Look, Crossfade loves Weezy and Jeezy. We’re the first to start sweating at a Girl Talk concert. We go, ahem, gaga for Gaga. But sometimes you need to pay some respect to the classics. Neil Young is one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll composers of all time. And we…
Perdition and Crazy Spirit at Churchill’s Pub May 28
Early yesterday afternoon, Crossfade received word via mass text that punk rock trio Beings would be performing their final show tonight at Bardot. When we contacted drummer Beatriz Monteavaro, she couldn’t offer any insight into the situation beyond that the gig was an engagement booked prior to the breakup and…
Rich Evans started his record label, Florida’s Dying, in his ex-girlfriend’s apartment “because he was bored.” And since 2005, the project has kept him entertained, becoming a pillar (alongside labels like Hozac and Woodsist) of the 2000s garage rock explosion. While Florida’s Dying has produced records for international rock ‘n’…
At the end of March, punk music venue and multipurpose space Miami Chum Bucket opened with the chaotic roar of powerviolence virtuosos Gorilla Pussy and the wild churning of an inaugural, non-stop mosh pit. The moment marked the culmination of over a year of fundraising. But less than two months…
Spank Rock’s debut full length, 2006’s YoYoYoYoYo, paired the frantic tempo and raunchy sensibility of Baltimore-style club music with the shimmering glean of indie electro-pop and the impressively elastic flow and sharp diction of MC Naeem Juwan. The album painted a perfect picture of the raunchiest mid-2000s party. But it’s…
DIY punk venue Miami Chum Bucket recently had a run-in with John Law and it’s now on hiatus. The venue had a lot of shows booked in the next couple of months, and its uncertain status is a definite downer for a scene that has recently experienced a swell in…
N.E.R.D. to Kanye to Odd Future: five key moments in the chronology of hipster-hop
Just two months after Miami Chum Bucket hosted its grand opening, the punk venue and multipurpose space is under fire. This past weekend, the collective was ratched up to full throttle as hundreds flocked to the warehouse in Allapattah for the fifth annual 305 Fest, a punk/hardcore festival featuring three…
Last week, Crossfade contributor Arielle Castillo reported on Rick Ross’s Self-Made: Maybach Music Vol. 1 and “Tupac Back,” the record’s lead single featuring North Philly rookie Meek Mill. The song is OK. (Well, maybe good. But definitely not great.) And while Ross is actually in stellar form, I couldn’t really…
UPDATE: Via Tumblr, Kid Cudi has stated that the show La Covacha is fake. Read the response from promoters Major Event Marketing and Uprise. Kid Cudi loves Miami so much. In 2009, he threw a free party on South Beach with Santigold. And then he came back on New Years…
Bringing It Back for the Kids Fest at Rocketown May 13 and 14
There is no escaping the young-and-vulgar West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future. There was a brief incubation period on the internet. But ever since performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the group has been everywhere: SXSW, Coachella, and all over the New York Times’ Sunday Arts section. In the…
Metal bands have the best names. Period. They also have the best names for their venues. You know, any shmuck can give you a flyer. Or, I guess, invite you on Facebook to a show featuring The Bores at Wherever. But how about when some longhair gives you the password…
Relative to the universe, rock ‘n’ roll is a recent phenomenon. Though the exact moment when the genre came into being is hard to pinpoint, the following is undeniable: It’s genesis was a distinctly American occurence, which took place near the beginning of the 20th century. And almost immediately, the…
Broken Water at Miami Chum Bucket April 9
Local label Drugged Conscience hosts a super sparse (yet super tight) three-band showcase at Miami Chum Bucket next Saturday. And the guests of honor are Olympia, Washington’s Broken Water, a new-ish trio founded in 2008 that’s risen to the top of the Pacific Northwest’s most recent wave of post-punk. Despite…
The World/Inferno Friendship Society is a punk cabaret ensemble. (The word ensemble not used lightly as the band can sometimes swell up to a dozen members.) And it has nurtured an international cult following that goes back to the early ’90s. World Inferno, a common abbreviation for the group’s lengthy…
Miami Chum Bucket, a DIY punk venue, distro, and practice space, held its inaugural event this past Saturday night. The show was free and the lineup featured all of the key South Florida punk bands that have played a role in the space’s emergence. In the course of extended fundraising,…
Philip Glass at New World Center March 17
This week, Churchill’s Pub hosts a pair of Drugged Conscience-sponsored concerts seething with heterogenous brutality. While the label and booking agency fits under the comfortably broad punk/hardcore banner, its showcases exemplify the manifoldness inherent in the operation’s extreme music dealings. And tonight, leftover Winter Music Conference zombies still combing the…
Miami seems to have a lot of record labels these days. The Discosoma singles series is red-hot, with seven-inch releases from Beings and ANR. Destroyio Records and Pendejo Productions hold down the butt-flap punk beat, with the latter issuing new material from black metal outfit Hellmass and snot punks Baker…
