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• Top Songs of the Week

  July 25, 2007

• Bands! Win a chance to perform at SPIN mag's legendary SXSW party next February...

  September 7, 2007

• New Radiohead...Come and Get It

  October 10, 2007

• Review: Tegan and Sara at the Culture Room

  November 15, 2007

• Tuesday Morning Music Fix: Portishead, Jack White, the Black Kids and lot's of free tracks.

  March 25, 2008

• Last Night: Bret Michaels at the Marlins' Super Saturdays, Dolphin Stadium

  April 7, 2008

• iTunes Tells Buju Banton to "Boom Bye Bye"

  April 22, 2008

• Lazaro Casanova "Venganza" Remixes Now on iTunes

  June 25, 2008

• Cute is What We Aim For Tonight at the Culture Room

  July 8, 2008

• Classic South Florida Album Commanding Big Bucks

  July 23, 2008

• BEST USED-CD STORE

  May 12, 2005

• Straight from the Source

  October 4, 2007

• Rachel Goodrich Featured in the New York Times

  It's always a good feeling as a publication when artists that you've been covering on the ground for years finally gain the national exposure that you know they deserve. Such was the feeling yesterday as I read through a great story on Miami's growing indie music scene by written by former Herald reporter, Evelyn McDonnell.The lede to the story, and the main photograph as well were about our favorite local female troubadour, Rachel Goodrich, who we've covered aplenty in this rag before. She's t

  December 2, 2008

• SP Global Radio on MiamiBeatz.com

  SP Global Radio is a weekly show on www.miamibeatz.com hosted by local DJs JD and Rob Solomon. With over 40,000 iTunes podcast downloads per month worldwide, they are now hitting the airwaves with their eclectic mix of underground EDM. Tune in for their exclusive weekly broadcasts where you will hear everything from deep house and electro to trance and minimal techno. Listen to SP Global Radio at www.miamibeatz.com every Thursday from noon to 4 p.m.

  January 19, 2009

• Honor Roll Music - Making The Music Business Make Dollars and Sense

  You may have heard about Honor Roll Music in a recent New York Times article highlighting Miami's indie music culture, but probably not, Newspapers are stupid. They keep homeless people warm, cats shit on them all the time, they want you to read all about it, you're probably not even reading this at all, you just like scrolling the page and watching the shapes of the letters don't you, you filthy scroller. Honor Roll Music understands this and while the big record labels are crying about the in

  March 12, 2009

• The Conchords: The Geekiest Rock Stars Ever

  Last Night: Flight of the ConchordsBetter Than: All the YouTube videos fit to click.By now, fans of HBO's off-kilter, musical comedy series Flight of the Conchords know that its number is up. The Conchords themselves, the duo of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, walking a nearly-flawless tightrope between maladroit geekiness and rock star bravado, has so much as said they won't be returning for another season of chasing women, running from their obsessed stalker Mel, and, most importantly, brea

  April 8, 2009

• Je Suis Delusional

  February 12, 2009

• Je Suis Delusional

  February 5, 2009

• With Guitar Hero: World Tour, a Series Shreds Its Momentum

  November 6, 2008

• Beyond the Ones and Twos

  Miami's DJ I-Dee takes scratching past wicky-wicky.

  September 11, 2008

• 18 Essential Songs of Summer

  The definitive sounds of encroaching melanoma.

  July 24, 2008

• Uh Huh Her

  May 8, 2008

• Record Setting

  Sweat Records hangs on for its third year.

  April 24, 2008

• Love Bytes

  March 20, 2008

• Jericho Mansion

  October 20, 2005

• Audiocrash and Gene Loves Jezebel

  December 27, 2007

• Got Vinyl?

