Last week Crossfade announced that Green Day is playing somewhere in Miami on August 4. That somewhere is officially the American Airlines Arena. The ticket sale dates are still up in the air, so we’ll trickle the information on to loyal Crossfade readers as it becomes available. For now, waste…
Remember the Clevelander? Of course you do. What Miami resident doesn’t have at least a handful of fond memories of the iconic Art Deco structure on the corner of 10th and Ocean? It stood watch over one of SoBe’s busiest avenues, a patient guardian, its arms open, welcoming the public…
For more than a year, LMFAO (SMS shorthand for “laugh my fucking ass off”) has been bastardizing the hipster-hop genre with their single “I’m In Miami, Bitch!” off their 2008 Party Rock EP. At one point acts like Kid Sister, Spank Rock, Amanda Black and The Cool Kids seemed like…
via sidekick.comIf you missed out on scoring tickets to her upcoming sold-out show at Revolution, or you somehow just can’t get enough of Katy Perry, you’re in luck. The shape-shifting popstress returns to South Florida on May 7, playing a free gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach as part of…
It’s been a little over a year since the release of Light From Above, the debut LP by the young Miami metal quartet Black Tide. (For more background, click here to read an article I wrote last year about the history of the band). But the recording process for the…
via myspace.com/katyperryBefore Katy smooched and sang, there were othersFormer Christian singer Katy Perry’s mischievously cute ditty “I Kissed a Girl” made her a pop star even hipsters could appreciate — at least until the next Lily Allen album dropped. “I Kissed a Girl” is fun, catchy and has the killer…
Fort Lauderdale-based jammers the Heavy Pets will play three shows in South Florida to remind us what could have been at Langerado. The band, which consists of guitarist Mike Genius, guitarist and vocalist Jeff Lloyd, bassist Felix Pastorius, drummer Jah Newitt, and pianist Jim Wuest, has been touring for the…
xplicit from Miami New Times on Vimeo.Diddy’s new song “Diddy Bop” is produced by Miami/Lauderdale’s Isaac Opus and features Xplicit on the hook. Xplicit also co-wrote the song. Above is a video of Xplicit writing hooks in the studio with Jim Jonsin. I had to pull the video out of…
Stonefox @ PJ’s Lager House – Detroit, MIMaybe you don’t like loud ass rock and roll played with abandon and actual feeling. Or maybe you just really really love paying nine dollars for a beer. It could be that you like paying a big – ass cover charge to get…
Rejoice ladies and gentlemen, music’s saviors Creed are coming to West Palm Beach on September 16. It’s been a long hard five years since Creed has toured, and clearly music has suffered greatly in their absence. There’s been an enormous lack of songs about going higher and having arms wide…
via amonamarth.comMetalheads looking for enough hair windmills — a circular type of headbanging that, um, is exactly what it sounds like — to give Don Quixote a coronary will find their Valhalla at Culture Room on Saturday as Viking-obsessed Swedes Amon Amarth roll through town.Over the band’s seven-album career, its…
photo by Jipsy, nefariousgirl.comA scene from last year’s fiestaWhat do you have in common with Afrobeta and Jose El Rey? No, not a police rap sheet as thick as a phone book, comprised mostly of various counts of public intoxication and indecent exposure. You shouldn’t assume that of Afrobeta just…
Last year, the $400 million music-themed Hard Rock Park opened in Myrtle Beach, marking “the largest tourist investment in South Carolina history.” But seems like while dropping all that dough, nobody bothered to think that oops, the Hard Rock chain of hotels, restaurants, and casinos might care. And beyond this,…
Ah, thank Google Alerts for bringing this gem of South Florida music past to our inbox. The Sunset Strip story is one that has been told, but what of bands elsewhere in the country who were plying the same sound? One of these, it seems, was a band called Poser…
Bobby Load and Dan Ceritelli in ActionSomehow I missed the flier for this show, even though I was in Broward last Friday. Southern Flaw is one of my favourite versions of South Florida music and they are playing tonight at the Bar-Tv building in Ft. Lauderdale with a bunch of…
Carmelo Anthony spoke with Prunk TV recently at a party in Miami. He was promoting his hip-hop label, Krossover Entertainment. Melo won a gold medal in Beijing last year, but who really cares, when the Miami Heat crushed the Atlanta Hawks like a bunch of grapes on Saturday. Dwayne Wade is really one of…
Miami’s annual Best Of The Best concert has become an international Memorial Weekend destination event. This year, some of the world’s most popular dancehall, soca, and rap stars will take the stage at Bicentennial Park and most likely rock an over-capacity crowd. If you plan on going, get your tickets…
Yo no creo en nadie!My love for my roots and subsequent displays of Cubaneo are no secret. Cuban culture is a beautiful thing, and despite the stranglehold of a 50-year dictatorship, nowhere has it shone more than in music. Which is why I want to take a moment to talk…
NYC DJ/producer Harry “Choo Choo” Romero has gained renown since the mid-1990s with releases on various house labels -including Erick Morillo’s Subliminal Records- and a reputation for funky uplifting club sets that blend soulful house, US garage, and Latin rhythms. Among various side projects and collaborations, his original production work…
This might take some strain, considering the Twitter-fueled micro-attention-span of early 2k9, but think hard back to 2007. Did you watch a lot of music-themed reality TV? If so, you may remember a Fuse program centered on the Bodog-sponsored national Battle of the Bands. It set some 16 bands into…
Ben ThackerCuci Amador of Afrobeta performing at Swamp Stomp Music Festival at Jimbo’s. Click here to view the full slide show.Swamp Stomp Music FestivalSaturday, April 25, 2009Jimbo’s, Virginia KeyBetter Than: The average assignment.The Third Annual Swamp Stomp independent music festival, under a mystical cloud of weed smoke, joyfully stomped the…
Before the house turns totally to house music on Saturday nights in that downtown megaclub known as Space, all kinds of other action is kicking throughout the joint. A lot of that action goes down out on the club’s infamous terrace, under the stars and in the shadow of a…
