People from Venus might be one of the most aptly named bands on the local circuit — the group can seem, at certain musical moments, as though it has beamed in from another planet. Take those weird, eerie beeps and bloops at the beginning of “Lipstick,” the band’s should-be-a-hit song…
New Jersey’s Harry “Choo-Choo” Romero has a locomotive moniker, but the house DJ and producer isn’t known for train-wrecking records. Instead, he has somehow remained relevant in a fickle scene since the mid-1990s. Subliminal Records, the label he founded with Erick Morillo and Jose Nuñez, is one of the lone…
Metalheads looking for enough hair windmills — a circular type of headbanging that, um, is exactly what it sounds like — to give Don Quixote a coronary will find their Valhalla at Culture Room this Thursday when the Viking-obsessed Swedes of Amon Amarth roll through town. Over the band’s seven-album…
Awesome New Republic’s new album is up for free on their website. It is really good. Check out this Miami pop band’s latest emission, Rational Geographic Volume I. They are infectious, often-talked about and very fun live. Of course, you probably already know this, because this rag always writes about…
Last week Crossfade announced that Green Day is playing somewhere in Miami on August 4. That somewhere is officially the American Airlines Arena. The ticket sale dates are still up in the air, so we’ll trickle the information on to loyal Crossfade readers as it becomes available. For now, waste…
Remember the Clevelander? Of course you do. What Miami resident doesn’t have at least a handful of fond memories of the iconic Art Deco structure on the corner of 10th and Ocean? It stood watch over one of SoBe’s busiest avenues, a patient guardian, its arms open, welcoming the public…
For more than a year, LMFAO (SMS shorthand for “laugh my fucking ass off”) has been bastardizing the hipster-hop genre with their single “I’m In Miami, Bitch!” off their 2008 Party Rock EP. At one point acts like Kid Sister, Spank Rock, Amanda Black and The Cool Kids seemed like…
If you missed out on scoring tickets to her upcoming sold-out show at Revolution, or you somehow just can’t get enough of Katy Perry, you’re in luck. The shape-shifting popstress returns to South Florida on May 7, playing a free gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach as part of the…
Fort Lauderdale-based jammers the Heavy Pets will play three shows in South Florida to remind us what could have been at Langerado. The band, which consists of guitarist Mike Genius, guitarist and vocalist Jeff Lloyd, bassist Felix Pastorius, drummer Jah Newitt, and pianist Jim Wuest, has been touring for the…
Maybe you don’t like loud ass rock and roll played with abandon and actual feeling. Or maybe you just really really love paying nine dollars for a beer. It could be that you like paying a big – ass cover charge to get into a place where everyone looks at…
Rejoice ladies and gentlemen, music’s saviors Creed are coming to West Palm Beach on September 16. It’s been a long hard five years since Creed has toured, and clearly music has suffered greatly in their absence. There’s been an enormous lack of songs about going higher and having arms wide…
Metalheads looking for enough hair windmills — a circular type of headbanging that, um, is exactly what it sounds like — to give Don Quixote a coronary will find their Valhalla at Culture Room on Saturday as Viking-obsessed Swedes Amon Amarth roll through town.Over the band’s seven-album career, its stubborn…
What do you have in common with Afrobeta and Jose El Rey? No, not a police rap sheet as thick as a phone book, comprised mostly of various counts of public intoxication and indecent exposure. You shouldn’t assume that of Afrobeta just because it’s true of you (sorry Jose, but…
Somehow I missed the flier for this show, even though I was in Broward last Friday. Southern Flaw is one of my favourite versions of South Florida music and they are playing tonight at the Bar-Tv building in Ft. Lauderdale with a bunch of other bad ass bands. The show…
Miami’s annual Best Of The Best concert has become an international Memorial Weekend destination event. This year, some of the world’s most popular dancehall, soca, and rap stars will take the stage at Bicentennial Park and most likely rock an over-capacity crowd. If you plan on going, get your tickets…
My love for my roots and subsequent displays of Cubaneo are no secret. Cuban culture is a beautiful thing, and despite the stranglehold of a 50-year dictatorship, nowhere has it shone more than in music. Which is why I want to take a moment to talk to you about timba…
NYC DJ/producer Harry “Choo Choo” Romero has gained renown since the mid-1990s with releases on various house labels -including Erick Morillo’s Subliminal Records- and a reputation for funky uplifting club sets that blend soulful house, US garage, and Latin rhythms. Among various side projects and collaborations, his original production work…
This might take some strain, considering the Twitter-fueled micro-attention-span of early 2k9, but think hard back to 2007. Did you watch a lot of music-themed reality TV? If so, you may remember a Fuse program centered on the Bodog-sponsored national Battle of the Bands. It set some 16 bands into…
Swamp Stomp Music FestivalSaturday, April 25, 2009Jimbo’s, Virginia KeyBetter Than: The average assignment.The Third Annual Swamp Stomp independent music festival, under a mystical cloud of weed smoke, joyfully stomped the shite out of the swamp Saturday night. It was a down-home backcountry bait shack stomp-fest at Miami’s official fugitive hideaway/fashion…
Need an excuse/reason to go check out the casino on May 14th or June 17? Here it is: local independent jam rockers the New Planets are playing a couple free shows before the Don Henley and Bad Company concerts. Think of it as a fantastic way to augment your current/future…
Tom JonesSaturday, April 25, 2009The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason TheaterBetter Than: A time-capsule set to 1971Of all the many remarkable things to be said about seeing Tom Jones stage these days — and trust me, there are many remarkable things to be said — perhaps the single…
Fleetwood MacThursday, April 23, 2009Bank Atlantic Center, SunriseBetter Than: A Big MacHaving seen Fleetwood Mac at least a dozen times, and Stevie Nicks on her own probably twice as many, suffice to say I have a bit of history to compare Thursday night’s stop in SoFla for the Fleetwood Mac…
