Seven hours. That’s how long Ryan Evans mixes up the mayhem at Buck 15 every Friday night. Seven hours. But if you’re the kind of DJ who can begin with ’90s hip-hop, segue through commercial house, and peak with classic rock ‘n’ roll, seven hours is just another drive-by. The…
Third Eye BlindFriday, October 2, 2009Revolution, Fort LauderdaleBetter Than: Reading your BFF’s diary. If you’re of a mind to do such a thing.The Review:Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins truly has no shame. Not that he has anything to be really shameful about, mind you; not that I know of, anyway…
Seven hours. That’s how long Ryan Evans mixes up the mayhem at Buck 15 each and every Friday night. Seven hours. But if you’re the kind of DJ who can begin with ’90s hip-hop, segue through commercial house, and peak with classic rock and roll, well, seven hours is just…
If you’ve been out and about anywhere in Miami over the past eight years, you’ve probably seen or heard the cat sometimes called Al B. Rotten. Rotten — or Andrews Lorenzana, as he’s known to the DMV — was part of the ragtag gaggle of über-crazies behind the long-running weekly…
If you’ve been out and about anywhere in Miami over the past eight years, you’ve probably seen or heard the cat sometimes called Al B. Rotten. Rotten — or Andrews Lorenzana as he’s known to the DMV — was part of the rag-tag gaggle of uber crazies behind the long-running…
Click here to view the slideshow from this event.Juliette Lewis and the New RomantiquesSunday, September 27, 2009Culture Room, Fort LauderdaleBetter Than: Any ten faux new wave bands.Three times now, Juliette Lewis has brought her roaring rock circus to our market, and three times now we’ve shown up in numbers that…
Even if you’ve spent most of this century under a hard rock, there’s no question you’ve heard the news about the music Juliette Lewis has been making. If you’ve been lucky – and you’ve been smart – you would’ve already heard the music itself. With her Licks, Juliette ripped the…
Head Spins: Dean Michaels, the W Fort Lauderdale’s resident empire builder
Few DJs would think to cut through Florence, Italy and New York City in order to get to Fort Lauderdale. Then again, few DJs have proven the logic of a circuitous route quite like Dean Michaels. In fact, it appears that Michaels is so intent on spinning his way straight…
Seattle’s Sunny Day Real Estate can’t really be blamed for the tearful bombast behind today’s biggest-selling emo bands. Still, a direct line can be drawn from the band’s ’94 debut, Diary, to indie label Deep Elm’s 11-volume set of compilations called The Emo Diaries, which ran from 1997-2007. And in the…
Twenty five years ago this week, NBC launched a show featuring a salt-and-pepper team of undercover cops who ran roughshod over the streets of America’s most tropical city. Executive produced by Michael Mann, who at that time was best known for writing the first four episodes of Starsky and Hutch,…
Sometimes you just want to have fun, without some egghead turntablist letting his noggin interfere with your nightlife. And you don’t need no stinking holier-than-thou white-label purist insisting that you worship every nuance of a track’s rarity. You want to hit the club, and you want to dance — that’s…
The last time New Times caught up with New York transplant DJ Elle, she was still in the middle of transitioning down from the Big Bad Apple. But her Thursday residence at the Catalina (alongside Self Born) is now a bona fide success. And with her recent slot at both…
Sometimes you just want to have fun, without some egghead turntablist letting his noggin interfere with your nightlife. And you don’t need no stinking holier-than-thou white label purist insisting that you worship every nuance of a track’s rarity. You want to hit the club, and you want to dance –…
Fresh from their blowout weekend with Peter, Bjorn and John middle man Bjorn Yttling on the turntables, White Room has decided to perform a quick makeover before next Wednesday’s dubstep spectacular with Skream and Benga. As anyone who knows dubstep knows, Skream and Benga are pretty much the genre’s founders,…
The singer of The Great Tribulation has a bit of a name, so he’d rather you not know it. The rest of the band members may have something of a name too, but we don’t know, because they’re not saying. We do know that the name of the band itself…
Rat Bastard is unquestionably one of the most ubiquitous presences in the local music scene. And he has been for well over two decades. When Rat’s not fronting conflagrations such as Laundry Room Squelchers or Scraping Teeth, he’s heading up The International Noise Conference, a weeklong racket of cacophony that’s…
The knock on the door came late — too late for most folks. But DJ Heron was in a recording studio, where work often doesn’t begin till the witching hour. And the cat doing the knocking said he was a friend of a friend who’d been working in the studio…
Dainamite: He’s Explosive
Dance music. That’s what She Wants Revenge singer/guitarist Justin Warfield says when asked to describe what his band plays. There’s nothing wrong with studying up on Sisters of Mercy and wearing Joy Division on your sleeve, so long as you’re not aping the greats. And despite a few cranky critics’…
The knock on the door came late; too late for most folks. But DJ Heron was working in a recording studio, where work often doesn’t start till the witching hour. And the cat doing the knocking said he was a friend of a friend who’d been working in the studio…
Brian Hunker likes to keep it simple on the decks. “I take a decidedly un-creative approach. No fancy beat-matching. No mashups. No special effects,” he says. “I just select one song I really like and let it play. When that song ends, I play another one. That’s it. I like…
