Nobody’s Hero S/T (Achála Productions) myspace.com/nobodyshero305 It would be easy to make unusual and extraordinary demands on Nobodys Hero. And it would be easy to dismiss them too, if you’re feeling like a prick. This band’s pedigree is like the Wu-Tang says: “Nothing to fuck with.” Seriously, you’re talking about…
Philip Glass New World Center Thursday, March 17, 2011 Better Than: The last time you raptly sat through 85 consecutive minutes of a classical concert. Philip Glass, noted minimalist composer, performed Thursday night at the fantastic new New World Center, designed by Frank Gehry. But before discussing the concert, I…
Remember when Deadmau5 was just a break from the Carl Cox tent at Ultra Music Festival back in 2008? Those were the days. By 2009, he graduated to the live stage. And last year, the rodent rager scored the first-ever sold-out solo date at the Miami megafest. Now for 2011,…
By the spring of 2010, parties thrown by local creative collective the Overthrow were already legendary. The now-defunct Black Sundays series at Bella Rose became, possibly, the only weekly party on South Beach to regularly stage faux murders, scoring a few Best of Miami nods from New Times. Its one-offs…
The WMC-Ultra electronic music season has reached its 26th year and British DJ-producer Carl Cox is one of the few scene veterans who can boast having been there for the long ride. A child of the late-’80s acid house boom and Second Summer of Love, Cox cut his teeth spinning…
Few individuals have had as lasting an impact on electronic dance music as legendary British DJ Pete Tong. An early proponent of house, he has been one of the most highly regarded tastemakers in the world for a quarter-century now. This March, Tong comes to town for his annual Surfcomber…
Art-pop maestros !!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk) are a rowdy, snarky blast, punctuated by rippling bass sweeps, woozy synth codas, and tongue-in-cheek lyrics. But the outfit faces more competition than ever in the realm of rhythm-oriented indie rock. From Hot Chip to the Klaxons to Cut Copy, many of the…
In certain Native American tribes, the vision quest is a rite of passage by which the young undertake a personal journey alone through the wilderness and commune with the natural world, eventually discovering their destiny in dreams and shadows. For electronic music crew Visionquest — Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss, Shaun…
There’s a fascinating duality at the core of UK producer Glimpse’s work. It’s the duality of control vs. loss of control. On one hand, he favors analog studio production over digital, reckoning that today’s automated digital tools eschew the elements of human spontaneity and imperfection — he grapples the dominance…
Underworld, the UK-based electronic duo of Rick Smith and Karl Hyde, has been the vehicle for an audio-video conflux that rose to prominence from the post-acid house scene of the ’90s, and really hit the public consciousness after the song “Born Sippy .NUXX” was used to great effect in Danny…
Influenced by Fleetwood Mac, Chicago house music, Animal Collective, and copious amounts of peppermint tea, Cut Copy — made up of Dan Whitford, Tim Hoey, Mitchell Scott, and Ben Browing — began as Whitford’s solo DJ project in 2001. It then emerged on the scene as a performance trio with…
Kiss at Hard Rock Live March 17
Philip Glass at New World Center March 17
Gal Costa at the Fillmore Miami Beach March 19
Bobby Brown and Heads of State at Sun Life Stadium March 20
Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks at BankAtlantic Center March 20
It’s 2011 and after working his way up from Detroit’s techno underground, Richie Hawtin is a world-class dance music institution. Of course, there are his seminal labels Plus 8 and Minus, his acclaimed Plastikman alter ego, and his hard-earned rep as a game-changing innovator in the arenas of production and…
It’s only been about three months since beloved local quirk-pop queen Rachel Goodrich left you, me, and the Magic City for the big, bright floodlights of La La Land. And already we miss her so much. We watched helplessly as Rachel picked out her favorite records, stuffed her suitcase, and…
Having released his debut EP to immediate acclaim on Josh Wink’s Ovum label in January 2010, NYC wunderkind Chris Manik made the leap from virtual unknown to internationally celebrated “It” producer in little more than a year. MANIK has since joined the artist rosters of chic labels like Poker Flat,…
Say you’re playing the 1983 Atari console game Crystal Castles, in which Bentley Bear must collect gems to advance. Bentley accidentally ingests a jewel and falls through a hallucinogenic tunnel that spirals into a secret level filled with panicky confusion, abrasive synths, and warbled voices that morph into machine-distorted screeches…
The last time Crossfade caught up with Pretty Lights, AKA Derek Vincent Smith, he was preparing for his Magic City debut at the Vagabond. Since then, the versatile electro producer has acquired a new drummer, killed Ultra 2010’s live stage, and released a couple of albums that are downloadable to…
Twenty years in the game and the Slackers are still sharper than a stepping razor. On Sunday night, hundreds of people came out for the NYC ska rockers, the Duppies, and Miami’s own Askultura at Churchill’s Pub.The sound man was on point, the room was full, the booze was flowing,…
