“Blast From the Past” is a weekly column on Crossfade, New Times’ music blog, reexamining great musical releases of South Florida past. Read it on Thursdays at browardmusic.com. Coke Coke (Sound Triangle Records) A few years ago (around 1998), I was at the Bird Road (oldies) Yesterday & Today Records,…
Prog-rock kings Yes are known for their intricate and multimovement songs, ethereal lyrics and harmonies, and fantasy-fueled album-cover art (mostly by Roger Dean, who also designed their distinctive logo). Through the ’60s and ’70s, albums like Fragile, Close to the Edge, and Tales From Topographic Oceans and tracks “Starship Trooper,”…
Punk band reunion tours are each unique… but not like snowflakes; more like small-town Fourth of July parades, in that it’s a constant tradeoff between reassuring familiarity and the flinching overcompensation of old people with streamers. The Cro-Mags should fare better, or at least fall toward the former; the hardcore…
It was 1976, and Jamaican reggae star Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley had just bought his mother, Cedella Booker, a modest home in the then-sleepy, rural South Dade suburb of Pinecrest. He was a star in his home country but hadn’t yet hit international megastardom. But that changed, rapidly, later that…
Unless you’re Cannibal Corpse, don’t expect to get rich playing death metal, says Steffen Kummerer, bandleader of the German melodic death metal outfit Obscura. In fact, the 24-year-old media studies student insists that you shouldn’t even expect to make a living at it. The best you can hope for is…
If you’ve ever been to a Jimmy Buffett show, we’re just preaching to the choir when we say it’s a one-of-a-kind experience. The Parrothead community is one of the great followings in music history, on par with Deadheads. Arriving at the venue, you might be momentarily disoriented by the atmosphere,…
The quirky and quizzical Keller Williams once again returns to South Florida with his one-man band. He’s a festival staple and always a highlight in that setting — but his club shows are downright rapturous. No matter how big the room, K-Dub always manages to produce a basement-party sing-along vibe…
In a world where divas are bionically enhanced, the bloom of marquees and floodlights can be seen from space, and the energy crisis has been averted by harnessing the kinetic motion of dance floors, power house is the genre of choice. And those who choose choose power house DJ Boris,…
If the words of critics were any indication, Manchester Orchestra would be as ubiquitous as air itself. The Atlanta band’s 2009 LP, Mean Everything to Nothing, topped many of indie rock’s most cherished best-of lists for the year and seemed to spark a near-unanimous raised fist from anybody with a…
Yes, this is hard to read.What we know for sure: West Palm Beach’s Cruzan Amphitheatre will host the traveling version of the Bamboozle Festival on May 25. Specific acts for this date have not been announced, but a little checking in on Cobra Starship’s Too Fast for Love dates with…
The namesake guitarist of the Damon Fowler group may look, at first, a little too fresh-faced to really know about the blues. And yes, Fowler is a cherubic Gen Y-er, but he already boasts more than a decade on the live circuit. Growing up in the Tampa Bay area, he…
Aholsniffsglue once made crack cocaine out of Ajax and battery acid, smoked it with the Dalai Lama, and became obsessed with stripes and circles. True story.Give thanks the art world appreciates the kind of compulsions that drive people past the brink of madness, are willing to pay for it, and…
We here at Crossfade love video fliers, because moving pictures easily amuse us. And because when you scribble the words Dirty Hairy on a girl’s tits, we are automatically going to look. So take this as a primer for the mayhem that will go down tonight at LIV in honor…
In this era of dime-a-dozen indie electro-pop duos, one contemporary act stands apart from the rest for sheer substance, stylistic originality and emotional rapport, and that’s Ontario, Canada’s Junior Boys. Crooner/co-producer Jeremy Greenspan and partner Matt Didemus first began their collaboration in the early 2000s, the fruit of which were…
You guys already know all about MiamiAlterLatino’s International Thursdays at Jazid. They’ve had the Parranda Colombiana, the Fiesta Argentina, Rockea en Español. Perhaps you’ve even heeded our advice and cruised on in to get a little culture–and drink specials–in ya. Well, the party continues and the opportunities to broaden your…
Courtney Love couldn’t have typed it any better than that.Sure, both of these earth-shattering events happened on Monday. I’m still taking daily solace being in sync with my South Florida neighbor’s unfolding Twitter platitudes as I settle in as Music Editor at the New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Fans should not…
PalefaceThe Show is on the Road (Ramseur Records)Paleface’s journey has been a rocky one. He’s been picked up and slammed down by major labels, battled substance abuse, and had Beck crashing on his couch (okay, maybe that wouldn’t be so bad). But as one of the founders of New York’s…
Put your clothes back on, The Strip’s opening is delayed.In the midst of South Beach Wine & Food taking over the beach, new lounge The Strip (330 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach) was suppose to open this weekend in the old Rumi/O Asian space. Sorry to say, it ain’t happening. At…
via facebook.com/pages/Steel-PulseOne of the longest-running roots reggae bands around, Steel Pulse now boasts a list of former members as twice as long as that of its current lineup. Only two of its current players have appeared on all 11 of the band’s studio albums: keyboardist and backing vocalist Selwyn Brown,…
via myspace.com/donsdjIn what may be a somewhat dubious distinction, D.O.N.S. is best known to many clubbers as a remixer of Technotronic’s immortal “Pump Up the Jam.” Some 16 years after the original track’s release, in 2005, the Hamburg, Germany-based producer managed to take his reworked version high into the reaches…
We get to see an awful lot of Locos Por Juana around town, as they gig consistently, giving localvores frequent opportunities to catch them at favorite watering holes. But one shouldn’t overlook the fact that, while they’re extremely proud to rep the 305, they’ve extended their reach far beyond our…
Current NPR darlings Surfer Blood already got a co-sign from Brooklyn electro-house producer Drop the Lime when he spoke about the bands he spins when not spinning for cash in an interview last year. Now the DJ, who rolled through Miami last month, has taken his adoration to the next…
