Proof that music journalists are sometimes good for something, Thomas Koch, a.k.a. DJ T, made his true mark in the industry by founding Groove magazine some 20 years ago. With Koch at the helm as editor and publisher, it quickly became the bible in his native Germany for everything related…
Click here to view more photos from this show.YACHTSaturday, November 14, 2009Electric Pickle, MiamiBetter Than: Yachting on Biscayne Bay.Hong Kong is a long way from Miami, but YACHT was somehow convinced to do a small, two-city Florida trek between the Chinese financial capital and subsequent Korean dates. Logistically it doesn’t…
Nassau’s gone funky and Nassau’s got soul. Just ask The Beginning of the End, the band that sang all about just that in the classic “Funky Nassau.” In fact, contrary to hum-drum, steel drum clichés, the Bahamian capital always has swung to a relatively citified beat.So it only makes sense…
One of the most tragicomic moments in the 2004 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster features not the band itself, but rather Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. In an touchy-feely, on-camera counseling session, Mustaine reveals some seemingly major inferiority issues to Metallica’s drummer Lars Ulrich. He even seems to come uncomfortably…
Well, this kind of steals the thunder of the band’s big Miami debut tomorrow night at Poplife. But we just got word that the band is playing a free show at Radio-Active Records in Fort Lauderdale tonight. Actually, we heard about it before, but since it was billed as just…
Weekends are so busy there is bound to be stuff we’ve forgotten to highlight. But here are two high-profile events you might just want to check out:First up, Samanthan Ronson, who’s better known as Lindsay Lohan’s on-again/off-again girlfriend than for her DJ skills, will be helping Louis at the Gansevoort…
Benjamin Acero and the Un_Mute crew have another all-night techno extravaganza in store for Miami tonight when internationally-renowned DJ/producers Marco Carola and Ilario Alicante stop by Eden Terrace Garden at Nocturnal. Marco Carola is a veteran of the early ’90s international techno scene and Italy’s foremost authority on the genre,…
O.P.S. stands for Once a Piece of Shit. They are a Miami punk rock band. Tonight they open for old style Southern Cali hardcore punk band Battalion of Saints at Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti. If you’ve never been to a show there you should check it out. It will…
Click here to view photos from this show.The Get Up KidsWith Mansions and Kevin DevineThursday, November 12, 2009Revolution, Fort LauderdaleBetter Than: Actually regressing back to 1999.The Review:For better or for worse, the Get Up Kids’ reunion comes with no new album, just a tour (at least for now), behind the…
Friday, November 13*Samantha Ronson DJs at the G by Guess Ultimate Remix tour, tonight at the Guess store at Dolphin Mall in Miami. Admission is free. Click here for full details. *If you’re a fellow geek for archival punk rock, check out Battalion of Saints, a San Diego band from the…
Ask any salsa lover worth his salt (or white powder of more dubious origin) which is the hardest hitting, most hip swinging salsa track of all time and a heated debate is likely to ensue. But you can bet your ass that Joe Arroyo’s “Rebelion” would be in the mix…
When Miami/Ft Lauderdale label Florida Boy Intertainment’s publicist called us Here at Crossfade we support music from Florida as a whole, so when Da Pretty Boyz’ people contacted us, we said sure, set up an interview. Da Pretty Boyz represent Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida and are an independent group signed to Florida…
Burly, bearded Zac Brown and his band play Sunset Cove Amphitheatre on Saturday. The highlight of the evening will likely be a beer-drenched, sing along performance of his fiddle-laced, pleasantly simple and patriotic country smash “Chicken Fried.” It’s a fun little ditty that got me thinking about all the really…
La Quinta Estacion (The Fifth Station) only rose to Latin pop prominence in the U.S. in recent years, first making an impact with their 2004 sophomore release Flores de Alquiler (Leased Flowers). It may have taken them a minute to catch on, but once they did, single after single became…
Alterna-rock band State Radio is on tour and has just announced a February 10 date at Culture Room. The Boston based band released their third album, Let it Go, at the end of September and continued their progression toward heavy guitar driven music and strong political views. The coolest thing…
If you’re nostalgic for the punk of the ’90s, when it still had some muscle (despite the osteoporosis that was setting in), catch Margate punk band The Shakers, a group that formed in 1994 and whose blend of punk and hardcore would have been an appropriate addition during the Warped Tour’s early…
Here’s the latest video from local artist L.A.T.I., who is our friend (or whatever you’re supposed to call a mutual connection) on Twitter — you can follow her at @Latimusica (and us at @Crossfade_SFL). It’s for “Spaceship,” the lead single off her debut album, due out next year. Born LaTisha…
Okay, so this one’s been out for a few weeks, but it bears sharing. Broward County’s best pop-punk exports are still releasing new stuff to support their most recent album, Not Without a Fight, which dropped this past spring on Epitaph. When Crossfade caught up with local guys Jacobs Ladder…
Downtown-type promoters love booking 2 Live Crew. (It hasn’t been too long since they played the Vagabond, and there were those shows at the old Studio A before that.) This always creates a magical mash-up of a crowd that falls along a very, very wide irony spectrum. The thing is,…
For all its hazy definitions, there was a time when “emo,” maligned as the genre has always been, indicated the smart, melodic pop-punk of The Get Up Kids and their breakthrough 1999 sophomore record, Something to Write Home About, instead of conjuring up images of mopey girls in heavy eyeliner…
Canadian producer Joel Zimmerman, AKA Deadmau5, can come off as a dead ringer for other dance favorites. There are pretty good odds that you could put on some new Deadmau5 tracks, chant “Because we are … Your friends,” and have a convincing facsimile of J.U.S.T.I.C.E. or any of the other…
For most, the thought of Southern California in the ’80s brings to mind a Less Than Zero-style existence full of cocaine and Ray-Bans. But the sun-baked swath of turf from L.A. south became, at the beginning of the decade, the cradle of searing underground punk. London’s punk had its angular,…
