Concert Review

Rock 'n' Roll Ladies Night with Avenida Zero, All the Pretty Cars, The Reckless Dames, and DJ Sweetswirl

By Lizzie Rae Fri., May 25 2012 at 10:31 AM
Categories: Concert Review, Dialed In, Glimpses of the South Florida Scene, Heads Up, Local Music, Memorial Day Weekend

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Joan Jett, bad-ass leading lady of all time? Probably.

Green Room nightclub, the growing epicenter of the Fort Lauderdale's live music scene is hosting a girls' night of rock on this Saturday. 

The event, appropriately called "Ladies That Rock," is a tribute to all of the fabulous female-fronted bands of yesterday, today, and tomorrow who have helped shape the often male-dominated music industry. Think bad asses like Joan Jett and The Runaways circa 1976 meets No Doubt and Paramore -- need we say more?

The line-up of fierce performers are all headed up by lovely and talented ladies. There's Latin pop/punk five-some Avenida Zero, fronted by lead singer Lisa Abreu. Abreu agrees that Joan Jett exudes everything that is bad-ass, noting the frontwoman's influence on her own music. Madonna is another leading lady that Abreu admires, saying, "When I first discovered her (at age 8), I knew I wanted to be an artist/performer for the rest of my life." No arguments there. We think Madonna rules too!

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All the Pretty Cars, Avenida Zero, burlesque, Green Room, live music, local music
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Album Release

REBEL Release Party - Green Room - May 19

By Lizzie Rae Mon., May 21 2012 at 8:57 AM
Categories: Album Release, Concert Review, Glimpses of the South Florida Scene, Last Night, Nightlife, Over the Weekend, Reunited
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 The anticipated delivery of REBEL's new EP Locations was finally actualized at Green Room in Fort Lauderdale this past weekend. The band spent time out of the limelight since last November, but you wouldn't know it by their essentially flawless performance. When we talked with the trio last week, they told us how stoked they were about being able to present their newest venture to a club packed with fans, family, and friends -- the triple-threat of the music world. REBEL turned out a killer live show. The crowd was on their feet before you could say "Who wants another shot?!"More >>

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Boxwood, Fort Lauderdale, Green Room, REBEL
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Glimpses of the South Florida Scene

SLDGHMR Make Paris-Inspired Grooves, Offer It for Free

By Monica Uszerowicz Thu., Apr. 26 2012 at 6:00 AM
Categories: Glimpses of the South Florida Scene, MP3 of the Day
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Listening to French electro (or French-inspired electro, or French-electro-inspired electro) can produce within the brain very pretty visuals: images of neon, good-looking dancers, outer space. It can all be rather Miami. Which is why it makes sense that the indelicately named SLDGHMR is based in Miami and makes dance songs that remind us of the shiny and slightly nostalgic sounds of acts like its former tour mate Brodinski or Anoraak.

But, says Corey Siegel, one-half of the duo -- the other is Antonio Torres -- while "we often say [our music] is French electro-slash-nü-disco-styled, I like to think we have this original sound. We are much more ADD than our influences, like Justice, SebastiAn, Birdy Nam Nam. I don't think our stuff sounds too much like any one of those influences in particular, but you can see our roots." Like in one's hair.
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Glimpses of the South Florida Scene, Mp3, SLDGHMR, Steve Aoki
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Glimpses of the South Florida Scene

Palm Beach Radio Plays Musical Chairs

By Lee Zimmerman Thu., Apr. 12 2012 at 7:02 AM
Categories: Glimpses of the South Florida Scene, Radio Daze
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Several radio stations in West Palm Beach are about to get a new owner. 

CBS Corporation announced today that it has signed an agreement to sell its five radio stations in West Palm Beach for a total of $50 million to local broadcaster Palm Beach Broadcasting. The deal comes in the aftermath of other radio station sales CBS completed in Portland, Oregon, and Denver, Colorado. The transactions fall in line with CBS' strategy to specifically focus on larger markets. However, even after the sale is completed, CBS will still own 125 radio stations, making it one of the nation's biggest radio conglomerates.

After the sale, Palm Beach Broadcasting LLC will acquire three stations from CBS. To comply with FCC rules that limit the number of properties any one broadcaster can own within one specific market, Palm Beach Broadcasting will also have the right to sell the other two stations to third parties.

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Heads Up

Fourier Is Performing With A Full Band, Celebrating Birthdays, Being Creepy

By Monica Uszerowicz Tue., Mar. 13 2012 at 9:20 AM
Categories: Glimpses of the South Florida Scene, Heads Up
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By Chrome Dick
​Named for their founder, Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier -- the discoverer of the greenhouse effect -- the Fourier series breaks down periodic and chemical processes into a sum of simpler functions. Fourier, the man, studied, according to Wikipedia, the series' "applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations." Similarly, Fourier, the band, deconstruct whatever it is that creates primal, fuzzy, old-fashioned rock 'n' roll and make it their own.

