Note: Night Watch is a regularly-occuring feature by Broward/Palm Beach nightlife columnist Tara NieuwesteegYou’ve got to love Fort Lauderdale: where stilletoed women drink directly from the beer tap, where “happy hours” last eight-hours, and where the geriatrics can put ’em away with the best of them. During a single outing,…
We’re sure Jesse Rose will be playing on something a bit more, er, advance.Let us know when you’re sick of hearing the words Art Basel, because you’ll be hearing it plenty until the end of the first week of December.In more Art Basel music news, British DJ Jesse Rose will…
U-Tunes is a musical competition show produced by college students for the University of Miami’s television network. The show is a joint venture between the School of Communication and The Frost School of Music.This episode, the season premiere, features the band Ex Norwegian, a Miami indie band who has a…
Many famous musicians have spent a day or three in jail for driving drunk, holding drugs, or something really stupid. But only the select few have spent a serious stretch of time in prison, which brings us to David Allan Coe. The original country outlaw performs Friday at the Culture…
If Halloween is for treats, then Devil’s Night is for tricks! A little known tradition that originated in 1930s Detroit, Devil’s Night (or “Mischief Night”) involved the Motor City’s youth engaging in pseudo-criminal behavior on the night of October 30 each year — mostly acts of petty vandalism, like egging,…
Punk rock has always been more about the attitude than the music. Unfortunately, that “punk rock attitude” is often portrayed as a hate-everything, outsider-only, anti-social group. While some of those things may be true from time to time, things like this can also really show off what punk rock is…
The season for spooking is here, and to help awaken your inner ghoul who’s been lying dormant, here is a list of ten songs to celebrate the holiday. Some are obvious, some have loose, vague, or quirky affiliations with Halloween themes (you’ll be hard-pressed to find some of these on…
It’s enough to make metalhead purists wail and gnash their teeth. Half of the producer/DJ duo Mixhell is Iggor Cavalera, who co-founded seminal Brazilian groove-metal act Sepultura when he was just 15 years old. For the next 20 years, he toured the world and sold out stadiums as the band’s…
Earlier this summer, ¡MAYDAY! released its Technology EP, which is available free for download via Bandcamp. Off that release, the guys have decided to release a video for the track “Red Carpet Affair.” The video features Brooklyn musician and artist Andrew Strasser, a.k.a. Bad Brilliance, who was in town during…
With his Lights Out parties and releases, British super-DJ Steve Lawler ruled dance floors with a sound that lived up to that name. It was thumping, dark, and almost fiercely inward-looking — it was no surprise, really, that Lawler cited Depeche Mode and the Doors as influences. But just as…
Of the many memorable nights at Revolution over the past five years, the best was arguably Peter Murphy. Really. Although the nod too could go to the Spoon/Walkmen/White Rabbits triple bill. For Woody Graber, the club’s publicist, it was Chris Cornell, out under the stars. And it was also Panic…
With the exception of Rammstein (a raging post-industrial roar of a rock band) and Tokio Hotel (a neo-glam group of anime-like youngsters), Germany’s been strangely silent on the band front in recent years. Well, silent but for the racket coming out of KMFDM, anyway, who have released either an EP…
A cross between the melodic punk of Lawrence Arms and the churning hardcore of Rise Against, AWS combines a high quotient of heft and hooks. Original drummer Nicholas Pasquale Angelini is the beast’s backbone, driving tempo like Jeff Gordon and keying a thick bottom end worthy of J.Lo. Atop them…
The revelry swings into high gear on Lake Avenue on Halloween as Lake Worth’s inaugural Halloween Street gets under way Saturday at noon. Organizers promise three stages of music, “Coney Island-style” freak shows, a psychic fair, costume contests for kids, pets, and adults, and arts and crafts vendors galore. The…
Love and indifference are your only real options with Detroit-based sextet Electric Six. Their remarkable production values are unaffected: Singer Dick Valentine begins shows wearing a customized cape (“FLASHY”) for the song “Flashy Man,” removing it at song’s end to reveal a second customized cape (“SHOWTIME”) for “It’s Showtime.” His…
Have your cardigans handy on Tuesday night as Propaganda brings us an evening chock-full of sentimental, emotive indie rock. In keeping with promoter Steve Rullman’s vision of packaging bands, the four acts on this night’s bill cross similar heart-on-sleeve territories. Two of them, All Get Out and the Working Title,…
Jewel has had a hell of a musical career for someone barely into her mid-30s. The folk singer/songwriter went from living in a van to MTV stardom in 1995, thanks to her hugely successful debut album, Pieces of You. She then penned a collection of poetry, A Night Without Armor,…
Trying to describe the sound of the New Orleans quartet Mute Math can bring to mind that music-writing adage — it’s like dancing about architecture, i.e., inaccurate and silly. But here’s an attempt anyway to translate Mute Math’s beautiful squall into words: Lush, synth-driven rhythms churn insistently alongside rock riffs,…
You’ve got to love Fort Lauderdale, where stilletoed women drink directly from the beer tap, where “happy hours” last eight hours, and where the geriatrics can put ’em away with the best of them. During a single outing, I can rest my happy bar-hopping self at a classy hotel bar,…
Alligator Alley was one of the most distinctive venues we had in South Florida. Where else could you munch on savory gator ribs, sip on a crisp microbrew, and listen to funky New Orleans zydeco all at once? Sadly, it is no more — after a weekend-long sendoff, Alligator Alley…
It’s entirely possible, unless you reside in Little Buenos Aires (right up there between North and South Beach …where Las Vacas Gordas throws down!), that you’re unfamiliar with Damas Gratis. Hailing from Argentina, the eight-piece band has never been to Miami before. But these guys have been putting together some…
Check Crossfade on Wednesdays from now on for a quick survey of interesting recent national releases.Chuck ProphetLet Freedom Ring (Yep Roc)You’ve got to hand it to Chuck Prophet. While the rest of the world was panicking about the swine flu outbreak, the San Francisco-based songwriter was holed up in a…
