Katy PerryWednesday, April 29, 2009Revoluton, Fort LauderdaleKaty Perry is annoying. There’s no getting around it. I went to her sold-out show at Revolution Wednesday night with an open mind. I swear. I like “Hot N Cold.” Despite the song’s frustratingly sexist lyric criticizing a dude for changing his mind like…
SunFest New Music Night with 311Wednesday, April 29, 2009West Palm Beach IntercoastalBetter Than: Jeremiah’s Weed-Ade…though that didn’t stop me from drinkin’ ’em.Well, the first day of SunFest ’09 is in the can. What can I say? I love a good festival. The imposing overabundance of food. Alcohol in greater supply…
The Pinker Tones’ sound is not exactly easy to describe, though for all intents and purposes, simply electronica will have to do. But in truth, there is much, much more to it. From their home base of Pinkerland the Barcelona-based duo tinker with audio vibrations the way a mad scientist…
This column appears occasionally in print in Burner and every Wednesday morning on CrossFade, New Times’ music blog, at blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade. A new anti-tethering law passed this past March in Miami-Dade County. Here’s the ordinance exactly how it’s stated: It “bans tethering or chaining of a dog unless the owner is…
What in hell is Radioboxer, you might be wondering, and why does it want to hurt me? Well, to answer the former, it’s probably one of the coolest local bands you haven’t heard of yet. The latter is just a thinly veiled play on words, but it’s arguably an accurate…
No one will ever accuse the Danish trio HorrorPops of being a conventional band. But to say they have no use for convention is a gross understatement. HorrorPops abhor the norm. They stomp it with vigor and spit in its eye. And the band’s Bettie Page-esque lead singer/bassist, Patricia Day,…
Before the house turns totally to house music Saturday nights in that downtown megaclub known as Space, all kinds of other action is kicking throughout the joint. A lot of that action goes down out on the club’s infamous terrace, under the stars and in the shadow of a skyline…
There might be no singer in songdom today more reticent than Ray LaMontagne. Painfully quiet and notoriously aloof, he’s shy not just around the media — he’s shy around everyone, even his fans. Which makes him perhaps the last person you’d think would want a career in the public spotlight…
What do you have in common with Afrobeta and José El Rey? Well, if you’re Latino or grew up with Latino friends, you’ve no doubt partaken in that most hallowed of celebrations: la quinceñera (sweet 15?). And even though we’re grown up, we’ll do it again, this Thursday at the…
People from Venus might be one of the most aptly named bands on the local circuit — the group can seem, at certain musical moments, as though it has beamed in from another planet. Take those weird, eerie beeps and bloops at the beginning of “Lipstick,” the band’s should-be-a-hit song…
New Jersey’s Harry “Choo-Choo” Romero has a locomotive moniker, but the house DJ and producer isn’t known for train-wrecking records. Instead, he has somehow remained relevant in a fickle scene since the mid-1990s. Subliminal Records, the label he founded with Erick Morillo and Jose Nuñez, is one of the lone…
Metalheads looking for enough hair windmills — a circular type of headbanging that, um, is exactly what it sounds like — to give Don Quixote a coronary will find their Valhalla at Culture Room this Thursday when the Viking-obsessed Swedes of Amon Amarth roll through town. Over the band’s seven-album…
Original keyboard player for The Roots, former Davie school kid, and still-a-super-producer Scott Storch is back in the studio. He got caught up in the bullshit Hollywood rock star lifestyle, blew through millions of dollars and hit rock bottom before he woke up in rehab. Give thanks, Storch is a…
Local DJ Jason Baez has been a fixture of Miami’s underground techno scene since he first began spinning on SoBe’s The Womb internet radio in 2005. He has since played in support of numerous techno parties around town, including a set at this year’s Saw Recordings & Oslo Records 9th…
Awesome New Republic’s new album is up for free on their website. It is really good. Check out this Miami pop band’s latest emission, Rational Geographic Volume I. They are infectious, often-talked about and very fun live. Of course, you probably already know this, because this rag always writes about…
Last week Crossfade announced that Green Day is playing somewhere in Miami on August 4. That somewhere is officially the American Airlines Arena. The ticket sale dates are still up in the air, so we’ll trickle the information on to loyal Crossfade readers as it becomes available. For now, waste…
Remember the Clevelander? Of course you do. What Miami resident doesn’t have at least a handful of fond memories of the iconic Art Deco structure on the corner of 10th and Ocean? It stood watch over one of SoBe’s busiest avenues, a patient guardian, its arms open, welcoming the public…
For more than a year, LMFAO (SMS shorthand for “laugh my fucking ass off”) has been bastardizing the hipster-hop genre with their single “I’m In Miami, Bitch!” off their 2008 Party Rock EP. At one point acts like Kid Sister, Spank Rock, Amanda Black and The Cool Kids seemed like…
If you missed out on scoring tickets to her upcoming sold-out show at Revolution, or you somehow just can’t get enough of Katy Perry, you’re in luck. The shape-shifting popstress returns to South Florida on May 7, playing a free gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach as part of the…
It’s been a little over a year since the release of Light From Above, the debut LP by the young Miami metal quartet Black Tide. (For more background, click here to read an article I wrote last year about the history of the band). But the recording process for the…
Former Christian singer Katy Perry’s mischievously cute ditty “I Kissed a Girl” made her a pop star even hipsters could appreciate — at least until the next Lily Allen album dropped. “I Kissed a Girl” is fun, catchy and has the killer line about “the taste of her cherry ChapStick.”…
Fort Lauderdale-based jammers the Heavy Pets will play three shows in South Florida to remind us what could have been at Langerado. The band, which consists of guitarist Mike Genius, guitarist and vocalist Jeff Lloyd, bassist Felix Pastorius, drummer Jah Newitt, and pianist Jim Wuest, has been touring for the…
