After their widely touted debut Kombustion, locally groomed rock group Soniko prepares to capitalize on the buzz they first generated five years ago with their long awaited sophomore release, Antidoto Parcial. On Kombustion the foursome received heavy acclaim for their churning brand of alt-rock. A vamp on 1990s grunge with…
Back in the day when two sweet Sweet brothers linked up with a hot shot guitarist who went by Oz Fox, a revolution in heavy metal was caused to occur. No longer would the genre be forced to walk in sin with Satan worshiping denizens of sleazy back alleys. Stryper…
Camp Kill Yourself, aka CKY, is coming to town on July 28 to play the Culture Room. If you’re at all familiar with the CKY videos or have paid attention to the music in Jackass and all its spinoffs, you’ve certainly heard CKY’s music. Deron Miller, Chad Ginsburg, Matt Deis, and Jess…
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash, who have been playing together for over 40 years, are back on the road again, promoting nothing but their extensive catalog and undying passion for music. And that passion must be strong for these guys to STILL be touring after all this time…
Mexican pop group Reik has come a long way since its inception in 2004. For one thing, two thirds of the trio can legally drink in the venues they frequently pack (in the States…in Mexico they’ve been legal since they were seven). But more importantly, they’ve evolved as artists and…
If you are in your late 20s/early 30s and you listened to a lot of underground HC hip-hop in your formative years, then you probably played Dah Shinin’ a whole hell of a lot and you probably loved “Bucktown.” Well here is your chance to see Smif-n-Wessun live in action…
Dear Chris Martin: Thanks for the show on Friday night. It was excellent.But before I go all gushy with praise — which I will, I promise — I should tell you that I was dreading your concert. Ever since I first heard your band in the early Aughts, I thought…
Boynton Beach’s elctro-punksters Kill Miss Pretty are reviving Florida’s music scene one rock sideshow at a time. The trio, which is the best local band since the Freakin Hott, is made up of vocalist Alicia, guitarist Russ, and bassist Martin. They will bring their carnivalesque raunch-pop to Propaganda on May…
Best known for writing the theme song for One Tree Hill, singer/songwriter Gavin DeGraw is hitting the road to support his new album “Free”. Collective Soul, best known for a slew of similar sounding songs in the 1990s, will be joining DeGraw on this particular show as well. This tour…
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,…
