via myspace.com/osunladeOsunlade headlines the Fuck Art, Let’s Dance party on Friday, December 4.We’ve already blogged a couple times about Poplife’s big Art Basel party on Saturday, December 5 featuring the Golden Filter. Electric Pickle’s got a lot of other stuff going on during Basel week, though, including a huge Aquabooty…
Yesterday morning, Crossfade contributor Lee Zimmerman gave a pretty thorough run-down of Jackson Browne’s show this past Saturday at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Still, sometimes a YouTube video is worth a thousand words, and these two snippets capture a couple themes present in Zimmerman’s review. First, despite the solo-acoustic style…
Photo by JipsyWhat makes a party America’s Best Party? We’re not entirely sure, but if you have a strong desire to give show some hometown love, Miami’s own Poplife is nominated for the title in Paper Magazine’s Fifth Annual Nightlife Awards. The uber-hipster publication has pitted the party against other…
Miami hip hop group Flow Official has just released a new album, the Architects LP, which features Itagui from Locos Por Juana, Malverde, !Mayday!, and L.M.S. What Up Kid is a song off the new album. The members of Flow Official are Omniscient, Emo, A Priest Classik, and Sic Vic,…
DJ Andres Amadeus has been a staple of Miami’s electronic dance music scene for several years now, holding court at various hotspots around town including Segafredo, the Delano, and Skybar, where he presided over the weekly Soultech sessions and its slew of cutting-edge international techno bookings. In 2008 Andres joined…
With all the Art Basel hype (only one week away, woooo), you can be forgiven if you forgot our previous announcement about the Miami Music Festival. In its inaugural year, it’s a three-day shebang styled after bigger industry conferences like SXSW and CMJ, with simultaneous showcases at a bunch of…
Not performing live at Kitchen 305Well, Thanksgiving is finally upon us. I know I’m not alone when I say that I start getting antsy for this holiday right around the end of summer. After all, I no longer need to fit into my bikini, so why not gorge myself on…
We were more excited this weekend about the upcoming long weekend plus all the Basel fun that will follow. Still there were a few things that caught our attention. So here is what you missed over the weekend:Vivid Video Porn Star Ball at CameoPhoto by Logan FazioVivid Video sure gets…
You want cool? Try this on for size. In a town and a time where everyone works every angle and drops every name, here comes a cat who, in this Head Spins interview, didn’t mention the fact that we both knew each other in the old-school days of Jessie’s and…
via livenation.comJackson BrowneThe Fillmore Miami BeachSaturday, November 21, 2009The Review:Like much of his audience these days, Jackson Browne seems to have embraced age and maturity only reluctantly. That’s the inevitable result, perhaps, of growing up in the untamed times that were the ’60s and ’70s. That’s evident, of course, in…
Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.When we walked in to the Whiskey Tango All American Bar and Grill (1903 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood Call 954-925-2555 or visit whiskeytangofl.com), we were assaulted by the sounds of an atrocious cover band playing “Summer of…
photo by Alex RendonThe Shutter closed out Saturday’s show at Cinema Paradiso.Auteur Explosion XIWith Soma, Sage and Tag, and the ShutterCinema Paradiso, Fort LauderdaleSaturday, November 21, 2009Better Than: Any chic gallery on Las Olas or a drunken stupor on Himmarshee.The Review:In this land of palm trees and Tommy Bahama shirts,…
Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature about bars and clubs, written by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.This week, I bar-hopped in Hollywood and stumbled into the PRL Euro Café (1904 A Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood. Call 954-980-8945 or visit prlcafe.com). PRL is a narrow venue with a few chairs at the front…
Despite the hordes of electronic dance music artists living and working out of Berlin — natives and foreign transplants alike — few embody the spirit and sound of Berlin’s contemporary EDM scene as fully as DJ/producer Cassy. Born Catherine Britton in England to a Caribbean father and Austrian mother, Cassy…
If you thought that the fact he’s only 6 phone calls away from everyone in the world made Kevin Bacon cool, prepare to be blown away. He sings. He and brother Michael (can someone start a 7 degrees of Michael Bacon meme, please) have been performing as The Bacon Brothers…
Here’s video of Pitbull’s recent performance in Istanbul, Turkey, where he’s famous, and where he claims he had the album of the year for 2009, “Not 305. Not Miami. Not Dade County. Not none of that shit. Turkey. Pa que sepa. Internacional.”…
As usual, there’s plenty of music to hear in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend. If you’re in the mood for some indie rock AND comedy, you should head out to Propaganda to hear John Ralston, Sweet Bronco, and the Beards of Comedy. If you want your comedy more hard-edged,…
via Flickr user Guy McCulloughHey look! It’s a concert announcement that has nothing to do with jam bands, ’80s hair metal, or sugary pop-punk acts! Don’t worry, they’ll be back next week. For today, let’s focus on Brandi Carlile’s announcement that she’ll be coming to Culture Room on February 20…
Unmitigated cool never goes outta style. Ever. Especially when said cool comes from one of the originators. See then it’s something at once insidious and divine, a thing in and of itself, unexplainable, indefinable and blessed beyond belief.That kinda cool also tends to be highly emulated. And no one was…
Photo by Ian WitlenANR just did CMJ, and celebrates its homecoming on Saturday at Studio 1419.Word is that Studio 1415 is an impressive new art/music space in North Miami. And it’s been a while since Awesome New Republic have been home — they recently did the whole CMJ thing in…
Friday, November 20*Everyone raised here likes 2 Live Crew, pretty much. So everyone we’ve mentioned this party to is excited about the fact that the group is playing for just $10 tonight at White Room in Miami. Click here for full details. *Tonight is day one of the 97th birthday celebration for…
photo by Ian WitlenThe Ska Is Dead TourWith Deal’s Gone Bad, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Mustard Plug, and the ToastersCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleThursday, November 19, 2009Better Than: Remembering the misled late-’90s mainstream notion of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones supposedly epitomizing ska.The Review:In 2009, ska sure isn’t the healthiest genre of underground…
