South Beach should be worried — very worried. As the years pass, the area is becoming more homogeneous, with little difference from venue to venue. Opium Group keeps gobbling up every property that goes up for sale with the same focus on bottle service and VIP experience. Not that there…
New Times and Gibson Musical Instruments are pleased to announce that we’ve put up for auction a Special Edition Reverse Flying V Gibson Guitar designed by South Florida artist Lebo. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the auction will go toward Partners in Health’s relief efforts in Haiti. Bidding…
Okay, we all know and understand that your in-boxes, Facebook message centers, fax machines, pagers, texts, and mailboxes have been flooded with information as to how help our brothers and sisters in Haiti following the devastating earthquake last week. So let’s be honest, is there really too much relief aid?…
Brother Bean’s final performance and Aura Music FestivalSeratoma Youth Ranch, Brooksville, FloridaJanuary 15 through 17, 2010Better Than: Crossing paths with a crazy redneck on a shooting rampage. The Review:This past weekend was a holiday for some, but not for me. I was only able to attend 24 hours of the three-day…
What kind of person drunkenly slams into a biker on the Rickenbacker Causeway and then speeds away while the cyclist bleeds to death on the road?In the case of this Sunday’s horrific crash, its the same kind of person who can rack up more than 40 traffic violations in twelve…
In a surprising change from its usual high-falutin’ programming, this Broward Center-affiliated venue on the Nova campus gives itself over Friday night to local hip-hop. The star of the event is 954 rapper Breyan Isaac, who celebrates the release of his album Extraordinarily Average. Luckily, the disc is more than…
An up-and-coming Miami pop singer with slick looks and a Sony recording contract has been charged with vehicular homicide in a horrific hit-and-run crash near Key Biscayne yesterday.Carlos Bertonatti, a 28-year-old who lives on Key Biscayne, was arrested yesterday near his battered Volkswagen after a short police chase.Police say Bertonatti…
Here is an incomplete list so far of Haiti benefit music/club events scheduled in the coming days. If you would like your event added to this list, please e-mail me.Tonight, Friday, January 15*Mayday plays its monthly jam at Transit Lounge tonight. Transit Lounge never charges a cover, but the band…
You may be sitting there saying, “this guy is NOT writing ANOTHER post about Locos Por Juana already!” And you’d be wrong. Because I am very clearly doing just that. And you’re reading it. So there. True, we show an awful lot of love for LPJ here on Crossfade. I’ve…
By now you’ve heard of the multitude of ways you can provide much needed aid to devastated Haiti. Maybe you’ve tweeted, texted, or donated supplies or blood. But this Sunday it’s time to get together with some of the most generous degenerates in town and dance.The Electric Pickle and Musical…
If there is one party that never fails to attract the masses during Winter Music Conference, it’s Juicy Beach. The event, spearheaded by house DJ/producer Robbie Rivera, takes over Nikki Beach (1 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach) for over 16 hours of non-stop partying , and this year it will be…
Furious DudesSons of Bitchin’ (Self-released)facebook.com/furiousdudes Thrashy lo-fi garage punk is currently storming out of my speakers with the potential to turn my capable system to abject shit. Wow. Though I can’t wholly get behind the moniker these guys have chosen for themselves (think of the jokes), I do get completely…
Okay, so I’ll admit this post is really just about posting another hot-as-fuck picture of DJ/model Tamara Sky. So sue me. I’ve already publicly admitted my love for her. So sorry that from time to time I want to look at something pretty.That being said, despite her astonishing good looks,…
Here’s a Haiti Earthquake Twitpic music video we made using Obama’s address to the nation on the Haiti earthquake crisis. The images are Twitpics from across the internets: They’re first-response citizen media reports of crushed buildings, death, destruction, hope, and life.Wyclef’s Yele Foundation has been working in Haiti for years…
Finally. A place to hang out in downtown Miami that’s not a club or a “lounge” or a restaurant or a venue of any kind, just a bar, and one that’s cheap but not depressing and full of bros. Okay, okay, so we loved PS14 and everything as a late-night…
A new South Beach, velvet-rope spot is anticipated to open before the end of this month. It is a resurrection of the old Rumi locale, next to SET on Lincoln Road. And before you roll your eyes and start a death clock, you should check out the deets from the…
We’ve been a little quiet lately on LIV’s Wednesday night party Dirty Hairy. Partly because the acts that have been booked lately are more gimmicky than actually, er, talented. Nothing wrong with gimmick — a mega-club of LIV’s size needs to make money — but let’s not sit here and…
If you’ve ever wondered what Cuban rumba legend Perez Prado would sound like with an electro makeover, than you’re on the same page as locally born and bred producer/programmer Armando Martinez, better known as Alpha 606. But most likely you haven’t, because there are very few people with wavelengths out…
Haven’t gotten enough Surfer Blood between New Times’ recent feature on the band, its homecoming shows at both the Vagabond and Propaganda, and its places on a bunch of year-end best-of-2009 lists? Can’t wait until the Palm Beach County boys open for Monotonix at Respectable Street on the 27th? Well,…
…They made the “best” list, don’t worry. While these days Buddyhead may not carry the same clout as Pfork or Stereogum, it’s a major-ish blog force on the West Coast (or at least L.A., where it’s based) — and the writers there have big-upped Jacuzzi Boys before. And what Buddyhead…
Here’s our video from the week of Art Basel Miami 2009. It features footage from the streets of Wynwood, Notorious Nastie, Primary Flight, Lynn Yohana Howard, Laqui, Art Miami, Art Loves Music, Pulse Art Fair, Fountain Art Fair, Os Gemeos, Tony Goldman’s Wynwood Walls, Shepard Fairey, Jim Darling, Dave Tree,…
Warning: Kesha-bashing post to follow.I almost threw up in my mouth when New York Times wrote a piece of trashy pop star Kesha and made comparisons to Philly MC Amanda Blank. Yea, they are both white and they rap, but Blank has been doing it for years and has plenty…
