2010 marked not only the quartercentennial anniversary of Miami’s Winter Music Conference but also 25 years of Detroit techno, the seminal EDM movement that spawned the worldwide techno phenomenon. And this year is also a significant one for Detroit techno, as it marks the 20th anniversary of Carl Craig’s Planet…
Shroud Eater Thunder Noise (Self-Released) shroudeaterrocks.com Well, the people asked for it and here it is: our beloved Shroud Eater’s first full-length effort, Thunder Noise. And I can tell you whole-heartedly that it continues the savagery and unrestrained stoner metal doom laid out in 2009’s self-titled EP. Nothing short of a…
Sleigh Bells, the noise pop duo from Brooklyn whose debut album, Treats, generated a shit-ton of blog buzz last year, including Pitchfork’s “Best New Music” award, and a nearly perfect review in Paste, is hitting the road this spring for a North American tour with CSS. But when Derek Miller…
Commonly known as Miami’s most underrated band among local music insiders, King Bee has been a finely tuned and respected enigma for years. These bearded rock ‘n’ roll workhorses have put out three albums with a fourth on its way. They have an award-winning video, a brand-new booking agent, and…
Ever since he made the break from Rikers back in November, we’ve been so hyped about Lil Wayne’s inevitable trip across these United States that we could barely sleep. Or shit. Our goggles have been locked 24/7 to Weezy’s blog and Twitter feed. And this afternoon, all that obsession finally…
Were you born without an imagination? Then there’s no reason to keep using colorless, stock phrases like “synth-pop” to describe Little Dragon’s music. With some effort and a few minutes listening time, you’d probably come up with something as quirky, cute, and strangely apt as singer Yukimi Nagano’s preferred genre…
Does Barry Manilow even exist? Or was the Manilow concept brewed by aesthetes in the Laboratory of Cool to give record store clerks and music snobs a clear enemy to rail against? Something like Saddam Hussein circa 2002, only instead of WMDs, we’re dealing with the globally relevant threat of…
Snakehole has a suggestive name and provocative lyrics. Though the band is only four months old, it’s already making heavy waves in and out of the local music scene. Last weekend alone, Snakehole played both Will’s Pub in Orlando and the Miami International Art Fair at the Miami Beach Convention…
The story of DJ Bad Boy Bill reads like the history of house music itself. It tells exactly how this Chicago music subculture spread across America and the world to become an international mainstream phenomenon. Schooled in the Chi-town house boom of the mid ’80s, Bill first made a name…
Anyone who’s seen the Jacuzzi Boys play knows their live shows are pure fun. Anyone who’s heard a Jacuzzi Boys record knows their songs are supercatchy. We recently announced that Jack White’s Third Man Records would be releasing a live LP of them. And when that record showed up in…
View photos from Washed Out’s performance at Eve here.Washed OutWith ANREve, Miami Friday, January 21, 2011 Better than: Chilling on chillwave — at home.We didn’t really know what to expect last night at Eve. Sure, Washed Out frontman Ernest Greene has done a solid job of being the poster boy…
Llamabeats haven’t been around all that long, having only linked up on this project in 2008. But this crew definitely has a vision for where it’s headed and what it stand for. Beyond that, Llamabeats is surprisingly clear on the state of the business and what it takes to put…
You will spend almost every day of your life in a monkey suit, tracking the mysterious movements of the market, haunting the office, and hoarding overtime hours. But for the weekend of Thursday, April 14 through Saturday, April 16, unleash your inner neo-hippie and say, “Screw the man and his…
Even if you’ve spent untold hours losing your mind (and your innocence) in the Electric Pickle’s second-floor party room, you probably don’t remember anything in particular about the place’s physical characteristics. You were drunk. You were dancing. And it was darker than a black hole. For the last couple of…
It seems like only a few years ago that the international EDM scene was in some sort of minimal techno dark age. The sounds were cool and slick and oh-so-Berlinesque, but they just weren’t very fun. Fast-forward to 2011 and Boston’s Soul Clap have helped kick-start a veritable clubland renaissance…
Wisin & Yandel, otherwise known as El Duo de la Historia, have certainly lived up to the nickname. Roughly translated, it marks them as the greatest duo in history. They’ve blazed new trails throughout their career, first in the reggaeton world, and then branching out into the urban and pop…
Don Omar is a platinum-selling reggaeton artist based out of San Juan, New York City, and Miami. He’s also the guy who trumped Britney Spears for most albums sold during an in-store appearance at Disney World’s Virgin Megastore. And now the Puerto Rican playa and owner of Orfanato Music Group…
Punk bands don’t get more punk than Tyvek. First, the Detroit band copped its name from a registered corporate product. (Tyvek is a semi-permeable synthetic material manufactured by DuPont that–among other uses–is wrapped around buildings under construction.) Second, the six-year-old group’s latest release, Nothing Fits, has a strange cover image…
Coachella announced its 2011 lineup a couple days ago. And while there’s plenty of great bands listed in fine print (the Morning Benders, Tallest Man on Earth, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down) on the festival’s e-flier, the headliners listed in bold read more like a shitty Now That’s…
Naming a band can be a tricky thing. You don’t want to get all set to rock the Pit on Saturday in order to save the dorm and put together some upstart, slacker rock band called Everyone Gets Laid, if in fact nobody does. That said, Xperimento didn’t seem to have a problem…
In just a few weeks, Buju Banton will be back in court, battling those federal cocaine conspiracy charges for a second time. But this past Sunday, dancehall’s bad boy and a bunch of his best friends brought some serious Rasta righteousness to Bayfront Park Amphitheater. Go read Crossfade’s review and…
Sampling tracks and random sounds from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s — and even voicemail messages — seems the norm for Washed Out’s Ernest Greene. But it won’t always be that way. “The new album is slightly [more rock-based],” Greene says. “There’s just more live drum sounds. There’s a bass guitar…