If you were lucky enough to download their EP Altar before it disappeared from their BandCamp, you'd know that the guitar on its first track, "Void," sounds almost sorrowful. Like a chemical process, Fourier creates its own strange vibrations; for tracks that are so simple at their core, they're incredibly visual: They sound like drives in the desert, switchblades, melted candles. Everything is drowned in delay, even the vocals, which seem to be emanating from the interior of an ancient cave.

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Band in Heaven, Beatriz Monteavaro, Churchill's, Fourier, Haochi Waves, Jellyfish Brothers, New Coke, Self and Other
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Glimpses of the South Florida Scene

Chrome Dick's Raphael Alvarez on Absolutely Everything

By Monica Uszerowicz Thu., Feb. 16 2012 at 8:07 AM
Categories: Glimpses of the South Florida Scene
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​Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Chrome Dick.

It goes without saying, but "Chrome Dick" is a jarring phrase, image, and idea. The sounds Raphael Alvarez constructs as Chrome Dick are a little jarring too: harsh, experimental landscapes of sound that move like the ghostly apparitions and reverberations in a haunted house.

"Calling From the Void," from his Portal Between Heaven and Hell EP, is an auditory gateway, an absolute call from the other side, dark, grating, and transformative. Many of his tracks are improvised, so even when vocals are employed -- cries from the inferno in their own right -- we're walking through the halls of Alvarez's brain upon each listen, on a journey dotted with shadows and spectral figures. It's tough, abrasive poetry.
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MP3 of the Day

MP3: Harvey and the Buckets and Suede Dudes Vocalist Nick Petakas' "Keep Me Out"

By Monica Uszerowicz Wed., Feb. 1 2012 at 8:41 AM
Categories: Glimpses of the South Florida Scene, Local Music, MP3 of the Day
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Straight from Nick's SoundCloud.
​With one hand in Harvey and the Buckets and another in Suede Dudes, Nick Petakas knows how to balance dichotomies in sound. This is probably why his solo stuff sounds like poppily crafted little treasures sent straight through a layer of something scummy.

A relatively new project, the oldest track on his SoundCloud was uploaded four months ago. "Keep Me Out" is not the latest track to be uploaded, but it's certainly our favorite. The hollow echos at its intro fade into warmly scuzzy guitars and Petakas' voice, awash in its own distinct country twang, pleading "Don't let me down." It perfectly encapsulates what we'd like to think are the influences and overall steez he takes to all of his projects. His SoundCloud is currently full of demos, but if this takes shape into an EP soon, we hope "Keep Me Out" will be its single.
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Free Music

The Dewars/Re-Doers: Download Everything!

By Monica Uszerowicz Tue., Jan. 31 2012 at 8:17 AM
Categories: Free Music, Glimpses of the South Florida Scene
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Download everything they made when they still looked like babies.
Jose Fores said it perfectly when he wrote that The Dewars' "Toys Boise The Noise" makes us miss those two weirdos so much. St. Augustine is but a road trip away, but that's still about 272 miles from being able to watch their next move.

Luckily, we already know the Pent Up Joy is still in the works. In case you haven't looked at their Facebook page lately, they are, as Anthony Dewar told us, "leaking a flood of old songs onto Facebook from SoundCloud, and that's mainly to till the soil for our crop of new songs. We are now just making cash and working out a harmonious set of cover songs in St. Augustine and our alias is The Re-doers. Living here as quite temporary, but as for what's next, we have no solid plans."

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MP3 of the Day

MP3: Suede Dudes' "I'm JL's Son"; Get Your Suede Dudes Album Updates in Real-Time

By Monica Uszerowicz Fri., Jan. 27 2012 at 8:39 AM
Categories: Glimpses of the South Florida Scene, MP3 of the Day
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InstaDudes
We hope you went to at least one of the recent string of shows where Suede Dudes made an appearance: the drone-y, surfy, and multitalented dudes (Dudes?) are taking a break from playing live. This winter, they turn their goals inward, indoors -- as their kind ought to, if literary history is true [editors' note: I am writing this from a cold climate.] -- to record a full-length.

And you, dear listener, get to hear it all. According to band founder Bryan Adams, they'll be uploading each track to the Suede Dudes tumblr as it's recorded. 

"Right now we're in the middle of demoing songs for a full-length. However, it's gonna be all transparent. Every demo we write goes up on our tumblr, no matter how bad the song may be, et cetera. Right now there's like four or five relatively new demos on our tumblr, or you can check my SoundCloud," Adams said.
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Glimpses of the South Florida Scene

Genres You Need To Follow In South Florida in 2012

By Lori Trigonis Fri., Jan. 13 2012 at 3:57 PM
Categories: Glimpses of the South Florida Scene, Heads Up
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It isn't *all* stormy weather and traffic here.
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If you're reading this you've found yourself in South Florida for yet another year. Although it may not be your heart's desire, you can't let it go to waste. Rejoice! Because you're in an area flocked with the oddest assortment of musical varieties that one state can handle. To be best prepared for the upcoming year, check out these genres and artists locally on which you should keep an eye.

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357 Magnum, Blonds, Chris Cab, Llamabeats, Mayday, Radioboxer, Rich Kid Soundsystem
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