Racing Exit 13 is, technically, a hardcore-influenced Staten Island band. But calling Racing Exit 13 “New York hardcore” makes you think of a bunch of beefy Biohazard-type dudes running around. This quintet has a much subtler vibe than that, name-checking plenty of those heavy, but, errr, thoughtful acts of the…
Like a pissed-off, mistreated dog, Travis Reilly yelps, This is how downward spirals start. Then he growls, This is a convoluted attempt to find some source of hope. Later, he barks, This is the best and worst things will ever get. Reilly’s Long Island-based hardcore outfit, This Is Hell, seems…
(Photo via www.donnathebuffalo.com)Donna the Buffalo, a band who hails from Trumansburg, New York, sounds inseparable from the Great Outdoors. These are the kind of old Deadheads who probably chose to cover John Anderson’s Everglades ode “Seminole Wind” because it’s got otters and gars in it. Their originals suggest holistic hippies…
Ultra Music Festival released the second phase of its lineup, and while the biggest names in the list offer no big surprises, a number of other, smaller acts added to the bill demonstrate more of the festival’s forward-thinking approach this year. So here are the titans who will play (again):…
Miami New Times recently ran a feature on the still-alive Holy Terrors, legends of the Miami rock scene. Click here to read that story, which in help sparked the band to get together another reunion show. Rob Elba, William Trev, Dan Hosker, and Sam Fogarino form the classic Holy Terrors…
Mr. Pupp “Da Quarter Million Dollar Man” and 21 Reese from Palm Beach have a message to any female that would dare bust the window out their cars. Here go the video and lyrics to their remix of Jazmine Sullivan’s smash hit as well as I could transcribe them…….
This Friday’s excursion into sonic brutality at Churchill’s Pub is not just another exercise in aggression. This time, it’s to support a nascent all-ages venue in the inner city, tentatively called GOO. The project is being spearheaded by a local music fan, Kenneth Fee. The graduate of Hialeah High has…
Scottish indie rock act Bis’ overtures were expressed rather neatly in its 1997 single “Tell It to the Kids”: “And now, coming through the airwaves into your home/Introducing the new transistor heroes.” San Francisco’s hey willpower lacks a similar expressive salutation, but it shares Bis’ affinity for trash culture, “kandy…
Little, it seems, can stop the improbable Tampa-based female party – rap juggernaut that is Yo Majesty. Not even the occasional almost-implosion of the group itself. Early last summer, some undefined internal meltdown sent home half of the group, the gospel – trained vocalist – turned – rapper Jewel B…
If a band exists solely to keep the party going — as California’s Smash Mouth clearly does — it makes perfect sense to catch that band in a tailgate-party setting before a huge football game. For this appearance, Smash Mouth takes a detour from its usual casino engagements to play…
Retro-videogame 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, à la Crystal Castles, to broadcast a fascination with retro bleeps and bloops. The multicolor, eight-bit-style graphics festooning Panic Bomber’s various…
Pat yourself on the back for attending Saturday’s early-evening, all-ages extravaganza at Revolution. It’s sponsored by Music Saves Lives, a California-based group that aims to “create opportunities for people to save lives with simple contributions, and to teach the facts about the effects of what they contribute to.” In other…
On Combichrist’s fourth and latest album, Today We Are All Demons, the band’s mastermind, Andy LaPlegua, effectively ups the ante on the tried-and-true answering-machine intro. It begins with a message from an unfortunate soul on his way to jail on a concealed-weapons charge. His girlfriend, meanwhile, is in the hospital…
The peeps from PL0T were pretty busy in 2008 providing Fridays at the White Room with a classy selection of hot international techno acts. There were intimate performances by Lee Curtiss, Seth Troxler, and Bill Patrick, among others. And there was that sleek visual ambiance courtesy of the multimedia collective…
Credit it, partially at least, to the rise of smooth – jam – loving new indie-ish bands like Tigercity, the Yacht Rock series on YouTube, and the unexpected, fanatical boosterism from people like Travis McCoy of the Gym Class Heroes. The blue-eyed soul duo of Hall & Oates is experiencing…
A family-led operation, the Machito Orchestra was established in 1939 and continues to attract some of the best-known musicians in Latin jazz. The New York-based group comes to town on Thursday, January 15 in a celebratory mood. The show pays homage to three departed legends of the genre: the Machito…
As the Seventies ended and disco pushed into the mainstream, those who came of age during that period always seemed to be reminded that they had missed out on the great cultural revolution of the raging Sixties. As many recall, former Beatle John Lennon himself pretty much summed it up…
When New Times last checked in with Miami’s premier live hip-hop party, Mayday!, we were happy to see they had survived the wave of almost-hype in ’06/’07 and were back to the grind. (Nutshell refresher: The group recorded a track with Cee-Lo and DJ Craze called “Groundhog Day,” played a…
On Combichrist’s fourth and latest album, Today We Are All Demons, the band’s mastermind, Andy LaPlegua, effectively ups the ante on the tried-and-true answering machine intro. It begins with a message from an unfortunate soul on his way to jail on a concealed-weapons charge. His girlfriend, meanwhile, is in the…
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 graphics festooning…
This prolific French producer and DJ has been making waves in Europe for nearly a decade, and his original and eclectic forays into progressive-yet-funky tech house are gaining more and more worldwide praise. He’s remixed the likes of Daft Punk, Justin Timberlake, and Duran Duran, and delivered outstanding DJ performances…
(Photo via Galacticfunk.com)So how does a group of (mostly) non-native college students go on to become ambassadors of New Orleans funk? For Galactic, of which all but one of the band’s current members relocated to the Crescent City in the early Nineties, it took more than just practice and persistence…
