Subject: Music

• Jazzy Jeff

  July 9, 2009

• Don Chambers Playing Solo

  July 9, 2009

• Supervillains Return to Culture Room September 19

  Skankers of the world unite! Orlando ska legends The Supervillains are coming back to Culture room on September 19. Dom, Skart, Dan, Smally, and Cardo are also scheduled to play at Arts Park in Hollywood on September 5 with the English Beat, Reel Big Fish, and a slew of reggae acts during DubFest. In other words, if you are now or have ever been a fan of ska as a genre, you've got a couple chances to remember why you got into the genre in the first place.Tickets for the Culture Room show go on s

  July 17, 2009

• Diane Ward, Daphna Rose, Cat Shell and Others Play "Girls With Guitars" Night at the Van Dyke Tomorrow

  Cat Shell Local musical luminary Diane Ward will play the Girls with Guitars songwriter series on Tuesday, July 21 at the Van Dyke on South Beach. She'll appear alongside some of South Florida's finest singer-songwriters of the XX-chromosomed variety -- actually, one is XY -- including Daphna Rose, Sarah Packiam, and Cat Shell. If you're unfamiliar with Ward, she constructs straightforward but beautifully-crafted melodies that sometimes bust the seams of acou

  July 20, 2009

• Unsigned Musicians, Here's Your Chance: All Access Music Conference August 8

  All Access Music ConferenceAttention all unsigned hip-hop artists, producers, and songwriters: your big break is finally here. Maybe.The All Access Music Conference will come on the weekend of August 8 to the Eden Roc Hotel (4525 Collins Ave., Miami Beach). This two-day event will allow Miami's unsung heroes to showcase their talents to a panel of hip-hop execs, which will include those who made names like Notorious B.I.G., Lil Kim, T.I, and Method Man big in the music industry.The AAMC was crea

  July 21, 2009

• Keith Sweat

  July 23, 2009

• A Combo Supreme

  July 30, 2009

• Snap and Crackle with Conscious Pop

  July 30, 2009

• When They Come Around

  July 30, 2009

• Top 10 Thursday: The Real Top 10 American Entertainers

  Michael Jackson dies and all of a sudden he's the greatest entertainer of all time. Not so fast. MJ made three great albums, invented the moonwalk and, well.... Let us take another look at the performers who have truly proved most thrilling over the years.1. Elvis Presley Michael Jackson may have dubbed himself the King of Pop but Presley -- who has sold more records than anyone on this list -- has always worn the crown. An unstoppable sex symbol, he brought ass-shaking rock and roll to the mass

  July 30, 2009

• South Florida According to Brooklyn: Punk and Hardcore History Is Important

  ​This week I would like to talk about how the punk rock and hardcore scene here really has no support anymore. Today, kids see "punk rock" on MTV and channels like that, but the truth is that shit's not real. The bands you see there are bands that really didn't do any footwork to get were they are -- they just happen to have been very lucky. Today's trend is have your mom and dad pay for nice equipment and buy your band a van so you can play crappy pop punk. And there is not a whole lot of res

  July 30, 2009

• Q&A With Tom Araya of Slayer, Headlining Mayhem Festvial at Cruzan on August 12!

  photo by Mark Seliger​For all his band's purported fascinations with life's uglier aspects, Slayer frontman Tom Araya sure is a cheerful guy. Calling from a moving bus in rural Washington state, Araya laughs seemingly every couple of minutes. Surely, though, it's this laissez-faire sense of humor that's gotten him through almost three decades of leading one of the most notorious, most influential metal bands on the planet.That's not an understatement. Nor should one take Araya's relatively chi

  August 4, 2009

• Get Punk Rock

  August 6, 2009

• Dog Days of Summer

  August 6, 2009

• Dethklok, Mastodon, High on Fire, and Converge at Pompano Beach November 8

  ​Fans of Adult Swim's Metalocalypse are probably not reading this post right now. No, they're feverishly searching out tickets for the show, which goes down on November 8 at Pompano Beach Amphitheater.If you're not familiar with Metalocalypse or Dethklok, the death metal band it profiles, here's the skinny. Dethklok is a sometimes fictional, sometimes virtual comedic death metal band created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blancha. If comedic death metal bands that sing songs like "Hatredcopter" an

  August 5, 2009

• Concert Review: Green Day At American Airlines Arena, August 4

  Photo by Sayre Berman​To view a full slideshow of pictures from the show, click here. Green DayTuesday, August 4American Airlines Arena Better Than: A show by any other pop-punk outfit playing today. The Review: Green Day rules, despite the fact they're all grown up. Sure, in their early days, the snotty punks from the Bay Area shared concert bills with Operation Ivy and sang about masturbation, low motivation, and whores. But those were the days of the first three albums,  1,039/S

