via TherapyInk.comDead Johnny Cash”It’s the story of your life, and the end of it’s your death, and every word that’s in between is just a waste of breath.” – SubhumansTheir rotting, worm ridden flesh fills the air with the stench of death, but we just can’t help cracking the casket…
via wasabifashionkult.comCheck out the rest of this collage on Wasabi Fashion Kult’s blog.A new year, a new chance to take a look at the local music/nightlife blogosphere. At the end of 2009, things looked bleak — many blogs had been neglected or completely abandoned. Maybe the new year will push…
While some people just don’t get that the wave of fan videos is unstoppable — hello Fontainebleau on New Year’s Eve, and the entire Universal Music Group — other bands have welcomed that kind of participation and sharing from the beginning. People have been trading concert tapes since the technology…
via glittergluproductions.comSouth Florida is still recovering from a heavy dose of Phish-flavored jam. And, with the return of Jam Cruise after a six-day sea escape, bands will extend the tuneage back on land. While a number of highly anticipated shows happen over the weekend through Fort Lauderdale, supergroup Holy Kimoto…
The Fort Lauderdale-based act Sweet Bronco usually plays small Broward and Palm Beach County venues like the Bubble and Propaganda, so this outing below the Miami-Dade County line is a rare treat. Although the band is technically a three-piece, Sweet Bronco’s driving force is curly-haired Chris Horgan, who still plays…
Favoring a pounding prog-house sound as shiny and at times as sleazy as the city he now calls home, Paris-to-Miami transplant Cedric Gervais has a reputation as a DJ who plays it both uplifting and up-thrusting. Building up his following since 2003, this big room fixture favors blissfully breezy Ibiza-style…
Have you ever been on the “Plug The Band” section of Backpage.com?Today we found this amazing video of Anjell singing her future classic, “A Girl Has To Do What A Girl Has To Do.” The song is produced by Tad Sharpe for Batovision Digital Entertainment.Click here to Anjell’s full ad…
I rarely ever take flier handouts while walking at night around South Beach, but for some reason as I was leaving Klutch I took an Ultra flier from a guy. Honestly, the first thing I felt was exhaustion because I don’t know if I can handle the fact that Winter…
via myspace.com/animaltropicalmusicFor a while there, especially around the summer of 2008, you couldn’t go to PS14 — or any of those usual Miami local-oriented events — without running into the Down Home Southernaires.Their name never made sense, but what did click was their sort of Talking Heads-esque absorption of world…
Quitters never win, and winners never quit. Btw, should I fuck that big fat ho? The first time I ever heard of Blowfly was when ODB did that cover of, “The First Time, Ever You Sucked My Dick.” Blowfly is awesome, he invented rap music in 1965, and he is…
Click to read parts one, two, and three of this list.Jacuzzi BoysNo Seasons (Florida’s Dying)myspace.com/jacuzziboysMiami’s best garage rock threesome seems to succeed in spite of itself. Where a lot of local bands spend all their time on self-promotion through social media abuse, the Jacuzzi Boys really couldn’t care less. Instead,…
Photo by Anthony VerrilliKid Sister performing at the Delano Hotel during Art Basel.Kid SisterFriday, January 1, 2009Klutch, Miami BeachBetter Than: Electro-rap posers like Kesha.Here I thought LMFAO was the worst thing to happen to hipster-hop, but then came Feminem songstress Kesha. Coing to the industry’s attention when she sang on…
Click to read parts one and two of this list.Radioboxer Radio Drama myspace.com/radioboxerbandRadioboxer, which formed right here in the Magic City from the remnants of a previous incarnation called Falaz, has earned a strong fanbase around town thanks to their honesty and sincerity. And of course, because they really rock out. The…
photo by John TwomeyBlowfly With Jacuzzi Boys and Mr. Entertainment and the PookiesmackersSaturday, January 2, 2010The Monterey Club, Fort LauderdaleBetter Than: Rotten fish cunnilingus.The Review:Happy New Year! Out with the old, in with the new. Right? Not at the Monterey Club Saturday night. The new was in, no doubt about…
French producer/DJ Bob Sinclar (neé Christophe “The French Kiss” le Friant) was Born in 69, as it says literally in the title of his most recent full-length. And you need to sample only a small cross-section from his decade-plus of throbbing tracks to understand his promotion of this double entendre-imbued…
Back in August, Head Spins gave you the goods on WDNA DJ Gene De Souza, whose Café Brasil show has been heating up the local radio waves every Sunday for the past seven years. But De Souza’s show is not the only hot action coming out of the true-blue independent…
Welcome to 2010. Newsflash Fontainebleau: Where mainstream, corporate, and alternative media cameras cannot shoot Lady Gaga, citizen cameras can, and this year they’ll get better and more able to easily subvert your stupid rules.Here’s video of Lady Gaga in a bikini (does her cock flop out the side? Is Lady…
Dear 2010,I don’t want to start off on the wrong foot with you or anything, but…WHAT THE FUCK? Were the bleary-eyed shambles that I awoke in this morning really necessary? The spinning room was called for, the throbbing of my brain, which is now apparently three sizes too big for…
To read part one of the list, click here. Miami Bass Warriors Miami Bass Warriors EP 12-inch (Que Pasa MIA/Palm Tree Snuff) myspace.com/miamibasswarriorsWhen it comes to highlighting the unique aspects of the Magic City, few do it better than Otto von Schirach and Jose El Rey. With tongues placed firmly in cheeks,…
Over the next two days, we’ll post Crossfade contributors’ favorite local albums of 2009. They’re listed in completely random order, so stay tuned as the full list rolls out. Panic BomberGetting On My Mind (self-released)panicbomber.comPanic Bomber is the brainchild of Miami’s one-man-dance-spectacle Richard Haig. He first gained local notoriety as showman…
photo by Ben ThackerClick here to view a slideshow from Phish’s New Year’s Eve show. PhishAmerican Airlines Arena, Miami December 28 through 31, 2009Better Than: Langerado? Not so sure, but Phish’s comeback in March may or may not have contributed to the demise of South Florida’s beloved festival.The Review:Phish’s triumphant return after…
Vacation is over, South Florida. After two weeks of back-to-back long weekends, we are finally returning to our same ol’ routine for a while at least. In case you were elsewhere visiting ungrateful relatives, here is what you missed over the weekend:Phish at American Airlines ArenaPhoto by Ben ThackerThe Vermont…
