They haven’t released a new album in six years, but that won’t stop Blink 182 from touring. Nope, not even drummers getting into plane crashes can keep these pop-punk rockers apart. Blink 182 has announced its much-heralded reunion tour will make a stop in West Palm Beach at Cruzan Amphitheater…
The Crystal MethodThursday, May 14, 2009Revolution Live, Fort LauderdaleBetter than: Revenge of the NerdsWhen I spoke with The Crystal Method’s Ken Jordan last week, he assured me that when he and his cohort Scott Kirkland hit town “they’d be pulling out all the stops.”Unfortunately, the stage at Revolution reportedly wasn’t…
If you’ve seen Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg, you know (at least Hollywood’s version) the story of how Tim “Ripper” Owens came to be lead singer of the Rob Halford-less Judas Priest. Long story very short: Halford left the band to thrash solo. Meanwhile Ripper Owens was in a Judas…
Chris Video, visual artist, man about town, lover, and conspiracy investigator and Me She join together like a two headed Voltron to form fun electronic dancy duo BFGF. He is boyfriend and she is girlfriend. If you haven’t had a chance to peep their music, check it out on myspace. …
The Columbus, Ohio-based MC Copywrite (sometimes Copywrite 78) is best known, perhaps, to underground hip-hop diehards as a former member of the Weathermen, alongside Cage and the late Camu Tao (RIP). But in the five years since he left that group over personal disagreements, he’s continued his steady solo grind,…
Once a year Memorial Weekend comes along and pumps the tri-county full of Caribbean energy. Here’s one such example. “Finally,” a party hosted by Stone Love Music at the Floridian Ballroom (17850 NW 2nd Street, Pembroke Pines) goes down on Friday, May 22. It’s scheduled from 11 p.m til 7…
Piano Goddess Tori Amos just announced a tour of theaters across the U.S., and the Fillmore Miami Beach islucky enough to have her on July 29. Tori is promoting her newest album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, which is set for a May 19 release date. Last year, Amos hooked back…
Guess who’s playing the Van Dyke this Saturday? I know, I know. Enough with the Van Dyke already. I promise, it’ll be the last time I mention it … at least for this week. Don’t blame me if they’re killing it with cool Latin bookings. And I’d be remiss if…
The idea behind Miami Summerfest is pretty straightforward: a bunch of up-and-coming local acts playing in the sweltering heat of a mostly-outdoors venue on a Sunday (that’s the “summer part”). But seriously, the event doesn’t start until after the sun goes down, and the acts selected so far are pretty…
What do you get when you take Greg Grunberg and Adrian Pasdar from Heroes, Teri Hatcher and James Denton from Desperate Housewives, mop-topped Bob Guiney from The Bachelor, and Jesse Spencer and Hugh Laurie from House? Yes, the cast listing for the 2015 season of VH1’s Surreal Life, but also…
Now this is an interesting promotion. As regular Crossfade readers know by now, ZZ Top and Aerosmith are playing the BankAtlantic center on Monday July 13. Aerosmith is doing a big promotional push on their newest video game: Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, and part of that promotion involves you. Before each…
Area 7 will hold its first Opera Mash-Up event Wednesday May 20, an event which “mashes” opera with various genres of music. Singers will come in and perform their favorite opera numbers, while sound engineer Billy (no surname) records them. From 9 to 10 p.m. the night will consist of…
Austin quartet Goldcure plays a straightforward blend of indie-ish pop-rock, but the Texas still comes through. Guitars are bright, rollicking, and purely American, and frontman Adam Buhman’s rough-edged croon can veer close to twang. But the band’s real talent is in reducing its roots and rock influences to their essences,…
No matter what you think of Sugar Ray, you’ve got to respect their choice of titles for their upcoming CD: Music for Cougars. You’ve also got to respect the band that’s been around since 1992 and has admitted it’s failed at trying to branch out and change their sound. In…
While Respectable Street has booked a number of darkwave and, um, “old wave” groups of late, this is probably its most impressive coup to date in recent months. Peter Murphy, onetime Bauhaus leader and pretty much the granddaddy of all that is goth, plays the club on June 24. Last…
Once upon a time, you couldn’t walk down certain lower Manhattan blocks without tripping over sidewalk vendors’ card tables loaded with cassettes. Sometimes, they’d be bootleg concert tapes, but a lot of the time, they were the latest hip-hop mixtapes. And in the golden age of that form, no one…
Chris Martin and company return to the road, again, in support of their latest album, last year’s Viva La Vida. The relatively experimental followup to the number one, 10-times platinum album X&Y, Viva La Vida has drawn both praise and scorn from fans and critics for departing from the previous…
When the mainstream media and trendies of yore decided, in the late 1970s, that punk Version 1.0 was over, the Vibrators never got the memo. Perhaps, in true spiky Brit fashion, they just ripped it up and spit on it. Either way, the London-based band boasts the unique distinction of…
The Cuba Nostalgia expo was created in Miami ten years ago, as its website explains, to provide “a journey back in time for those who remember the island’s glamorous times — and for those who never experienced them.” If you’ve never witnessed the weekend-long event at the Fair-Expo Center in…
It takes a versatile artist to write a number one country hit (1980’s “Starting over Again,” for Dolly Parton), simulate an orgasm on a 17-minute disco record (1976’s “Love to Love You Baby”), and win a Grammy for an inspirational performance (1983’s “He’s a Rebel”). Donna Summer has done all…
Eighties heartbreaker Pat Benatar will play Hard Rock Hotel and Casino July 2 with her husband Neil Giraldo. Unfortunately Blondie, who just announced she and Benatar will be touring together for the first time later this year, will not be there. But one 1980s icon may be enough. Benatar boasts some cheesy songs…
The Electric Pickle is poised to delight downtown’s techno cognoscenti again this Friday night with a special DJ set by acclaimed DJ/Producer Alexi Delano. Chilean-born Delano spent his formative years in Sweden where he was part of the first wave of notable Swedish EDM producers in the mid-’90s. He has…
