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“You in a band?” is a question just about every eccentric over 20 fields while navigating the supposedly real world on any given weekday. It’s »
Guava: a tasty fruit staple of many tropical diets. “Tron,” a 1982 Disney foray into sci-fi action-adventure and imminent human-computer conflict. Guavatron: a West Palm »
A funny thing about perseverance is how powerful it looks in hindsight. For Erasure, two Brits navigating a chaotic mid-’80s scene that was part punk »
By the end of the ’70s people knew they were living in a moment. Its markers in New York were the Ramones, Blondie, Talking »
The film industry barely exists in South Florida. Crews drop in and shoot lots of sunny exterior B-roll, but it’s a tiny subset that puts »
Oscar Wilde is famously misquoted as saying, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery … ” Because he added, “ … that mediocrity can pay »
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that too much of a good thing is bad. Peter Hook and The Light are a perfect example. For »
Full disclosure: I was a kid in the 1980s. I’m young enough today to remember some of the decade’s output fondly, and old enough to »
June in Florida used to mean Spring Break had just ended and Summer Break had begun. Kegs and party favors were simply replenished during the »
The importance of blues and jazz to genres that came after was never lost on Ray Carbone, the man behind the legendary, scene-building Ray’s Downtown »
Pavement. Outkast. Verlaines. Cream. Breeders. Modern English. Chad & Jeremy. Mudhoney. Polaris. West Palm Beach. Indie rock. And the number five as a concept. What »
Air Force kids who moved from place to place and found their anchor in music, the Wooten brothers are a story that continually amazes and »
