This year’s International Dance Music Awards were announced earlier this week, and there are some 305 highlights worth noting:First up, Space resident DJ Oscar G scored two nominations including Best House/Garage Track for “Back to You” and Best Full Length DJ Mix for the appropriately titled DJ (Nervous Records).Also with…
The world was watching, well, at least America was watching, well, at least a handful of American teenage girls were watching VH1’s live broadcast of the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam last night. Live from a stage at 8th and Ocean, televised and untelevised performances and appearances by Rihanna, Timbaland,…
We already have heard about tons of parties that are happening during Winter Music Conference, but we’ve been told to keep mum until everything is confirmed. Finally, here is one of those parties we’ve known for a while but haven’t been able to say anything about — until today.Though cool…
Blast From the Past is an occasional Crossfade column re-examining classic South Florida releases of yesteryear. Click here for past editions.This here little seven-inch record in its full Pepto Bismol-pink glory is very dear to my heart. When I moved to Miami in the early ’90s, I was fortunate enough…
Music’s push into the digital age has, if strangely, benefited one medium: vinyl! With no more middling-quality CDs to horde, more people are realizing what the hardcore collectors have always known. Records sound warmer, there is more opportunity for interesting art work and packaging, and they’re a hell of a…
Everyone — meaning, uh, people with too much time on their hands on the Internet — flipped their shit yesterday when word got out that Britney Spears was spotted over the weekend in Miami. She touched down with manager Larry Rudolph and boyfriend Jason Trawick. They all stayed at the…
If you were hyped up to see Lil Wayne, Sean Kingston, and Trey Songz Saturday at the Miami Big Game Extravaganza at Jungle Island, sorry to break the news to you that the event has been canceled. According to the305.com, Jungle Island issued a press releasing stating that the weekend-long…
It wasn’t long ago we gushed about how Wynwood was surpassing its nightlife neighbor South Beach thanks to some recent openings. But don’t expect the longtime nightlife kingpin to go down without a fight.First up is Twelve Lounge (1200 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach), which opened up in the space formerly…
Amateur scientists have told us that if you go too long without eating, your brain will start feeding on itself. That’s kind of how Miami is when it’s not tourist season. For local musicians it can mean ritual cannibal death. Miami thrives as a playground for the rich, famous, and…
Zach Baron, at our sister paper the Village Voice, called Surfer Blood’s million-show spate at this past fall’s CMJ a “coronation.” By now, with the glowing reviews for Astro Coast, and rumors it’s entered both the Billboard Heatseekers and Top 200 charts, that seems pretty much sealed. The band’s appearances…
Back in November we highlighted hardworking local DJ duo thenextgeneration, who you can see spinning regularly at several spots around the Beach, like Sushi Samba, Beer & Burger Joint and Hakkasan at the Fontainebleau Hotel. Mikkel Dankner a.k.a. Soulscience is one half of the duo and an accomplished producer whose…
It’s not that long ago that Miami Beach was proud to be a racist entity. Segregation meant that by law the beach was only for whites. This week, South Beach will go insane with Super Bowl parties for everybody to enjoy, but don’t forget what a fucked up place it used…
The Coral Springs-based act MillionYoung has been hailed as South Florida’s own bona fide entry into what is cringe-inducingly called “glo fi” or “chillwave.” (The latter word actually started as a joke on the parodic blog Hipster Runoff.) In fact, impending blog hype looms. The one-man-band born Mike Diaz has…
Here’s a Dade history doc I made about Hialeah horse racing at the Hialeah Park Race Track with an original soundtrack. Frank Sinatra and a lot of other famous people used to go to the Hialeah Park Race Track. It opened in 1921 and is one of the oldest recreational…
When the paramedics arrived at Respectable Street Wednesday night to treat his injured leg, Monotonix frontman initially refused to leave with them. (For a full account of the incident, which cut the band’s headlining set short after four songs, click here.) By shortly before 1 a.m., it was clear that…
Am I the only one shocked to find that January 2010 is already spent? Damn! It’s certainly not the first time I find myself assaulted by a sudden passage of time. Still, this time I was sober. At least for the better part of it. Anywho, one group for whom…
New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert is enjoying a new found bill of health. Earlier this week he underwent surgery on his thyroid in order to have part of it removed. Doctors had feared that that part of his thyroid contained some potentially malignant cells. The surgery went fine, and…
Keeping this short: Everyone’s favorite South Florida band, Surfer Blood, premiered its first-ever music via Pitchfork today. The video has the same surreal feeling as the track itself. From what we can tell it wasn’t filmed in South Florida, which is rather disappointing, but there are some the state references…
To view a full slideshow of photos from this event, click here.MonotonixWith Surfer Blood, Woodmen Hall, and Love HandlesRespectable Street, West Palm BeachWednesday, January 27, 2010The problem with being a performer known for exaggeration and extreme physical antics is, when something seriously goes wrong, nobody believes it at first. And…
A dub plate used to refer to an acetate disc used in mastering studios to test recordings before mass producing the vinyl.Caribbean battle music in DJ vs DJ soundclashes took on the dubplate to create exclusive remixes to popular songs usually with the artist shouting out the name of the…
British house music label and booking agency Milk’n’2 Sugars has been contributing to the dance music scene for 15 years. So it’s only fitting that they celebrate the milestone during the biggest gathering devoted to electronic music, Winter Music Conference.The agency will take over Klutch nightclub (136 Collins Avenue, Miami…
The Wallflower Gallery, downtown Miami’s improbable pocket of bohemia, has faced any number of challenges during its existence. For one, it’s a venue that doesn’t serve alcohol, in a town bent on partying. It inhabits a lonely corner in a neighborhood that until very recently was a complete ghost town…
