The parade of super clever names continues with Boys Like Girls hitting the Culture Room on June 24th in support of their brilliantly titled upcoming album “Due or Die”. The Boston based pop rockers are touring across the U.S. and seemingly hitting every Six Flags in the nation along the…
Mark your calendars boys and girls, I’ve got your Saturday night plans all lined up for you. Now, I know you don’t normally like to commit to an outing until you’re four to six drinks deep at a Friday afternoon happy hour, and well on your way to the 48-hour…
Want to see Matisyahu and Les Claypool for under $25 bucks? You can: The only catch to this deal is you’ve got to have at least three friends. Well technically they don’t have to be friends so much as they have a little cash to chip in for some cheap…
As I said last week, I don’t have anything against Brooke Hogan, and, frankly, as a fellow twentysomething female, I empathize with some of her foibles. But damn, the girl has got to get a new … aesthetic counselor. Hogan’s people have revealed an “exclusive first look” at her new…
Saturday’s Freestyle Explosion features some of the biggest names in the genre, and Crossfade’s own columnist, Jose El Rey, interviewed most of them. We’ll be publishing one or two interviews a day in celebration of the show, which takes place this Saturday night at the BankUnited Center in Coral Gables…
Andrew Yeomanson a.k.a. DJ le Spam has one of the sickest vinyl collections in the swamp state. Anyone who has been to his record sales or has seen him digging in the crates, knows that the man is a walking, talking, scratching, selecting, cutting Florida-based wax Smithsonian. The scope is…
You may recall reading about a group on these pages called Tiempo Libre. If you’re a Cuban coffee drinker, there’s a chance they may even peek at you from the side of your can of grounds every morning as you curse the five day work week. That’s right, they’re those…
Broke, out of town, stuck at work, too high to leave the house? Here are some videos from Memorial Weekend 2009 in Miami. This is a random assortment of the most recent Memorial Weekend videos uploaded to youtube. Enjoy…
Twenty one years is a hell of a long time to be playing music, much less to be playing someone else’s music, but The Machine is doing just that. They’ve been hailed as the best Pink Floyd tribute band by numerous people, and Spin.com claims they sound “exactly like Pink…
Buy a ticket for a Hank Williams III show and you’re probably expecting to hear a whole lot of country songs about heartbreak, good old boys, and life on the wide open plains. Show up to the Hank Williams III and Assjack show at Culture Room in July and you’ll…
Trey Songz Sunday, May 24, 2009 Sobe Live, Miami Beach Better Than: Anything I could have expected, given the hectic nature of Memorial Day Weekend. The Review:On Memorial Day Weekend the streets of South Beach were full of culture, excitement, and overall craziness, and the same could be said for…
To view a slideshow of pictures from Best of the Best, click here. Best of the Best 2009 featuring Bounty Killa, Mavado, Beanie Man, Rick Ross, Young JeezySunday, May 24, 2009Bicentennial Park, Downtown Miami Better Than: Being stuck on Collins Avenue The Review:Memorial Day signals time for dancehall diehards to…
Lanzallamas MonofonicaSaturday, May 23, 2009Transit Lounge, MiamiBetter than: Bourgeois BrickellGood news Lanza fans: An album cometh. Fabio Patiño and his band of merry melody makers grooved and moved and laid down some serious tracks at Transit Lounge this Memorial Day weekend. The eight-piece “Afro-Latin-America-world beat-mezcla” delivered an impressive two-night performance,…
The light poetics of folk duo Friction Farm provide a nice country-pop respite from the seemingly homogeneous adult alternative world that dominates radio. The group’s songs are not so much ground-breaking tunes, though, as they are melodious and infectious folk nuggets that couple pretty harmonies with a contemplative simplicity. You’ll…
Multicultural funk is coming to Hard Rock Live thanks to WAR and Average White Band. WAR, best known for songs like “Low Rider” and “Why Can’t We Be Friends” has been playing their laid back California style funk for 40 years, but it was their mid ’70s recordings that propelled…
Quick reminder that the Best of Miami Readers’ Poll will be closing soon! If you haven’t had a chance yet, vote now. Our choices for this year’s winners are already in the books, so to speak, but there is still time for you, the reader, to tell us what you…
It’s time to break out your black and white checkered Doc Martins and suspenders and brush up on your skanking skills. The Orlando based Supervillains are single handedly trying to revive the ska scene. The five piece band has been incessantly touring for the last 3 years, playing more than…
Micky Fitz and the Business have been doing their thing since the late 1970s — writing songs for the working class, in the tradition of street punk and Oi! Fitz formed the band as a reaction to the arty types co-opting the punk subculture. To that end he focused the…
Fans of the 1990s funk-metal band Primus can’t forget that famous live footage from Woodstock ’94. In it the band’s resident bass god, Les Claypool, dexterously covered Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” by playing the guitar part on his signature Carl Thompson bass using the slap technique. To top it off,…
First off, congrats to Carmelo Anthony and the Denver Nuggets. They beat the great Lakers Thursday night, and I hope they do it again. Melo was a guest on Prunk TV recently, and we develop a special relationship with our guests. Speaking of special guests, this episode is really something…
I was looking more closely at this Tron as Fuck event that is going down at the original Fat Cats next week. It’s the third in a series that apparently goes down the last Tuesday of every month and it looks like a pleasant cluster fuck of colliding styles and…
Folk music certainly seems to be on the upswing again with folks like Bon Iver and the Fleet Foxes enjoying tons of press and popularity (at least as much as an indie act can get). Proof positive is The Avett Brothers’ rapid rise during the last couple years. Seth and…
