Julieta VenegasPresented by Jack DanielsGusman Center for the Performing ArtsSunday, February 27, 2011Better Than: The last time she was here, at a smokey Dolce and very pregnant. And that show was damned good.Without question, Julieta Venegas is one of Latin pop’s chameleons. And the reasons we’ve listed previously in print,…
Philip Glass is a heavyweight of contemporary minimalism. Alongside auteurs like Steve Reich and John Cage, Glass is, simply put, one of the biggest, boldest names in 20th century music. Much like the aforementioned peers-in-experimentation, his ouvre delicately (and delightfully) blurs the line between the colloquially dubbed “Classical” genre and…
Out of the Anonymous with Astro Blak, Space Between Words and Bulletproof Tiger Fox’s Sherron Inn Friday, February 25, 2011 Better than: Staying in and letting personal delusions take over. While I find the ongoing capital improvements to Fox’s somewhat inspiring, I’m having a hard time judging the depth of the…
Von D Loft 168 Saturday, February 26, 2011 Better than: Kat Von D from LA Ink. Out on the sidewalk a block away from Loft 168, we could already hear the metal grates over closed storefronts reverberating with bass. Always a good sign…
See the full Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party slideshow. Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party With Black Lips, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Vivian Girls, Thee Oh Sees, Strange Boys, Surfer Blood, Ty Segall, Turbo Fruits, and Jacuzzi Boys Grand Central Thursday, February 24, 2011 Better than: Catching a case of e. coli poisoning…
Shitstorm (canceled), Beings, and Holly Hunt Beelzebub’s Cave Thursday, February 24, 2011 Better Than: If Beings had canceled too. From inception, this show was an uphill battle. Not that the theoretical lineup wasn’t bangin’ … Storied grind heroes Shitstorm backed by fresh-faced heavies Beings and the even fresher-faced Holly Hunt…
Tobacco Road trivia: Al Capone used to get so wasted there that he’d have to take the night off from shooting people. You ever tried to hold onto a submachine gun after twenty shots of whiskey? Not only is Tobacco Road the oldest active bar and music venue in Miami,…
Out of the Anonymous CD Number Four (Self-released)oota.com The last time I had the pleasure to review Out of the Anonymous within these pages was way back in 2004 with their sophomore release, Masked Media. And this trio of extremely adept musicians has now shared more than a decade together…
Win free tickets to Julio Iglesias’s Hard Rock Live show. Now that Julio Iglesias has reached the fine, sweet age of 67, you’ve gotta wonder why he continues to hustle it for grandmothers across the globe. Maybe it’s rivalry with his boy, Enrique, that keeps him stalking the stage. Most…
The dude’s been dead for two decades. But even so, jazz demigod, congenital rebel, and cocaine enthusiast Miles Davis looks like he’s gonna have an incredibly packed 2011. Earlier this month, the trumpet-wielding master reissued an expanded Bitches Brew Live, a soul-scorching set of electrified jazz-rock pulled from his infamously…
Unlike most bands named after seaside apparel and/or accessories (i.e. Swimshorts, Sunglasses, Sandals), bicoastal digi-pop duo Bikini doesn’t spin hazy, wavy sounds designed specifically for sunny, sandy days at the beach. Dark, distorted, and dance-y, this stuff is more like the soundtrack for a drugged-out midnight trip into deep waters…
A self-proclaimed city kid from New York’s East Village, Jesse Marco took a free fall into the music business at the age of 18 when he began an internship with British music mogul Mark Ronson. He gained recognition after taking a number of opening slots at New York City clubs…
The blending of genres and melding of styles is becoming as commonplace in popular modern music as cocaine lines next to grapefruit juice at Lindsey Lohan’s breakfast table. The whole world, including the biggest stars in any genre you can name, has been dabbling with mezcla of late. But just…
Like some kind of benevolent pied piper of international partydom, French electro-pop producer Martin Solveig (né Martin Picandet) bestowed last year’s Dragonette collaboration “Hello” upon the world, luring disco refugees, degenerate club kids, and dirty hipsters to the dance floor like hypnotized rats. And now Solveig wants to let you…
As far as Puerto Rican boy bands with American crossover appeal go, Davila 666 easily beats out Menudo with its balls-out ability to rock, though there’s definitely some overlap in the wearing of leather jackets, chaps, and accessories. Offering both clean garage pop and raw rock and roll, Davila 666’s…
If you wanna shake out your pompadour and sweat through your underwear, then stutter-step down to the Vagabond tonight for DJ Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap & Danceoff. Direct from NYC with an assist from the Bruise Cruise people, this rock ‘n’ soul party is so fucking powerful it somehow turned…
Working under an assumed fame name inspired by ’60s Swiss sex bomb Ursula Andress and the pseudo-futuristic numerical suffixes used to sell Atomic Age household appliances (i.e. The Cubla Carpet Sucker 500!), Brooklyn-via-Miami mixmeister Ursula 1000 (born Alex Gimeno) has spent ten post-millenial years mining retro musical territory for new…
It’s not easy cooking up a melting pot of exotic world sounds while still nailing a savvy dancefloor-ready formula. But that’s exactly how Zombie Disco Squad operates. The forward-thinking UK production duo of Lucas Hunter and Nat Self is breaking the house music mold by crossbreeding styles as diverse as…
A night out with sample-happy psycho Girl Talk (AKA Gregg Gillis) is never gentle. Imagine your brain being force-fed 36 hours of music in 36 minutes, pushed to the brink of seizure, and then fucked by a superpowered laptop that’s been wrapped in plastic to protect it from all kinds…
It’s called an “out-of-control crush.” Lately, we here at Crossfade have been totally and shamelessly agog over Miami’s weird and whimsical Rachel Goodrich. We’ve gushed about her “twisted, jaunty tune ‘Light Bulb'” and its “whimsy-laced lyrics.” We’ve stomped around the office to the tune of “G-Dino.” And we’ve chatted the…
First, they were Stonefox, a three-piece kicking ass around South Florida with an amped-up brand of swamp rock that was precociously sharp for these parts. Then they added a fourth member, kind of broke up, and regrouped again as a three-piece called Blond Fuzz, playing more of the same. That…
Yeah, we seriously slagged Questlove’s last local DJ gig. In fact, you may remember us saying shit like, “Besides the purp stench lingering in the air, nothing about Questlove’s mix … got us high” and “We’re done covering DJ sets.” Well, um, we meant it at the time. But with…
