On Combichrist’s fourth and latest album, Today We Are All Demons, the band’s mastermind, Andy LaPlegua, effectively ups the ante on the tried-and-true answering-machine intro. It begins with a message from an unfortunate soul on his way to jail on a concealed-weapons charge. His girlfriend, meanwhile, is in the hospital…
If a band exists solely to keep the party going — as California’s Smash Mouth clearly does — it makes perfect sense to catch that band in a tailgate party setting before a huge football game. For this appearance, Smash Mouth takes a detour from its usual casino engagements to…
Stonefox is a garage band in the purest sense of the word — except, perhaps, for the fact that it did most of its recording in living rooms. But they did accomplish the entire recording for their first full-length LP, Dead in the Sun on “barely professional” equipment. After what…
Pat yourself on the back for attending Saturday’s early evening, all-ages extravaganza at Revolution. It’s sponsored by Music Saves Lives, a California-based group on its way to nonprofit status that aims to “create opportunities for people to save lives with simple contributions, and to teach the facts about the effects…
One gets the impression that if there were eight days in a week, DJ Affect would spin each and every one of ’em. Hell, it’s a bet he’d spin every day of the week if there were ten or 12 or 20 – that’s how driven the cat is. When…
“Brooklyn,” as the current day manager of the Vagabond in downtown Miami is known, has done and seen it all around the South Florida music scene since arriving here from his native New York some 12 years ago. Younger types flitting around hipster nightlife know him as the improbably, heavily…
Beyond the unending, dentist-office-like whir of hundreds of tattoo needles buzzing on and off, the Miami Tattoo Expo will feature another soundtrack – an impressive lineup of local and national musical acts. While other South Florida tattoo conventions have relied mostly on rockabilly cover bands and the like, the Miami…
Happy New Year, ya’ll! It’s 2009 and with the economy going south, everyone seems to be looking for answers at the bottom of a bottle — and that means more parties! And January is already gearing up to be spectacular. But let us not get ahead of ourselves, because here…
This Friday’s excursion into sonic brutality at Churchill’s Pub is not just another exercise in aggression. This time, it’s to support a nascent all-ages venue in the inner city, tentatively called GOO. The project is being spearheaded by a local music fan, Kenneth Fee. The graduate of Hialeah High has…
Scottish indie rock act Bis’ overtures were expressed rather neatly in its 1997 single “Tell It to the Kids”: “And now, coming through the airwaves into your home/Introducing the new transistor heroes.” San Francisco’s hey willpower lacks a similar expressive salutation, but it shares Bis’ affinity for trash culture, “kandy…
Little, it seems, can stop the improbable Tampa-based female party – rap juggernaut that is Yo Majesty. Not even the occasional almost-implosion of the group itself. Early last summer, some undefined internal meltdown sent home half of the group, the gospel – trained vocalist – turned – rapper Jewel B…
Justin NamonOur cameras stopped by Off the Radar’s return last night at The Standard in Miami Beach. The off-beat party is looking once again to be the music aficionado’s sanctuary in an often stale South Florida nightlife scene.Click here to view the full slideshow…
from the band’s myspace Treesoundz is a band that could make millions of dollars. I found them on the Internet while I was lurking around for a blog post. I’m a freelancer; I get paid by the piece, like selling crack rock on commission. They need to quit editing…
Last time I saw The Juan MacLean, it was at Poplife when it still called The District home. I actually didn’t know who he was and had just sort of stumbled into the party. But soon after that, I was hooked. The Juan MacLean sound is so smooth and cool,…
To get an introduction to Jose El Rey (if you actually need one!) and to read previous installments of his weekly Crossfade column, Que Pasa, M.I.A?, click here. Against my better judgment and sense of comfort and convenience, I went camping. Into the woods. Into the night. With fire. And…
Even if you have spent only a couple of nights out on the local music scene, your ears have likely taken in the smooth sounds of Buffalo Brown’s guitar playing. He is one of Miami’s most sought-after ax men, in a typical night traveling across town from gig to gig…
The peeps from PL0T were pretty busy in 2008 providing Fridays at the White Room with a classy selection of hot international techno acts. There were intimate performances by Lee Curtiss, Seth Troxler, and Bill Patrick, among others. And there was that sleek visual ambiance courtesy of the multimedia collective…
Credit it, partially at least, to the rise of smooth – jam – loving new indie-ish bands like Tigercity, the Yacht Rock series on YouTube, and the unexpected, fanatical boosterism from people like Travis McCoy of the Gym Class Heroes. The blue-eyed soul duo of Hall & Oates is experiencing…
To read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. With the tattoo convention coming up this weekend in Miami, I want to talk about how these conventions are full of jackasses. I used to work for Eulogy Recordings, one of sponsors of it, and Madball is playing on…
Where can you see a violent, wheelchair bound assailant striking out against street musicians playing dirty south drum beats? Downtown Miami, mothafucker. That’s right, a YouTube user identifying him- or herself only as guaromiami recently posted a teaser of the incident. They’re selling the full version in hard copy for…
A family-led operation, the Machito Orchestra was established in 1939 and continues to attract some of the best-known musicians in Latin jazz. The New York-based group comes to town on Thursday, January 15 in a celebratory mood. The show pays homage to three departed legends of the genre: the Machito…
“Hip-Roc” rapper JK Citizen has a message “We tryina bring back music, we trying take it to a different level.” You may have seen his “Rock The Vote” video on YouTube, over 150,000 people have, but JK Citizen is just getting started.After the jump, see the transcript of the Crossfade…
