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The Hush Sound learns to embrace all the bull
When Chicago natives the Hush Sound recently ended a five-year hiatus with a new EP, it called the release “45,” a number worn by a Windy City act that made a slightly more famous comeback, Michael Jordan. Yes, the band’s cheeky wit...
Tags: Hockey (music group), River City Extension (music group), OK Go (music group), Gold Motel (music group)
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Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Martin are two wild and crazy musicians
Yngwie Malmsteen's "Molto Arpeggiosa (Arpeggios From Hell)," from the 2000 album "War To End All Wars," resembles a tune from a sinister 1990s video game. The Swedish-born, Miami-based guitarist strikes frets like piano keys while strumming and picking...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Music, Kravis Center
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Oh, joy: Welsh rockers the Joy Formidable at Culture Room
The alt-rock band the Joy Formidable is as literate and witty as one would expect of a band from the town of Mold in North Wales, with a discography that includes a Christmas single titled “My Beerdrunk Soul Is Sadder Than a Hundred Dead Christmas...
Tags: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (music group), Fort Lauderdale
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Weekend Preview: Get your party on, get your swede in
Here's what's on our mind this weekend: Low-budget movies, cheap drinks, free music, Ben Taylor, Mike Piazza and two leading curators of the cultural drift: Augusten Burroughs and KRS-One. SWEDE ME, BABY Organizers of the second annual South Florida...
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Budgets and Budgeting, Music, New River Middle School, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Weekend Preview: Sun, surf, sand, soccer, sangria and Saigon Kick
The future site of the Flagler Garden, destined to be a hub for all manner of earnest conviviality and creativity in downtown Fort Lauderdale, will have its first event on Sunday with Grow Downtown. The afternoon of live music from the Bonfires...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Music, Human Rights, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Whole Foods Market
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Music best bets this week
On Thursday, Alice in Chains returns from the true battlefield of the Seattle music scene. After the 2011 death of bassist Mike Starr, the group will play the Fillmore Miami Beach to promote their upcoming "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here." ($52-$79.75,...
Tags: Flux Pavilion (music group), Music, Pompano Beach, Fillmore Miami Beach, Miami Beach
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Live music this week: After Tortuga
The beaches will be swarmed with dancing and drinking merrymakers today, because the Tortuga Music Festival ends in Fort Lauderdale and Adam Lambert performs at the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade. Lambert's performance is free for parade-watchers who stay...
Tags: Music, Fort Lauderdale, Festive Events, Concerts, Arts and Culture
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What makes an Indigo Girl blue
Emily Saliers say her Indigo Girls bandmate, Amy Ray, is her polar opposite, but that their mismatched styles make for great music. Since 1985, the two folksingers have produced such hits such as "Closer to Fine," "Shame on You" and "Hammer and Nail."...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Music, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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Weekend Preview: Nothing against Ultra, but ...
We’ve got nothing against DJs. We’ve got friends who are DJs. I think my son’s old orthodontist used to be a DJ. But, man, you can’t turn around without tripping over one this week. Here’s some stuff to do that has nothing to...
Tags: Music, Fine Arts, Services and Shopping, Christianity, Arts and Culture
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Weekend Preview: Miami Heat's Mario Chalmers to host Fort Lauderdale fundraiser Saturday
Whether in a cartoony red-and-blue Super Mario costume bouncing around the Miami Heat’s “Harlem Shake” video or in his work clothes stepping in for a cramping LeBron James as a savior in Game 4 of last year’s NBA Finals, the...
Tags: Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Music, Miami Heat, Lynyrd Skynyrd (music group)
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Go Guide Weekend Preview: Perpetual Groove comes to an end
After a decade performing for a rabid, nationwide jam-band fan base, particularly enthusiastic in South Florida, Perpetual Groove is down to its final six concerts, and Matt McDonald is feeling a familiar sense of excitement. “It’s hard to...
Tags: Fired Up! (movie), Paul McCartney, Music, Miami Heat, Rascal Flatts (music group)
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The Go Guide Weekend Preview: A different night at the movies
Why would you leave the house to watch a movie anymore? Here are a few reasons: The Frank Theatres CineBowl and Grille making its weekend debut at Delray Marketplace (14775 Lyons Road) is a 70,000-square-foot entertainment complex that takes “...
Tags: Travis Tritt, Services and Shopping, Music, Fillmore Miami Beach, Bacon
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