Click here to read Crossfade’s Q&A with Judy Torres, here for the Q&A with David from Nice & Wild, and here for the Q&A with Johnny O.Rockell’s “In a Dream” came out a decade after the initial freestyle wave. It was the only new Freestyle song on the radio in…
Colorado just doesn’t know: Don’t mess with Little Havana. This is a couple days old (and thus a million years in blog years), but in case you missed it, Pitbull bit back at a rowdy fan in Aspen. It’s really weird, actually, to imagine the rapper performing in the Rocky…
Never sleep in Miami. Never rest. This Saturday night, May 30, Sneaker Pimps is coming to South Florida again and this time with a live blast from Clipse as well as Cool Kids. I am not a huge fan of CKs but Clipse is extra special good. If you haven’t…
photo by Justin Namon, thepopnessparty.comTo read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here.I want to talk about the bike scene in South Florida again, because there have been some really good events lately. We just did open sprints two weeks ago at Keirin Cycles in Miami Beach…
Wassup Kendall. Dade got heat in every corner of the county so put your whiskey up for some down home blues, beers, and food on Stormy Mondays at The Fish House at 10000 SW 56 Street (Miami, FL 33165). The event takes place every Monday night featuring music by artists…
I can pretty much blame Steve Bug for how I first acquired a taste for minimal. I didn’t always get minimal –I used to have a hard time grasping its tedious repetitiveness, the absence of real melody and conventional song structure. Then a couple years ago I heard a compilation…
That’s right, the honorable Phineas J. Whoopie has officially retired from lecturing Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley the Walrus to pursue a career in music. For those of you not up on obscure cartoon characters from the 1960s, Phineas is the bespectacled professor who would help out Underdog and his friends…
Crossfade announced earlier that Counting Crows will be playing August 18 at the (by that time) newly renovated Bayfront Park Amphitheater on August 18. The news just got much more exciting as Michael Franti & Spearhead and California rockers Augustana will be joining the Crows for the awkwardly titled “The…
Green Day announced that The Bravery, Franz Ferdinand, and Kaiser Chiefs will take turns opening during this summer’s tour. On August 4 in Miami’s American Airlines Arena, Kaiser Chiefs will be warming up the crowd before Green Day hits the stage. If you’re hoping to see The Bravery or Franz…
Matisyahu has undergone perpetual evolution since he burst out of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where he groomed his musical talents and allowed his faith as a Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Jew to grow. Murmurs circulated of the unlikely artist, particularly with the buzz of his Billboard chart-topping sophomore release in 2005, Live At…
Have you ever had one of those nights when you just wanna stay home and chill on the couch, but you don’t wanna miss out on all the action at the club? Well now there is a way you can have your cake and eat it too! Web TV channel’s…
That Gwen Stefani hasn’t become a caricature of herself is either testament to her utter savvy or to the fact that she basically began as a caricature in the first place — and beat everybody to the punch line. That’s not to say that, back in the day, No Doubt’s…
The local fivesome the Mission Veo specializes in a dripping-black variety of dance rock, shot through with tribal drumbeats, minor-key melodies, and darkwave keyboard stabs. And, sure, plenty of bands these days attempt this kind of dark dance-floor psychedelia, but the Mission Veo’s got another serious weapon in its arsenal:…
That’s right, the honorable Phineas J. Whoopie has officially retired from lecturing Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley the Walrus to pursue a career in music. For those of you not up on obscure cartoon characters from the 1960s, Phineas is the bespectacled professor who would help out Underdog and his friends…
Fans of 1990s funk-metal band Primus can’t forget that famous live footage from Woodstock ’94. In it, the band’s resident bass god, Les Claypool, dexterously covered Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” by playing the guitar part on his signature Carl Thompson bass using the slap technique. To top it off, he…
When your dad was one of the most innovative musicians of all time and you’ve got ample ability of your own, it’s only natural that you’d carry on in the family business. In this case, the extraordinary paternal figure happens to be the late Jaco Pastorius, a bassist who fused…
Sometime in the past few years, between digesting French literature and watching birds alight on the placid South Florida waters, Iggy Pop, the Godfather of Punk, decided, finally, that rock as we know it is a lost cause. No, actually it’s worse. “It’s clear that rock music, what’s made right…
It was Friday night, and Big & Rich’s “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)” echoed deep in my ears as I sipped a raspberry daiquiri and relaxed at Scandals Saloon with some of Wilton Manors’ finest gentlemen. As the Friday-night liquor-drenched festivity unfolded around me, I found myself mesmerized by…
Some people work at ambition while others are born to it. And then there are those who take the ambition they’re born with and work it till it gels into something successful. And each success spurs even more successes, until, well, their names become synonymous with the very word succeed…
In Miami, freestyle still reigns supreme. The Latin rhythms and synth stabs, combined with earnest, passionate lyrics, strike the heart of nearly everyone in town old enough to have his or her heart broken in the late 1980s. Anytime South Floridians hear “When I Hear Music” by Debbie Deb or…
Mysterious 20-something singer Lissy Trullie has just started her musical journey, and yet the media myth-making and labeling has already begun. Trullie fashions lean, sharp indie rock but already feels saddled with a frequent “punk” misnomer. “They always try and put me in a box,” she says. “If I mention…
It seems that contempt for his radio-friendly ’70s tunes such as “The Joker” and “Fly Like an Eagle” drove Steve Miller off the stage in ’80s. He told Rolling Stone in 2008, “Bands like X were the big thing in L.A., and my work was being called unmitigated slop. I…
