With a penchant for the more soulful and emotionally compelling sounds of the dance underground, PL0T resident DJ Mansur continues to mark Miami’s downtown minimal scene with discerning taste and cultivation. When he’s not opening for the likes of Justin Martin, Seth Troxler, and Lee Curtiss, Mansur goes digging deep…
Friday, June 19*The So Raw Festival starts tonight at ‘ISM Gallery in Wynwood, Miami. Individual show tickets are just $10, and a whole weekend pass is just $18. This includes free beer and vodka, people. Do it. Click here for full details.*Miami New Times’ 2008 Best Hip-Hop act, Mayday!, celebrates…
Black Jail has a new cassette release coming out on Broward county’s own imprint, Acid Casualty. The act features Dub and Rick Smith (Shitstorm, Mehkago NT, Torche) and is a brutal plodding noisy assault on the senses. In addition to this release the label has a Last/Rauh split cassette and…
The wheel in the sky keeps on turning, and Journey keeps on touring. Enjoying a second revival thanks in no small part to their song being used as the punctuation mark at the end of HBO’s The Soprano’s, Journey is tearing up the country, packing as many shows as possible…
How’s this for some good tour timing: Tony Bennett’s long, meandering tour which spreads 33 shows over 8 months, will be conveniently making a slew of stops in Florida throughout January 2010. On January 8, Mr. Bennett will bring his golden voice to the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, and…
Sneaky Sound SystemSneaky Sound SystemWednesday, June 17, 2009LIV at the Fontainebleau, Miami BeachBetter Than: Most vocal-accompanied house music.I’ve got to admit I don’t know much about Sneaky Sound System apart from what I’ve heard played at the clubs. So when the Sydney trio were scheduled to make a rare appearance…
Know what I want to do? Coin a phrase. You know, like I’ll use it here and soon people will be employing it elsewhere, like in everyday conversation. What better way to truly indulge, or perhaps abuse, my access to the masses? Ideally, it’d be some nearly nonsensical word that defies…
From the moment local hip hop crew ¡Mayday! got their first DSL hookup, the self-described “sound bombers” have proven themselves to cunning manipulators of modern internet technology. Like a half-feral band of dystopian techno-guerillas, they’ve managed to sidestep the bombed-out remains of the post-Napster music industry — YouTubing, MySpacing, and…
Melodic and pop-driven, Jim Camacho’s music has been featured on several films including Tom Dowd & the Language of Music, Pledge This, and Fatboy and captures the catchy, soft folk-rock instincts of Elvis Costello and Jack Johnson, with occasional riffs that conjure up Oasis acoustic sessions. The Miamian songwriter, who…
Notes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing weekly on Crossfade, focused on pop music’s history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. Click here to read past installments.I have a gripe. I don’t want…
I know from experience that reggaeton is one of those genres that people either love or hate. I myself have mixed feeling about reggaeton, but I admit than I’m fascinated by its cultural impact and worldwide reach. Like salsa before it, reggaeton quickly became the music of choice for a…
Local music/culture webzine Revmiami has just introduced a fun new video series called Big City Breakdown. The aim, they announced in this post, is to take favorite local acts, set them loose in the urban wilds, and tape them performing a song in one take. It’s a concept that’s been…
Want to see something a little different in November? Try Mute Math, a new wave, post-rock, alternative hybrid band from New Orleans. I guess they’re not entirely new or undiscovered, seeing as they’ve been nominated for a Grammy for their “Typical” video (found after the jump) and they’re playing at Revolution…
Don’t sleep this weekend. Now the So Raw Festival goes all day, night, and late-night on Saturday. The first show that day goes from noon to 4 p.m. at the Upper Eastside Garden, followed by an evening show back at ‘ISM Gallery in Wynwood, starting at 7 p.m. (Check out…
Photo via michael.doyle’s Flickr The backlash against Atmosphere is puzzling. Wasn’t it just a few years ago that Slug and Ant were THE darlings of the underground hip hop movement? Anyone non-commercial hip-hop fan had an Atmosphere sticker or two on their car, or at least rocked a Lucy Ford…
Bass Low/Bass Galactica 8Juan Loumiet is on a busy streak. Besides running his venue, promoting shows, and spinning beats, he is finding time to drop deep tracks on his label Basshead. Right now he has this piece coming from Miami’s own Otto von Schirach. It’s a double-A side with two…
AshworthMiami Beach’s Ashworth lays low in the cut doing visuals and lighting most nights at the Vagabond. If you look under that baseball cap of his, you might recognize him as Audioid that noisy experimental electronic musician who builds and mods his own freaking instruments. At any rate, now the…
Fatboy Slim will be forever preserved in the mainstream pop-culture annals as that funk soul brother who all but left so-called “electronica” behind as he crafted commercial-ready dance hits. Seriously, his late 1990s/early 2000s hits are so massive that they need not even be named. (Oh, here are a few…
If you’ve ever been to Lochloosa, you’d wonder why JJ Grey is always singing about it. It’s up in Florida lake country, past nothing and halfway to Hawthorne. I think there might be a Hardee’s. But there’s something in Grey’s voice when he sings about his hometown. There’s something that…
Is there anything that Paul Oakenfold hasn’t done? The London-born wax worker has been dubbed the world’s most successful DJ (per Guinness World Records), toured with Madonna, sold zillions of CDs, reportedly has collected as much as £25,000 or more for certain gigs, and collaborated with actress Brittany Murphy on…
The Plain White T’s quietly released a pop-punk album called Every Second Counts in September of 2006. However, thanks to the surprise success of the ubiquitous single “Hey There Delilah” — which is originally found on 2005’s All That We Needed — Counts was recently certified gold and the band…
“I enjoy playing with what’s at hand, almost like found ideas, something that’s here and now. Most of my vocals are written in one take; they just need a bit of refining — I don’t really want to mess around with the details! Working in music somehow allows you a…