  August 16, 2007

• Bebel Gilberto

  May 17, 2007

• Avril Lavigne

  April 26, 2007

• Between the Trees

  January 4, 2007

• Mejia

  January 27, 2005

• Dorkula

  December 9, 2004

• Anatomy of a Buzz

  July 22, 2004

• Celebrate National Record Store Day at Sweat Records and Radio-Active Records

  Remember record stores? They were the place you bought those plastic silvery things called CDs and also where you could pick up vinyl if you were trying to be über-authentic. Ah, yes the days before iTunes. But while Sam Goodys and FYEs might not be commonplace anymore, local records stores still seem to hold a place in our hearts. Perhaps that's why National Record Store Day was invented, to remind us there is nothing better then tearing into the CD packaging of that Norwegian black metal, pol

  April 17, 2009

• PG-13 Talks Panther God and the Future of Circuitree Records

  Today, PG-13, aka Paul Gaeta, releases his second record into the wild: Panther God (click here for a preview). Really it should be his fourth , but between his 2007 debut, the humbly titled Seven Songs for my Friends and the beginning of God's creation some thieves broke into his apartment and stole equipment, including a laptop with two records worth of songs. "Those will never see the light of day. So this record isn't the next logical step in my musical evolution. It's kind of two steps,"

  May 1, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: "Under Control" by Parachute, Playing Blue Martini (West Palm) This Saturday

  Virginia quintet Parachute has been on the rise since it landed the song "She's Love" in a Nivea commercial. Suddenly, thousands of women with smooth legs wanted more of those smooth pop-rock sounds. In the resulting buzz storm on iTunes and the like, the song eventually also landed on the current pop music holy grail -- the soundtrack to an episode of One Tree Hill. With an upcoming tour slot opening for O.A.R. (which arrives at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre on August 29), it's only a matter o

  May 15, 2009

• Kate Voegele

  May 21, 2009

• Sol Ruiz's Outlander CD Brings Tropical Folk Style Cuban Psychedelic Music

  Sol Ruiz's Oultander is a 6-song disc I got in a cardboard sleeve from producer Bobby Macintyre of Studio 71.He says: "Sol is the songwriter and she plays acoustic guitar. I played drums, produced, engineered, and mixed it. Jesse Jackson plays some Dobro slide guitar, and some cuatro. Lorenzo Corti, who's an Italian friend of mine, guitar player, is on there doing some ambient stuff. I brought Raffa Jo Harris in to do some background vocals. Joe Rehmer played upright bass on the whole record. S

  June 17, 2009

• Friday Night: ¡Mayday! at Transit Lounge

  BernBiz and ¡Mayday! blow up at Transit on Friday ¡Mayday! Friday, June 19, 2009 Transit Lounge, Miami Better than: A photo of yourself. The Review: Sometimes a club fills with 400 and every single one seems to be starring in his or her own personal reality show. That was the scene at Transit Friday night. The entire crowd came armed with Elphs, iPhones, or Rebels, snapping self-portraits. Although, not everyone was modeling only for themselves. Flat-chested chicks flashed

  June 22, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: "Right on the Money" by the Pretty Faces

  It may seem like there's been a blog avalanche on Crossfade about the Pretty Faces, but it's because they deserve it. The Boca-based quartet is one of Palm Beach County's best-kept rock secrets -- a welcome, refreshing blast for fans of the Kinks, the Raspberries, Badfinger, and any number of other top rock acts who ably mixed barroom skronk with pop polish. The foursome has been slowly working its way south through South Florida's circuit, and recently released its second album, Another Sound.C

  June 22, 2009

• Inside the Rapper's Studio: Pryslezz

  courtesy of Pryslezz's MySpaceHip Hop groupies, and those thirsty for something new in the rap category, add another import to your list of MC's to watch. Youngstown, Ohio native Pryslezz (read: Priceless) is making music in our lil' city. He recently finished his debut album, "Rebirth of a King" and Crossfade sat down with him and asked some Q's, Lipton-style. What is your favorite word to use in a rhyme? I don't have a "favorite", but I do use "I" a lot because I'm talking about myself a

  June 22, 2009

• Q&A With Peter Murphy, Playing Tomorrow Night at Respectable Street!

