Archive | October, 2012

J.K. Rowling’s “Casual Vacancy” Would Work Better as a Novella

Perhaps the most talked about book release of 2012 (besides Fifty Shades of Grey, of course) may be J.K. Rowlings’s first adult novel, Casual Vacancy. Rowling’s cult of Harry Potter fans waited in anticipation for its release, which came five years after the final book of her best-selling fantasy series. The chatter was endless. Could [...]

Album Reviews: Brandy Makes Comeback With “Two Eleven,” While Matt and Kim’s “Lightning” Could Be Mistaken for Kidz Bop

Grant James sifts through new releases each week to bring us some of the good, the bad, and the Evanonsense. These are all available at Radio-Active Records. Don’t hold it against them. Brandy, Two Eleven It’s safe to say Moesha, also known as Brandy Norwood, is fighting to stay in the game. Her popularity peaked as [...]

Gallery: President Obama Rally at Delray Beach Tennis Center

Following Monday’s debate at Boca Raton’s Lynn University, President Barack Obama held a rally at the Delray Beach Tennis Center on Tuesday morning. Introduced by a series of speakers, including former Gov. Charlie Crist, the President criticized Mitt Romney and laid out his plans for a second term to a crowd of over 11,000 enthusiastic [...]

Minus the Bear and Cursive Killed It Last Night at Revolution

Although Minus the Bear and Cursive are entirely different bands sonically speaking, the two share a lot of space on the indie-rock Venn diagram. They share a timeline of success that picked up in the early aughts, they both have recognizable sounds, and they both have pretty flawless discographies (at least according to me). Considering [...]

Danation: Does Truth Even Matter Anymore?

Yeah, yeah. Obama won last night’s debate. Everyone says so. In fact, he killed it. The same CBS poll on the “who won the debate?” question that gave Romney a 23-point advantage after the first debate — and thus started the ball rolling among pundits that Romney had knocked it out of the park — [...]

Q&A: The Dwarves’ Blag Dahlia on Cats, ‘Glee,’ and Rock and Roll; Churchill’s Show on Saturday

Nearly everything about the Dwarves, the infamous punk band that emerged in mid-’80s Chicago, seemed calculated to offend. The band’s early specialty was to catch audiences by surprise, and, basically, disgust and exhaust as many of them as possible. If an early Dwarves show lasted past 15 minutes, then you were lucky (or, unlucky, depending [...]

Gallery: Die Antwoord at Culture Room, October 22, 2012

Rap-rave trio Die Antwoord brought its delightfully raw brand of hip-hop to a packed Culture Room last night. It was an impressive Fort Lauderdale debut, and included a stage-dive kick to the head for one lucky audience member. Metaphor for the duo’s impact on current streams of hip-hop and rap? Judging by the vibe in [...]

Doing Heterosexuality

Yesterday, Vice posted a heartwarming story about Marco and Sadie, a Williamsburg pair whose sexual orientation identities are “in limbo.” See, Sadie fell in love with Marco when he was Erica. And for two and a half years, the couple identified as a lesbian one. Since Marco began transitioning — he has removed the top, and is [...]

Four D.I.Y. Local Events to Support This Weekend

As residents of South Florida, we want to live in a cool place full of cool people doing cool things. But we can’t just rely on out-of-town touring acts to lend us that frisson of cool. Luckily, one of the great positives of South Florida’s music and cultural scenes is that, no matter how geographically [...]

Bobby Load, 1970-2012

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, Bobby Load was a drinker with a singing problem. He died this morning after weeks in hospice, and long weeks in the hospital before that. His death surprised no one. Really, he’d been dying for 20 years. If you were out on the local music scene from about 1995 to 2010, [...]

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