Remember when Eddie Murphy decided it was time to turn away from the silver screen and dive into pop music? If you said yes, you’re officially old and probably hesitant to give another actor a shot at a music career. The difference between Mr. Foxx and Mr. Murphy, aside from…
If you missed her last month, there’s no need to continue crying. Britney is coming back to American Airlines Arena on September 2. Continuing along her ‘Circus’ tour, Britney herself is promising that even those who caught her the first time will be in for a surprise. Her blog states…
Vous etre un chien! That means, “you are a dog” in French. It’s not terribly impressive, but it’s all I managed to retain from a year of introductory French in freshman year of Christopher Columbus High School, before I got kicked out and began my extensive tour of SoFla’s high…
New York Dolls Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale Better than: A half-authentic tribute act. Maybe I’m a natural-born negative creep. Or maybe my inner lonely planet boy has been shocked out of his bubble a few too many times by the cruel, harsh realities of our post-punk…
Few frontmen are as wildly energetic as The Legendary JC’s Eugene Snowden. Backed by a badass eight-piece, he confidently recreates the soul revue sensations of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Snowden brings his own explosive quirks to the indelible personas created by such greats as James Brown and Al…
Once upon a time a man named Ace Roller was walking down a canyon wearing a fury coat of arms and carrying a deranged, damaged instrument that seemed like it might have at some point been a guitar. At the lowest point in the valley he came across two musical…
More acts need to do this: Start or end their tours in South Florida. Way too often, when acts are touring the U.S. they’ll make a stop in Atlanta and call that the southern leg. It seems like too much of a problem to travel all the way down here…
Can’t afford/don’t want to spend a few hundred dollars to get Ship Rocked? That’s understandable, but no excuse to eschew your responsibility as an American to support heavy metal. Queensryche is touring all summer and has announced a date at Revolution just before heading off to Grand Cayman and Jamaica. On…
South Florida jam favorite The Heavy Pets will come back for two shows after their Bonnaroo debut this weekend. The quintet is heading to Georgia for two nights right after the festival, but will play Roxy’s in West Palm on June 23. Then three weeks later, the band will come around again to share a bill…
If genre-jumping was considered a test of athletic dexterity, Cat Shell would be an Olympic contender. That’s evident in the way the Boca-based chanteuse nimbly treads the divide that intersects jazz, blues, pop, and country, excelling in all without compromising any. Though a 20-something might be a bit hazy when…
Every revolution has its heroes. You know, the legendary figures, poster children for their given cause. They usually get their image on T-shirts, eventually to be worn by teenage mall-dwellers who were nowhere near the revolution in the first place and who have little notion of what it all meant…
Damian Lazarus came to performing music from the enemy’s side: He started out as a music journalist, a notorious profession in his native England. Still, even as he worked as an editor at the legendary lifestyle mag Dazed & Confused, it was all part of a planned gradual move into…
Fans of Los Straitjackets might have first come for the novelty, but they’ve stayed for the sound — a furious instrumental assault of twangy surf, hard rockabilly, and psychedelic garage. Oh, the Nashville band still sports the Mexican wrestler masks and Chuck Taylors, and it still knows a marketing angle…
Hippies of South Florida, unite! Grab that favorite tie-dyed T-shirt from the pile of clothes in the corner — you know, the heap of stuff too dirty for the closet but not quite ready for the wash. Slip on your Birkenstocks, break out your hacky sacks, and load up on…
Yesterday I posted an introduction to Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, and a link to a free Amazon download of the band’s excellent song “Sugarfoot.” Forgive me for waxing ecstatic, but this is one of my favorite new acts to come along in a while. In the music there’s…
Mark Pollack is expanding his involvement with Cinema Paradiso, at least for one night, bringing back memories of Sunday nights at Tavern 213. The record collector, promoter, personal trainer and walking musical encyclopedia is staging a record swap, punk show and movie screening at the awesome downtown Fort Lauderdale space…
View New Times’ full slideshow of the show here. Animal CollectiveWith Black DiceTuesday, June 9, 2009Culture Room, Ft. LauderdaleBetter Than: Eating Terry Riley’s leftover mushrooms and listening to a Diplo mashup of the Beach Boys.The Review:”Harry Belafonte! Harry Belafonte!” That’s what the girl next to me last night screamed in…
So you can’t afford $400 or so to see the Jonas Brothers on August 19, but you still have to get your fill of live manufactured boy band music on that very night. Sir or Madame, the gods are smiling upon you this day: Honor Society has announced an August…
The name kind of says it all. John McHale certainly isn’t getting rich on the backs of HC and punk bands that he brings to whatever venue will have him. He is known for being an honest, if occasionally zany, promoter of all-ages shows in South Florida. This time Breakeven…
No, they’re not playing together, but Animal Collective and Bon Iver are both playing tonight. Animal Collective and Black Keys Dice are set to play the Culture Room tonight starting at 8 p.m. If you don’t already have tickets, you’re in some trouble as the show is sold out. So…
The flyer for “The Bubble,” the grand opening of the IWAN Concept Production Facility located off Fourth Avenue and 8th Street in downtown Fort Lauderdale, promised a great show. But the event also marked the beginning of something that was seriously missing in Broward: a hub for local talent to…
At the entry of Kimbaracumbara, a small restaurant club hidden between an art gallery and a Chinese restaurant in Little Havana, there’s a painting of the Virgin Mary with a baby Jesus and three angels holding her afloat. Celia Cruz’s song “Quimbara” plays in the background. A massive chandelier with…
