In the early ’80s, the guys of L.A. Guns were proudly members of the dirtier subset of Sunset Strip denizens. Acts like Poison tarted themselves up in blush and aimed for pop crossover from the beginning, but the Guns and their fellow sleaze-rockers were almost more punk-inspired. The L.A. Guns…
YACHT, the duo led by former The Blow member Jona Bechtolt, had a good portion of their lunch eaten earlier this year when Discovery released LP, the laptop R&B record Bechtolt and his Portland cohorts had been trying unsuccessfully to make for years. But a lot has happened since 2007,…
Electronic dance music has found a wide Latin audience in recent years. Of course that includes the Latin American melting pot of Miami, thanks to the popularization of percussion-driven tribal house offshoots and the so-called “Iberican Sound” pioneered in part by Madrid-based producers Chus & Ceballos. One half of this…
Lita Ford has been a professional musician since she was a teenager. As the tough lead guitarist with L.A. all-female hard rockers the Runaways, the statuesque California blonde held her ground onstage and shredded as ferociously as heroes Ritchie Blackmore and Jeff Beck. The group recorded four studio albums (and…
Latin and Caribbean beats may be in Miami’s blood, and when you track the rhythms back to Africa, their enduring presence does make sense. But of all the beats in the world, wouldn’t it make just as much sense for us to embrace the rhythms of East as well as…
She calls herself Ms. Jones, Broward County First Lady and according to her Myspace page “A fake bitch will take you were you need to go – A real bitch throws you her keys and says it needs gas!”She has a song called “Ice Cream” that follows the South Florida…
It’s been a rough couple weeks for show cancellations, so we’ll file this one under good news. Rather than canceling a show, punk rock and rollers AFI has just announced a venue change. The show will no longer be at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater, now it’s going down at Revolution Live…
Miami’s true house music aficionados need not be reminded that South Beach is, for the most part, the last place one goes to find quality underground dance music. With the exception of a few sporadic misplaced bookings here and there, venturing east over the causeway means entering a wasteland of…
More jam news for you to go with today’s Phish announcement. You know that Galactic show scheduled at Revolution on January 9? Well it just got a whole lot better with JJ Grey and Mofro being added to the set. The Florida based swamp-rock studs will open the show, leaving…
Bebel Gilberto is considered by many to be at the forefront of modern Brazilian music. Though she was actually born in New York City, she was born into all-star lineage, her mother being Brazilian singer Miucha and her father Joao Gilberto, considered by many to be the “Father of Bossa…
Ah, Champion Sound. This weekly jam at Electric Pickle deserves ten gold stars for being one of the few regular parties in Miami where quality hip-hop lives. Tonight’s edition is special for two reason: One, it’s a birthday celebration for Crossfade/New Times music contributor Esther Park. Happy birthday, Esta!Second, it…
Alright, nobody really believed that Phish would stay away forever after their “final” concert in 2004. The only thing surprising about the beyond-jam-band gods’ reunion last year is that, perhaps, it didn’t come sooner. And they must really like Miami, even though Miami itself hasn’t been too kind to the…
In the early ’80s, the guys of L.A. Guns were proudly members of the dirtier subset of Sunset Strip denizens. Acts like Poison tarted themselves up in blush and aimed for pop crossover from the beginning, but the Guns and their fellow sleaze-rockers were almost more punk-inspired. The L.A. Guns…
Latin and Caribbean beats may be in Miami’s blood, and when you track the rhythms back to Africa, their enduring presence does make a sort of sense. But of all the beats in all the world, wouldn’t it make just as much sense for us to embrace the rhythms of…
Yes, you read it correctly. Just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach, Mansion is bringing French electrohouse duo Justice to Miami Friday, December 4.The pair haven’t really played a proper club set since Winter Music Conference 2007 when they spun at the Fixed/Ed Banger party at Studio A. They’ve…
DJ Purfiya is on the streets grinding.Not only is the team Slip-N-Slide DJ from southwest Florida not dead, he’s living with purpose.Last week we brought you news of the Purfiya death hoax that was circulated via Twitter.We also interviewed his former boss, Howard Roberts, CEO and founder of Firmlife Entertainment,…
Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists on South Florida’s campus radio stations. Click here to view the top tracks from previous weeks.Dialed In for the week of November 1-7Florida International University- WRGP 88.1 FM & 95.3 FM, “Radiate”Radiate 95.3 FM transmits from the University…
Bad news for huge fans of Living Single. The star of the criminally underrated ’90s sitcom has canceled her plans to show up at The Fillmore on November 17 (and the rest of her tour for that matter). No official reason was given, but here’s to hoping that LS reunion…
Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.The Lion & Eagle English Pub (2401 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton; 561-447-7707) was a dignified, stately establishment replete with a rich wooden bar, regally upholstered booths, paintings (of soaring eagles, mostly), decorative kettles, lanterns, and model ships. It was…
Click here to view a full slideshow of photos from the show.Adult Swim Presents the Dethklok Tour 2009With High on Fire, Converge, Mastodon, and DethklokPompano Beach AmphitheaterSunday, November 8, 2009Better Than: Getting home in time for Robot Chicken.The Review: The current Dethklok tour, which landed at Pompano Beach Amphitheater this past…
Thursday’s show was meant to be a huge booking coup for Miami all-ages venue the Dugout; warehouse drama has now shifted the show to Ground Control, a similarly bare-bones venue in West Palm Beach. Evergreen Terrace is arguably Jacksonville’s most famous musical export in recent years, a mega-popular heavy band…
Few contemporary dance music labels, even by underground vanguardist standards, can take credit for the sort of daringly forward-thinking and wildly imaginative flavors that have come to distinguish Wolf + Lamb Music in recent years. Founded by the eponymous DJ duo of Zev Eisenberg and Gadi Mizrahi in 2005, Wolf…
