The Electric Bunnies are the other 50 percent of the one-two punch South Florida has recently unleashed onto unsuspecting Americana with a careful blend of psychedelic garage rock and roll with punk attitude. The other half are the Jacuzzi Boys, but one thing the Bunnies haven’t done as of late,…
David Brieske returns to our pages under the working name of his musical project Fsik Huvnx. Again, please, do not ask me to sound that out. What works here, and again, I do not purport to infringe on my colleagues who scribe about art, is the visual artist as musician…
Whatever. Taking on acts from alternative hip-hop, post-hardcore, and the vilified emo only brought Epitaph more success and more whiny cries from its old punk fan base. Boo-hoo-motherfucking-hoo, ya big babies! Gurewitz did set up plenty of sub-labels (ANTI-, Hellcat) that have kept peddling that Southern California sound. But the…
Greasy Kid Stuff (Smooth Lips Records)pinkai.com Truants? Cute Catholic High School kids in leather jackets? Social deviants? Future business leaders of America? All of the above? Yes and no. But mostly yes. Pin Kai’s small reign of terror was one marked by incredible creativity and a lack of intentional direction. That’s…
Every now and then on the local scene we get some like-minded individuals joining their strengths symbiotically for a greater good. We here at Crossfade think that rock and roll fits seamlessly into that arena of greater goodness, and we’re big fans of this particular group of guys individually.We’re now…
And while we’ve blogged at large about saxophonist, composer, and arranger Felipe Lamoglia, I’m hard-pressed to think of a better venue for him to come into the fray and take charge of this resurgence. This Friday night, he’ll perform with his sextet and special guest Armando Gola (a Grammy nominee)…
Self-titled EP (Smooth Lips Records)myspace.com/nobuhjest As cool and casual as it might be to sit here and make and odd and/or end out of the whole post – punk, post – hardcore, post – post – post – whatever debacle, I feel like I’ve been beating off into the frappe blender…
Earlier this week Crossfade featured an interview with Mr. Flores and in that same interview we debuted a video of the track “Mean to Be Mean.” It was recorded this past fall inone take, like a well-oiled machine, with the lineup of Jose Flores (guitar/vocals), Gus Rod (guitar), Danny Palacios (bass),…
The intimate venue might reach its event horizon trying to contain what promises to be an amped-up evening of straight up Afro-Cuban jazz in the hand of some very adept musicians. Check out a video of Lamoglia at the Van Dyke after the jump. Felipe Lamoglia’s Cuban Project. 9 p.m…
Jose Flores has been a fixture of the Miami punk rock scene since his outfit Pin Kai caused a stir in the leather jacket rockers of the mid-90’s. From there he went on to involvement with a myriad of bands (Pretend Milk, Rerun, Disney Violence, The Surf and Rock Dudes),…
MadMartiganCall of the Wild (Self-released)www.iammadmartigan.com Pennies on the eyes of the dead and full-fledged rock and roll for we the living. As I’ve pointed out on numerous occasions, MadMartigan’s one of those outfits that have toiled in the South Florida music scene without committing studio time. Well, now I guess…
Fay Wray Fay Wray (No Idea Records)noidearecords.com I think about Loni Anderson with frequence. Call it a childhood thing, call it a semi-sexual thing, call it a Burt Reynolds thing; whatever it is, I’m not alone on this. And yes, this all relates back to erstwhile local punk legends Fay…
While it’s true that most of this town’s activities go down near the shores of the Atlantic, most of the patronage comes from the cultural “wasteland” of Kendall and West Kendall. So it’s incredibly fitting that a little skate park tucked away in the swampy suburbs will be peachy-keen to…
Do you like surf music? Do you like surf music as it’s skewered through the eyes of organizers Mr. Feathers (of Peasants With Feathers and Otto Von Schirach fame) and DS? Do you like Hawaiian-style hamburgers? Ladies, will you wear a flower in your hair? Ah…. You kinda should, it’ll…
Here’s an easy question for anybody’s who’s been in front of a television in the last decade or two (or three): have you had your Jimmy Dean breakfast yet? Maybe you haven’t. Maybe that’s why you’re ambling along like some wig-wam shit. Maybe you prefer Morningstar products. It doesn’t matter…
Let’s start by dispensing with the Willow jokes. Yes, the band took its name from the jumbo-size character played by Val Kilmer in that movie about mystical dwarves. Still, our MadMartigan guys finally got their asses into the studio to record some music.Without sword or sorcery, the rock and roll…
Ultrachic is a Miami band of Venezuelan ex-pats who rest at the crossroad of contemporary Venezuelan rock, uniting the golden age of acts like Sentimiento Muerto, Dermis Tatu, and Desorden Público with the newer crop of outfits like Zapato 3, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Caramelos de Cianuro. Actually, fans of…
Sloppy Seconds, Nobunny, and the Spits at Churchill’s Pub, MiamiThe Axe and the Oak at Sweat Records, Miami Saturday, June 5, 2010 Better Than: Sitting at home on a Saturday night with a $10 dollar jug of wine and having my ass handed back to me on a casual game…
Crossfade: Okay, let’s give our readers a little taste of you. Who are you, where do you come from, and where’s the best place to get pizza and score a hooker? I’m Alex, I play guitar for Remembering Never. I was born in Miami, raised a few years in St…
Destroyed came out in 1989 but it didn’t become a reality in my household until the mid 90’s when my kid brother purchased it and we spent a lot of time listening to it knowing a few facts: this shit was a helluva lot better than Kiss (and while Kiss…
The never-old argument of South Florida’s geographical isolation is null and voided from what I’ve been witnessing via social networking sites (Facebook, et al) as of late. Still, as much as I’d like to sit here and spout holier-than-thou bullshitisms, I can’t deny the powerful force that an actual geographical…
You wanna sit there and tell me that reunion shows are bunkum cliché? Okay. Go ahead. Me personally? I’d rather see a local band reunite for an evening’s worth of mayhem than watch some pretty, washed-up cluster-fucks from somewhere else. Unless you’re talking about the reanimated corpse of D. Boon…
