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Published on June 18th, 2023

South Florida, it’s a heck of a place. There’s beautiful weather and raging inequality; amazing diversity and some militant immigrants trying to shut the way »

Published on June 18th, 2023

The Queers have been around since forever it seems and in their 41st year this beloved, irreverent crew continues forging along in a vein of »

Published on June 18th, 2023

You all know Tame Impala, the Australian psych rock juggernaut big enough to have headlined Coachella. What can we expect from this Propaganda show you’re »

Published on June 17th, 2023

I first saw the Smashing Pumpkins at Miami’s Bayfront Park in 2015, during a tour called “The End Times” with Marilyn Manson. My friend and »

Published on June 17th, 2023

Once upon a time, there was a band called CAVITY who were from Miami and were very “doom” before that word became a label for »

Published on June 16th, 2023

Maybe no band was more definitionally ’80s than Calgary, Canada’s Loverboy. With primped hair, pleather pants and a spangly rock sound, these vaguely heart-throbby, regular-guy »

Published on May 13th, 2023

How did it take rock ’n’ roll more than half a century to produce a band named Cigarettes After Sex? The wait for that flash of »

Published on May 13th, 2023

Duran Duran is a band with many lives, starting as a new-wave outfit in late ’70s Birmingham, England — a perfect time and place, as it »

Published on May 12th, 2023

Many indie/alt heads will tell you that Thom Yorke can do no wrong. The vocalist and multi-instrumentalist seems to master anything he touches, waving his »

Published on May 12th, 2023

Overnight success, as the saying goes, took about three years for alt-rock heroes Paramore. Formed in 2004 and signed to a record deal in 2005, »

Published on May 12th, 2023

Early- to mid-1990s hip-hop will go down as the genre’s golden age. As the next  millennium approached and people readied their New Year’s Eve playlists, »

Published on May 12th, 2023

“Dazed and Confused,” “Boogie Nights” and “Blue Velvet” are all great movies named after enduring songs. But it’s hard to find a movie as intertwined »