dat ... More >>

Check Out Local Blues From Black Owl Music

Black Owl Music is an independent blues label based in Miami that started in 2003. It seems to have been founded by or is at least very closely related to local bluesman Poppa E, whose show schedule reads like that of a player 40 years his junior, and whose band has a residency at Casa Panza (four-t ... More >>

Outbreak and D-Murder - The Farley And Spade of Horrorcore

Here's a great video I found on the internet from the Downtown Miami Grave Rave at PS14. It's performance footage from Outbreak and D-Murder's set. This video is the first I ever heard of these guys and I gotta say they have a real good stage presence. Music aint about looks, but a live show ough ... More >>

MPLS Pop-Punkers Off With Their Heads to Play Goo on April 20

Minneapolis drunken life-hating poppy punk masters, Off With their Heads are coming back to South Florida for a (gross) Monday night event at Goo, on April 20.  This is one of those bands that is awesome live, puts out great records, and doesn't seem to give up on touring despite not being the ... More >>

More Valentine's Ideas: The Talent Farm

via myspace.com/here_we_riseNothing says I love you like thrashing guitars, guttural screams and kids wildly punching the air.  The Talent Farm is hosting a very special Valentine's Day show featuring some of the best hardcore/scream-o/punk acts in south Florida like Here We Rise, Mind Over Ma ... More >>

No, Netroots Campaigns Won't Work for Anyone

After the exciting efforts of Howard Dean and Barack Obama, clueless politico types everywhere have come to the conclusion that anyone, literally anyone, can be elected to office using the mystical powers of the Internet. Sayfie Review has a column up about the 2010 Senate race saying exactly that. ... More >>

Introducing Third World America: Dirty Solja and The Mish

The kid Mish contacted me about documenting the Palm Beach County movement. Here's what he had to say:

Vibin' with Miami Trio Basic Vocab

A slot on the Entourage credits has led to the group's second LP.

Disgruntled Musician Panic Bomber Brings His Dancefloor Manifesto to the Vagabond on Friday

Retro video game nerds, don't get too excited. Friday's guest act at the Vagabond has nothing to do with the mostly forgotten Nineties Nintendo game, but rather has appropriated the moniker, a la Crystal Castles, to broadcast a fascination with retro bleeps and bloops. The multicolor, 8-bit style gr ... More >>

Streetlight Manifesto Announce Gig at Culture Room, Feb 6.

New Jersey's Streetlight Manifesto deserve a couple props, first, for still carrying the torch of third-wave ska as it was largely played at its tail end in the late Nineties: in a group of many, many musicians, and with a heavy punk edge. Second, this is impressive because the band remains pretty m ... More >>

Kitty Says He's Just Not into You

Find a new burrito.

I Set My Friends on Fire

I Set My Friends on Fire to Perform at Drake's Bar on Dec. 1

The seemingly-out-of-nowhere appearance of the young Kendall duo I Set My Friends on Fire has been recounted in New Times’ pages several times in recent months. But just to recap: teenagers Matt Mihana and Nabil Moo, formerly of a more by-the-numbers post-hardcore band, wanted to form a new proj ... More >>

Q&A with Secondhand Serenade, Performing Tonight at Revolution

Jaguares

Happy Local Band Discovery of the Weekend: the Microdots

Mad Martigan and the Furious Dudes

Handicapping the Last MoCA Battle of the Bands

Downtown Delights

ANR rocks the UEG, bringing the boogie to Biscayne.

Girls, Girls, Girls, Tonight at the Supper Club

King Britt: Full Q&A

The Stone That the Builder Refused

The Cornerstoners are back to bring you culture.

Various Artists

The "Almost" Free Album Vol. 4 (self-released)

Flatfoot 56

The Iceman Cometh

Can renaissance man Val Kilmer master music?

Skymall

MySpace Secret Show: Marley Bros.

Cyber Cupids

Hard Core Fun

Say aloha to inebriation

Ramhaus Records Presents

Awesome New Republic

Hook Up

Miami rockers are forming a new, virtual neighborhood on MySpace