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​"So much planned for 2012, my head is going to explode!" That's how Greg Einhorn, the affable frontman for summery Lake Worth outfit Funcrusher, opened up the year on his band's Facebook page. More >>

​​It's been almost four years since Tyga's told us to "put the lime in the coconut and twist it all up" with his cousin, Gym Class Heroes' frontman Travie McCoy, on his debut album, No Introduction.More >>

Dave's like, "Why don't they like me?"

​Whether you're a fan of Dave Matthews, you've listened to Under the Table and Dreaming at one point or another in your life. Whether trapped and tortured at a party in Tallahassee or singing aloud on a long drive to visit your boyfriend in Gainesville, you've heard this bad boy. For a musician who's as sweet-seeming and talented as Dave Matthews, a dude who's awesomely appeared in more than one Adam Sandler movie, he and his band are one of the more polarizing acts in popular music.

People die for DMB, like love him with stoner hysteria, follow him around the country. Still, others will judge you harshly for having lost your virginity while your favorite DMB song played on repeat. Apparently, between 2000 and 2009, 11.2 million DMB concert tickets were sold. It's likely that more white Americans than not have been to one of these shows.

If you're not on this list of millions who have attended a Dave Matthews fest, you're in luck, because DMB is coming to Cruzan Amphitheatre with Tower of Power, not once, friends, but twice this July. Check out the full tour schedule here.
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​Long ago, we interviewed The Get, Edwin Jantunen's multifaceted, emerald-y gem of a project. Back then, it was equal parts dubstep track production, Sumsun sidekick, remix mastery; he also co-founded the short-lived but brilliant Lush Haus party. His music was pretty potent stuff, and most of it has all but disappeared.
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​To be fair, the exact genre tag is Neue Deutsche Härte ("new German hardness"). Although the American counterpart was a distinct synthesis of hard, evil-sounding rock and beat-my-girlfriend rapping, the hard-ass Germans are a slightly more amorphous phenomenon, dating back to the late '80s. The term more or less seems to denote a metal/rock variant that does a lot of genre bending.

The only reason anyone cares or knows anything about this in the first place is because of Rammstein, the industrially focused Deutsche Härte band that crossed over to America in a big way with its 1996 single "Du Hast." Rammstein has just announced a U.S. tour, including a stop at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise on April 20, 2012, so we figured it would be an appropriate time to impart a little knowledge on the different ways one can be new, hard, and German. More >>

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​​In the late '90s, the long-brewing Boston "oi" band Dropkick Murphys finally broke into the nationally touring, Warped Tour-subsidized big-time punk "scene."

Onto that broader platform -- which included more tour dates, better distribution, and higher stages in rooms that could hold more people -- the Murphys broadcast the signature sound they had been patiently brewing: anthemic pop-punk that had more to do with Epitaph than Cocksparrer and celebrated the triumphs of the working class.

By the way, did we mention these dudes like to drink? A bunch of skins-and-affiliated from Boston... do we have to mention it? Here are five of the booziest Dropkick Murphys jams to get your liver prepped for their show at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre on Saturday, March 3.More >>

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​Shooting the breeze with 28-year-old Fort Lauderdale native Travis Newbill will lead to whimsical conversations about artistic stimuli, meditational transformations, and botched relationships. Delivered with a starry glaze through larger-than-life spectacles and with an eccentric-yet-welcoming style, one can't help be but wonder: Is he serious? Truth be told, Trav is... and isn't. This ambiguity is the centerpiece of Newbill's ethos and the impetus behind his slightly unhinged folk tunes. He will tell you his inspiration comes from years spent meditating and devotion to Buddha Dharma, which has led him to the foundation that form is emptiness and emptiness is form.

Not following? Perhaps that's the point? You are trying too hard. Since 2003, the singer/songwriter has been constructing songs that are not meant to be so wholeheartedly cerebral. Or maybe they are? Since this past Tuesday, the uncanny musician has embarked on a career-defining project that will have him releasing one of his previous albums each day, for 11 days straight, culminating on Saturday, November 11, with the "Oneness" event.

The "Oneness," held at the Bubble, will be unveiling Trav's newest effort, Iron Rabbit, a project based solely on "psychedelic singing." Also on tap for the night are two feature films Trav has made since taking residence at the Fort Lauderdale performance art space, the Bubble. (By the way, when we say "residence," we mean that literally, Trav actually lives in the Bubble in a converted storage loft he calls "the hug.")

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​Last we heard from Coral Springs MC Dan Duarte (known as Dirty Dem in battle-rap circles), the skilled rhymer had just released an uproarious video for "Office Music" -- his crafty rework of the theme song to NBC's hit office comedy The Office. Now, the local rapper is set to have a proper release party for his debut album, Office Music: The Mixtape, at Fort Lauderdale vinyl hub Radio-Active Records.

It's been ten years since Duarte took to the stage as a solo act, and although many accolades have come his way as a battle rapper (bronze medalist in the 2010 Miami Freestyle Olympics being one of his most recent), this is his first solo effort to be set to wax. His debut showcases Duarte remixing not only TV show themes songs but a hopscotch of tracks by the likes of Kanye West and Thievery Corporation.

His delivery has a distinct bravado akin to that of Minneapolis hip-hop guru Atmosphere. Duarte, though, keeps matters light by throwing in his own touch of crass and laughs to his rhymes. Add a nip of tongue-in-cheek misogyny to that and even Tyler, the Creator fans will be intrigued. More >>

Especially for Nirvana's Kurt Cobain?

​Rousing melodic rockers the Smithereens are probably best remembered for the ubiquitous single "A Girl Like You" off their 1989 album, 11. However, it would be a disgrace to consider this Who-loving four-piece from New Jersey a one-hit wonder. On the contrary, it should be championed for a no-nonsense, British-invasion style during the late '80s, AKA when bands cared more about the amount of Aqua Net in their hair than how hard they rocked.

With all the media hullabaloo circulating these past few months about the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's definitive major-label debut album, Nevermind, grunge-o-philes should take note that alternative rock warlord Kurt Cobain listed the Smithereens as one of his major influences during the time he was penning his band's said masterwork. No shit? Seriously, Cobain paid tribute to the Smithereens outstanding 1986 album, Especially for You, in one of his famed diaries.

In honor of the Smithereens' forthcoming free gig at the Nectar Lounge at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek tonight, we thought it apt to compile the top five songs we think might have influenced old Kurt when he was chilling in Seattle drinking Starbucks coffee and thinking of the right verse to accompany "Come as You Are."

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