Like a hipster boy who just got dumped by his admittedly too-perfect girlfriend, White Room’s having a tough time bouncing back from its recent breakup with local queen of cool, Poplife. Especially harsh was the fact that the bitch (er, Poplife, in this case) immediately shacked up with that new,…
As he writes in his highly readable autobiography, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, the father of shock rock credits the game for helping him maintain his sobriety, replacing a fondness for heavy boozing with the decidedly healthier obsession of birdies and bogeys after his second stint in rehab. Today, Cooper is…
To most who were there, the most memorable of Third Eye Blind’s chart battles was the 1997 duel between the band’s “Semi-Charmed Life” and Smash Mouth’s “Walking on the Sun.” But the Billboard standoff, that same year, between 3EB’s “How’s It Gonna Be” and No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” was far…
Three times now, Juliette Lewis has brought her roaring rock circus to our market, and three times now we’ve shown up in numbers that are almost embarrassing — not to her but to us. Folks always complain about some national rock act or another not swinging through South Florida. Then…
Two decades removed from its last truly cutting-edge work, 1988’s classic … And Justice for All, Metallica finds itself strangely resting on top of the world while still fighting to stay relevant. Starting with 1991’s Metallica (known as the Black Album), the band began to veer wildly from the thrilling…
At Cosmic Bingo, you’d better hope you don’t scream “Bingo!” at the same time as someone else. Otherwise, you’ll be ushered to the front of the room to compete in that most fearsome of tiebreakers: the dance-off. In this case, a dance-off that involves a lot of gyration and removal…
You’ve heard the haters’ standard bitch: “Man, the rap game these days ain’t nothin’ but a lobotomized, blinged-out, corporate pimp.” And while that’s true to a certain extent, hip-hop in the late aughts is anything but a bag of boring, homogenized bullshit. For every one-dimensional gangsta rap retread, you’ve got…
Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists on South Florida’s campus radio stations. Click here to view the top tracks from previous weeks. Top Albums for the week of September 20-27 University of Miami- WVUM 90.5 FM, “The Voice” Jamie Long tops the UM charts…
via Drop Dead Beats Adrian “Drop” Santalla, and Phenom are the production team behind Drop Dead Beats and the force behind “Triumph,” the opening track on Pitbull’s new album Rebelution.ESPN recently licensed the song for one month of universal usage. Drop says “I got people calling me up telling me,…
Some Journey diehards don’t like the fact the band still performs under its original name, but with replacement Arnel Pineda, a Filipino former cover band frontman, on vocals. Still, it seems like most fans just want to hear the songs performed live, and well, whether Steve Perry is along for…
Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to view past top-sellers. Top Five Albums for the Week of September 20-27 This week, local indie act the Miami Bass Warriors topped Sweat’s list Sweat Records, Miami 1. Miami…
If you’ve been out and about anywhere in Miami over the past eight years, you’ve probably seen or heard the cat sometimes called Al B. Rotten. Rotten — or Andrews Lorenzana as he’s known to the DMV — was part of the rag-tag gaggle of uber crazies behind the long-running…
Ben Thacker Marilyn Manson performs at Cruzan Amphitheatre August 12RollingStone.com reported Friday that South Florida’s favorite homegrown freak, Marilyn Manson, contracted swine flu. According to the article, Manson made the announcement via his Facebook page, saying, “So I have officially been diagnosed, by a real doctor, with THE SWINE FLU. I know everyone will suggest…
DJ/producer Michael Christopher is a Boston transplant who moved to Miami in 2004 to pursue a college baseball career, and soon became a mainstay of the local underground dance scene, playing various weekly residencies and parties throughout the years at local venues like Blue, Laundry Bar, White Room, and PS14.He…
School of Rock is a new weekly column on Crossfade filling you in on acts playing in town that may be flying under your radar, but shouldn’t. Click here for past installments.When I was but a young teenage wannabe punk rocker, the Queers appealed to me straight away. First, and…
Maja Ivarsson doesn’t like to talk about being a sex symbol. Despite this, the lead singer of Swedish new-wave rockers the Sounds understands it’s a topic of interest. The openly bisexual beauty — whose name is pronounced “Maya” — answers the questions with sincerity and a refreshing dollop of humor…
Few DJs would think to cut through Florence, Italy, and New York City to get to Fort Lauderdale. Then again, few DJs have proven the logic of a circuitous route quite like Dean Michaels. In fact, it appears that Michaels is so intent on spinning his way straight into ubiquity…
It’s hard not to gush over the Fort Lauderdale venue/gallery/space-for-all-things-DIY known as the Bubble. Kick-ass art by various local creative types litters the walls. Impressive local, eclectic musical lineups help pass the time. And the space’s owners, Garo Gallo and Yvonne Colon, never charge more than $10, which gets you…
You can get to the top of the pop charts by being a complete idiot, but it takes some serious sharp thinking to stay there. So don’t make the mistake of thinking rapper/producer/all-around Svengali Lil Jon is a buffoon. The man behind the blinding grills and creatively shocking lyrical allusions…
Every so often, a girl’s gotta release her inner Zelda Fitzgerald. You know — be unapologetically flamboyant and tempestuous and have herself a classy adventure, replete with fancy drinks. So, last week, I grabbed a well-read wingman and we went up to Boca to pay a social visit to Gatsby’s,…
via slipnsliderecords.net You can write and record the greatest song ever sung and never make a dime. But Slip-N-Slide records refuses to go that route. Their distribution relationships with corporate powerhouses have made them a recognized name around the world by giving their product the visibility it needs in the…
The world is full of awful noise and sometimes one’s sanity depends entirely upon getting a teensy bit of quiet time. But it should never be too quiet. That’s where Sharlyn Everetsz’ unsteadily strummed guitars and whispery vocals come in handy. Hers is singer-songwritery stuff that’s better than silence. Yesterday,…
