I received this encyclopedia length post as a comment to a blog about a blog. Coffee House Gypsies superfan Amanda wants you to know why she loves the Coffee House Gypsies. I caught them once on video. They were playing in a weed-filled trailer park in Wynwood during Art Basel…
Matthew Sabatella has carved out a distinctive niche for himself over the past several years or so by recreating the songs of America’s past, complete with instruments of the era — fiddles, banjos, Jew’s harps, and the like. He takes his traveling band to schools, libraries, and just about anywhere…
MSTRKRFTFist Of God(Dim Mak)Three words: Worst. Album. Ever. MSTRKRFT should be glad we don’t have a rating system here on Crossfade, because if we did, they would rightfully receive a zero-star rating from us. Honestly, we really wanted to like this album, but there is just no getting around how…
In case you didn’t notice it, Mexican rockers Jaguares canceled their Miami show, scheduled for last Saturday night at the Fillmore Miami Beach. If you didn’t notice, then you probably didn’t have tickets. Or, if you did and you still didn’t notice… give me some of that shit.Disappointed concertgoers found…
As frontman of the New Jersey band Thursday, Geoff Rickly helped pioneer many of the main motifs of today’s landscape of contemporary punk-inspired rock. From the group sprang a distinctive sing/scream vocal technique, wordy song titles and lyrics, and, well, even the use of the calendar as a source for…
DJs E360 and Miss Nikki have combined musical forces under the Twisted Elegance moniker since early 2008, making them the first male/female DJ duo out of South Florida. With residencies at Nocturnal and 330 Lounge, various remix projects in the works, and their first EP due for release in fall…
St. Patrick’s Day is the greenest, most wonderful day of the year, a day we celebrate free-flowing liquor, drunken shenanigans, lightly disguised alcoholism, and the snogging of random strangers just because they claim Gaelic ancestry. OK, so St. Paddy’s special day isn’t until later this month, but I just couldn’t…
Friday, March 6 Bad Brains The band that spent much of the past 12 years equally as broken up as they were together began in the late 1970s as fusion-loving jazzheads. Singer (“throat”) Paul “H.R.” Hudson and his brother Earl on drums, guitarist Gary “Dr. Know” Miller, and bassist Darryl…
This Saturday is the Second Annual Lourdes P. Aguila Memorial Walk-a-Thon honoring La Reina de la Salsa herself, Celia Cruz. The event is being hosted by La Liga Contra el Cancer and will take place at Tropical Park, where community leaders and celebrity residents of our fair city will turn out…
Tapping into tradition isn’t exactly a shortcut to notoriety. But when the Mavericks set out to carve their niche in country music in the late 1980s, they were arguably the most unlikely outfit ever to emerge from South Florida’s music scene. They eschewed the dance designs that had propelled the…
I sat there in silence at the bar inside Nippers in Boca, trying not to concentrate on what was about to be a disastrous — but supersexy — wardrobe malfunction. In front of me, bartender Sabrina ferociously shook up a drink, her breasts bouncing jauntily as they fruitlessly tried to…
Miami-Dade CorrectionsOn Wednesday, the Miami Herald reported that Luther Campbell had been taken to jail Tuesday night “for allegedly owing $10,223.36 in a child support case.” However, in an official statement yesterday, he claimed the money in question had nothing to do with the child support itself. He has fully…
It’s a little after 11 on a recent Friday morning in downtown Philadelphia, and if it’s not the coldest day of the year thus far, it damned sure feels like it. Luckily, the folks at World Café Live have taken pity on the hundreds of freezing fans who’ve turned up…
Name any Hall & Oates song and the melody springs immediately to mind. To name just a few: “She’s Gone,” “Sara Smile,” “Rich Girl,” “Kiss on My List,” “Private Eyes,” “Out of Touch,” “Maneater,” and “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do).” Each is a pitch-perfect confection of pop-soul…
Ryan Smith, a.k.a. Induce, is a great DJ, a skilled rapper, a damn fine singer, a super producer and he puts out a very nice mix(tape) from time to time. This edition is the second Valentine’s/Lovey – dovey – mushy version. The first one was purportedly made only for his…
I guess this is a week for me listening to local DJ’s get down on mix tapes. I know they aren’t mix tapes anymore, but that’s how I think of them. There used to be little kiosks in Manhattan that us bridge and tunnel kids would flock to in order…
Noise, art, sound, dissonance, resonance, bass, high shelf, low pass, amps, tables, hacked electronics, loops, synths, midi, speakers. Sound nerds of the world unite. The 20th edition of the Subtropics festival, breaking windows in the MIA since 1989, is upon us. Starting with an opening night reception on February 26th…
No ifs, no ands, and definitely no buts about it — when DJ Jonathan Brody is asked to define his genre, he comes back with a quick and decisive “disco, disco, disco!” Sure, it swings “from new disco to Italo Disco disco-house,” but in the end it’s clear: this cat’s…
Colombian transplant Dsan Powell has been gaining steady recognition in the sultry world of Miami afterhours since 2005 when he held DJ residency at Space. An early purveyor of minimal techno in Miami, he is currently teamed up with the We Love Techno and Tech Division events at Nocturnal, in…
Back in Miami’s bass music heyday, music video director Dario L. Jaramillo was making a killing creating, producing, directing and editing music videos for Joey Boy Records and Warner Bros. artists. I found his 90’s Miami Bass music video reel on youtube, tracked him down through the powers of whois,…
I’m at this kava bar in Boca called Nakava, and I’m just about to down a bowl of the stuff. That’s when the bartender remembers to give me a warning. “Oh, yeah,” bartender Jeffery says. “When you taste this, you’re going to make a face — we call it kava…
Qwote makes the kind of music that sparks a sweaty hunch on the dance floor, right before you and your new friend start kissing. And back at the crib, after poppin’ bottles, he can be there, again, when you need some more of that sweet lovemaking music. This decade is…
