Ali Shirazinia, AKA Dubfire, is half of renowned duo Deep Dish and is its decidedly more musically forward-thinking member. As a solo producer in his own right, though, he’s garnered equally significant recognition. In 2007, he launched his own label and taste-making music platform, Science + Technology Digital Audio, and…
After a three-decade career providing percussion and other background sounds for iconic artists like Ike and Tina Turner, Bill Withers, and John Prine, Big Poppa E felt a change coming. Thus, in 2000, he switched tracks, returning to his roots in the blues with the release of his second album,…
It’s hard to believe 311’s been at it for 20-plus years, especially when listening to the band’s recently released 12th album, Uplifter. (Well, it’s actually the band’s 15th, if you count three early indie records that were later compiled to form the Omaha Sessions in 1998.) The new disc more…
Selling more than 3 million records worldwide is no small feat, particularly for a band like Rusted Root. The rambling, bluegrassy quartet could hardly be categorized as mainstream. And not only has the group outsold many more-radio-friendly bands; it’s also outlasted them — it’s been more than 20 years since…
It was in the low 70s — breezy but pleasant — as my wingman and I walked up starry Hollywood Boulevard. The air was crisp, and the street was alive with the clicking of high heels, the kind of loud talking that alcohol consumption causes, the crackling of different languages,…
As a rule, beware of bands euphemistically named for boners. In the case of the Hard Richards, though, we’ll grant a pass, because these old-school Boynton Beach boys bash out straight-ahead ska punk without any wink-wink wanksterism. That doesn’t mean, however, that the Richards aren’t lewd, crude, and loud. It’s…
Photo by Grant David KeyesLike the amplified and remixed white noise of a midnight tide shift as seen on TV, there are squalls and snarls of late-summer indie-pop bleeding from a bedroom studio in Macon, Georgia. All software synths, samples, drum machines, and dreamy vocal layers — this is the…
Here is the video for a song called Turkey Murder (The Thanksgiving Song), it’s no Adam Sandler Thanksgiving Song, but that song is played out anyways. What with all this internet and all these cameras, and all these softwares you’d figure somebody would have come up with a new classic…
If you missed Kid Sister’s performance not long ago at LIV, here’s an opportunity to check her out again in a slightly more relaxed setting. Giant Step always curates quality events, and for Art Basel the label is putting on Chicago’s favorite femme fatale electro-rapper at the Delano. She and…
Cleveland Jones PhotographyThis isn’t an intentional effort to get you out of the lines at the Muvico or Dolphin Mall to clear the way and hedge the odds of getting a better seat for Planet 51, Ninja Assassin or The Road, all opening this weekend. I’m the one person who…
When Andrei Osyka, Brett Griffin, and Justin Sloe first met in the Los Angeles dance music scene at the turn of the millennium, little could they have known that their newly forged creative partnership would comprise one of the West Coast’s hippest EDM collectives by the end of the decade…
Looking for things to do this holiday season? Here are a couple shows that can get you away from your family for at least a few hours. On December 26, after you’ve probably spent about 48 hours too long with people you’d rather never see again, get some of that…
via oh-wow.comThe real Max FishMike Bones and Brian DeGraw. Max Fish is the coolest no-bullshit bar on Manhattan’s L.E.S., and in celebration of its 20th birthday, the good folks at OHWOW have recreated the bar here in Miami, in its entirety. Bonus for those of us missing out on our…
At one point, the California MC Ras Kass seemed poised for a real mainstream takeover. Known for killer freestyles and guest verses, he issued a pair of early albums, Soul on Ice and Rasassination, that were well-received. Things started to unravel, though, around the time of his third album, Van…
In a departure from his usual soulful house sets, the Philly DJ/producer King Britt gets glitchy and left-field in the Miami installment of Saturn Never Sleeps, a monthly party he cofounded with his fiance, Rucyl Mills. King and Rucyl man the beats on laptops and other sundry gadgets, including, possibly,…
Goodfellas cover the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” at Titanic Brewery & Restaurant in Miami.This is the Godfellas’ description of theirselves on their Facebook page: “GOODFELLAS IS THE GROOVIESTTitanic continues its tradition of showcasing live, local music. Log on to titanicbrewery.com for more info…
Hipster girls flashing their tits and a DJ with a French touch — what could be better? Well, the fact that it’s happening during the week of Art Basel is a bonus. And it’s all going down at Louis (2325 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach) December 4.If you aren’t familiar with…
Erick MorilloFew Latins have had as fruitful and influential a career in electronic dance music as DJ/producer Erick Morillo. Born in Colombia and later raised in Union City, New Jersey, the house music veteran began DJing in his teens. By the early ’90s he was experimenting with provocative genre-bending fusions…
After eluding the annals of popular dance music for practically ever, France finally got with the program in the late ’90s thanks to a quirky little duo by the name of Daft Punk. It didn’t take long after that for France to grow its own crop of DJ superstars, the…
Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Top Five Albums for the Week of November 16 – 22 Sweat Records, MiamiThe first release from rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, made up of members of Queens of the Stone Age,…
Photo by Ari Justin Rothenberg Modernesque Burlesque TroupeThe opening night for the Modernesque Burlesque troupe at Respectable Street Saturday was a glamorous sequin-filled celebration of movement and the female body. It was also “new, fresh, and unused,” in the words of the cheeky mistress of ceremonies Torchy Taboo, age “none…
Nightlife never takes a holiday — nightlife, as a concept, exists permanently as an alternate-universe holiday. So in case you were wondering, yes, the usual (((SHAKE))) hip-hop party and bullshit will still be going down at the Vagabond this Thursday. And if you indeed find yourself there, that means you’ve…
