Turns out it’s gonna be a full house on Friday night at the Electric Pickle with Benno Blome booked to play the upstairs room while Sunshine Jones and Pete Herbert play downstairs. Berlin-based DJ/producer and Sender label owner Blome is a veteran of that city’s underground scene and a highly-regarded…
Not to be totally outdone by all of Live Nation’s various and sundry discount deals of late, rival concert promotions titan AEG Live is announcing its own special deal. It’s good on this Friday, only, for one show — the Blazed and Confused tour date on August 1 at Bicentennial…
Today is your lucky day jam/modern day hippy fans. The Black Crowes, one of the most successful jam bands in history, have announced an October 6 date at Pompano Beach Amphitheater. The Crowes will be touring in support of their upcoming album Before The Frost, Until The Freeze, which is…
Sam, the rotund frontman and trombonist for Big Sam’s Funky Nation, will his bring his signature New Orleans big funk and big brass to Miami on July 24. Formerly the trombonist for Dirty Dozen Brass Band, another New Orleans jazz staple, “Big Sam” is one of the six very talented jazz-trained musicians that comprise the Funky…
The latest petFood podcast, petCast003, came out this week and this one is mixed by L.A.’s Shoddy Lynn. The podcast series is the brainchild of Miami natives Lazaro Casanova and Jay-You. They put out a nice stream of electronic based music that incorporates elements of Miami’s Caribbean flavor and rhythms…
It’s a punk rock extravaganza going down at Culture Room on August 8. Four Year Strong, Set Your Goals, Polar Bear Club, Fireworks, and Drive A are set to take the stage on August 8 starting at 7:30. Four Year Strong is a pop-punk band from Massachussets, Set Your Goals…
Cobra Starship are bringing their synthpop goodness to Respectable Street on August 21 in support of their upcoming album Hot Mess. The first single off the album is called “Good Girls Go Bad” and features the impossibly hot Leighton Meester singing (and in the video). Surprisingly enough, Meester more than…
Scottish punk rawkers 4 Past Midnight deliver the kind of old-school punk anthems that used to play in rotation in your brain throughout the late ’80s and early ’90s. The first song on their MySpace playlist, “Fuck Them All,” is a gritty criticism of those destroying the punk scene, while…
Backdoor Bamby’s Fourth of July PartyFeaturing DJ Shannon and Shameless BurlesqueJuly 4, 2009The Vagabond, MiamiBetter Than: Sitting at home and watching the fireworks on TV The Review: After watching the fireworks in Miami Beach, the perfect place to do some Fourth of July dancing was the always-naughty Backdoor Bamby. That…
Danny TenagliaIndepenDance Pool PartySaturday, July 4, 2009The Surfcomber Hotel, Miami Beach Better Than: Any other Fourth of July pool party in South Florida. If dance music happens to be your thing, then the place to be this last Saturday was the IndepenDance Pool Party at the Surfcomber Hotel. The main…
Try showing up at a Reverend Horton Heat show and not having a good time. It’s physically impossible. The good Reverend has been playing his signature style of rockabilly/psychobilly for about 25 years now, perfecting his over-the-top energetic stage show and the science of wowing audiences. It’s hard to describe…
Kevin RudolfSaturday, July 4, 2009Fourth on Flagler, West Palm BeachOpportunity struck for Kevin Rudolf at this Fourth of July showcase, a chance to deploy an abbreviated set of songs from In The City, his solo debut. Best known for production work with the likes of Lil Wayne and Nelly Furtado,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
