To say Miami via Puerto Rico DJ Tamara Sky is gorgeous is sort of an understatement. I’ve been at plenty of parties around the city where she’s been like two feet away from me but never had the nerve to introduce myself. One day, when I finally did introduce myself,…
Mexican pop group Reik has come a long way since its inception in 2004. For one thing, two thirds of the trio can legally drink in the venues they frequently pack (in the States…in Mexico they’ve been legal since they were seven). But more importantly, they’ve evolved as artists and…
A week ago this past Saturday, Ferny Coipel, frontman of long-running local band Humbert, was in a serious accident while riding his scooter in Hialeah. Coipel was wearing no helmet when he collided head-on with a car, according to a close friend. As a result, he suffered head and neck…
I have an ashtray sitting on a boombox sitting on a milk crate sitting next to my computer chair. I tune the airwaves whenever I’m home cause I love radio, and I’m all over the dial with it. But I hate commercials, so I spend a lot of time on…
If you are in your late 20s/early 30s and you listened to a lot of underground HC hip-hop in your formative years, then you probably played Dah Shinin’ a whole hell of a lot and you probably loved “Bucktown.” Well here is your chance to see Smif-n-Wessun live in action…
Dear Chris Martin: Thanks for the show on Friday night. It was excellent.But before I go all gushy with praise — which I will, I promise — I should tell you that I was dreading your concert. Ever since I first heard your band in the early Aughts, I thought…
To view the full slideshow of photos from the club’s opening, click here. Exit Sixty Six, the new big-box club to open in Fort Lauderdale Beach, represents the continuation of two trends. First, there’s the development of fancy Miami club companies opening new venues in Broward. The Opium Group made…
Boynton Beach’s elctro-punksters Kill Miss Pretty are reviving Florida’s music scene one rock sideshow at a time. The trio, which is the best local band since the Freakin Hott, is made up of vocalist Alicia, guitarist Russ, and bassist Martin. They will bring their carnivalesque raunch-pop to Propaganda on May…
Best known for writing the theme song for One Tree Hill, singer/songwriter Gavin DeGraw is hitting the road to support his new album “Free”. Collective Soul, best known for a slew of similar sounding songs in the 1990s, will be joining DeGraw on this particular show as well. This tour…
They haven’t released a new album in six years, but that won’t stop Blink 182 from touring. Nope, not even drummers getting into plane crashes can keep these pop-punk rockers apart. Blink 182 has announced its much-heralded reunion tour will make a stop in West Palm Beach at Cruzan Amphitheater…
Let me start off by saying, I am listening to Yazoo’s greatest hit, “Situation.” Man I love that track! Something about 80’s electropop that puts me in a great mood and today I need it. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is (by birth) Jipsy. Yes, for real. I alone…
The Crystal MethodThursday, May 14, 2009Revolution Live, Fort LauderdaleBetter than: Revenge of the NerdsWhen I spoke with The Crystal Method’s Ken Jordan last week, he assured me that when he and his cohort Scott Kirkland hit town “they’d be pulling out all the stops.”Unfortunately, the stage at Revolution reportedly wasn’t…
If you’ve seen Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg, you know (at least Hollywood’s version) the story of how Tim “Ripper” Owens came to be lead singer of the Rob Halford-less Judas Priest. Long story very short: Halford left the band to thrash solo. Meanwhile Ripper Owens was in a Judas…
Chris Video, visual artist, man about town, lover, and conspiracy investigator and Me She join together like a two headed Voltron to form fun electronic dancy duo BFGF. He is boyfriend and she is girlfriend. If you haven’t had a chance to peep their music, check it out on myspace. …
The Columbus, Ohio-based MC Copywrite (sometimes Copywrite 78) is best known, perhaps, to underground hip-hop diehards as a former member of the Weathermen, alongside Cage and the late Camu Tao (RIP). But in the five years since he left that group over personal disagreements, he’s continued his steady solo grind,…
Once a year Memorial Weekend comes along and pumps the tri-county full of Caribbean energy. Here’s one such example. “Finally,” a party hosted by Stone Love Music at the Floridian Ballroom (17850 NW 2nd Street, Pembroke Pines) goes down on Friday, May 22. It’s scheduled from 11 p.m til 7…
Piano Goddess Tori Amos just announced a tour of theaters across the U.S., and the Fillmore Miami Beach islucky enough to have her on July 29. Tori is promoting her newest album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, which is set for a May 19 release date. Last year, Amos hooked back…
Guess who’s playing the Van Dyke this Saturday? I know, I know. Enough with the Van Dyke already. I promise, it’ll be the last time I mention it … at least for this week. Don’t blame me if they’re killing it with cool Latin bookings. And I’d be remiss if…
The idea behind Miami Summerfest is pretty straightforward: a bunch of up-and-coming local acts playing in the sweltering heat of a mostly-outdoors venue on a Sunday (that’s the “summer part”). But seriously, the event doesn’t start until after the sun goes down, and the acts selected so far are pretty…
We live in a world of technologically enabled hyperreality, where video games like Guitar Hero and Wii Fit can make simulated rock stars and Olympians out of the talentless unskilled sad sacks of the planet. So it should come as no surprise that the DJ experience is also now available…
What do you get when you take Greg Grunberg and Adrian Pasdar from Heroes, Teri Hatcher and James Denton from Desperate Housewives, mop-topped Bob Guiney from The Bachelor, and Jesse Spencer and Hugh Laurie from House? Yes, the cast listing for the 2015 season of VH1’s Surreal Life, but also…
Now this is an interesting promotion. As regular Crossfade readers know by now, ZZ Top and Aerosmith are playing the BankAtlantic center on Monday July 13. Aerosmith is doing a big promotional push on their newest video game: Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, and part of that promotion involves you. Before each…
