Photo by Lex HernandezHere is a bit of weekend leftovers that we didn’t get around to posting until late. If you missed dubstep master Rusko at White Room on Saturday you perhaps missed the most energetic DJ set you’d probably ever witness. The Brit isn’t just content playing to a…
Image viaThe child will probably need countless hours of therapy to recover from thisIt’s there, lurking in your closet buried underneath mounds of clothes. You’d donate it to Goodwill but you know you are obligated to wear it once a year to prove to grandma that you “absolutely love it.”…
Night Watch is a regular column about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Downtown Delray was awash with Christmas lights. They were crawling up tree trunks and stretching across storefront windows; they dangled from awnings and snaked around wreaths at every art gallery, pet salon, clothing boutique, and…
It’s been almost two years since jam juggernaut String Cheese Incident called it quits in 2007. Since then, things have slowed for some of the former members, while others have picked up the pace with new projects. The latter holds true for the String Cheese rhythm section of Jason Hann…
Who hasn’t been to a post-1998 wedding in which the couple danced to Edwin McCain? The saxophone-drenched ballad “I’ll Be,” in which McCain promises, in essence, never to be a douchebag, granted him the one commercial success he needed to live easy. He’s since dropped off the mainstream music radar,…
Anka on top, Valli belowA few years ago, the world of every Gen X-er and quasi-’90s kid was unpleasantly rocked when 68-year-old teenager Paul Anka decided it was a good idea to cover Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Sure, it’s easy to see where this smarmy, crooner take on grunge…
Flow Official and ¡Mayday! team up for “Down This Road” in a new video to go with the song they put out together. This is just a preview though to let you know that it’s coming up.Go to Flow Official’s myspace, stream the “Down This Road” track and learn all…
It’s gonna be a fairly quiet holiday week on the local EDM front, but you can get your fill of tasty house and techno beats on Wednesday night when the Miami/LA-based record label-cum-production duo petFood throw down at Electric Pickle. petFood was formed in late 2008 by Miami natives Lazaro…
We are not the same, I am a martian. I recently spent a Friday night in the studios with the Cash Money Heroes as they worked on a new Kevin Rudolf song featuring Lil Wayne, Jay Sean, and Birdman. Here is some footage of Baby in the studio, and watching…
The temperature dropped the weekend, which finally gave us reason to take out our Cosby sweaters. But in case the cold kept you indoors, here is what you missed over the weekend:Surfer Blood at VagabondPhoto by Ian WitlenWest Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood finally came home after being on the road…
via againstme.netWhen Gainesville anarcho-punks Against Me! released their fourth album, 2007’s New Wave, the band’s hardcore fundamentalist fans immediately swung into crisis mode, organizing counseling and puke circles for heartbroken indie kids nationwide. Understand though, the mass freakout didn’t start because the CD sucked; it was OK. The panic started…
How’s everybody enjoying this nice December weather? Really lets you feel like it’s the holiday season, doesn’t it? There are other things like that too. Like going to the mall and parking three miles from the stores, whereupon you can fight your way through the mobs looking for last minute…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Porterhouse Bar & Grill201 SW 2nd Street, Fort Lauderdale 954-522-1253 There are very few locations on Himmarshee Street acceptable to bring a date that you still have to impress (i.e., haven’t yet slept with). But…
Want to see Lady Gaga on NYE? It’s going to cost you — a lot.Let’s just put this out there first: Lady Gaga is a hack who thinks she’s doing the world a favor by making an “artistic statement.” Sorry, her music and performances are about as artistic as something…
Ambivalent is the moniker of NYC-based DJ/producer Kevin McHugh, of Richie Hawtin’s prestigious Minus label. McHugh’s early production credits include a music series he developed for the multidisciplinary artistic platform Creative Time in the mid ’90s. By the mid 2000s he became associated with the Minus family after sharing the…
Music is a science. It is like Geometry. It makes us feel really good, or really sad. Music is like Astronomy or gravity or electricity. You know it is there but you just can’t see it. It can give you life. It can kill you. I just drank a whole…
It’s hard to believe that at the end of the decade, any band once labeled “nu metal” is still going strong. So leave it to a band from South Florida, land of anomalies. In late 2009, Fort Lauderdale natives Nonpoint still enjoy am active touring career and a healthy, loyal…
Above all else, Candyland deserves an award for being South Florida’s longest-running annual electronic music festival. Yeah, uh, “festival” – that’s what they’re called now, to avoid that pesky “rave” word. Make no mistake, though. In its late-’90s heyday, Candyland was indeed one of the highest-budget, complete-fantasy “parties” ever. (We…
If you’re not onto Afrobeta by now, this must be your first time here (and if it is, allow me to welcome you and thank you for the time you’ll spend perusing). Because here at Crossfade, we’re not exactly reserved in our appreciation for the Miami duo of Cuci Amador…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.Trina Restaurant and Lounge 601 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale 954-567-8070; trinarestaurantandlounge.comTrina, the Atlantic Hotel’s classy oceanfront bar, is decorated with abstract art, dark wood furniture, small round tables, retro-chrome chairs, and plush outdoor…
Here’s video of The Sick Puppies playing their “Number one in the country right now!” song “You’re Going Down” live from Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach with clean audio and a raucous crowd of fans showing their suppoort.The Sick Puppies are originally from Sydney, but are now based in…
No women no cry might have been Bob Marley’s anthem but come February 28, 2010 “No Bougie’s, I’ll cry” is what regulars in the South Miami bar scene will be sniffling. That’s right, folks, South Miami’s chillest dive, Bougainvillea’s, will be shutting its doors for good leaving locals, UM students,…
