DRUMS Underground Cultural Dance Classes Teach, But Also Allow for Personal Exploration

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Brendan Eldom
Tony Turbo teaching at DRUMS
The word "drums" doesn't just stand for those round things you hit to make noise in a circle under the full moon, anymore. Not in Fort Lauderdale, at least. Nope. Nowadays, DRUMS indicates "Dancers Raw Underground Music Session," a free dance class that incorporates percussive elements, worldwide cultural moves and sounds, and your body. DRUMS offers every kind of movement you can think of, from Zumba to yoga, to capoeira to dancehall.

Each class starts with a half hour of proper instruction, then continues to freestyle dancing, where you can bust any move, pop, lock, whatever. "The concept of this half hour class is to expose different ideas of movement, as well as open the minds of our youth and give them positive outlets for expression," says Brendan Eldom, founder of the Oceans Deep music label and, this, the House of DRUMS.

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Top Five Upcoming Parties at Cowboys Saloon

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Howdy there, cowfolk! We, at County Grind love, country music, and Davie's finest, Cowboys, is bringing it hard over the next few weeks. With Jacob Jeffries Band performing, the chance to drink cheap beers with Jesus, and ladies dressed like sexy soldiers, this line-dancing hotspot is bumpin'. Hell, only thing missin' is Mr. Willie Nelson himself. Read on to see what's to do at Cowboys, as you polish your spurs.

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- Jacob Jeffries Band Will Rock You

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Shane Watt Graffitis DJ Andie Sweetswirl's House

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Better than: Anything that's ever happened at your house.

Lots of people have art in their homes. Many of them have art outside of them too. But few have murals like the one Shane Watt painted on the back of Andie Sweetswirl's house in Fort Lauderdale.

After two months of planning, drawing and painting, Sweetswirl, a longtime booker, DJ, and show promoter in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, turned the mural's unveiling into "Myland: A Mural Exhibition" and invited South Florida into her home. Literally.


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ActivistArtistA Rolando Barrero Says: "Miami Is Dead and It's Dying. It's Gone Commercial"

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There's an old saw in south Florida that says "everybody goes south." It harkens back to a time when BroCo was still seen as backwater suburbs and the retirement communities of Palm Beach were solely a winter playground for old snowbirds. Culture, at that time, dropped like a stone in a South Florida pond, landing only in Miami.

Though the "scene" crept slowly into Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale, that's still south as far as PBC is concerned. But with burgeoning downtown scenes dotting the east coast in towns like Delray, Lake Worth, and West Palm, that saying has lost its edge. Perhaps no community so clearly exemplifies this as the Boynton Beach Arts District.
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Alligator City Brings a New Flow to DMX Show

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What happens when two of South Florida's best MCs combine forces to bring the best of what the Miami and Fort Lauderdale hip hop scene has to offer? For those of you who were stumped, the answer is Alligator City.

An undeniable reference to the notoriously aggressive predator of the 'Glades and "an ode to the swamp and the sticks,"Alligator City, made up of Chris "Bizerk" Brajdic and Timothy "Protoman" McClure, is a duo whose raw talent and tag-team vocals are reminiscent of The Beastie Boys or Outkast.

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


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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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REBEL Release Party - Green Room - May 19

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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 »

SLDGHMR Make Paris-Inspired Grooves, Offer It for Free

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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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Palm Beach Radio Plays Musical Chairs

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

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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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