There are reasons Depeche Mode is so often called “critic proof.” The group’s performance this past Saturday night at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise was, in a word, transcendent. That sounds like hyperbole, but ask any of the nearly 20,000 people in attendance that night. The performance drew its otherworldy…
Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, Marco Argiro was a precocious talent on the local rock scene. As frontman of the Screeching Weasel-style pop-punk act the Outrights, Argiro was headlining at local clubs by the time he was barely old enough to drive. After relocating to New York City, he started…
Churchill’s Pub, the storied, gentrification-repellent venue in Miami’s Little Haiti, is a real institution in an institutionless town. Like time itself, it seems to have no beginning and no end in sight; it’s just there, always, changing little. But Churchill’s did, of course, have a beginning – back in 1979,…
These days, it’s rare to find a new reggae act that embodies the genre’s traditional roots. But such is the case with Rootz Underground, a six-man band formed ten years ago out of “di yard” — Jamaica. They not only sound right but act right, singing conscious lyrics of justice…
It seemed for a while that Miami could play host to multiple music festivals. But after the rapid demise of Bang! (we hardly knew ye) and the sudden cancellation of Langerado, it seems like nobody will be able to match the success of Ultra, so far the city’s only music…
Calling an artist a living legend in print can be a tricky business, with the risk of vocal naysayer upheaval very real. It requires either a certain disregard for reader opinion or a subject whose trajectory speaks so loudly for itself that the writer’s words become less an affirmation than mere…
If Grammys were awarded for hard work and hustle, Dainamite would win at least one every year. He’ll play anywhere for anyone at any time. And if he’s not performing, he’s either producing other artists or hustling up new beats. And he does it all from his little home studio…
Let’s see… You can spend your Sundays watching mindless TV, laundering your undergarments, balancing your checkbook, or doing something equally and pathetically lame. Or you can slather on some suntan lotion and transport yourself to a tropical, drunken, decadent paradise during a five-hour minivacation at the poolside Hilton Hotel tiki…
After taking a seat in the Lodge’s simple two-room wood-paneled bar, I found myself staring at the chalkboards, poring over a hundred clever beer names, ignoring the football games playing on the televisions. A bartender noticed the puzzled look on my face and offered a few suggestions. After explaining that…
Yo, WTF’s up with Jorge Moreno? It seems that, aside from a seemingly isolated performance on last December’s Victoria Secret Fashion Show, we haven’t heard from the talented Cuban-American singer-songwriter in some time. The release of his Grammy and Latin Grammy nominated debut record Moreno showed incredible promise, spawning tracks…
Jacob Jeffries Band …Waiting for the Piano Movers…Eleven:11 Entertainment Jacob Jeffries is absurdly young — barely out of his teens — to be so abundantly talented. And despite his age, he’s clawed his way to the top strata of South Florida’s pop elite, thanks to last year’s aptly titled debut…
If the current South Florida thrash scene were a rotting animal carcass, then Vultures are Wolves would be the three-headed scavenger beast sent forth from, as the band describes it, the “disgusting swamps of Miami” to clean up the mess. (Well, maybe I shouldn’t say clean up so much as…
via Flickr user EvilMutentPersistence pays for bands such as AFI. Originally formed in 1991 as a DIY punk rock band, it took 12 years before it released an album that non-hardcore fans paid attention to. Sing the Sorrow (2003) sold more than a million albums, and Decemberunderground is well on its way…
You no doubt remember the ultra-cool group Yerba Buena, the kick-ass group founded by producer Andres Levin. Its 2003 debut album, President Alien, earned it a Grammy nod, in part because of the smash success of the band’s catchy first single, “Guajira.” The group’s female vocalist, CuCu Diamantes, has had a…
The Earth’s moon was full as we arrived at the medieval castle for the OpenFields Festival, in the Belgium village of Rêves.The Bermuda Triangle’s Flamingo prince, Otto von Schirach, instinctually quenched the crowd’s thirst for his signature style of alien beats, playing for close to two hours.As Otto performed under…
Now that La Roux has fallen from the top, French electro-rock band Pony Pony Run Run has taken the number one spot.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 Ten…
image via Miami New Times archives week of September 7 – 13, 1988Yesterday And Today Records is a legendary Dade County mom-and-pop record store. The above ad is from their original location, long since closed, but guess what, they’re still open at 9275 SW 40 St. At 28 years strong…
Steven Ford, alias Bruno Pronsato, is one of those rare but increasingly ubiquitous contemporary techno producers with a background in some disparate instrumentalist music genre (see Adultnapper, who started out as a hardcore punk rocker, or No Regular Play, whose Greg Paulus hails from indie folk outfit Beirut, or [a]pendics.shuffle,…
The State OfWe’ll have to wait until 2010 to see if Lilith Fair makes it to these parts, but in the meantime, Tobacco Road is putting out the call for its third annual November celebration of all things XX-chromosomed, Femme Fest. The Miami venue is currently taking submissions to stack its lineup, so those interested should send a…
Photo by C. StilesJose L. Carrera, artist, family man, and founder of OchoPlacas Tattoos passed away quietly on Sunday morning of natural causes. Carrera was an immensely talented artist who started in the street and first cut his teeth on body art while incarcerated, eventually opening the thriving tattoo shop…
via myspace.com/tkfrocksGrowing up in Fort Lauderdale, Marco Argiro was a precocious talent on the local rock scene. As frontman of the Screeching-Weasel-style pop-punk act the Outrights, Argiro was headlining at local clubs by the time he was barely old enough to drive. A few years later, after relocating to New…
To realize just how truly awesome this last Depeche Mode show was at BankAtlantic Center — and, well, to realize just how obsessive the band’s fans are — just punch in “Depeche Mode BankAtlantic Center” into YouTube. Despite the band’s rejection of most official media outlets’ photo requests, a large…