  August 5, 2009

• Woodstock Promoter Michael Lang Started Out A Miami Dude

    The above video is from an 8mm film transfer shot by a fifteen year old South Florida kid on May 18, 1968. The images come from the Miami Pop Festival, which featured The Mothers Of Invention (Frank Zappa's band), Chuck Berry, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and more. The Miami Pop Festival took place at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale. According to a Wikipedia entry on the subject, bands played on stages built on flatbed trailers.The concert was put together by a

  August 10, 2009

• Would You Like a Song with That Steak?

  August 13, 2009

• SoBe, So Soul

  August 13, 2009

• Concert Review: Mayhem Fest at Cruzan Amphitheatre, August 12

  photo by Ben Thacker​Click here to view a full slideshow of photos from the show.Mayhem Fest main stageBullet For My Valentine, Killswitch Engage, Slayer, and Marilyn MansonCruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm BeachWednesday, August 12, 2009Better Than: Sitting at an office desk!The Review:Mayhem Fest is Warped Tour Kevin Lyman's metally offspring, a similarly scaled summer package tour now in its second year. Last year's inaugural edition was fun in its relative scrappiness -- the line-up ranged ev

  August 14, 2009

• Reggae Legend Don Carlos Headlines Pulp Live This Thursday

  via doncarlosreggae.com​When it comes to roots-rock-reggae music, few old school legends that are still touring have the pedigree for great songwriting that Don Carlos possesses. Although he's often overshadowed by more popular Jamaican reggae singers like Burning Spear and Toots Hibbert, Carlos started out in the same era (early '70s) and arguably has better chops than both of them. His crooning on the classic song, "Sattamasagana," helped create a whole new style called one-drop reggae music

  August 18, 2009

• Jordin Sparks Added to Britney Spears' September 2 Show

  ​Jordin Sparks, American Idol's youngest winner has been added as another opening act on Britney Spears' second leg of "The Circus Starring Britney Spears" tour. So if you're counting reasons to buy your tickets to the show: Jordin Sparks, Kristina DeBarge, $50 million production, 50 dancers, magicians, clowns, acrobats, and a 34 truck convoy to carry all the equipment from show to show. Britney is really outdoing herself on this tour, and it's showing in ticket sales. According to a press rel

  August 19, 2009

• Riding with Poseidon

  August 20, 2009

• Concert Review: The Jonas Brothers at BankAtlantic Center, August 19

  photo by Michele Sandberg​To view a full slideshow of photos from the concert, click here. The Jonas BrothersBankAtlantic Center, SunriseAugust 19, 2009Better Than: The Backstreet Boys, N Sync, and NKOTB put together.The Review:I felt a little ashamed as I slinked up to the BankAtlantic Center for the Jonas Brothers concert on Wednesday night. Here I was, an over-30 woman venturing to the far reaches of I-595 to see a trio of barely post-pubescent boys.  Alone. (Long story -- my 9-year-ol

  August 21, 2009

• Bonus Free Music: New Mixtape From Shonie, Hosted by Slip N Slide DJ 5053

  ​You may remember rising local R&B queen Shonie from an episode of Prunk TV here on Crossfade from last May. Since then, she's been working on material for her upcoming debut album, to be released on Slip N Slide and Def Jam, for now titled Passionate... Pieces of Me. Recently, she scored some YouTube heat with a female-perspective response to Jeremiih's "Birthday Sex," Capitalizing on the Internet traction, Shonie's released a new mixtape, What the Game's Been Missing. It's hosted by DJ 5

  August 25, 2009

• Moon Tunes

  August 27, 2009

• A Concert with Wings

  August 27, 2009

• Concert Review: Can I Say II at Cinema Paradiso, August 30

  photo by Ian Witlen​To view a slideshow of photos from the event, click here.CP Rocks Presents: Can I Say-Sunday II With Tongues of the Heartworm and AnchormanCinema Paradiso, Fort LauderdaleSunday, August 30, 2009Better Than: An hour-long sermon The Review:This past Sunday marked the second installment of longtime local promoter Mark Pollack's "Can I Say Sunday" series at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale. Conceived as a vinyl record swap, music-movie screening, and show, the event again cam

  September 1, 2009

• In the Name of Dub

  September 3, 2009

• Top Ten Thursdays: The Top Ten Greatest Rappers Alive (Let the Haterade Rain....)

