Last week, Against Me! singer Tom Gabel announced that she is transgendered and beginning life as a woman. Coincidentally, his band played the Lollapalooza festival in 2010 and that festival’s organizer, Perry Farrell, is bringing Jane’s Addiction to the Fillmore Miami Beach this Friday. Farrell is no stranger to the…
If you follow North Miami politics, you should recognize the name Ricardo Brutus from the ongoing corruption scandal linked to his uncle — the city’s mayor, Andre Pierre. Brutus was caught on tape collecting an envelope of cash in exchange for promises to influence city council votes. The arrest seemed…
Most days, Juana Reyes stays past 10 pm to pick up the half-eaten lunches and crumpled printouts left behind by bankers and traders at the Southeast Financial Center, which houses heavy hitters like Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. But for the last four years, the 60-year-old Nicaragua native says she…
See the full 21-photo slideshow of Beach House at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Beach House With Zomes Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Better Than: Hitting the snooze button … Forever. Beach House is from Baltimore?!? If The Wire had been set in Beach House’s Baltimore, it’d be about…
Win free meet-and-greet tickets for Mayer Hawthorne’s Miami show at Grand Central. Before he was a soul-powered party starter, Mayer Hawthorne was a hip-hop producer with a love of finding obscure records for his samples and DJ sets. So leading up to his show on May 8 at Grand Central,…
Win free meet-and-greet tickets for Mayer Hawthorne’s Miami show at Grand Central. Unlike the rest of the stops on his current tour, Mayer Hawthorne’s May 8 visit to Grand Central comes with a money-back guarantee. Not that anyone has ever asked for a refund. But Hawthorne stresses, “We put on…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. Simply put, Deaf Poets won Sweatstock 2012. There was crowd chatter before the show about how well the band’s two-person brand of rough, throat-shredding garage rock would translate to an outdoor stage. And it took a couple of songs for Deaf Poets…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. Just before Haochi Waves began their set, drummer and vocalist Juan Fernando Oña popped his head into the Churchill’s Pub patio bar to announce that his band was about to start playing. This crew is a modified version of its three members’…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. If there’s a Miami musician who’s best suited to accompany early afternoon drinking on a rainy day, it’s Jesse Jackson. Driven inside Churchill’s Pub by the rain, Miami’s favorite melancholy scruffster played a set pulled from his approximately nine billion songs, accompanied…
The Roots Adrienne Arsht Center Saturday, March 31, 2012 Better Than: Just about anything else that was going on in Miami on Saturday night. It was certainly the finest tuba anywhere in Miami Saturday night. Aside from for Questlove’s drums, Damon “Tuba Gooding Jr.” Bryson’s cheeks expanded to fill the…
Snow Patrol With Ed Sheeran Friday, March 30, 2011 Fillmore Miami Beach Better Than: Crying alone to that same Snow Patrol song for the billionth time. Slapping the hands of his rapturous audience, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody was nearly pulled from the stage mid-verse. As he stumbled to regain…
