It’s Friday evening at the onset of happy hour, and I’m in YOLO’s O Lounge — having second thoughts. A manager here has offered me a guest stint as a drink slinger, and I have accepted. All week, I debated whether to study the five pages of recipes I’d been…
Is a DJ a musician? Some say yes; some say no. If you say yes, what happens when the DJ ditches the turntable and kicks on the Serato? Are they still musicians? And what about the Pioneer CDJ folks? Or the Apple core crowd? Are they musicians too? The question…
South Florida techno lovers, listen up. Pornograph Events has one hell of a double booking lined up this Saturday, with legends Derrick May and François K scheduled to play Nocturnal’s Eden Terrace Garden this Saturday. Derrick May is, of course, one of Detroit’s legendary “Belleville Three,” the trio of early…
Ha Ha Tonka Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South bloodshotrecords.com Reared in the heartland — Springfield, Missouri, to be precise — Ha Ha Tonka aptly reflects its down-home sensibilities on its second album. With an elegiac approach that spirals between forlorn and ferocious, the band brings to mind the Kings…
Fair warning: The strawberry martini at SAS Martini Lounge is dangerous. It’s nearly impossible to taste even a hint of alcohol in the dark-pink concoction. Instead, it tastes like someone put a few pounds of strawberries into a blender, liquefied them, and carefully poured the results into a martini glass…
Sol Ruiz’s Oultander is a 6-song disc I got in a cardboard sleeve from producer Bobby Macintyre of Studio 71.He says: “Sol is the songwriter and she plays acoustic guitar. I played drums, produced, engineered, and mixed it. Jesse Jackson plays some Dobro slide guitar, and some cuatro. Lorenzo Corti,…
Next week Juan Loumiet is bringing Andy C to Black Sheep (formerly Laundry Bar). Besides being one of the first kids on the block with that drum ‘n’ bass stuff and besides the fact that he is dope on the tables, not always sticking to two decks, he is also…
Belgian producer Jona debuted in 2006 with his release of “The Learnings” EP on the prestigious Get Physical imprint and is one of the most promising young talents of the European techno scene. Originally a virtuosic guitarist with jazz/blues inclinations and a big fan of Brian Eno, he combines technical…
Scottish folk singer/songwriter Paolo Nutini has announced a summer tour with an August 31 stop at the Culture Room. Paolo has been huge across the bond (that’s fancy speak for the UK) for about 3 years now and he’s starting to pick up some serious steam in the U.S. now…
via myspace.com/peoplefromvenusPeople From Venus is one of the most under – the – radar quality local acts, but that should change soon with the late-summer release of the band’s debut album. I waxed ecstatically about them not too long ago on this blog, but suffice it to say their songwriting…
It seems like this is going to be a habit: This Wednesday, Live Nation is offering another special deal for a whole bunch of upcoming shows at the Cruzan Amphitheatre. Exactly $24.99 will buy you lawn tickets for the list of shows after the jump. That means no user fees,…
The P.A.T.H. School of Hip-Hop Culture, run by Brimstone and partner Amit Regev, is one of the most worthwhile homegrown music-related projects in a long time. You can read more about it in a recent Crossfade post here, but to sum up, it’s a homegrown, labor of love summer camp…
Sonic Youth’s latest topped the lists at Sweat and Radio-Active.Moving Units is a new column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to see past top sellers. Top Sellers for the Week of June 8-12:Uncle Sam’s Music, South Beach 1. Behind the Front,…
Have you ever wondered what Billy Idol’s “White Wedding” would sound like with a bossa nova makeover? No? Me neither. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea. And that’s exactly the sort of thing that Liset Alea and the SeXy TRiO plan to do tonight at the Viceroy’s…
via myspace.com/theheavypetsAs the sun was setting on Snoop Dogg’s Sunday show at Bonnaroo and the middle fingers that were raised high in the air cheering him on only a few minutes before were put back in their pockets, a dance-funk fusion of keyboard, wailing guitar, funky bass, and steady House-music-ready…
N.O.R.E. in ActionRight on the heels of the Jeru show last Friday, the White Room has another performance from a dope MC, this time it’s N.O.R.E. a.k.a. Noreaga, also of Capone n Noreaga. Since his arrest earlier this year down at Fatburger on the beach, N.O.R.E. has been busy, witnessing…
Not many swing bands boast an axe man who’s a fan of Rush. Then again, when the original swing bands were around, prog rock wasn’t even the horizon, let alone a dream in some long-haired Canadian’s mind. Oddly enough, the swing bands got along fine without it. Though truth be…
MumpsyThe Orlando InvasionMumpsy, with Surfer Blood and XOXO Saturday, June 14, 2009Propaganda, Lake Worth Better Than: Drinking freshly squeezed OJ with Japanese Tourists. The Review: O-town is famed for being the primary residence of the world’s most renowned mouse, and for spewing out annoyingly cutesy boy bands. So can anything…
Adultnapper is the shadowy alter ego of Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Francis Harris, a philosophy PhD drop‐out, former political activist/hardcore punk rocker, and one of the darker iconoclastic figures of contemporary techno. For a man who once admitted to having originally hated dance music, Harris has emerged in the late 2000s as…
image via Miami New Times archives week of June 15-21, 1988We’re not in this alone. This week Archive Diver, Crossfade edition, presents the concert calendar from the June 15 – 21, 1988 edition of the Miami New Times.Most importantly note Youth Of Today at the Cameo Theatre with Raging Pus-Bags,…
In the spirit of the season, I will lay down for you some hurricane tips and tricks and do’s and don’t’s. Do you dread putting up your shutters like I do? Keep them up all year! It’s easier, you only have to do it once and you are always prepared…
So aside from seeing South Florida’s finest Guitar Hero players in South Florida open for Aerosmith at the BankAtlantic Center on July 13, fans have a very special treat in store. Just a couple shows into their current tour, Aerosmith has announced that every stop throughout their summer run will…