  After a final album together, 2008's Go Away White, Peter Murphy and his former bandmates have finally hammered the last nail in the Bauhaus coffin. But that's actually good news for the group's rabid fans. Its erstwhile frontman is finally comfortable performing these songs on his solo tours, which have become surprisingly, pleasantly frequent. Wednesday's show at Respectable Street Café in West Palm Beach comes less than a year after his last South Florida performance, in July 2008 at R

  June 23, 2009

• Book Review: Please Step Back by Ben Greenman

  Melville House BooksI used to spend a lot of time and money purchasing slick vinyl re-issues of "forgotten" or "lost" eras in American music: albums with titles like New Orleans Funk, Vol. 1: The Original Sound of Funk, 1960-1975 and Miami Sound: Rare Funk and Soul from Miami, Florida 1967-1974.Listening to the artists, who were usually minorities signed to small, regional labels, it was sometimes hard to figure out why they never made it. Bad luck? Lack of ambition? The wrong look? Racism?

  June 29, 2009

• Concert Review: Stonefox CD Release Party with Surfer Blood and Dead Rabbits, at Propaganda, July 30

  photo by Ian WitlenStonefox ruled Propaganda.​To see a full slideshow of photos from the show, click here. Surfer Blood, Dead Rabbits, and StonefoxPropaganda, Lake WorthThursday, July 30, 2009Better Than: Another DJ dance night whereverThe Review:Last night at Propaganda marked the official album release by Boca rock and rollers Stonefox, and a triumphant event it was. The band has clearly won some rabid friends and fans with its out-of-nowhere blues-garage stomp, and those friends and fans ha

  July 31, 2009

• Casual Sax & The Saxual Revolution Out Tomorrow!

  ​Ryan Smith a.k.a. Induce! and Sven Barth, collectively known as Casual Sax and the Saxual Revolution's hotly, in some circles, anticipated full length album will finally be hitting record store shelves tomorrow morning! Ever since they dropped "Baby I'm Black (But Only from the waist down)" back in 2007, they have been cooking up little gems here and there.  Now they are ready for the whole enchilada.  The vinyl will be available exclusively from http://www.turntablelab.com and you

  August 24, 2009

• Video: Casual Sax & The Saxual Revolution "24's & More"

  If you haven't heard of Casual Sax & The Saxual Revolution, you've probably been in some kind of soap operatic coma for the last few years. Induce and Sven Barth compromise the duo that found viral success after Perez Hilton featured their video for "Baby I'm Black (From the Waist Down)" on his site.Soon after they release videos for their tracks "Whorer Core" and "Klaus' Tour de Pants (AKA Klaus' Disco Train)." And with no signs of slowing down, they've just released the video for "24's &a

  September 11, 2009

• Lil Jon talks Crunk Rock, Pitbull, and fine wine

  September 24, 2009

• Concert Review: The Killers at American Airlines Arena, October 3

  Photo by Sayre Berman​Click here to view the full slideshow from this event.The Killers with ChairliftSaturday, October 3, 2009American Airlines Arena, MiamiBetter Than: Most Vegas lounge acts.When the Killers performed at Ultra Music Festival in 2006, they easily won me over with a confident stage presence and high-energy performance that was delivered in a sexy and glamorous package. The synth-laden performance was sleek, danceable, and, most importantly, fun.Wish I could say Saturday's perf

  October 5, 2009

• Show Announcements: David Ellefson of Megadeth and Raphael Saadiq

  via flick user NRK P3​Do you think David Ellefson might miss playing for Megadeth? He left the band in 2002, and declined to rejoin the band when Dave Mustaine tried to get them back together in 2004. In fairness, every other original member of Megadeth declined to rejoin Mustain, save guitarist Chris Poland. But Ellefson has been downplaying his career with Megadeth, sometimes even failing to mention it during interviews. Sure there was a pretty big falling out thanks to some royalty issues,

  October 8, 2009

• South Florida According to Brooklyn: Q&A With Tommy Newman of Murderous Rampage

  ​This week I decided to try something new -- an interview. I asked my friend Tommy Newman of Murderous Rampage ten questions about his band. Here we go. Please let me know what you guys think. Brooklyn: What bands have you been in around South Florida, and what did they sound like?Tommy Newman: I was lead singer/ guitar player in Chickenbox. It was a good-times party band, which I grew to hate.What are Murderous Rampage's biggest influences?The Discovery Channel, the History Channel, the

  October 8, 2009