DJ/producer Sebastian Silva a.k.a. Basti is an Argentinian transplant and former indie rocker who relocated to Miami in 1999 to pursue a career in music. Basti has since established himself as a regular in Miami’s underground techno scene, and as a PL0T resident DJ he’s played alongside some of the…
Deftly switching between straight-forward rock harmonies and hardcore inspired growling, Senses Fail have cemented their place among the finest post-hardcore acts today. More than their layered guitar work and blast beat drumming, Senses Fail distinguish themselves from the hard indie rock crowd by actually putting thought behind their lyrics. SF…
Tori AmosThursday, July 29, 2009The Fillmore Miami BeachBetter Than: You can imagine — twiceHard to say which was better: sitting in the front row next to a dynamite dame for Tori Amos’s Fillmore Gleason show, or catching her earlier that day, when Tori performed what was basically a private concert…
You’ve read about them on New Times before. They’ve been touted as one of the coolest bands in Miami’s local scene. You even voted them your Reader’s Choice for “Best Band” in our Best of Miami issue this year. Now Radioboxer is giving fans a whole new look at the…
Actor/Hip Hop artist extraordinaire Mos Def has announced an August 15 stop at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Mos Def, a.k.a. Dante Terrell Smith, is taking off from his busy acting schedule and touring in support of his latest album The Ecstatic, which hit in June. Jay…
The name Switchfoot sounds like the moniker for an awful pop punk band trying to capitalize on skateboarding culture. Instead, Switchfoot is an alternative/grunge band from San Diego whose name is capitalizing on surfing culture. They’re touring in support of their upcoming “Hello Hurricane” album, set to release on October…
First, the Pitchfork TV love, and now, an interview in another national indie taste-maker mag. Awesome New Republic is (finally!) properly on the verge of a breakout beyond this peninsula. Starting yesterday, Filter magazine began posting a three-part Q&A with ANR on its web site. (The third part is dated…
Michael Jackson dies and all of a sudden he’s the greatest entertainer of all time. Not so fast. MJ made three great albums, invented the moonwalk and, well…. Let us take another look at the performers who have truly proved most thrilling over the years.1. Elvis Presley Michael Jackson may…
Worldstar Hip-Hop is one of the most heavily trafficked sites on the Internet. Last week, the site featured a New Times episode of Prunk TV on its front page. As of now it has accrued 70,000 hits and change. Thing is, somebody downloaded it off the New Times YouTube channel,…
Gutter Glamour: Mickey Avalon is the club set’s unlikely king
In the Venn diagram of modern electro, fidget, and hip-house, Milan-based DJ duo Crookers resides in the overlap. The pairing of producers Phra and Bot, Crookers is often mentioned alongside the Bloody Beetroots, a similarly beat-saturated set of Italian DJs that rose to prominence through blogs. But Crookers differentiates its…
With 2004’s resounding, career-reviving smash American Idiot — and now the superior 21st Century Breakdown — Green Day has not so much evolved as been completely reborn. Even its name seems to have transformed, from a J-smoking lazy-afternoon joke to maybe something environmental. This is not simply because the Zeitgeist…
Snoop Dogg: Sultan of Smooth
Atmosphere MC Slug has gained some much-needed perspective since the release of 2005’s You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having. “The identity that comes with [being a rapper] carries a lot of self-entitlement,” Slug (AKA Sean Daley) says from his South Minneapolis home. “That’s a good thing. It’s part…
Locally born and bred songstress Karina Iglesias has more soul than a sock with a hole — one listen to her music gives that away. Songs from the singer-songwriter’s repertoire traverse R&B, funk, and beyond while remaining smooth but down-to-earth. Her sultry, throaty vocal style easily navigates the crisp, funk-infused…
First things first: M.Dot’s name has nothing to do with either Michigan’s or Maryland’s department of transportation. But it could, especially when you consider this DJ’s moniker does, in fact, have something to do with moving large groups of the public. In fact, it might take the DOT from both…
Black Moth Super Rainbow’s recently released Eating Us might not lovingly upset as many stomachs as 2007’s eerily chewy Dandelion Gum. But that’s only because people are acquiring a taste for the western Pennsylvania outfit’s trippy brand of vivid wildness. Sure, the kooky quintet’s latest LP seems almost sedate compared…
Poplife has never really been a faithful lover, so White Room should have seen this coming from a mile away. We heard the rumors weeks ago, but we were told it was off the record. However, today we received word via press release that Saturday’s event with Black Moth Super…
Black Sheep as we know it may be extinct, but its erstwhile proprietor, Juan Basshead, is still dedicated to the low frequencies. As such, he’s got a hand in a number of wall-rattling events around town, and on Thursday, August 6, he and the Shake crew reunite for Get Low,…
Raffa and Rainer’s beloved Can You Rock a Little Softer night long ago moved on from Churchill’s. But for the summer, at least, you can still get your Wednesday night fix of local acoustic music at the sort-of English pub. As we reported here before on Crossfade, the weekly event,…
The Miami Bass Warriors, a sort of supergroup featuring Otto von Schirach, Debbie D (Avenue D.) Jose el Rey and El Tigre, has been getting the remix treatment courtesy of the Nome and Chris Video of BF GF.MP3: Miami Bass Warriors – “Going Back to Calle Ocho” (the Nome remix)…
“Diva is the female version of a hustla.” Beyonce Actress and singer, Drew Sidora recently moved to Miami from LA to finish her upcoming debut album for Slip-N-Slide Records. You may remember Drew from a previous episode of Prunk; we met up again over the weekend at a clothing store…
