Jacuzzi Boys Prepare for New Album and North American Tour

Miami’s garage-rock savants Jacuzzi Boys have been a fixture on the local scene for some time, disappearing to tour before popping up again in our neck of the woods every few months. We haven’t heard much from the trio lately, but that’s because the band has been busy toiling away…

Stargazer Lilies Stop by Gramps to Help Prepare for Bumblefest

Guitarist John Ceparano was holding some flowers one day when a stranger approached, glanced at the blooms in his hands, and asked if they were stargazer lilies. “We thought that was such a cool name for a band,” Ceparano remembers. “It informed our sound. We thought, What would a band…

Red Bull Ends a Successful Miami Vacation With AlunaGeorge

With complimentary donuts and popsicles handed out Saturday night at the Hangar, things got off to a sweet start. It was night three of Red Bull Sound Select Presents: 3 Days in Miami, a series of concerts meant to showcase both established talent and new up-and-comers. Thursday saw the hard…

JP Pitts on Continuing Surfer Blood Without Thomas Fekete

Things should be good for the West Palm Beach indie-rock heroes of Surfer Blood. They have a new album set for release in early 2017. They’ve had opening gigs for some of their biggest influences, including the Pixies and Guided by Voices. Their song “Swim” was even heard on the…

Miami’s Best Labor Day Weekend Pool Parties

In December, you start hearing about how people forget the true meaning of Christmas, but what about Labor Day? Does any one out there even know why we get the first Monday of September off every year? Did we win a battle of some kind? Did William Taft just hate…

ScHoolBoy Q to Perform Fundraising Concert for Miami Marine Stadium

Last month when the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in collaboration with Heineken USA, began their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise money to restore Miami Marine Stadium, they promised donors two tickets to a yet to be announce concert. Yesterday, the mysterious artist at that concert was finally revealed: ScHoolBoy Q…

Jill Scott on Coming Up in a Philadelphia “Renaissance”

In 2000, a record emerged onto the scene asking a simple question: Who Is Jill Scott? 16 years later, we’ve got an idea. One part neo-soul, one part hip-hop, and another part deep poetic verse, the answer was a timeless talent. “I’m Barbara Streisand and Bette Midler’s child” was how…

Okeechobee Music Festival 2017 Tickets Go on Sale Today

Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, the four day event that drew thousands last year, will be holding a second edition. The 2017 dates are March 2 through 5, backers announced Tuesday.  Pre-sale tickets go on sale Wednesday morning, August 17 at 11 am at okeechobeefest.com. 4 day general admission passes…

In a World Stuffed Full of Dutch DJs, Yellow Claw Stands Out

Throughout its history, the Netherlands has not always been known as a hotbed of musical talent and innovation. Before the EDM explosion, Americans largely visited to get high or to wile away hours during a layover. But in the past decade, the country’s soundscape has been dominated by one of…

Red Bull Is Live-Streaming Lollapalooza 2016 From EAST, Miami

There was once a time  when South Floridians could go to Lollapalooza without buying a plane ticket. In the ’90s, Lollapalooza was a traveling music festival where, each year, alternative music fans could compare piercings and watch bands from Pearl Jam to the Beastie Boys tear shit up in their…

Chaucer Debuts Video for His Ode to Teeth, “Chompers”

Josh Simkowitz has written fifty songs in the year and a half since he took up the moniker Chaucer. “I have a song in my head, but they usually come out as a different song than I thought they would,” the ultra-prolific Palm Beach native tells New Times. Inspiration can come…