Remember B.E.D.? Yea, it’s still open, and Los Angeles DJ/producer Morgan Page happened to be there Tuesday night celebrating the release of his sophomore album, Believe, by throwing down a DJ set for the weeknight partiers. Photographer Nicole Cussell was there to document the scene…
Manuel Valera’s one of those young guys out there in the jazz circuit who has paid his dues and has toured supporting some stellar names. These past couple of years he’s come into his own. His compositions for trios and quartets, as well as his inviting and symbiotic manner on…
Capleton’s favorite food is okra. “I love okra, whatever style — fried okra, okra stew, okra salad. Okra is really good for you.” So says the Prophet, sometimes called the Fireman, but always known as one of the greatest artists in dancehall history.Born Clifton George Bailey III in St. Mary,…
Lil Jon may be famously over-the-top, but he’s no buffoon. And so, with his beloved crunk approaching punchline status in the past couple years, he wisely noted it was time to retool. Enter Crunk Rock, a term that’s the title of his upcoming album, a term for its new musical…
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Top picks for the 17th annual Marley Fest
People From Venus celebrate their debut album release with a live WVUM broadcast and two shows
Since opening a year ago, the Electric Pickle has emerged as a bastion of quality underground music in a city otherwise tyrannized by commercial and ostentatious nightlife. Its weekly bookings showcase some of the top global contemporary electronic music talent, but in a refreshingly inclusive, no-bullshit setting. Thus, the Pickle…
The quirky and quizzical Keller Williams once again returns to South Florida with his one-man band. He’s a festival staple and always a highlight in that setting — but his club shows are downright rapturous. No matter how big the room, K-Dub always procures a basement-party sing-along vibe. A true…
The dance music underground might be rocking bleepy techno and dark-wave house from Europe, but the stuff that really moves the masses combines the synthetic strings of trance with the tough percussion of house. One look at the most popular DJs in the world, from Tiësto to Deadmau5 to Kaskade,…
Punk band reunion tours are each unique, but not like snowflakes — more like small-town Fourth of July parades, in that there’s a constant trade-off between reassuring familiarity and the flinching overcompensation of old people with streamers. The Cro-Mags should fare better, or at least fall toward the former; the…
Four questions with Afrobeta’s Cuci Amador
If you’ve ever been to a Jimmy Buffett show, we’re just preaching to the choir when we say it’s a one-of-a-kind experience. The Parrothead community is one of the great followings in music history, on par with Deadheads. Arriving at the venue, you might be momentarily disoriented by the atmosphere,…
Blast From the Past: Coke, the late, great Miami band
What we know for sure: West Palm Beach’s Cruzan Amphitheatre will host the traveling version of the Bamboozle Festival on May 25. Specific acts for this date have not been announced, but a little checking in on Cobra Starship’s Too Fast for Love dates with 3OH!3 confirms that these two…
The namesake guitarist of the Damon Fowler group may look, at first, a little too fresh-faced to really know about the blues. And yes, Fowler is a cherubic Gen Y-er, but he already boasts more than a decade on the live circuit. Growing up in the Tampa Bay area, he…
Aholsniffsglue once made crack cocaine out of Ajax and battery acid, smoked it with the Dalai Lama, and became obsessed with stripes and circles. True story.Give thanks the art world appreciates the kind of compulsions that drive people past the brink of madness, are willing to pay for it, and…
We here at Crossfade love video fliers, because moving pictures easily amuse us. And because when you scribble the words Dirty Hairy on a girl’s tits, we are automatically going to look. So take this as a primer for the mayhem that will go down tonight at LIV in honor…
In this era of dime-a-dozen indie electro-pop duos, one contemporary act stands apart from the rest for sheer substance, stylistic originality and emotional rapport, and that’s Ontario, Canada’s Junior Boys. Crooner/co-producer Jeremy Greenspan and partner Matt Didemus first began their collaboration in the early 2000s, the fruit of which were…
You guys already know all about MiamiAlterLatino’s International Thursdays at Jazid. They’ve had the Parranda Colombiana, the Fiesta Argentina, Rockea en Español. Perhaps you’ve even heeded our advice and cruised on in to get a little culture–and drink specials–in ya. Well, the party continues and the opportunities to broaden your…
Sure, both of these earth-shattering events happened on Monday. I’m still taking daily solace being in sync with my South Florida neighbor’s unfolding Twitter platitudes as I settle in as Music Editor at the New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Fans should not be surprised that Weezy’s typical crass bravado (“I’m on…
PalefaceThe Show is on the Road (Ramseur Records)Paleface’s journey has been a rocky one. He’s been picked up and slammed down by major labels, battled substance abuse, and had Beck crashing on his couch (okay, maybe that wouldn’t be so bad). But as one of the founders of New York’s…
