If you’ve dipped your toes in the waters of the Florida rave scene during the past, oh, fifteen years, you’ve probably collected some warm, fuzzy half-memories of Rabbit in the Moon. Remember the time at Ultra when that space man landed onstage and showered the crowd with sparks from his…
Calle 13 crashed its way into the reggaeton party in 2005, coming seemingly out of nowhere with its hard-hitting eponymous debut. Booty-shaking though it was, the Puerto Rico-based duo’s album offered a much-needed respite from reggaeton’s seemingly nonstop party antics. So it really wasn’t a great shock when Calle 13…
Miami and Los Angeles, they’re not so different. On the obvious tip, there’s all the bling and the pneumatic bodies on balmy beaches. On the not-so-obvious tip, there are the chin-scratching musical movements bubbling under those shiny surfaces. Still, there’s no question that we party harder, later, and dirtier than…
It’s a straight-up L.A. invasion of Miami this weekend. The attack on Friday’s edition of the weekly Revolver party comes from the the tag team duo with the gentle moniker Guns ‘n’ Bombs. While New York and Paris get all the techno/electro revival attention, Flip Turbotito and Johnny Love come…
Eldar performs Friday and Saturday, June 29 and 30, at
the Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club, 6701 Collins Ave, Miami
Beach. Set times both days are 9:00 and 11:00 p.m.
Tickets cost $35. Call 305-403-7565, or visit
www.arturosandovaljazzclub.com.
New York’s Roger Sanchez has been an insanely popular house DJ since releasing records on the classic dance record label Strictly Rhythm in the early Nineties. Apparently he’s a big draw on at least a few continents. To wit: Last month some dodgy club promoters in South Africa falsely advertised…
Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork. Sasquatch, Coachella, Summerfest. Aside from the hundreds of rocking performances and the crowds of thousands, the one thing all of these festivals have in common is that they won’t be in your back yard this summer. Sucks. Miami is a hot spot, sure, but not for massive…
Sitting inside a mostly empty Churchill’s Pub before he is set to perform, Kent Hernandez considers a dilemma facing most artists in the capricious local music scene. How do you get fair-weather Miamians to show more support for our homebrewed acts? “I think that we have just as much, if…
Coming off his highly acclaimed 40 Acres and a Moog, local producer Supersoul offers this cleverly titled opus about the commercialization of today’s hip-hop. There are no preset drum machines or played-out 808 rhythms here; instead there are the purest, high-grade beats that would make any current button-pusher turn away…
Back in 2002, Ike Reilly released what should have been regarded as a rock and roll masterpiece. Salesman and Racists wed the punky passion of mid-Seventies Clash to the restless lyrical brilliance of pre-Christ Dylan. Reilly has released three albums since, all packed with catchy songs you wouldn’t want to…
It’s good to see a local MC on the come up and we at Crossfade are going to support him any way we can. Well respected lyricist Garcia has a new album coming out this summer, and Miami music editor, Arielle Castillo, has a killer article coming out on him…
It’s easy to understand why fans might be cynical about the fact that the original lineup of the Bad Brains, one of the most storied acts in the history of hardcore, is back together yet again. If you haven’t already heard, they’ve got a brand new album, Build a Nation,…
MC Sharpness Better than:Seeing pretty colors after smashing your head on a rock. The review: The drum and bass party on Saturday, wasn’t one of Studio A’s better nights. After stumbling in to use some drink tickets that I was oh so generously given, it took me about ten minutes…
Jacob Miller and Longwave June 23, 2007 Studio A Photo by Jeffrey Delannoy Better Than: Waiting around for prime Saturday going-out time; the show got going around 10:00 and was over by about midnight. The club doors opened at 8:00, and opener Jacob Miller took the stage at nearly 10:00…
Black Light Burns & Horse the Band May 23, 2007 Culture Room Better Than: Nintendo music You should always be wary of any band that promotes one member with the tagline “…formerly of the band…” as some type of attraction. It’s a bit like advertising a party with “a celebrity…
Issac Delgado June 23, 2007 Knight Center An energetic and from-the-heart Cuban rumbón broke out Saturday night as a delirious and receptive crowd welcomed one of the island’s grandest and most innovative musicians ever at the James L. Knight Center. As a result the man responsible for keeping close to…
Whole Wheat Bread June 22, 2007 Churchill’s Pub Better Than: Being hit in the face with brass knuckles. Barely. With too few good punk bands to cleave to, I hoped this show would provide a miracle. Beginning with Ft. Lauderdale natives Skuff’d Shoes, a ska-reggae-punk hybrid, the night opened to…
Martini Bar, at the Shops of Sunset Place (5701 Sunset Dr, South Miami) has become the unofficial spot for a freestyle revival. Check it, in the last few months they’ve had Stevie B. and Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam! (And on the non-freestyle, but still late-Eighties/early-Nineties tip, Jordan Knight, of…
Hey, you get a key chain! “In order to give fans the best possible experience for both The Police and the Miami club show, the Maroon 5 show at Studio A has been rescheduled for Wednesday, July 11 at 3:00pm. Maroon5 will offer fans a rare and intimate acoustic performance…
Issac Delgado isn’t letting anybody in on what to expect tomorrow night when he performs in Miami for the first time since leaving Cuba late last year. About the only thing the multi-talented Cuban bandleader/sonero/songwriter is promising is ‘tremendo rumbon Cubano’ (‘one hell of a Cuban fest’) while adding that…
Aptly titled En Primera Plana (“On the Front Page”) Issac Delgado’s first U.S.-produced album is a mix of old and new as the Cuban vocalist/bandleader rehashes longstanding classics in addition to puling all the right strings alongside a mega salsa star. “La Mujer Que Mas Me Duele” (“The Women That…
Since we’ve been jamming on J-Perk’s “Lauderdale” joint, it only seems right to play the original DJ Khaled track that producer O-Allen sampled to put “Lauderdale” together. If you don’t already know it’s called “Brown Paper Bag” and Khaled is awfully proud of it in this random studio video. –Jonathan…
