Boca Raton is home to a brand new music store and recording studio called The Garage. Robert Munser and his brother-in-law Bobby Hatton bought the store with the intention of just fixing it up a bit and selling a few instruments and accessories, but things quickly got more complicated.Owner Robert…
Miami’s house music cognoscenti will be rejoicing at the Electric Pickle this Friday night when Aquabooty, the city’s longest-standing and most esteemed house music party, celebrates a whopping 10 years of loving soulful groove. Formed in 2000 by scene veterans Joe Budious and Tomas Ceddia, the ‘Booty has remained a…
photo by Jim Rassol via myspace.com/theheavypetsThe Heavy Pets had really seemed to hit their stride earlier this year when they enlisted Felix Pastorius on bass. The son of bass legend Jaco Pastorius, Felix is a respected musician in his own right who has shared the stage with bass greats Victor…
As I walk into Sweetz, a horde of people buzzes around chocolate display cases. Another group plays Rock Band in the corner. The walls are pink and the chairs zebra-striped. The smell of chocolate is thick, and every single person in the café is smiling. What’s going on here? I’m…
As he writes in his highly readable autobiography, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, the father of shock rock credits the game for helping him maintain his sobriety, replacing a fondness for heavy boozing with the decidedly healthier obsession of birdies and bogeys after his second stint in rehab. Today, Cooper is…
To most who were there, the most memorable of Third Eye Blind’s chart battles was the 1997 duel between the band’s “Semi-Charmed Life” and Smash Mouth’s “Walking on the Sun.” But the Billboard standoff, that same year, between 3EB’s “How’s It Gonna Be” and No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” was far…
Three times now, Juliette Lewis has brought her roaring rock circus to our market, and three times now we’ve shown up in numbers that are almost embarrassing — not to her but to us. Folks always complain about some national rock act or another not swinging through South Florida. Then…
It’s been well over a year and a half since the release of Alan Jackson’s latest album, Good Time. The country great continues to tour behind it, his 13th studio effort. Perhaps it’s because there’s still a lot to absorb from the record. Although initially it sounds like a pious…
Some may prefer to celebrate the arrival of South Florida “fall” with foolishly worn token sweaters and decorative knick-knacks from Bealls. Just as reliable a sign of the changing seasons, though, is the annual Fort Lauderdale stop on GWAR’s seemingly never-ending tour. The last time these monsters played in these…
It took the Killers the better part of a decade to travel from their native Las Vegas to the American Airlines Arena, but they weren’t born for anything else. These guys started out thinking big and have only thought bigger since, from the Asian-nightclub synth-rock of 2004’s Hot Fuss to…
If you recognized the name in this little headline, let’s just get this out of the way first: Yes, Brand Nubian is still around. Or rather, since the beginning of this original paragon of conscious hip-hop excellence, the group has only periodically faded away and reappeared. There’s never been a…
Two decades removed from its last truly cutting-edge work, 1988’s classic … And Justice for All, Metallica finds itself strangely resting on top of the world while still fighting to stay relevant. Starting with 1991’s Metallica (known as the Black Album), the band began to veer wildly from the thrilling…
At Cosmic Bingo, you’d better hope you don’t scream “Bingo!” at the same time as someone else. Otherwise, you’ll be ushered to the front of the room to compete in that most fearsome of tiebreakers: the dance-off. In this case, a dance-off that involves a lot of gyration and removal…
photo provided by myspace.com/raffaandrainerMiami duo Raffa and Rainer will bring their quirky folk to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale, a place bustling with yogis, peaceful meditation classes, and humanist causes. The show will be at the Church’s Labyrinth Cafe on October 10. For those unfamiliar with one of…
N.E.R.D wants to sell you a Kia.Lamborghini, Maybach, Ferrari, Kia. Yes, Kia. You don’t know it yet, but the South Korean car might be the next thing you’ll rollin’ down the street on 22s. Auto companies making their brand appealing to young adults through free events isn’t exactly new –…
You’ve heard the haters’ standard bitch: “Man, the rap game these days ain’t nothin’ but a lobotomized, blinged-out, corporate pimp.” And while that’s true to a certain extent, hip-hop in the late aughts is anything but a bag of boring, homogenized bullshit. For every one-dimensional gangsta rap retread, you’ve got…
Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists on South Florida’s campus radio stations. Click here to view the top tracks from previous weeks. Top Albums for the week of September 20-27 University of Miami- WVUM 90.5 FM, “The Voice” Jamie Long tops the UM charts…
September 19 marked another recent, terrible loss for the DJ community , and hip-hop at large: Pioneering turntablist Roc Raida, born Anthony Williams, passed away after cardiac arrest. Williams had been hospitalized after an accident while practicing Krav Maga, which he had been studying for the past two years. He…
Photo by Paul O. ValleThe man partly responsible for the electro-house movement, Busy P.You read correctly: former Daft Punk manager and Ed Banger head honcho Pedro Winter (a.k.a. Busy P) is coming to Miami. This will be his first DJ set in the Magic City since Ed Banger took over…
via Drop Dead Beats Adrian “Drop” Santalla, and Phenom are the production team behind Drop Dead Beats and the force behind “Triumph,” the opening track on Pitbull’s new album Rebelution.ESPN recently licensed the song for one month of universal usage. Drop says “I got people calling me up telling me,…
Far up north, Toronto’s Mod Club hosts a Friday night party called Arcade. Produced by Embrace, a local production company, it books some of the most amazing dance music acts all year long. But it seems the company wants to making itself known in Miami — perhaps just in time…
via myspace.com/fancymeyetX & Y Fest took place last weekend at The Talent Farm with 20 bands competing to see who would be chosen to represent a generation of music fans in Broward county.Oh, and there was a $500 prize, but the honor of winning has got to trump any monetary…
