It’s easy to look at Collie Buddz (or even just hear his name) and dismiss him as a joke or at least a novelty. He’s a white guy singing reggae, and he’s using the last name of Buddz rather than his given Harper. People who dismiss him out of hand,…
Poplife has confirmed Baltimore club-hop artist Rye Rye has canceled the remainder of her U.S. dates; no specific reason was given. She was scheduled to appear at yesterday’s Just Add Water pool party at Blade at the Fontainebleau and Wednesday at LIV’s Dirty Hairy party…
With 30 years under her belt as a singer and an actress, Paloma San Basilio is something of a Spanish icon. She’s starred in such theatrical revivals in Madrid as The Man of La Mancha, My Fair Lady, Victor/Victoria and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita and she’s released close to 30…
With 1980s playlists all the rage these days, you don’t have to be of a certain age to appreciate the tuneful joy of Naked Eyes’ 1983 “(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me.” But it helps. If only for the fact that you can count yourself among those who were…
N.O.R.E.Friday, July 3, 2009The White Room, MiamiBetter Than: What one might expect from a world-class MC in an unfamiliar situation The Review:Whenever a formerly well-known artist dips under the radar for several years you can’t help but wonder what they get up to in their free time. Once a great talent…
Here’s a music video from Blade at the Fontainebleau’s daytime nightlife party “Just Add Water.” Don’t know what the track is, and the video starts blurry, but stick with it and it’s pretty cool. It watches like an old 8mm-film home movie, but new and underwater…
The Techno Loft at Space opened in May and has so far fulfilled its promise of indulging Miami’s ever-growing taste for techno with stellar international bookings including Steve Bug, Camea and Adultnapper, plus weekly parties and afterhours by local DJs Maurizio & Danyelino, Dsan Powell, Simon Wish, and Jason Baez…
War and the Average White BandHard Rock Live, HollywoodTuesday, June 30, 2009 Better Than: Hearing both of these groups play in another 10 years. The Review: With a bill of two of the funkiest multi-cultural groups from the late 1960s still alive and kicking, the Hard Rock promised to be…
It’s no secret Crossfade thinks Stonefox is the bee’s knees. If you want to find out exactly why, you can go through the archive and read the blogs we’ve written about them, or you could wait for the upcoming feature, or better yet, you can just clear your calendar on…
Miami natives Erik Slemon and Matt Gardner first started making music together more than a decade ago, when they were still apple-cheeked students at Coral Gables High and Columbus, respectively. Perhaps those early attempts were humble — “We played, like, Nirvana covers at a couple of house parties,” Gardner recalls…
If you missed Goldcure’s shows at Bull Bar and Propaganda back in May, you missed a hell of a good time. But fear not, young music lover, you’ve got a shot at redemption. On September 5, the Austin-based Indie-poppers are making another trek to Propaganda in Lake Worth. Let me…
To read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. Some of you have a three-day weekend and will be heading out for a nice vay kay, but this chick will be sticking it out in good ol’ Miami. The weather pretty much sucks, but seriously, I am feet…
Let’s say tomorrow rolls around and you finally manage to tear yourself away from CNN’s round-the-clock coverage of all things Michael Jackson to celebrate the birth of our nation and the day Will Smith freed us from alien annihilation. You find yourself on South Beach for some Fourth of July…
I was just listening to 2008’s good luck with twisted space from Swamp Valve, a.k.a. Jorge Rubiera (Down Home Southernaires), and just really enjoying the explosive high octane energy and down-right Marc Bolan-eque coolness of it. The music is sticky good straight ahead rock. You can download it for free…
MSTRKRFTWednesday, July 1, 2009LIV at the Fontainbleau, Miami BeachBetter than: Doing blow off the toilet seat at LIV.My relationship with MSTRKRFT is an old one. Before all the hype, I was a fan of their remixes and after the release of The Looks, I knew I had stumbled on a…
You’ve probably seen Brooklyn-bred MC Rahsaan on Crossfade before (and here), and with regular shows and a loyal following from his adopted home of Miramar to the BK, why wouldn’t he be? As of today, Rahsaan is adding another element to his game – business owner. Today is the grand…
Long-time fixture on the Miami hip-hop scene DJ Manuvers has a new podcast up. So far it sounds like a super breezy and very dope mix of jazzy stuff, hip-hop, slow grooves and whatnot. It includes some unreleased jams as well. Really it sounds like the perfect mix for this…
As long as you can stand the smell of clove cigarettes and the sight of fetish-gear on public display, this is a show you won’t want to miss, especially if you’re planning on going to KMFDM on October 30. German Synthrock/Electronica/New Wave group Project Pitchfork is scheduled to play Respectable…
Hard Rock Live in Hollywood is classing it up on July 14 when Paul Potts comes to town. For those of you who don’t regularly watch British television, Potts is the original winner of the Simon Cowell-produced Britain’s Got Talent, where he astonished audiences and judges alike week in and…
A hail of bullets greets Baltimore MC Ryeisha “Rye Rye” Berrain in the club. Well, the crowd hails the sound of bullets. There’s nothing outright dangerous about a Rye Rye performance, and only her mike is packin’ heat. But her music holds your ear’s attention like a stickup. It features…
The Fort Lauderdale-birthed four-piece Nonpoint came up in the late ’90s, a fertile time for experimental heavy rock in South Florida. At clubs such as Cheers, Fubar, and other one-name venues now long-defunct, they shared the bill with other arty but loud local leading lights such as Endo, Darwin’s Waiting…
Before straw-haired singer-songwriter Jim Camacho was one of South Florida’s acoustic darlings, he fronted one of the most exciting South Florida bands, the Goods, during one of the most exciting eras of South Florida music, the early ’90s. Delivering melody-driven garage rock, the band almost immediately developed a rabid fan…
