Blog: After Hours

Rumors of a new "aggressive" Avett Brothers were greatly exaggerated. Last night at the intimate Sunset Cove amphitheater under unexpected clear skies, The Avett Brothers opened their 2012 tour in one of the few outdoor arenas the boys will being seeing during the next several months. A new album, under the long-distance tutelage of Music Buddha Rick Rubin , is due [...]

Once Eddie Vedder gets off this Hawaiian outcropping, he will be hitting the road this spring for a solo tour with his trusty ukulele . Avoiding the clubs and the arenas, the laser-eyed Vedder will be playing the pricier "performing arts centers." Eddie will hit Florida in May after the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Closer to home, Vedder and his uke will be playing the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets go sale this Friday, February [...]

For the 6 million-plus folks living in South Florida, finding a music festival to call one's own has been a losing proposition. The ill-fated Langerado bounced around to several locations before succumbing to the Great Recession . Repeated attempts to bring Langerado back have languished . However, a new festival is making a strong bid to correct all that. The Virginia Key Grassroots Festival features an eclectic, foot-stomping lineup for February 9th through [...]

Stellar lineup for the just-leaked Coachella lineup. In addition to Radiohead and Black Keys, Bon Iver, St. Vincent, Mazzy Star, Jimmy Cliff, Cat Power, Shins, and Feist round out what looks to be a terrific festival.

Stellar lineup for the just-leaked Coachella lineup. In addition to Radiohead and Black Keys, Bon Iver, St. Vincent, Mazzy Star, Jimmy Cliff, Cat Power, Shins, and Feist round out what looks to be a terrific festival.

During a time when we only see our celebrities on the beach or causing trouble , Gregg Allman is putting together a 6-stop tour of Florida this January. Six Shows! Spanning from Pensacola to Hollywood, the mini-tour provides an up-close look at this master bluesman. For your listening pleasure, a studio performance of "Low Country Blues." Soul-stirring music. Gregg Allman Florida-Plus Tour 01/10/12 [...]

"You don’t need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows" Wilco's Jeff Tweedy stops by the hometown television station to talk a little hirsute weather.

Jim James, photo by pbpulse.com Rock and roll has always been about salvation. It has always been about redemption, deliverance from the mundane, the oppression, and the repetitiveness of the daily grind. It is a release and an escape. My Morning Jacket 's Saturday night show at the Boca Raton's cozy Sunset Cove [...]

Tis the season for your Top Ten albums , songs , concerts and whatnot. After Hours favorite Tristan Clopet jumps out of the gate with a quality album list. Above is his cover from The Black Keys' "El Camino" album from his renowned Living Room sessions. "El Camino" will camp out on most lists this year including Tristan's and the After Hours HQ. Lykke Li's spring release "Wounded Rhymes" is Clopet's intriguing top pick .

With a break in the weather here, the world's itinerant musicians are headed to South Florida and we are the beneficiaries. Two of the best live bands going, My Morning Jacket and Radiohead, will be visiting and providing must-see shows on the peninsula during the next several months. There are several "wild-card" shows on the agenda - with Dan Hicks at the intimate Bamboo Room and the Nashville duo, The Civil Wars, - that deserve the discerning music fans attention. [...]

After a long respite and finding the Blogger format unforgiving, I am shifting After Hours to Tumblr . Hope to see you there .

After touring through Europe and criss-crossing the U.S. several times during the past two years, West Palm Beach's indie rock heroes, Surfer Blood , will be playing a hometown show this Friday Saturday night at Respectable Street . The band earlier reported on their social media that the show was Friday. The four-piece band is playing a rare local show before hitting the road this fall , including a one-month stint [...]

After Hours favorite Tristan Clopet has created an outstanding summer album. An album destined to be played loud, speeding along the coastal highway with the windows open and the warm, fresh air blowing through your hair. From the bright guitars of the opening track, " A Summer in Sussex ," through Clopet's signature soaring vocals, the Miami singer-songwriter has created a delicious indie pop album. It is Clopet's [...]

Right off the bat I'm going to say that Goblin has some of the most shocking lyrics ever put on a major label's CD, is a long trip into a dark psyche that part of you wants to escape and finally is one of the best rap albums in recent years. Tyler, the Creator is seen by some as the savior as hip hop, and by just as many as a destroyer of values and moral codes. Music and controversy has been married for long back when people [...]

If you read any music blog, magazine, newspaper or flyer you've probably heard about Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. A collection of rappers, beat makers, producer and even a RnB singer. They've taken the indie world by storm with Pitchfork loving them and appearing on the covers of several big magazines . They've appeared on Jimmy Fallon , got a record deal and there's talk of a TV show . It's another story of a small group getting very big, very fast. We've seen it countless times [...]

Gregg Allman deserved better. The sound mix for Allman's Friday Night SunFest show was as muddy as the Delta . And, at times, Allman's distinctive vocals were buried so far down in the mix that they only could be found with a Geiger counter . Once again, Gregg Allman deserved better. And so did the audience. The venerable bluesman is touring to support his first new album in more than a decade, Low Country Blues . If you don't [...]

Cee-Lo Green has had a rough time, getting booed of Coachella doesn't go down easy. I'm sure having a number one pop song and a Grammy nominations ease the pain though. I'm talking about the brilliant NSFW hit that we've mentioned many times before on this very blog. As the crowds gathered we all had the same question on our lips, well my mom did because she made a five dollar bet he wouldn't. Will he sing those forbidden words? The answer to the five dollar [...]

By Emily J. Minor I live with two grown men who are gaga over music. Our son , now 20, was getting an music allowance back way back in early middle school. Forget cash for taking out the garbage, how about another Gorillaz download? My husband - Mr. After Hours Music Proprietor Marty Minor himself - has resisted the iPhone for one simple reason: he couldn’t put all his music on it. This might seem like one of those “blessings” all the hyper-happy like [...]

The roadies are here. They are setting up the multiple stages as there are only a few hours left until SunFest begins on Wednesday night. While most of the well-meaning music fans have mapped out their headliners (After Hours will be visiting The Avett Brothers , Cee-Lo and Gregg Allman ), there a multitude of up-and-coming bands and regional acts to check out. Hell, that is the beauty of a music festival [...]

After Hours favorite and Miami singer-songwriter Tristan Clopet has found his voice - and his groove - with his new single , " A Chat With My Brain ." With that, Clopet will be finding a much larger audience in 2011. Clopet's previous recordings are a pleasant and intoxicating mix of blue-eyed soul and rock/funk thumpers . On this new single, and the new [...]