T-minus 10 days. Before you know it Winter Music Conference 2010 will be here. In preparation for onslaught of dance music mania, we’ve made our complete event listings guide available to you online. We’d like to think this is the most complete guide to all the events happening from March…
CC by 2.0, via Lana_aka_BADGRL on FlickrEver made a run for it in the name of alcohol? The people behind the Miami chapter of Yelp.com want to see if you can really hang. Every month the Yelpers plan pub and bar crawls, rotating neighborhoods and themes. First up this year…
Way back in 1995, Everclear’s “Santa Monica” (off the album Sparkle and Fade) was one of the best songs on the radio. Although often unfairly accused of being Nirvana-lite, Art Alexakis and his revolving cast of backup musicians were capable of channeling a lot more than grunge into their clever…
Here’s a video I produced from last night’s AholSniffsGlue art show at Butter Gallery with the Miami Bass Warrior’s “Calle Ocho” song as the soundtrack.There were free 16 oz. tall cans of Colt 45 malt liquor and wine.There was art on the walls and people bought it.There was the afterparty…
Courtesy of ThrillistKill Your IdolThanks for the invite Kill Your Idol. We heard about your private opening last night an hour before it actually happened. No we aren’t mad at all. Not one bit. Whatever.We would give you a description of the interior, but, hey, we have yet to even…
Like homies and Visionquest partners Seth Troxler and Lee Curtiss, DJ/producer Ryan Crosson is part of a new breed of Detroit-bred artists who have staked their place in Berlin’s underground EDM scene since the late 2000s. Born and raised in Metro Detroit, Crosson absorbed the native sounds of second-wave Detroit…
ArtOfficial–Local hip-hop and jazz fusion group, ArtOfficial, released a new song from their new project, The Payback, which is set to release on April 23rd via free download. The song they released is actually the title track that is also called “The Payback” and features New York City’s K. Sparks…
Earache RecordsThe friendly dudes of DeicideDeicide is death metal at its goriest. From lead singer/bassist Glen Benton’s burning upside-down crosses into his forehead to the band’s receiving death threats from animal-rights activists because Benton once shot a squirrel during an interview, the Tampa troublemakers have been a contentious presence for…
Just a few items we tackled in this week’s New Times Broward-Palm Beach print edition.In Music: Pitbull is throwing a party on Sunday. Carnaval Miami and Calle Ocho’s guest list includes T-Pain, Flo Rida, Sean Paul, Spam Allstars and a million or so of their closest friends. Someone was also…
Made Event always puts on some of the biggest shebangs during Winter Music Conference — Sunday School for Degenerates, Anjunabeats’ annual do, and so on. New to the crew’s lineup this year, though, is a one-off featuring Dutch trance megastar Ferry Corsten, who headlines his own Once Upon a Night party…
The headline is misleading because I’m already quietly judging you. In any case, your tireless Broward-Palm Beach Music Editor will be on hand March 27 at America’s Backyard (200 E. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) to help judge a Battle of the Bands competition between 6 and 9:30 p.m. The best…
Photo by Jack BurtSteel Pulse with Fourth Dimension Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Revolution, Fort Lauderdale The Review: There is nothing like being in the presence of a vintage Rasta man, and David Hinds, Steel Pulse’s frontman, is an especially potent one. He’s been the driving, spliff-cheefing force behind the monster…
Surfer Blood, seen above covering Guided by Voices’ “Game of Pricks,” has quickly become huge. Not Kings of Leon huge, not headlining a North American arena tour huge, or the biggest thing to hit Europe since, well, the euro huge. At least not yet. Stick with huge for a band…
James Zabiela taking over the sands of South Beach.Here we almost thought online music store Beatport was going to entirely pull out of this year’s Winter Music Conference, but it seems at the last minute they’ve managed to put something together. Definitely on the smaller scale than last year, Beatport…
Locally transplanted Puerto Rican superstar and Latin heartthrob Ricky Martin has always had a strong inclination toward philanthropic ambitions, frequently using his own dough and fame over the years to lend a helping hand to worthy causes. In fact, he has his very own organization, the Ricky Martin Foundation, which…
Blast From the Past is a weekly column on Crossfade re-examining classic releases from Florida music of yesteryear. To read previous installments, click here. 2 Live CrewBanned in the USA(Luke Records) Well, it was bound to happen within these pages: 2 Live Crew. It would be downright irresponsible to…
Blind people jokes and creative reinterpretations of “Feliz Navidad” aside, my knee-jerk reaction was, is this dude still alive? Yup. Alive and active. He’s been keeping busy on the live circuit and in the studio, releasing a pair of digital albums last year (American Classics and Djangoisms) and shopping for shades…
Eric Clapton is one of the greatest guitarists alive. The man — currently gabbing with Buddy Guy on his signature T-Mobile phone on TV — long ago earned his place in the pantheon of rockers as a guitar god.Clapton began his career in the early ’60s playing with British blues-rock…
Wait, he’s not new here?Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications’ music sections. Just for kicks. Here’s last week’s entry.In the Dallas Observer’s bumper crop of content: Surfer Blood mourns the loss of Jay Reatard and confirms that even Pitchfork has its limitations,…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreac84/ / CC BY 2.0Old man wearing Descendents “Everything Sucks” t shirt.”It’s been a few years now, we’re going strong, we been through a lot of good and bad.” – WarzoneThis list of the Top 20 classic hardcore punk songs is fuckin awesome cause it’s full of good shit, but…
A-Trak and Armand Van Helden are Duck Sauce.Every Winter Music Conference, one the best parties is the Fool’s Gold showcase. It rarely disappoints and the lineup tends to change at the last minute as special guests arrive to take over the decks.This year lineup, which is taking over the soon-to-be-opened…
Acoustic duo Chicken Little (it typically adds an exclamation point) brings old-time post-punk to an in-store Radio-Active Records show Thursday. How do those two disparate styles mix? Chicken Little’s overt Appalachian bluegrass backbone makes the old-timer bit really easy to make out, but one has to dig deeper into the…
