See Crossfade’s review and photos from Ms. Lauryn Hill’s UM Homecoming concert. Just like Ms. Whitney Houston, former Fugees frontwoman and diva-of-the-new-millennium Ms. Lauryn Hill was a mind-blowingly successful pop star and actress who freaked out under the pressure of her own fame. But where Whitney disappeared into a billion-dollar…
It’s confirmed: Rachel Goodrich’s follow-up to her 2008 debut, Tinker Toys, will be released February 21. The Greg Wells-produced album, features 10 new tracks along with “Light Bulb.” (It’s unclear whether it’s a reworked or remastered version different from the one that appeared on her debut.)Unfortunately, it seems Rachel Goodrich…
View photos of Masquerade Motel Miami here.Swedish House MafiaSaturday, October 30, 2010Scope Art Fair, MiamiBetter than: We still can’t believe what we experienced.We have to forgo the traditional concert review because in-depth analysis of DJ sets is about as interesting as watching people push buttons. Seriously, though, Saturday’s Masquerade Motel…
With Holy Ghost! and Depressed Buttons The Electric Pickle Saturday, October 30, 2010 Better than: A pillowcase full of snack-size Snickers and black-market cigarettes. In the run-up to Hollerween, Tony Smurphio and Cuci Amador absolutely insisted on keeping their freak fest costume plans a total, non-negotiable, lockbox secret. Every time…
Beings and Plains The Vagabond Friday, October 29, 2010 Better than: Waiting until the Beings 7” is out of print and you’ve gotta pay Ebay prices. Beings is a band that transcends a niche audience, garnering regular praise from disparate South Florida demographics. The punks love Beings, the Fonzies love…
Miami’s big-room house heads have been raving for months about Swedish House Mafia’s upcoming Halloween Masquerade Motel ball at the Scope Art Fair tent tonight.Earlier this week, we caught up with the dynamic trio’s Sebastian Ingrosso for an, er, engrossing interview. (And a second part.) But we couldn’t pass up an…
Read part one of the Afrobeta interview. Stretch out your candy sacks. Sharpen your fangs with a nail file. And prepare for fire, crushed pumpkins, and a plague of too-old kids in costumes. It’s Hollerween. In seven hours, Miami’s Afrobeta and two other electro-indie party crews — NYC creep poppers…
If your name were “Steve Lawler,” you’d probably spend Wednesday afternoon spinning for the Masters of the Universe on the deck of some Cyprian millionaire’s giga yacht off the coast of Dubai. Then Thursday, you’d take the red-eye back home to collate your 1001 solid-platinum platters. And Friday, you’d teleport…
Only a couple of years ago, Swedish House Mafia members Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, and Axwell were an underground triumvirate known mostly to hardcore partiers, EDM addicts, and wannabe DJs. But now these three club thugs are making serious moves into the mainstream. With its new album Until One, a…
In the middle of the poorly lit Wynwood warehouse district, nestled between a boxing academy, a factory, and some art spaces, there’s a building overflowing with noise. Behind a gate, a double-locked door, and a barbwire overhang, Beings are hard at work. Many artists refer to the studio as “the…
What the hell is Burnie anyway? He looks like a rejected Muppet that’s been sleeping in a dumpster, a 7’6″ bag of ratty orange fur with a swollen green mini-basketball for a nose. And his official Miami Heat bio doesn’t help at all. It just totally dodges the question. Anyway,…
Happy Halloween, party peeps! Sure, it may not be for another two days, but who gives a damn? You can celebrate that mofo all weekend long. And if a full 72 hours of drunken costumed debauchery is in fact what you seek, Transit Lounge is willing to lend a hand…
I’ve known Joe (or Joey as he was then) since the salad days of Cheers. Those were fun days that got even funner when we found out he frequented my friend’s mother’s liquor store in Kendall. For many years, there was a running joke that he owed me twenty bucks,…
If our first list of Halloween shindigs wasn’t enough to satisfy that party craving, check out ten more gatherings that may do the trick. It’s Crossfade’s treat. Halloween at Buck15. Sunday, October 31, at 10 p.m. The best costume of the night wins a $100 bar tab. Girls get to drink…
Read part two of the Afrobeta interview. Man, the last time we hung out with local new wave-y freestyle faves Afrobeta was way back in June at Grand Central. So after almost five months spent zigzagging between the recording studio and big-ticket gigs like Glastonbury, Burning Man, and Space Ibiza,…
come right out and say it: We hold a special place in our hearts for any band that proudly displays a synthy floating through space with a furry cat at the keys. And that’s just what Javelin is all about: Amazingly vivid imagery, word creatin’, and body shakin’. Over the…
Check out the full 30-photo Phoenix slideshow.PhoenixWith WavvesWednesday, October 27, 2010The Fillmore Miami BeachMiami used to suffer from one of the worst geographical disadvantages in the country. Touring bands on tight budgets often skipped the drive, resulting in only huge, mainstream stadium acts playing our city. But a few years…
All Hallows’ Eve is upon us. And this secular holiday is particularly important for three types of people: (1) those obsessed with vampires and werewolves, (2) those who’ve been dying to hide behind a mask all year, and (3) those yearning to look sexy. All of the above — and…
Back in the early 2000s, cool kids everywhere became obsessed with all kinds of lupine creatures. Maybe it was irony. Maybe it was rabies. Or maybe the moon had slipped off axis. Whatever the cause, almost everyone between the ages of 16 and 28 was wearing a howling wolf’s head…
British DJ Greg Wilson is an authentic original. His career spans over three decades, preceding the birth of house music. On the late-’70s and early-’80s UK dance music scene, the mixing pioneer introduced that era’s generation to the new post-disco sounds coming out of New York City. Watching him live…
Five killer Halloween parties from South Beach to downtown Miami
The Smoker’s Club Tour at White Room October 29
