To read past installments of Jacobs Ladder’s tour diary, click here. This is the final installment, by bassist Sammy Gonzalez. Now that the band is back home, you can stay updated on their shows and releases by checking out the Jacobs Ladder MySpace page. Driving home from Tampa at 12:30 a.m…
Wisin y Yandel were one of the first breakout reggaeton success stories. Now they’re claiming they’re not reggaeton, just pop, or Latin hip-hop, or whatever. Fair enough. Nobody wants to be associated with a one-dimensional genre, and the survivors are all stepping up their game and trying out new styles…
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 13-19University of Miami- WVUM 90.5 FM, “The Voice”Jamie Long’s indie-pop tunes knocked out Pony Pony Run…
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.Best-sellers for the Week of September 13 – 19:Radio-Active Records, Ft. Lauderdale1. Backspacer, Pearl Jam2. Temporary Pleasure, Simian Mobile Disco3. We Hear You, Luke Vibert4. Man on…
Few DJs would think to cut through Florence, Italy and New York City in order 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…
=”” height=”250″ width=”302″>We’ve for the most part stayed away from this topic over the course of the past several weeks. Meanwhile, fans of America TV across the city have watched pundits on every show in the lineup debating Juanes’ motives for going to perform in Cuba in the controversial concert…
Seattle’s Sunny Day Real Estate can’t really be blamed for the tearful bombast behind today’s biggest-selling emo bands. Still, a direct line can be drawn from the band’s ’94 debut, Diary, to indie label Deep Elm’s 11-volume set of compilations called The Emo Diaries, which ran from 1997-2007. And in the…
The pitfalls of teen stardom are legend — sex, drugs, burnout, overexposure, the dreaded 20th birthday, or even a simple case of the incurable crazies à la Wacko Jacko. Way back in ’79, Leif Garrett hit the ‘ludes, crashed his car, and almost killed his friend while, more recently, we’ve…
You know here at Crossfade we like to give you guys plenty of locally relevant music news. Like cool goings on having to do with some of your favorite local acts, MP3s you can download for your own listening pleasure, the skinny on concerts in town and other fun stuff…
Otto von Schirach & Notorious Nastie – Gogbot Festival, Enschede, The NetherlandsI don’t know about you, but when I was in high school I would sit in class and daydream, often whisking myself away to a magical place in my mind. Sometimes I would imagine myself less fat and awkward…
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 Ten Albums for the Week of September 6-12English indie band Wild Beasts topped Radiate’s charts this week.Florida International University- WRGP 88.1 FM…
The ever-elusive Scotchy as rendered by Jamie Tao. A man of many beards and a million sunglasses, local blues rocker Uncle Scotchy is so rarely seen — truly seen — that some of you have begun to doubt his very existence. Admittedly, the guy’s an enigma wrapped in a riddle…
Editor’s note: Local experimental electronic celeb Otto von Schirach is currently destroying Europe on a tour with local infamous promoter Notorious Nastie. Here are some of their exploits in Berlin. To read more of their European tour diary, visit CrossFade, New Times’ music blog, at BrowardPalmBeach.com. It was a sunny…
Hot damn, did all the hipsters come out of the woodwork for the Glass Candy show last Friday night at the Vagabond! I’ve never seen such a massive turnout for what is still a considerably obscure band, and at a venue that normally caters to a smaller indie cognoscenti crowd…
DJ Sire Esq. Allin Culture Kings myspace.com/sireesq Not only can DJ Sire Esq. drop a mean set at a local club but homeboy can still funk up, fuck up, and own tracks like nobody’s business. This disc features 34 reworked numbers that at times rock better than the originals. Together…
Until recently, the words Florida and funk have been associated more with a Dan Marino Right Guard commercial than with music. But a group of five South Florida b-boys is doing its part to change that. As Fusik, the quintet has been rocking local stages for four years now, from…
The last time New Times caught up with New York transplant DJ Elle, she was still in the middle of transitioning down from the Big Bad Apple. But her Thursday residence at the Catalina (alongside Self Born) is now a bona fide success. And with her recent slot at both…
Jacobs Ladder is almost at the end of their national tour. Click here and here to read past installments of the band’s tour diary — and to hear their music, check out their MySpace page. These installments were penned by the band’s bassist, Sammy Gonzalez.Wednesday, September 2: General Thoughts on…
The CrumbsInsubordination Fest ’08: Live From Baltimore (Insubordination Records)insubordinationrecords.com Here are the Crumbs down to a three-piece, rocking harder than most of their contemporaries in an excellent live document of one of their retrospective gigs. (The Crumbs have 16 years in the game, baby!) The DVD gives them the full…
photo by Logan FazioAh, Twitter. How better to vicariously live through events you’re not attending, by reading the 140-character summaries posted by celebrities and people who aren’t really your friends? So if you missed the Future Classic Festival last Saturday — dammit, it was a trending topic locally, according to…
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.Vintage ruled last week at Sweat, with The Stone Roses and The Beatles re-issues dominating the chartsSweat Records, Miami1. Popular Songs, Yo La Tengo2. The Stone Roses…
Ed Hale Ballad on Third Avenue (Dying Van Gogh)Ed Hale’s outfit Transcendence was the kind of band that allowed ambition and extravagance to find equal footing. Progressive by design, its sumptuous arrangements often overshadowed Hale’s skills as a songwriter, which featured some great melodies at the core. Hale seems to…
