Friend of New Times Ian Witlen took some excellent photos at Friday’s Dashboard Confessional extravaganza at Lynn University in Boca Raton that are now up at Spin.com. Read our wrap of the event, which honored the memory of students and faculty tragically killed in Haiti’s massive earthquake in January, here.In…
A long time ago I came to the painful realization that my dreams and aspirations would go unfulfilled. Publishing a collection of original poetry titled “Fetch Me the Pliers” by downtown Kabul’s most exclusive post-Soviet literary house didn’t bring in the cash. So I did what many failed losers do…
If Jesus and the Devil are arm wrestling, then Miami is the table their elbows are on. Let’s face it, this place is pretty fucked up. Us humans have done a swell job of transforming a river of grass into a den of iniquity. But despite all the evil that…
Fans of anything Neil Young should plan on going to the Neil Young Tribute Show tomorrow at The Gibson Showroom. All proceeds from the event will be donated to Neil’s Charity, The Bridge School. You can expect performances and covers done by The Westar, Rachel Goodrich, Jacob Jeffries, Jim Camacho,…
Cinco de Mayo has long been a night of drunken debauchery and Mexican sombreros. Here, then, our list of the top five spots with music to go to this May 5.-Liv’s weekly Dirty Hairy party turns Dirty Sanchez—no, not that way–tonight with DJs Ross One, Contra and Jessica Who. Party…
The third annual Palm Beach Music & Entertainment Awards will be held at Club Ovation AKA the Spot (Forest Hill Blvd. and S Congress Ave., West Palm Beach) on Thursday, May 20, starting at 8 p.m. Hosted by John Lamur and the Queen of Crunk, the night will celebrate the…
There are few people in the world of music who can take credit for creating so much unadulterated pleasure as pop satirist “Weird Al” Yankovic. Speaking as someone who has to sit and come up with puns ever day in order to write headlines, songs like “Pretty Fly for a…
It seems Miami garage band grungers Lil Daggers have been pretty busy lately. In 2009, they toured the Southeast and the Midwest, ending up at SXSW and appearing in a few festivals. Earlier this year they released a 7″ split single with Satan’s Youth Ministers, and now they’re scheduling the…
Bringing new relevance to the term “high seas,” the ninth installment of Jam Cruise, the floating music festival, will kick off January 4, 2011 from Fort Lauderdale.Among the many acts promoting a positive groove for the five-day drift aboard the MSC Poesa to Roatan, Honduras and Costa Maya, Mexico, are…
Watch out, Cubo’s comin’! You may have heard of the Pitbull affiliate in years past, but apparently he’s making a run for it now with a couple of new videos on the web and talk of a forthcoming album. The video above for his song “I made it” shows a…
What a wonderful morning to listen to the blistering thrash punk of Weird Wives. As confirmed by the Turbo Fruits, this West Palm Beach quartet has some familiar faces and an unmistakable afro in the mix. Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete, bassist Brian Black, drummer/percussionist Marcos Marchesani, and a really fierce…
At this point, it might feel like the Black Keys, the raucous blues-rock duo of Pat Carney and Dan Auerbach, just rolled through Miami. True, but April 18’s stop at the Fillmore will feel like ancient history once South Florida is baking hot this summer.So, on September 17, when the…
Boca Raton native Chris Carrabba and his band, Dashboard Confessional, gave back to the community with two passionate concerts on Friday at Lynn University. Proceeds from the shows will benefit a memorial scholarship fund honoring students and faculty who were tragically killed in the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.The evening…
New Times Broward-Palm Beach Calendar Editor Mickie Centrone has the enviable job of knowing about every event that happens within the boundaries of the two counties, and then some. When she attends some of the finest events from a given week, we’ll post the details of her travels here. On…
Let us begin this posting about two upcoming summer tickets by saying to anyone planning to attend both of these shows: we want to hear from you right away.The 2010 American Idol Live! tour ostensibly features the 10 up-and-coming pop performers that a feverish segment of the U.S. knows way…
The Romance in a Can European Film Festival commenced last Thursday at the Tower Theater (1508 SW 8 St), and while we’re not huge lovey-dovey advocates on Crossfade (romance, shromance!), there are two films on the slate this week that involve music directly in the plot. Here they are. For…
OrionEsperanza(O.E. Entertainment) www.orionhiphop.com Gauging from his work with Elastic Bond I could tell that Orion is the type of rapper who “gets it.” There is something innately eclectic from this young man that is refreshing and exciting and in his debut solo effort it comes through like an eighteen wheeler…
Remember indie-dance parties like Revolver, Spider-Pussy, and Vice? Well, Poplife may soon be joining them in the ranks of parties of clubland past. Poplife, the party, will official come to a close next Saturday, May 8 at Electric Pickle, while Poplife as a events and promotions company will continue to…
Evan Rowe is a local songwriter and performer best known as Catalonia, a professor of political science and history at Broward College, and a small democratic strategist with no party affiliation. From time to time, we will surrender our space for his thoughts on the music industry and how they…
— DJ Khaled continues to ride the wave of success that his song “All I Do Is Win” has garnered. Since releasing the song, he’s received tons of iTunes downloads for it. So I guess as a thank you of sorts, Khaled recruits pretty much all of the most relevant…
In spite of what some commenters told us earlier today, Iggy Pop will not be making a surprise appearance at SunFest tonight to replace the Flaming Lips.SunFest media rep Melissa Sullivan says regarding the flamboyant Miami resident, who theoretically could be in West Palm Beach tonight before starting a European…
Following yesterday’s announcement that the Flaming Lips will not perform at SunFest today, the band has announced that it will also miss a May 1 stop at the 2010 Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis.We already were aware that Flaming Lips’ multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd was recently hospitalized with an unknown…
