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John Lee Hooker Jr. Cuts His Own Path Through the Blues

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | September 26, 2007

Hooker, 55, says he's led a far harder life than what you'd expect for the son of a blues legend, including drug and alcohol addictions, divorce, and prison time, but the benefits are palpable in the conviction in his singing voice.

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It wasn't long ago that New Times Broward-Palm Beach was just a weekly paper with a website on the side. A weekly paper written by reporters who won boatloads of awards, mind you, including the Livingston Award, multiple Green Eyeshade...

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2008: The Year South Florida Hip-Hop Went Globalnew

Rappers from the region stepped up their game exponentially, and the entire country responded.

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Jonathan Cunningham | 12-30-2008 | Music

Tags: Florida, hip-hop, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Trina, Trick Daddy, Ace Hood, T-Pain, Flo Rida, Plies

Ace Hood: From Broward County to the Worldnew

The 20-year-old flame-throwing MC is in the midst of his official career launch to the world, and it appears he's getting cosigns galore.

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Jonathan Cunningham | 12-02-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Florida, hip-hop, Ace Hood, Gutta, XXL magazine

Reggae Artist Queen Ifrica Speaks Truth to Powernew

While she's been working on building her name throughout Jamaica for the past ten years, Ifrica (born Ventrice Morgan) is just now starting to gain an international following.

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Jonathan Cunningham | 11-18-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Reggae, Montego Bay, Queen Ifrica

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Lyrikill.com Bumrushes South Florida TV Reportersnew

'This is how we do,' whispers the rapper, who calls himself Lyrikill.com. 'We stake it out, and then if you look right over these bushes, you can see they 'bout to go live... And when they go live, that's when we hop out these bushes.'

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Gus Garcia-Roberts | 03-02-2010 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Jen Herrera, Jordan Michael Seitz, Lyrikill.com, WPLG

Iggy Pop Chips in to Help Indie Miami Record Storenew

The godfather of punk will appear at a benefit for Sweat Records, which has faced reduced hours and activity since its air conditioner broke earlier this summer.

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Arielle Castillo | 08-25-2009 | Music

Tags: independent record stores, Sweat Records, Miami, Iggy Pop

Post-Hardcore Titans Thursday Headline the Taste of Chaos Tournew

With Common Existence, Rickly and company have reexamined the essential pieces of post-hardcore, spinning them into a web sticky with British shoegaze guitar textures and a humanities degree's worth of source subject matter.

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Arielle Castillo | 03-17-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: rock music, Common Existence, Thursday