If cult movie messiah Alejandro Jodorowsky and PFFR co-produced a mass psychosis session in the secret subterranean tunnels that link Vizcaya Gardens to the Domino’s at NE 2nd Ave. and 34th, then Miami-bred psychedelicists Ice Cream would be named official jam band. As the authors of artfully shitty recordings like…
thenextgeneration is the DJ/production duo of locals Mikkel Dankner and Aaron Feld, a partnership formed in 2004. Mikkel started out cutting and mixing tapes at age 12, and has since gone on to play at some of the most renowned nightclubs around the US, including Limelight, Tunnel, and Palladium in…
Lita Ford may have taken a long while out of the spotlight, but the Internet ephemera floating around, capturing her show last weekend at Revolution, proves she’s got staying power. There’s really something about a woman who owns her sexuality and still kicks ass. Also, her 1988 hit duo with…
Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists on South Florida’s campus radio stations.Top Albums for the Week of November 8 – 15 University of Miami- WVUM 90.5 FM, “The Voice”The voice is not your typical college radio station. They pride themselves on introducing new and…
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 8 – 15This ain’t your kid sister: Kid Sister climbed Radio-Active Records charts with her new hip hop/electro debut, Ultraviolet.Uncle Sam’s, South Beach1. Kaleidoscope, Tiësto2…
Skot OlsenA few months ago, New Times Broward-Palm Beach announced that we would be giving away $4,000 to local artists through our first-ever MasterMind Awards, sponsored by the Amplitude Academy of Musical Arts, a new music school in Boca. This past Saturday, winners were announced at the Artopia event at…
AudionA heads up to Miami’s downtown cognoscenti: Michigan’s esteemed Ghostly International label will be celebrating 10 years of forward-thinking music and subculture at White Room on Saturday, December 5. Founded in 1999 by DJ Sam Valenti, Ghostly has become one of the most highly-acclaimed international platforms for cutting-edge and genre-defying…
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 always has swung to a relatively citified beat.So it only makes sense…
Peaches is anything but subtle. And as soon as the curtains parted at Revolution this past Friday, she instantly led the audience into her surreal, hyper-sexual world. Draped in a woolly coat, she and her band, Sweet Machine, kicked things off with “Mud,” off her latest release, I Feel Cream…
For all its hazy definitions, there was a time when emo, maligned as the genre has always been, indicated the smart, melodic pop-punk of the Get Up Kids and their breakthrough 1999 sophomore record, Something to Write Home About, instead of conjuring up images of mopey girls in heavy eyeliner…
Chanteuse Bebel Gilberto couldn’t have been anything but what she is — a world-class performer, singer, and songwriter. Anything less would have been unfathomable, considering her heritage. Gilberto, of course, was born into Brazilian music royalty. Her mother, known by the stage name Miucha, has enjoyed a long career as…
Lita Ford has been a professional musician since she was a teenager. As the tough lead guitarist with L.A. all-female hard rockers the Runaways, the statuesque California blond held her ground onstage and shredded as ferociously as heroes Ritchie Blackmore and Jeff Beck. The group recorded four studio albums (and…
Hey, lost soul. Word is, you’ve been searching for some kind of trippy party shaman to lead you on a spirit quest to the center of your very own inner outer space. True? OK, then, it’s totally time you took a tab of that Space Voodoo Crystal stuff. Hence, today’s…
Bebel Gilberto is considered by many to be at the forefront of modern Brazilian music. Though she was actually born in New York City, she was born into all-star lineage, her mother being Brazilian singer Miucha and her father Joao Gilberto, considered by many to be the “Father of Bossa…
After Sleepless Night in Miami Beach this past Saturday, Crossfade’s Twitter friends (let’s follow each other, I’m at @Crossfade_SFL) and, uh, real-life people were raving about a performance by MASS Ensemble. This Malibu, California-based quartet performs a sort of global, downtempo trip-hop kind of thing, but the musicians do so…
Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores.Top 5 Albums for the week of November 1 – 7Sweat Records, MiamiMiami’s home-grown rockers topped Sweat Records list for the first week of November.1. No Seasons [LP], Jacuzzi Boys2. Hearts [CD], Awesome…
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.Dialed In for the week of November 1-7Florida International University- WRGP 88.1 FM & 95.3 FM, “Radiate”Radiate 95.3 FM transmits from the University…
Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.The Lion & Eagle English Pub (2401 N Federal Hwy, Boca Raton; 561-447-7707) was a dignified, stately establishment replete with a rich wooden bar, regally upholstered booths, paintings (of soaring eagles, mostly), decorative kettles, lanterns, and model ships. It was…
Night Watch is a regularly-occurring feature by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.Last weekend, it took a minute for me to muster up the courage to enter The Warehouse Pub (1599 NW 1st Court, Boca Raton; 561-392-3798). Sure, this was Boca, but still — the pub was located in a dark part…
According to the Yacht Manifesto #1: “Yacht is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Marfa, Texas and Portland, Oregon, USA.” Also, Yacht “seeks to explore frontiers and to expand awareness of extraterrestrial Intelligence” and “believes in an Afterlife,” but “does not…
Night Watch is a regularly-occurring nightlife column by Tara Nieuwesteeg.Boca is not renowned for much except its manicured shopping plazas, delicious lunch spots, and its armies of early-bird-special-seeking Q-tips who make the roads a little less safe and the frozen yogurt shops a little more busy. But Boca and I…
The Miami-based, 26-year-old Rico Love is quietly becoming one of the industry’s most sought-after R&B and pop arrangers and songwriters. Starting out in his early 20s as a rapper in Atlanta, he got his real boost when, as a performer, Usher signed him to his J Records imprint. And while…
