Afro KumbeTransit Lounge, MiamiandPalenke SoultribeBardot, MiamiThursday, March 25, 2010Better Than: Any of my wife’s early-morning suggestions to fill this line.The Review: You might be wondering if my covering two shows in one review is kosher. And strictly speaking, I can’t say for sure. But as I sit here bleary-eyed at…
Electronic music and its surrounding industry generally exists in a separate plane from the rest of the world’s troubles. The music is, after all, most often about dancing and going out — a form of escapism. And even if things are generally going to the shitter, people are still going…
Exhaustion is setting in, but we here at Crossfade are trying to keep up the pace. So we are going to make this quick so we can go back to bed in order to rest up for Day 1 of Ultra Music Festival.Here is a video we shot Wednesday at…
“You like to eat girls out who just peed…wtf?” It seems like just yesterday that I was at Uncle Luke’s house talking about Rick Ross being a former C.O. Man, time flies. And to think that Mr. Campbell now has a weekly column on this very website. Last week he…
A couple of months ago, British electro-indie-art-rock-retro-pop guy Dan Black made his first trip to Miami to play Dirty Hairy at LIV. (Check out a video here.) That night, he sat down with the New Times to talk about emerging music genres, ex-bandmates, copyright squabbles with the bride of B.I.G.,…
Busted in Licking County, Ohio, Richard Finch, co-founder of KC and the Sunshine Band, is being held on a $250,000 bond after his arrest Tuesday on a charge of “gross sexual imposition.”In other words, the way he likes it is with underage boys. Finch acknowledged inappropriate contact with “several” boys…
The Happiness Struggle (Leftfield)nrwo.net It’s been a long six years since the Coccaro brothers have inflicted the local scene with their Anglophile musings and quite frankly, I’m extremely pleased with the time taken. Music journalism can veer (re: careen out of control) into some real douche-y environs and while their…
Don’t think for a second that this house throwdown has anything at all to do with the knuckleheads from that inexplicably popular show Jersey Shore; in fact the keen cats behind this action are about as far-removed from those dimwits as one could get and still be in the Garden…
Sure, we’re smack dab in the middle of WMC. Just yesterday morning, as some of us who had work or appointments chugged along in our cars, a line formed in front of Electric Pickle at 8 a.m. But there are other things going on in Miami this week, other scenes…
Nite Jewel, Tanlines, Million Young ft. Awesome New Republican, Palm Trees and Night WaveGrand Central, MiamiWednesday, March 24, 2010Better Than: Still sobbing over the fact Studio A is dead and gone …and actually a lot better than most of the shows that club put on in its final months.The Review:…
Here begins the short, sad tale of how I missed a Naughty by Nature concert almost a decade-and-a-half ago. I’ve saved a lot of stubs over the years, but very few unused tickets. One exception (see above) is for the July 17, 1995 Naughty by Nature show at First Avenue…
Aquabooty is Miami’s longest-standing and most esteemed house music party and since 2000 they’ve remained a bastion of uncompromising musical quality and unpretentious good vibes running against the prevailing current of commercial nightlife in this city. Having hosted some of the most memorable and intimate WMC house music parties in…
If the Shelborne day party yesterday was populist, Nikki Beach was relaxed but still pretty elite. Here, servers in billowing white pans scurried back and forth constantly with bottles of Dom P. Of course, everything at Nikki Beach is about more: More differently configured VIP arrangements than you might initially…
When Ice Cream and crew invaded El Warehouse (a live-work rental in Little Haiti) last Friday, there was supposed to be a keg. Five bucks for unlimited beer. Well … No go. Instead, kids packed the trunks of their clunkers with Bud tallboys, High Life, and other cheap alcohol options…
If you’re lucky enough to take some vacation time or pass this all off as “work,” Winter Music Conference’s day parties are an excellent way to be totally, ridiculously indulgent and let it all hang out (literally, for some people). Anyone can party at night, but it takes the truly…
Just like the stuff they put in hot dogs, you’re probably better off not knowing what makes “special” sauce so special. On the other hand, G. Love & Special Sauce have been brewing their lip-smacking concoction for more than a decade now, and they’ve got the recipe down pat –…
Our esteemed Lee Zimmerman caught up with Rodney Atkins and confirmed that the “It’s America” singer is every bit as laid-back as he seems. One thing Thursday night’s audience at Round Up can expect is someone who doesn’t want to spend all of his time in the dressing room getting…
Paul Morris started the booking agency AM Only in 1995 while he was a student at the University of Florida. It was a fortuitous time, when dance music was about to break big into this nation’s consciousness. As electronic sounds shifted through the rave scene and beyond, AM Only grew…
With his Lights Out parties and releases, British super-DJ Steve Lawler ruled dance floors with a sound that lived up to that name. It was thumping, dark, and almost fiercely inward-looking, so it was no surprise that Lawler cited Depeche Mode and the Doors as influences. But just as the…
Get ready to work up a sweat Thursday and Saturday. Get Physical, the label known for keeping melody and funkiness alive in Berlin dance music, presents two parties for Winter Music Conference this year. Consider the first, a day party at the Gansevoort presented by Pacha NYC, a warmup. That…
Drag legend Adora takes to Twist’s turntables
Grammy nominations, superstar collaborations, amazing headlining gigs — it’s easy to be in awe of all the things Paul Van Dyk has accomplished in his long and illustrious career. The man is the envy of dance music scenesters, and who can blame them? Well, he’ll fuel the fire when he…
