Michael Alan Goldberg

Leonard Cohen at James L. Knight Center March 20

Thirty years ago, singer-guitarist Mike Palm and the rest of his Southern California trio, Agent Orange, got the good idea to mix first-wave punk rock and hardcore with '60s and '70s surf music, holding onto the loud/fast/snotty approach while delivering melody and clarity too. And with that, they all but...

A guide to the major music events during Art Basel Miami Beach

You could make the argument that Canadian anarcho-industrial-rock pioneer Skinny Puppy has been at its most artistically potent (and successful) over the past 27-plus years when there's a right-wing boogeyman at the helm of the free world to rail against. The group — long led by frontman Nivek Ogre and...

Last summer, when New Times interviewed guitarist Juan Montoya, cofounder of Florida underground-metal powerhouse Torche, he explained one of the differences between him and his bandmate (and friend of 15-plus years), singer-guitarist Steve Brooks: "Steve is the more realistic one in the band... and I'm the one that's always like,...