There’s something for everyone in here,” Bill assured me, placing his small treasure chest on the bar and opening it carefully. I was skeptical. Bill was an older gent, though it was hard to tell — he wore a black mask over his face, a pirate’s skull-and-crossbones bandanna on his…
Dreaming in Stereo Dreaming in Stereo (Van Gogh Records) If there’s one thing that’s evident from the outset about multi-instrumental wünderkind Fernando Perdomo — aside from the already established fact that he’s one of South Florida’s most gifted songwriters and musicians — it’s that he’s obviously listened to a lot…
When the guys in Miami trio Jacobs Ladder told us they were leaving on their second national tour of the summer (and their ninth national tour to date), we asked them to send us some recaps of their time on the road. Local musicians, if you’re going on tour –…
You may remember rising local R&B queen Shonie from an episode of Prunk TV here on Crossfade from last May. Since then, she’s been working on material for her upcoming debut album, to be released on Slip N Slide and Def Jam, for now titled Passionate… Pieces of Me. Recently,…
What to say about local DJ Danny Daze that hasn’t been said before? Daze has been one of the most in demand DJs around the country for the last few years and he keeps busy with side projects like DiscoTech and Señor Stereo. Is it any surprise we picked him…
Besides Young Money’s still-really-underground Nicki Minaj, the term “mainstream female rapper” is one usually heard before “ain’t doin’ shit.” Kim tried to come back with a song that was so 2002 that I nearly called my mom to ask her money for books and a plane ticket home from college, Foxy popped up on…
Saturday night, 2:00 a.m. A club raftered with Colombians and Venezuelans, Argentines and Bolivians. There are Cubans too, primarily born in Florida. And there’s also a smattering of Italians. Pepper the crowd with a fistful of Yanks and then stir.That’s the stew. It could be La Paz; it could be…
As a little runt in the late ’80s, I owned a rabbit’s foot keychain. And really, didn’t everyone? Back then, lucky bunny body parts were still a genuine fixture of pop culture. Today though, the hallowed tradition of carrying a severed rodent’s leg on your person as some sort of…
Yesterday, rapper Pitbull won the keys to the City of Miami for his work “traveling the country and the world sharing a positive message of Miami,” according to one city commissioner. via Wikimedia CommonsBut for all of Mr. 305’s postive-image-spreadin’ “world-traveling,” it’s a trip he’s accused of not making that’s…
Photo by JipsyTo read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. How great is it when you find yourself at a party or show that you didn’t expect, with BYOB policy and good music? Score! This past Saturday, while the hot ticket was Mos Def at the Adrienne…
Me teleporting to shows everywhereSo after weeks of very little excitement as far things that I would like to do, all of a sudden this weekend is chock full of some of my favorite things.First off Lucas Leyva and a few names I associate with the Borscht Film Festival, as…
PitbullThat’s right Mr. Egg Whites, a.k.a. Mr. 305 a.k.a. Pitbull, got the keys to this wonderful city yesterday. I just saw this in the Miami Herald and you know it’s true if it’s in the Herald. They are master fact checkers and all that. All I know is that LMFAO…
You can take the name of Sweat Records, Miami’s against-all-odds bastion of independent culture, in different ways. You might sweat that Beat Happening/Screaming Trees split 12-inch the place just got in stock; you might sweat on the car ride over to get it. But it was never co-proprietor Lauren “Lolo”…
Yes, we’ve been dropping some serious ink on Lake Worth’s on-the-money music joint Propaganda for some time now. So, you might ask, what’s all this hullaballoo about a grand-opening week at this already established venue? According to the place’s booking and promoting sensei, Steve Rullman, they were awaiting final approval…
Change in all its forms is fascinating, and particularly so in music. Bands (hopefully) change from tour to tour and album to album, even if it’s just with a revamped, retooled stage performance. This is precisely why I was curious to see how the guys of Incubus had rewired their…
Today, South Florida’s best indie-pop exports, the Postmarks, play international-caliber festivals and receive glowing reviews from everyone who matters. Their trajectory of success has been impressively swift: Only three years ago, the band was just a tiny music project inside Christopher Moll’s Coral Springs home studio. But then came the…
Mondays suck. And arbitrarily, I have decided that the best cure for a shitty Monday is something tall and green. Of course, if the Incredible Hulk, Statue of Liberty, and Kermit the Frog (on significant steroids) are not readily available, you might have to make do with a strong, savory,…
The final, frenzied countdown to party time has begun. In exactly three days, the Magic City’s most discerning club rats — and fanatical apparel collectors — will swarm the Awarehouse for Saturday’s Sweat X Iggy Pop T-Shirt Release. (If you haven’t yet RSVP-ed, get on the list right now. Note:…
via myspace.com/brisco305Brisco was set to perform at Summer FestSummer Fest was an all-out megawatt concert scheduled for this Saturday at American Airlines Arena. The line-up was to feature some of the biggest names in pop, hip-hop, and R&B: Akon, Ne-Yo, Keri Hilson, and T-Pain, as well as locals like Flo…
Dreaming in StereoDreaming in Stereo (Van Gogh Records)If there’s one thing that’s evident from the outset about multi-instrumental wunderkind Fernando Perdono — aside from the already established fact that he’s one of South Florida’s most gifted songwriters and musicians — it’s that he’s obviously listened to a lot of classic…
Jacob KatelIan Lewis of Inner Circle walks through the backyard at Circle House studios in North Miami Inner Circle are the “Bad Boys of Reggae.” If you’ve ever seen the TV show COPS then you know why — they wrote the theme song. But Inner Circle aren’t one-hit novelty wonders;…
The endlessly fascinating thing about this flyer for the Obey Your Mastour kickoff party is the oddly erotic moment transpiring between the two humanoid creatures, struggling front and center. To be honest, I can’t fully decode the sequence or nature of whatever’s happening here … I mean, what exactly is…
