Favoring a pounding prog-house sound as shiny and at times as sleazy as the city he now calls home, Paris-to-Miami transplant Cedric Gervais has a reputation as a DJ who plays it both uplifting and up-thrusting. Building up his following since 2003, this big room fixture favors blissfully breezy Ibiza-style…
Have you ever been on the “Plug The Band” section of Backpage.com?Today we found this amazing video of Anjell singing her future classic, “A Girl Has To Do What A Girl Has To Do.” The song is produced by Tad Sharpe for Batovision Digital Entertainment.Click here to Anjell’s full ad…
I rarely ever take flier handouts while walking at night around South Beach, but for some reason as I was leaving Klutch I took an Ultra flier from a guy. Honestly, the first thing I felt was exhaustion because I don’t know if I can handle the fact that Winter…
For a while there, especially around the summer of 2008, you couldn’t go to PS14 — or any of those usual Miami local-oriented events — without running into the Down Home Southernaires.Their name never made sense, but what did click was their sort of Talking Heads-esque absorption of world beat…
Quitters never win, and winners never quit. Btw, should I fuck that big fat ho? The first time I ever heard of Blowfly was when ODB did that cover of, “The First Time, Ever You Sucked My Dick.” Blowfly is awesome, he invented rap music in 1965, and he is…
Click to read parts one, two, and three of this list.Jacuzzi BoysNo Seasons (Florida’s Dying)myspace.com/jacuzziboysMiami’s best garage rock threesome seems to succeed in spite of itself. Where a lot of local bands spend all their time on self-promotion through social media abuse, the Jacuzzi Boys really couldn’t care less. Instead,…
Kid SisterFriday, January 1, 2009Klutch, Miami BeachBetter Than: Electro-rap posers like Kesha.Here I thought LMFAO was the worst thing to happen to hipster-hop, but then came Feminem songstress Kesha. Coing to the industry’s attention when she sang on Miami hip-hop artist Flo Rida’s hit single “Right Round,” she seemed rather…
Click to read parts one and two of this list.Jacobs Ladder Ours For The Taking (JMB Records)myspace.com/jacobsladderLook past the complicated MySpace presence, deliberately goofy promo photos, hell, even the hair of this Miami threesome. Jacobs Ladder is not yet another color-by-numbers pop-punk band. Sure, in some of the tunes there are…
French producer/DJ Bob Sinclar (neé Christophe “The French Kiss” le Friant) was Born in 69, as it says literally in the title of his most recent full-length. And you need to sample only a small cross-section from his decade-plus of throbbing tracks to understand his promotion of this double entendre-imbued…
Back in August, Head Spins gave you the goods on WDNA DJ Gene De Souza, whose Café Brasil show has been heating up the local radio waves every Sunday for the past seven years. But De Souza’s show is not the only hot action coming out of the true-blue independent…
Welcome to 2010. Newsflash Fontainebleau: Where mainstream, corporate, and alternative media cameras cannot shoot Lady Gaga, citizen cameras can, and this year they’ll get better and more able to easily subvert your stupid rules.Here’s video of Lady Gaga in a bikini (does her cock flop out the side? Is Lady…
Dear 2010,I don’t want to start off on the wrong foot with you or anything, but…WHAT THE FUCK? Were the bleary-eyed shambles that I awoke in this morning really necessary? The spinning room was called for, the throbbing of my brain, which is now apparently three sizes too big for…
To read part one of the list, click here. Awesome New RepublicRational Geographic Vol. I, Rational Geographic Vol. II, Hearts (Honor Roll Music)anrmiami.comA year’s round-up of the best local albums, without an entry from Awesome New Republic, would be like a South Florida summer that is actually mild and pleasant. Unthinkable,…
Click here to view a slideshow from Phish’s New Year’s Eve show. PhishAmerican Airlines Arena, Miami December 28 through 31, 2009Better Than: Langerado? Not so sure, but Phish’s comeback in March may or may not have contributed to the demise of South Florida’s beloved festival.The Review:Phish’s triumphant return after a five-year hiatus…
Vacation is over, South Florida. After two weeks of back-to-back long weekends, we are finally returning to our same ol’ routine for a while at least. In case you were elsewhere visiting ungrateful relatives, here is what you missed over the weekend:Phish at American Airlines ArenaThe Vermont jam band invaded…
Over the next two days, we’ll post Crossfade contributors’ favorite local albums of 2009. They’re listed in completely random order, so stay tuned as the full list rolls out. Raffa and RainerNo Mercy (self-released)myspace.com/raffaandrainerMiami folkies Raffa Jo Harris and Rainer Davies play the sort of wistful melodies that make your heart…
During the ’90s and early part of the decade, Stafford played a prominent role in South Beach clubland, manning the velvet ropes to the only parties that mattered.When it came to being a club doorman, Stafford set the standard. In a 2004 New York Times article, he summed up his…
New Year’s resolution: Somehow get a MacBook to edit videos better. Last week, PrunkTV was in the studio with Cash Money Heroes. This week, we are getting acupuncture and listening to a different type of music. It is called Green Music of Thailand, and it is perfect for this frantic…
Here’s the exact email we received from UB Tha UnderbossThe Hottest Label In The Game; MAYBACH MUSIC GROUP & Multi-Platinum DEF JAM Recording Artist “The Boss” RICK ROSS Introduce the newest branch of the label; MAYBACH MUSIC LATINO!!! Presenting MAYBACH RIDERS Volume 1featuring…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. The Isle Casino & Racing in Pompano proved a good place to erase a bad day. After sampling $1 happy hour specials at the bar inside the casino, my friend Beard and I made our…
If ever a band were built for an arena, it’s Phish, back after a handful of years with a fresh new commitment to its avant-expansive rock. This isn’t one of those comebacks where a group reprises a “classic” album, thankfully (although Phish covered the Stones’ Exile on Main Street on…
“I’m a Facebook prophet/I told all the girls that I’d be the hot shit.” Thus sings Kid Cudi on “Soundtrack 2 My Life,” the uninflected voice of a generation that grew up staring at monitors for hours and spends nights cycling through social networking websites. Embodying the hipster-hop aesthetic, Cudi’s…
