Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. We walked in to Whiskey Tango All American Bar and Grill (1903 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood; 954-925-2555; whiskeytangofl.com) to the sounds of an atrocious cover band playing “Summer of ’69” and grabbed a high table…
Behind The Music Miami Part 2 follows host Mayweather Live through Miami Recording Studio, where Triple X produces and engineers what he calls “urban Latino music, “and Suthun Boy Studio, where Gorilla Tek makes beats.Suthun Boy talks about Liberty City’s Pork N Beans projects and why living there is all…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. On a bar-hopping tour of Hollywood, I popped into PRL Euro Cafe (1904 A Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood; 954-980-8945; prlcafe.com), a narrow venue with a few chairs at the front and a long bar extending along…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. It was in the low 70s–breezy, but pleasant–as my wingman and I walked up starry Hollywood Boulevard. The air was crisp, and the street was alive with the clicking of high heels, the kind…
In this land of palm trees and Tommy Bahama shirts, the fact that the monthly Auteur Explosion has survived thus far is impressive. Thank dynamo event organizer Dawn Dubriel, who’s teamed up with Underlab Studios, a production house that’s proven tremendously supportive of local artists. Together they’ve put together 11…
You can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of the avant-garde pop star named Ebony Bones!, born Ebony Thomas. But despite not yet offering an official U.S. release of her debut album, Bone of My Bones, this Brit has been slowly gaining stateside appeal. Turns out the gal has already…
Twenty-six-year-old MC Amanda Blank is still trying to get past her Married With Children moment. On indie-rap crew Spank Rock’s celebrated, 2006 debut, YoYoYoYoYo, she contributed the following lines in honor of Christina Applegate’s alter ego: “See, I like my ass sassy/I keep my man happy/’Cause I ride like Kelly…
Selling more than 3 million records worldwide is no small feat, particularly for a band like Rusted Root. The rambling, bluegrassy quartet could hardly be categorized as mainstream. And not only has the group outsold many more-radio-friendly bands; it’s also outlasted them — it’s been more than 20 years since…
It was in the low 70s — breezy but pleasant — as my wingman and I walked up starry Hollywood Boulevard. The air was crisp, and the street was alive with the clicking of high heels, the kind of loud talking that alcohol consumption causes, the crackling of different languages,…
Photo by Grant David KeyesLike the amplified and remixed white noise of a midnight tide shift as seen on TV, there are squalls and snarls of late-summer indie-pop bleeding from a bedroom studio in Macon, Georgia. All software synths, samples, drum machines, and dreamy vocal layers — this is the…
Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Top Five Albums for the Week of November 16 – 22 Sweat Records, MiamiThe first release from rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, made up of members of Queens of the Stone Age,…
Yesterday morning, Crossfade contributor Lee Zimmerman gave a pretty thorough run-down of Jackson Browne’s show this past Saturday at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Still, sometimes a YouTube video is worth a thousand words, and these two snippets capture a couple themes present in Zimmerman’s review. First, despite the solo-acoustic style…
DJ Andres Amadeus has been a staple of Miami’s electronic dance music scene for several years now, holding court at various hotspots around town including Segafredo, the Delano, and Skybar, where he presided over the weekly Soultech sessions and its slew of cutting-edge international techno bookings. In 2008 Andres joined…
You want cool? Try this on for size. In a town and a time where everyone works every angle and drops every name, here comes a cat who, in this Head Spins interview, didn’t mention the fact that we both knew each other in the old-school days of Jessie’s and…
Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.When we walked in to the Whiskey Tango All American Bar and Grill (1903 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood Call 954-925-2555 or visit whiskeytangofl.com), we were assaulted by the sounds of an atrocious cover band playing “Summer of…
Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature about bars and clubs, written by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.This week, I bar-hopped in Hollywood and stumbled into the PRL Euro Café (1904 A Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood. Call 954-980-8945 or visit prlcafe.com). PRL is a narrow venue with a few chairs at the front…
Night Watch is a regularly occurring bar review with nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.Liquor is a cruel, messy mistress, and she doesn’t love me. The last time I saw her, she left me with a hangover that lasted for three days. So, as I do every time she leaves me aching,…
Nassau’s gone funky, and Nassau’s got soul. Just ask the Beginning of the End, the band that sang all about just that in the classic “Funky Nassau.” In fact, contrary to hum-drum, steel-drum clichés, the Bahamian capital has always swung to a relatively citified beat. So it only makes sense…
Few artists in Latin music — or in any genre, for that matter — are as prolific and talented as Ruben Blades. He’s a singer and a songwriter. He’s an actor. He’s even a lawyer and a politician. And if all this sounds like exaggeration, check his IMDB page for…
The fourth edition of the recurrent Ska Is Dead tour lands at Culture Room on Thursday with a bill straight out of 1997. Ska has been reviled and declared dead for about the past 30 years, but it seems its horn-heavy effervescence just can’t be dampened. The genre itself predates…
Some last names in pop culture resonate beyond just celebrity status. They evoke emotions, nostalgia, even the feelings of an entire era. In music, think Lennon or Dylan and, of course, Marley. So imagine bearing that last name and trying also to live up to its powerful artistic legacy. Such…
Liquor is a cruel, messy mistress, and she doesn’t love me. The last time I saw her, she left me with a hangover that lasted for three days. So, as I do every time she leaves me aching, I swore her off. It won’t last, of course — but it…
