When you’ve spent a quarter century reinventing rock music, altering the landscape not only for yourself, but for pretty much every band to come after, releasing a new album can be a tricky affair. It’s not just a matter of increased expectations — of course everyone expects their musical gods…
Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists for South Florida’s campus radio stations. Click here to read past installments.University of Miami – WVUM 90.5 FM, “The Voice”The Voice is dedicated to playing music that commercial stations leave out of their broadcasts. To visit WVUM’s new…
Despite the bad economy, the city is buzzing with rumors about nightclubs opening and closing. There is already a deathlist circulating of mostly South Beach clubs that soon will be shutting their doors due to poor sales. We aren’t going to mention names, but any place that is relying heavily…
More acts need to do this: Start or end their tours in South Florida. Way too often, when acts are touring the U.S. they’ll make a stop in Atlanta and call that the southern leg. It seems like too much of a problem to travel all the way down here…
As part of its grand opening Saturday, Tim Finnegans in Delray Beach is inviting musicians to bring their instruments and participate in an Irish Open Mic. If you don’t have an Irish bodhran lying around, don’t fret. You can still pretend your heart pumps green blood by covering Cockles and Mussels (a.k.a…
Can’t afford/don’t want to spend a few hundred dollars to get Ship Rocked? That’s understandable, but no excuse to eschew your responsibility as an American to support heavy metal. Queensryche is touring all summer and has announced a date at Revolution just before heading off to Grand Cayman and Jamaica. On…
South Florida jam favorite The Heavy Pets will come back for two shows after their Bonnaroo debut this weekend. The quintet is heading to Georgia for two nights right after the festival, but will play Roxy’s in West Palm on June 23. Then three weeks later, the band will come around again to share a bill…
If genre-jumping was considered a test of athletic dexterity, Cat Shell would be an Olympic contender. That’s evident in the way the Boca-based chanteuse nimbly treads the divide that intersects jazz, blues, pop, and country, excelling in all without compromising any. Though a 20-something might be a bit hazy when…
Every revolution has its heroes. You know, the legendary figures, poster children for their given cause. They usually get their image on T-shirts, eventually to be worn by teenage mall-dwellers who were nowhere near the revolution in the first place and who have little notion of what it all meant…
Damian Lazarus came to performing music from the enemy’s side: He started out as a music journalist, a notorious profession in his native England. Still, even as he worked as an editor at the legendary lifestyle mag Dazed & Confused, it was all part of a planned gradual move into…
Fans of Los Straitjackets might have first come for the novelty, but they’ve stayed for the sound — a furious instrumental assault of twangy surf, hard rockabilly, and psychedelic garage. Oh, the Nashville band still sports the Mexican wrestler masks and Chuck Taylors, and it still knows a marketing angle…
Hippies of South Florida, unite! Grab that favorite tie-dyed T-shirt from the pile of clothes in the corner — you know, the heap of stuff too dirty for the closet but not quite ready for the wash. Slip on your Birkenstocks, break out your hacky sacks, and load up on…
Click here for all Bars & Music picks…
Carlton “King” Coleman is one of the most musically influential dudes to ever set foot in Dade County. Read this great New Times profile on him from 2003 to find out how some say he invented rap music, but first enjoy “The Boo Boo Song.”…
Yesterday I posted an introduction to Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, and a link to a free Amazon download of the band’s excellent song “Sugarfoot.” Forgive me for waxing ecstatic, but this is one of my favorite new acts to come along in a while. In the music there’s…
Mark Pollack is expanding his involvement with Cinema Paradiso, at least for one night, bringing back memories of Sunday nights at Tavern 213. The record collector, promoter, personal trainer and walking musical encyclopedia is staging a record swap, punk show and movie screening at the awesome downtown Fort Lauderdale space…
…What, like you thought that wasn’t coming? Yes, Crossfade has had one of these newfangled Twitter things for a while now, but now we would really like to join you in a 140-character back-and-forth.Follow us at @Crossfade_SFL and we will follow you back. I promise it is definitely not a…
View New Times’ full slideshow of the show here. Animal CollectiveWith Black DiceTuesday, June 9, 2009Culture Room, Ft. LauderdaleBetter Than: Eating Terry Riley’s leftover mushrooms and listening to a Diplo mashup of the Beach Boys.The Review:”Harry Belafonte! Harry Belafonte!” That’s what the girl next to me last night screamed in…
So much for getting your ambient-house chill on. The Orb’s June 30 date at Culture Room has been cancelled along with the rest of the tour. The Orb’s MySpace page only cites “personal reasons” for the cancellation, but the message boards below seem to blame poor ticket sales. Their personal…
So you can’t afford $400 or so to see the Jonas Brothers on August 19, but you still have to get your fill of live manufactured boy band music on that very night. Sir or Madame, the gods are smiling upon you this day: Honor Society has announced an August…
Mishka is not your average reggae singer. For one thing, he was the first artist signed to j.k. livin’, a record label founded by Hollywood’s own Matthew McConaughey. But he is the embodiment of all those quintessential underlying themes that have made the genre what it is–a deep-seeded love for…
It’s not easy to come up with something new to say about Locos Por Juana. Fact is, we’ve lavished them with praise time and again, and deservedly so. But how many times can one write about their stellar blend of cumbia, reggae, hip-hop, rock, and tropical flavors? How many times can…