  via lilwayne-online.comDid Weezy make the cut?​Self-proclaimed "greatest rapper alive" Lil Wayne performs Sunday at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. That boast had serious clout when Tha Carter III dropped last year. But with Weezy's ruinous rock album Rebirth in delay hell -- latest news has it coming out in November -- it's time to reassess the "greatest rapper alive" title. By that, we mean the best rapper right now, and offer a top ten tally (in no particular order) after the jump.Lil'

  September 3, 2009

• Concert Review: Dubfest at Hollywood ArtsPark, September 5

  Bunny Wailer​DubFest Featuring Bunny Wailer, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, and othersHollywood ArtsPark at Young CircleSaturday, September 5, 2009
 Better Than: Anything that has come to the ArtsPark in a very long time.The Review:Last Saturday, the rain just wouldn't let up. By the time 2:00 p.m. rolled around, yet another burst of storm clouds descended on downtown Hollywood. Promoters from AEG Live, along with DubFest's dozen vendors, looked annoyed as they scrambled to

  September 8, 2009

• Gilberto Santa Rosa

  September 10, 2009

• Dainamite: He's Explosive

  September 10, 2009

• Stargaze on Earth at LIV

  September 10, 2009

• Q&A With Termanology, Performing at PS14 Tomorrow Night

  To understand up-and-coming MC Termanology's commitment to the golden age of hip-hop, just take a look at the production credits on his new album, Time Machine. It's enough to make you cry: the Alchemist, Large Professor, Pete Rock, and even the untouchable DJ Premier all lend beats to this sophomore effort. And of course, the Puerto-Rican-extracted MC didn't get to work with top talent out of nowhere.As a teenager in his heavily Latin hometown of Lawrence, Massachusetts, he started his climb

  September 10, 2009

• Wisin y Yandel

  September 17, 2009

• Gypsies Minus the Fila Tracksuits

  September 24, 2009

• Brand Nubian

  October 1, 2009

• Metallica's Death Magnetic tour stops at BankAtlantic Center

  October 1, 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

• Leonard Cohen

  October 15, 2009

• Kiss Alive/35 tour stops at BankAtlantic Center

  October 22, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Black Metal Soundsystem Mix from Mixhell, Playing White Room November 7

  ​It's enough to make metalhead purists wail and gnash their teeth. Half of the producer/DJ duo Mixhell is Iggor Cavalera, who co-founded seminal Brazilian groove-metal act Sepultura when he was just 15 years old. For the next 20 years, he toured the world and sold out stadiums as the band's drummer, until a 2006 epiphany that came unexpected, at least to outsiders. He changed the spelling of his name from the original "Igor" to its present, two-G iteration, quit Sepultura, and, apparently, dis

  October 29, 2009

• Radio-Active Records Hosting Punk Rock Food Drive

  ​Punk rock has always been more about the attitude than the music. Unfortunately, that "punk rock attitude" is often portrayed as a hate-everything, outsider-only, anti-social group. While some of those things may be true from time to time, things like this can also really show off what punk rock is all about: On November 14, Radio-Active Records is hosting a Thanksgiving Food Drive in conjunction with Big Mama. There is no cover for the show, but if you're going to show up, you'd better bring

  October 29, 2009

• Q&A With Converge, Playing With Mastodon and Dethklok November 8

  photo by Matt MillerConverge, with Jacob Bannon second from right​To the uninitiated, the Massachusetts quartet Converge can be downright terrifying. And it's not because they appear clad in face paint or leather and chains -- this underground punk-bred foursome would never waste time on costume-like trappings. Rather, part of the reason they are so scary is because they are so physically unassuming, but so loud, and so clearly do not give a fuck. And neither does their crowd, famous for

  October 30, 2009

• Big D and the Kids Table, Unlikely Survivors of '90s Ska, Play Propaganda November 10

  Frankly, the many-membered Boston act Big D and the Kids Table were not, at their inception, among the front-runners for survival of ska's so-called "Third Wave" in the '90s. The band started a little too late - 1995 - to be seen as truly authentic at the movement's peak, around '97 or '98. Its hometown, too, was seen as an also-ran to the big ska epicenters of New York City and Southern California. What's more, the band's slap-happy, distorted punk guitar stylings alienated the genre's so-cal

  November 2, 2009

• Mixhell

  November 5, 2009

• Damas Gratis

  November 5, 2009

• Not that Sacha

  November 5, 2009

• More Than the Mr. + Mrs.

  November 5, 2009