Music
The Funky Biscuit To Temporarily Close After Aug. 31
By David Rolland You only have one last weekend to enjoy The Funky Biscuit. The beloved Boca Raton concert venue and restaurant announced on its Facebook page that it …
How COVID-19 Shutdowns Changed the Local Music Industry
The New Music By David Rolland Featured in the Digital Edition Music to our ears They say hindsight is 2020, but from this side of the quarantine it seemed in …
Conquering COVID: The Funky Biscuit
The Funky Biscuit celebrates its ninth anniversary in quarantine. By David Rolland This was supposed to be a great weekend for Albert Poliak’s live music venue, The Funky Biscuit. …
Johnnie Brown’s In Delray Beach Reopens Post-Quarantine
Johnnie Brown’s Reopens: Music to Our Ears By Darien Davies After weeks of dealing with an abandoned downtown, Atlantic Avenue is finally reopening and shaking back to life. Everyone …
Pandemicpalooza: The State of Local Music
How We Won’t Let Coronavirus Stop the Music by David Rolland It has been over two months now since anyone’s been to anything resembling what we once called a …
Sierra Lane
Sierra Lane, Feet Grounded But Flying High by David Rolland Photos: Jakob Takos It was hard for singer/guitarist Sierra Lane to pick what was most surreal of playing in front …
Hell & Hollar
Hell & Hollar: Dirty and Loud Rock & Roll by David Rolland Photos: Jakob Takos Blake Burns wants to make sure people know the correct spelling of his rock band …
Hurricane Party
Hurricane Party, Freakin’ What They Feel by Darien Davies Photos by Roberto Badillo If you can understand and fully decipher their music, you’re missing the point. The lyrics just sort …
Rust & Wax
West Palm Beach Record Store Brings A Vinyl Revival By Sean Gordon Photos by Alexis Paige Founded in 2014 by vinyl enthusiasts, Jesse and Melanie Feldman, Rust & Wax is …
What’s on Brian Trew’s Playlist
Brian Trew began his love with the music world at age 11 when he first picked up the viola in his middle school orchestra. Instantly hooked, he and his friends …
Meet Musician Matt Brown
Prolific Multi-Instrumentalist Brings the Soul By David Rolland Photos by Alexis Paige When Matt Brown rattles off what he’s been up to lately, you wonder how the local soul, funk, and …
Jakob Takos
South Florida Sunshine Soul By Adam Sheetz Local musician, Jakob Takos, has been bringing good vibes across South Florida with his particular sound of sunshine soul. Bright and beachy, with …
Guide To Sunfest
SunFest with the Best By Darien Davies You know what summer smells like? SunFest. Well, to be specific, it’s loud music, louder screams, glitter, sweat, beer, grass, suntan lotion and …
Matt Cahur
THE MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC AT GUANABANAS AND ROOTS MUSIC, INC. By Stella Alves The producer, guitarist, band manager, event coordinator and recording label head has been sharing his love …
Haute Tension
KEEPING THE FUNK HOT, HOT, HOT By David Rolland Last summer Haute Tension found the perfect exercise to test their endurance as a band. They would play 31 South Florida …
Artikal Sound System
Spinning That Ass, Over and Over By Darien Davies Photos: Ryan Noeker Regardless if you like to tap the drums, slap the bass, or stroke the chords, Artikal Sound System …
Crazy Uncle Mike’s
OWNER MIKE GOODWIN BRINGS CRAFT BEERS & JAMS TO BOCA By David Rolland “My nieces and nephews always called me Crazy Uncle Mike”, Mike Goodwin tells The Atlantic Current while …
Tin Roof Delray Beach
Atlantic Avenue’s Newest Venue For Food, Drinks & Live Music By David Rolland Tin Roof Delray Beach bills itself as “a live music joint”. Located on 8 East Atlantic Avenue, …
Dance Floor Sessions @ Voltaire
New Weekly Party is Brainchild of Local DJ Kasha McKee By David Rolland “People get intimidated when they hear house music or electronic dance music. I wanted to have …
Elizabeth Ave Station
Revolutionizing West Palm’s Music and Retail Experience By David Rolland When Danni Zelaya moved back to her hometown of West Palm after years of art school in New York City, …
Julian Marley Headlines Guanabanas’ 6th Annual Dirty River Reggae Fest
Guanabanas Brings The Irie Vibes In A Big Way by David Rolland Guanabanas Restaurant and Bar is going to be jammin’ on Sunday, October 7. Starting at 12:30 in the …
SpiderCherry
Meet Delray Beach’s Piano Man by David Rolland It all started with a vacation, SpiderCherry says, on how he became Delray Beach’s preeminent keyboardist. “My family moved to Boca. I …
Heavy Pets’ Strawberry Mansion Album Review
by Danny Wright I’m a music nut. Always have been. Most of my waking hours are spent digging into streaming service’s high-res audio to listen to stuff I’ve loved all …
Spred The Dub
Good Time Reggae Group Releases New Record, Friends & Enemies by David Rolland Above Image by Chelsea Erwin If you’re feeling down in the dumps we make sure you have …
Lindsey Mills
Surfer Blood’s Bassist By Day, Feminist Environmentalist Troubadour By Night by David Rolland Photos: Dustin Wright A fifth generation Floridian, raised in a musical family whose father taught her guitar …
Mona Lisa Tribe
An All-Girl Tribe With Fold Ties by Darien Davies Photos by Jahnoi Smith If you’re wondering what the harmonic, Southern sound is around town, it’s The Mona Lisa Tribe. They’re …
Top Restaurants For Live Music
by David Rolland Other than peanut butter and jelly and maybe Simon & Garfunkel, there are few combinations that work together as cohesively as music and food. Whether it’s because …
The Funky Biscuit Keeps The Jam Going
Owner Albert Poliak On Six Years Of Providing Live Music by David Rolland Photos: J. Skolnick These days, The Funky Biscuit often has a packed house to see national touring …
