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Published on July 14th, 2018

Burlesque runs the gamut of outlandish ideas in its dedication to keeping an audience rapt and celebrating the seductiveness of the female form. Some troupes »

Published on July 13th, 2018

KC and the Sunshine Band have a history made for the movies: Blue eyed-soul singer from the mean streets of Hialeah finds a kindred spirit »

Published on July 12th, 2018

Noise rock is gloriously difficult to describe. Take the Melvins, Cows, Jesus Lizard and Butthole Surfers — now try to explain what they sound like »

Published on July 7th, 2018

Four barrels, four speeds, dual exhausts — the pervasive rumble of the American muscle car embodies a bygone era of can-do dispositions, no-dream-is-too-small spirits and »

Published on July 6th, 2018

Rock ’n’ roll is a bastard beast and it is nothing new for musicians to tap into its innermost troubled childhood and mine for more. »

Published on July 1st, 2018

How many times have the British invaded America? From Beatlemania and the Stones,  on through Bowie, Elton John, the Spice Girls and Oasis, the Brits »

Published on June 27th, 2018

Poison is a band whose members’ work in reality television may surpass their musical output in silliness, but only by a hair. Yet the legend »

Published on June 3rd, 2018

“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 »

Published on June 3rd, 2018

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 »

Published on June 3rd, 2018

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 »

Published on June 2nd, 2018

By the end of the ’70s people knew they were living in a moment. Its   markers in New York were the Ramones, Blondie, Talking »

Published on June 1st, 2018

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 »