Subject: Jack Johnson

• The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

  Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously absurd record or two in 2008. Here are the most preposterous rap songs of 2008. RICK ROSS, FEATURING T-PAIN "The Boss" (Def Jam) Though Rick Ross claimed on his debut album, Port of Miami, to know Manuel Noriega,

  December 22, 2008

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and it'll be a feast for

  December 24, 2008

• ¿Que Pasa, M.I.A.? Jose Goes Camping

  To get an introduction to Jose El Rey (if you actually need one!) and to read previous installments of his weekly Crossfade column, Que Pasa, M.I.A?, click here. Against my better judgment and sense of comfort and convenience, I went camping. Into the woods. Into the night. With fire. And "beware of bears" signs. Bears that want to open my sleeping bag and eat me like a pastelito de carne.A group of friends of mine invited me up to Wekiwa Springs State Park. They promised I'd have a relaxing tim

  January 8, 2009

• Brett Dennen to Play Culture Room This Saturday

  People are ready for a fresh-faced heir apparent to Paul Simon, and from the looks of things, Brett Dennen is the guy. His warm, socially conscious folk continues to grow in appeal. Maybe it's the fact that he has more to say about the world than Jack Johnson, and that he does it with a fractured, sensitive croon and a buoyant acoustic sound that (like Simon's Graceland) is often laced with world-music grooves.

  January 13, 2009

• Citizen Cope tonight at Culture Room

  via myspaceTonight is the night for those who would have been gearing up for Langerado this week to forget about the defunct festival and revel in a somehow-still-undergroundish artist who would have fit perfectly in the jam festival's earlier years. Clarence Greenwood, aka Citizen Cope, brings his breezy brand of acoustic lounge rock to Fort Lauderdale tonight at the Culture Room. Equal parts romantic and political, Citizen Cope has a Jack Johnson type feel to his music, but delivers a more poi

  February 24, 2009

• Local Album Review: Kyle Crossland Self-Titled EP

  Kyle CrosslandKyle Crossland EPCane RecordsUniversity of Miami student Kyle Crossland's new self-titled EP is a pleasant mix of easy-listening alternative rock tunes that don't quite approach the acoustic grooviness of Jack Johnson. There are promising moments such as the opening tempo of the EP's first song "Irony," which contains hints of early Unwritten Law and which breaks down into a catchy, though, predictably mediocre chorus. Unfortunately, these qualities seem to define the album: promis

  April 14, 2009

• ¿Que Pasa, M.I.A.?

  January 15, 2009

• The 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

  December 25, 2008

• Best Local Music Albums of 2008

  December 25, 2008

• Shwayze

  Shwayze (Geffen)

  September 11, 2008

• Shawn Snyder

  Romantic's Requiem (Wild Iris Records)

  June 5, 2008

• Carly Simon

  May 15, 2008

• Michael Dixon Band

  April 17, 2008

• Window, HighRise, and City of God

  July 26, 2007

• Dogs Love Road Trips

  March 9, 2006

• Jack Johnson

  September 1, 2005

• Selected Calendar Events for the Week of August 18, 2005

  August 18, 2005

• THIS JUST IN

  March 17, 2005

• Mos Def

  October 14, 2004

• Just Jack

  March 4, 2004

• In Clubland

  April 6, 2000

• Diggin' with the Oil Man

  January 27, 2000

• The Odd Couple

  October 31, 1996

• Even Major Labels Get the Blues

  July 4, 1996

• Local Songwriter Jim Camacho Playing Two Shows in July

  Melodic and pop-driven, Jim Camacho's music has been featured on several films including Tom Dowd & the Language of Music, Pledge This, and Fatboy and captures the catchy, soft folk-rock instincts of Elvis Costello and Jack Johnson, with occasional riffs that conjure up Oasis acoustic sessions. The Miamian songwriter, who was named "Best Acoustic Performer" by Miami New Times in 2005, will play shows on July 3 and July 4 at Luna Star Cafe and Alligator Alley, respectively. The shows are to c

  June 18, 2009

• Rebelution Playing Culture Room August 29

  Santa Barbara based band Rebelution (not to be confused with the Christian movement of the same name) are bringing even more feel good indie reggae to Culture Room on August 29.  The formation of the band is typical: they met in college, started playing together, recorded an album, co-vocalist leaves band, band starts getting big, co-vocalist probably pissed he started a side project. Rebelution isn't hardcore dub-style reggae; it's more easy going, Jack Johnson/Sublime style reggae. The to

  June 23, 2009

• RevMiami Posts New Installment of Big City Breakdown Series

  A couple weeks ago, local music/culture webzine RevMiami started a nifty vlog series called "Big City Breakdown," a biweekly thing meant to take local favorites and turn 'em loose to play in unusal environs. The first featured Afrobeta playing on the sand, so I wondered where the series would go after the obvious beach shoot was used up. This one puts Andrew Sansac on the sidewalk of Collins Avenue. There are exactly three pedestrian passersby in these several minutes, which is their loss. San

  July 8, 2009

• Six Strings to Relaxation

  August 6, 2009

• Alex Cuba Plays a Free Show on Lincoln Road This Thursday

   Now based in British Columbia, of all places, the singer-songwriter Alex Cuba is surely a long way from the homeland reflected in his stage name. Born in the town of Artemisa some 35 years ago, he grew up on the island with a guitar player father, Valentin Puentes, and took up guitar himself as a child. But his ticket out of Cuba didn't come until the late '90s, when he married a Canadian and eventually emigrated to her hometown. Still, the frigid north hasn't taken the sunshine out o

  October 13, 2009

• Alex Cuba

  October 15, 2009

• Downtown Lake Worth Hosts a Night of Free Music on Halloween

  via myspace.com/theresolversThe Resolvers​The revelry swings into high gear on Lake Avenue on Halloween as Lake Worth's inaugural Halloween Street gets under way that Saturday at noon. Organizers promise three stages of music, "Coney Island-style" freak shows, a psychic fair, a costume contests for kids, pets, and adults, and arts and crafts vendors galore.The Rum Shack stage will have open mike hopefuls strumming their stuff all day, while the Cheney Brothers Cultural Plaza stage will be head

  October 22, 2009

• Concert Announcements: David Cook, The Supervillains, and Donavon Frankenreiter

  via Flickr user Whiskeyboytx​American Idol season seven winner David Cook has made the big time. After winning Idol, he released a self-titled album which has gone platinum. Now he's coming to Nova University in Davie November 29. Hmmm. Tickets are available here.Orlando five-piece ska boys the Supervillains are back again, this time they'll be playing at Culture Room on December 19. Check out the video after the jump for a preview of the pot-loving rude boys.

  October 23, 2009

• Soul Do Mato at Bougie's This Thursday

  ​Let's talk for a minute about Soul Do Mato. Because I feel like you don't hear enough about this Miami-based band. While enjoying their vids on YouTube, I did find that they have at least one metric shitload of views though, so it's entirely possible I'm just preaching to the choir when I say Soul Do Mato are one talented group of dudes, and well deserving of support. Honest and heartfelt with a laid-back, "stop, sip some booze and listen" sort of appeal, it could be said that SDM's music lie

  November 4, 2009