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Are you a desperate musician looking for a gig for your obscure band? Look no further than downtown Hollywood, where proposed city laws are likely to send restaurant and bar owners scurrying to fill live-music slots.

Mayor Peter Bober has decided that he wants to make downtown a music destination. "If you have live musicians playing, which helps my initiative move forward, we're going to allow you to stay open a little bit later," Bober told the Sun-Sentinel.

The incentive? Places that offer at least three hours of live music will be able to stay open later -- until 4 a.m.
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Set Your Goals plays at the Speakeasy thanks to local duo On Fire Booking.

If you've been noticing a certain uptick in Lake Worth bookings along the hardcore, punk, and related spectrum, it's not just you. The rosters at the Speakeasy Lounge and Propaganda are packed in coming weeks with performances by big-name touring acts like Set Your Goals and Chelsea Grin. They're all set to appear on multiband bills designed to also give locals time to shine and for all-ages audiences that usually get shunted to venues outside of the usual club circuit. For this, kids can thank On Fire Booking, a nearly three-year-running partnership between locals Austin DiSalvo and Alex Kenny.  More >>

It's no secret that we love MAYDAY!, the area act making live hip-hop that somehow manages to be intelligent, funky, danceable, and mass appeal-worthy all at once. It's also no secret that we're big fans of hard work over hype, and it's the former from which the local group is benefiting after years on the grind.

Their debut album for Strange Music -- an independent that has proven to do a better job of marketing its own music than the majors -- has officially cracked the Billboard Charts. On the next round of charts the disc, titled Take Me To Your Leader, comes in at number 15 on Rap Albums, number 18 on Independent Albums, and number 86 on the Billboard Top 200.  More >>

​On Sunday morning, the local South Florida Blues Society sent out alerts through email and Facebook to notify the community that a friend of theirs, 45-year old Claudia Murphy, had been missing since Friday.

She was last seen on Friday around 2p.m.,  wearing a white shirt in the vicinity of 441 and Copans Road in Margate. She's 5'10 and 170lbs. Her 2005 Black BMW (Tag #LZS159) is also missing.

If you have any information regarding her whereabouts please contact Detective Chris Collins at the Coral Springs Police Department by calling 954-344-1800. You may also contact her husband Frank Murphy at 954-478-5299.


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​First thing's first: Asher Roth does not, nor has he ever, belonged to a fraternity.

The 26-year-old Pennsylvania native and former West Chester University student is coming off his successful December 2011 mixtape Pabst and Jazz, which has more than 115,000 downloads from DatPiff.com, and signed with Def Jam Records in November of last year. 

Some may question whether Roth will sacrifice his creative integrity and sell out to gain mainstream success and radio play. But Roth said Def Jam has enough trust in him to give him more than enough creative freedom.

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​There are plenty of pinup-actor-gone-bandleader jokes to make. Remember Keanu Reeves' Dogstar? No? Dating ourselves? OK, how about Twilight star Jackson Rathbone's 100 Monkeys, who played in town not too long ago?

Despite all that, Entourage star Adrian Grenier seems pretty (or at least relatively) serious about his own act, the Honey Brothers, a vaguely folky indie outfit rounded out by buddies Andrew Vladeck, Daniel Posner, Dan Green, and Ari Gold. That's the real Ari Gold, a filmmaker, not the Entourage character who borrowed is name. More >>

​We know South Florida is full of ideas for bringing music to the community. Just see the recent PureHoney show at Propagandam which benefited Inspirit, a Lake Worth-based nonprofit that does just that. But if you have a particular plan in mind without an officially established organization to back you, no fear -- Good wants to give you $2,500 to realize your dream. More >>

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Why didn't this winner of THREE Grammys get any airtime alongside Guetta and Deadmau5?

​Last night's Grammys broadcast offered poignant and thrilling moments galore. Despite the obvious usual lip-synching complaints, there were glimmers of hope aplenty that true, from-the-heart performance survives. This was Adele's night after all, she of the soulful, unretouched belting and refusal to mold herself into any part of the industry's usual conception of a female pop star.

Then, of course, there was Jennifer Hudson's spine-chilling, appropriate, and almost unreal tribute to Whitney Houston. Even Bon Iver's win, for Best New Artist, and his semi-sarcastic, aw-shucks acceptance speech was a thumb in the eye of overproduction and hype. (OK, let's ignore the fact that Bon Iver has been making music under that name for six years now.)
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If you've ever had a close friend or relative who's a lifelong addict, you know there's a time when you have to cut them off. There's usually a tragedy that leads to it, and afterward, you don't talk about the wild sister anymore. You don't tell friends whether she called at Christmas. She's a sore subject that's not discussed, because maybe that's what she wanted all along, the attention that comes with being the wild one.

But that never happens with celebrities. It never happened with Lindsey Lohan or Charlie Sheen or especially Whitney Houston, who died at 48 years old because we could never cut her off.

By we I mean us in the media especially. But also all of us, who may be mourning More >>

​Just moments ago, the news broke that Whitney Houston, one of pop music's greatest voices has passed away.

It was reported by her publicist Kristen Foster that on Saturday Whitney Houston has passed away, but the cause and location are still unknown.

Click here for more: How We're Responsible for the Death of Whitney Houston.