“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…
As the Seventies ended and disco pushed into the mainstream, those who came of age during that period always seemed to be reminded that they had missed out on the great cultural revolution of the raging Sixties. As many recall, former Beatle John Lennon himself pretty much summed it up…
A few years ago, if you asked me what my favorite night of the week to go out was I would have told you Wednesday night without any hesitation. Yes, Wednesday night. South of Fifth bar/lounge The Mark hosted a hump-day party called Damaged, which was the brainchild Revolver creator…
This past December, Rolling Stone published an interesting industry – centric article detailing the ongoing business battle between ticket-sale monolith Ticketmaster, and live-show monolith Live Nation. Of course, everybody knows that until very, very recently, Ticketmaster was inescapable, even at certain small venues (locally, for instance, even Culture Room uses…
When New Times last checked in with Miami’s premier live hip-hop party, Mayday!, we were happy to see they had survived the wave of almost-hype in ’06/’07 and were back to the grind. (Nutshell refresher: The group recorded a track with Cee-Lo and DJ Craze called “Groundhog Day,” played a…
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…
Retro video game nerds, don’t get too excited. Friday’s guest act at the Vagabond has nothing to do with the mostly forgotten Nineties Nintendo game, but rather has appropriated the moniker, a la Crystal Castles, to broadcast a fascination with retro bleeps and bloops. The multicolor, 8-bit style graphics festooning…
This prolific French producer and DJ has been making waves in Europe for nearly a decade, and his original and eclectic forays into progressive-yet-funky tech house are gaining more and more worldwide praise. He’s remixed the likes of Daft Punk, Justin Timberlake, and Duran Duran, and delivered outstanding DJ performances…
(Photo via Galacticfunk.com)So how does a group of (mostly) non-native college students go on to become ambassadors of New Orleans funk? For Galactic, of which all but one of the band’s current members relocated to the Crescent City in the early Nineties, it took more than just practice and persistence…
(Photo via Stonefox’s MySpace page)Stonefox is a garage band in the purest sense of the word — except, perhaps, for the fact that they did most of their recording in living rooms. But they did accomplish the entire recording for their first full-length LP, Dead in the Sun on “barely…
(Photo via Smash Mouth’s MySpace page.)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…
Madball (photo via the band’s Myspace page)Beyond the unending, dentist-office-like whir of hundred 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…
Sayre BermanBilly JoelFriday, January 2, 2009 Hard Rock Live, HollywoodBeing a piano man in a rock ‘n’ roll world can be a precarious proposition. Unless you have the cool of, say Jerry Lee Lewis, with the attitude and swagger to match, it’s tough not to look like a dweeb sitting stationary…
With six Grammys to his name and having sold hundreds of millions of records worldwide, Billy Joel has a pedigree that’s impossible to ignore. And time seems to have done little to dampen public enthusiasm for his oeuvre: Friday’s kickoff gig at the Seminole Hard Rock begins not two, not…
Toronto is known for its cultural mash-ups, and its musical exports are naturally reflective of the demographics. You can hear some of that multiculti genre-fusing in the sounds of the New Deal, an exploratory “livetronica” band that merges house, breakbeats, and electro on top of global drum programming. As a…
Despite being a cool, downtown NYC jazz act with roots in the early ’90s avant-garde scene of John Lurie and John Zorn, no one loves Medeski, Martin & Wood like the patchouli-loving, Birkenstocks-on-the-weekend hippie crowd. MM&W’s supersonic organ funk jams forever cemented their relationship with neo-trustafarians, who first heard them…
Ahhh… the sweet sounds of classic ’70s California pop. No one has ever embodied that sound more than the Doobie Brothers. And now that the style the Doobies perfected has become a musical archetype (see modern artists like the Autumn Defense, Beck, and so on), it’s all too easy to…
Fallen From the Sky(Photo via the band’s MySpace page.)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…
Ahhh… the sweet sounds of classic Seventies California pop. No one has ever embodied that sound more than the Doobie Brothers. And now that the style the Doobies perfected has become a musical archetype (see modern artists like the Autumn Defense, Beck, and so on), it’s all too easy to…
The Seventies Soul Jam, scheduled for January 14 at the Fillmore Miami Beach, was set to feature the Stylistics, Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes, Main Ingredient, and Miami’s own Heatwave. The show, however, has been cancelled. Those who purchased advance tickets through Livenation.com should contact LiveNation’s ticket line at 888-598-4299. Those…
Crossfade reported earlier this month that Combichrist and Black Light Burns would kick off their tour in South Florida on January 14, at Club Premier in Ft. Lauderdale. That sounded like a weird fit, as the venue usually specializes in hip-hop and reggae dance parties. The event has been moved…
(Photo via Medeski, Martin & Wood’s MySpace page.)Despite being a cool, downtown NYC jazz act with roots in the early Nineties avant-garde scene of John Lurie and John Zorn, no one loves Medeski, Martin & Wood like that patchouli-loving, Birkenstocks-on-the-weekend hippie in the next cubicle over from you at work…
