Like Travis Bickle said in Taxi Driver, “One day a real rain is gonna come and wash all this scum off the streets.” When that day comes to Miami (maybe with a big hurricane this summer), and all the bullshit, plastic, glass, and concrete is gone, we’ll be left with…
I’m guessing that Dave Daniels saw this as an opportunity to make some capital improvements on the joint since outside there will also be a mural painted live by Paul Andras and Avtar Rojas. I wonder if these dudes will do my townhouse too…. Anyways, incidental music will be provided…
Surfer BloodWith Turbo Fruits, Love Handles, and the DewarsRespectable Street, West Palm BeachApril 20, 2010Before your faithful Broward-Palm Beach Crossfade contingent became a member of the New Times staff, he attended a fateful Surfer Blood show January 27 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. The concert also featured Israeli…
Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba is doing Lynn University a solid following a tragedy that rocked the Boca Raton campus earlier this year. The January 12 earthquake in Haiti claimed the lives of four students and two professors who were in the country providing care to the less fortunate for the…
Jacuzzi Boys – Smells Dead from John McSwain on Vimeo.Just a couple weeks before an extensive national tour that will keep them on the road for two months, the Jacuzzi Boys have released this new video for “Smells Dead.” In a sign of the band’s growing national cred, the director…
My first memory of Gang Starr, the legendary duo of MC Guru and DJ Premier, comes from mid- to late 1992. I was living in Colombia and had a friend with a satellite TV who recorded hip-hop videos from BET’s Rap City. I’ll never forget the first one I saw,…
If you didn’t hear about Sunday’s Grand Central screening of ODDSAC, Animal Collective’s “visual album,” until recently, it’s okay — Miami was a relatively last-minute addition to the film’s route. Let’s consider ourselves pretty lucky: The film debuted this past January at Sundance, and has screened in just a handful of…
If there’s one head spinner in town who just might one day claim the fame enjoyed by DJ Khaled, it’s DJ Epps. Like Khaled, Epps is affiliated with some of the biggest names in the business of hip-hop. Both have been on the grind for some time, and both are…
Over the past couple of years, much of the American iteration of “indie rock” has gotten mired in a latte-scented puddle of mild psychedelia on one hand and purposely low-fi, pedal-doused noise on the other. There’s a lot of cool stuff in between, but what nearly nobody is doing anymore…
Describing L.A. quartet Bigelf involves a swan dive into the adjective grab bag, employing all the clichéd linguistic parlor tricks of the rock critic’s trade to find words for surreal yet disturbingly visceral forces. You know — bombastic, epic, thunderous, mind-bending — all the words you read in rock reviews,…
It seems like the guys of Deep Dish are spending more time apart than together, but the musical results become more and more interesting as the two collaborators diverge. The clear maverick of Sharam and Dubfire is the latter. Born Ali Shirazinia, the Iranian-American grew up around Washington, D.C., in…
Ben Bridwell’s swelling sonic ambitions were apparent early in his musical career. Now the frontman and main brain behind Band of Horses, he had a knack for pushing the borders of jangly, somewhat mopey rock toward outer space when he was part of Seattle indie act Carissa’s Wierd. After that…
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DJ Khaled: Still the best?
Local star Suenalo plays the King Is Dead this Friday
Scott Storch raked in hip-hop millions and then snorted his way to ruin
This is either a bail-out from a buddy or a very shrewd buy-low purchase. Just as “Blow Hard”, New Times’ feature on bankrupt megaproducer Scott Storch, is filling newspaper boxes, his manager’s company announced that it was buying his music catalog for $7 million. His manager Derek Jackson, president of…
Don’t have the cash for a midweek trip to Rio? Well, no worries. Tonight Champion Sound and two big-time beat junkies are bringing a taste of Brazil’s funk and fat asses to these subtropical shores. Jumping off at 10 p.m., the weekly hip-hop humpfest will host Marcelinho Da Lua and…
The Electric Pickle has something for everyone this Friday night with a stellar triple booking hosted by top local EDM contingents PL0T and Poplife that should provide for a delectable melange of sounds ranging from indie to techno. To kick things off, Mr. Andy Rourke of The Smiths fame will…
My Hair Hurts (Livid Records) jccc.com Admittedly, this LP (vinyl-only) release came out late last year but I had been waiting to pair it up because it is a release by local label Livid Records. San Diego’s Jon Cougar Concentration Camp (JCCC) has been sporadically around since the mid-90’s and…
Even the most blunted Cypress Hill fans know that 4/20 marked the release of Rise Up, the group’s eighth studio album. The release — the weed-loving rap group’s first collection of new material in six years — features local rap kingpin Pitbull on “Armada Latina,” as well as collaborations with…
Over the past 15 years or so, Jamaican dancehall has been fusing more and more with American urban music. It’s really been reflected in the last few in the lineup of Best of the Best, the biggest dancehall-centric concert of the year in South Florida. Hip-hop artists have been figuring…
