Chelley (Who?) at LIV Tomorrow

Actual conversation over iChat:”Are you going to Chelley tomorrow?”Who the fuck is Chelley?”Here.”Oh, THAT SONG!”So, are you coming tomorrow?”What’s in it for me?”A really bad performance for you to publicly hate.”Check out, Chelley tomorrow at LIV for its Dirty Hairy party. For more information, visit livnightclub.com or call 305-674-4680…

Getting Rowdy With Rusko at White Room Saturday

Rusko: The face of dubstep.​If dubstep was a kingdom, then Rusko would surely be its king. The British born, L.A. transplant has been damaging speakers worldwide with his hard hitting beats. But limiting him to the genre of dubstep would be underestimating the 23-year-old. He easily mixes electro, hip-hop, and…

Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

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 December 6 – December 12 Sweat Records, MiamiMiami-based electro-pop artist Panic Bomber is getting on everyone’s mind at Sweat Records. 1. Getting On My Mind,…

Buju Banton Busted for Trying to Buy Cocaine

via MTV News​Last Thursday, controversial reggae star Buju Banton (aka Mark Anthony Myrie) was busted for trying to buy nearly 15 7 kilos of cocaine from an undercover DEA informant. Myrie is as notorious for unapologetic, anti-gay lyrics as he is for his wine-worthy music, but according to the AP he could be…

Head Spins: Edwin Adams

​Long before South Beach became a hotbed of mediocrity, there lurked a contingent of sound and vision aficionados known as the Deep House Movement. DHM’s core consisted of Omar Suardy, from New York, Stephen Flynn, from Ireland, and Edwin Adams, a Florida boy who had little in common with those…

Pulp Live in Fort Lauderdale Closes, Everyone Shrugs

​Pulp Live announced last week, via its various social networking pages, that it had closed until the venue “finds a new location.” Well, that’s always the way closing establishments try to put a nice face on it. The club’s web site, as I post this, is totally offline.We say, good…

Loco Dice and Anja Schneider Play Space on Saturday

The Techno Loft at Space has consistently delivered the goods since launching earlier this year, showcasing some of the top techno talent from around the globe with a special emphasis on the Berlin sound. Saturday, December 19 continues the trend with a stellar double booking featuring Berlin techno legends Loco…

Huma Rojo This Thursday at Transit

​Let’s face it, girls that can truly shred onstage are one of those things that just kicks ass. Just take Joan Jett, Go-Go’s and Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth). Not for any chauvinistic reason–we are an equal opportunity rock fan. Just because, even today, you simply don’t see it enough in…

Concert Review: Wolfgang Gartner at Mansion, December 12

Photo by Sarah TylerClick here to view more photos from this event.I went to Mansion on Saturday night in order to find out what’s happened to electro house. This energetic style, blended with equal parts electro and indie dance rock, exploded on the international scene in 2006 but lost most…

Giveaway: Name That Max Fish Band, Win 20 Free CDs

Here’s video from a New York band playing Max Fish Miami on December 4. Leave a comment telling us who they are, really, we don’t know, and provide web evidence that proves it, and we’ll send you 20 free random music CDs…

Pantera Tribute Show at the Talent Farm Tomorrow Night

Hopefully, you were going to find out about this show tonight, when you head out to The Talent Farm for the Mend A Heart Benefit Show. But just in case your heart is made of stone and bile, here’s your heads up on an ultra heavy show happening at the…

Flyer of the Week: Get Low with UltraBlack at the Vagabond December 17

​If you thought Phoenix dubstep duo UltraBlack’s minimal moniker was some kind of warning scream against the sleek and opulent evils of future technology, you were wrong. Truth is, Bryan Marek and Nick Suddarth make dark party tracks that, perversely, seem to revel in the debauched potentialities of a not-so-distant dystopia…

What to Hear in Broward and Palm Beach This Weekend

via Flickr user t_a_i_s​Plenty of things to hear in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend, one of them will even make you feel good about yourself! Tonight, the Help Mend A Heart Benefit Show is happening at The Talent Farm. The $10 cover charge goes to the Maureen Waters Medical…

Techno Takes Over the Design District Tonight

Miami’s techno heads are hardly out of options tonight with internationally renowned DJ/producers Simon Baker and Todd Bodine in tow at Grass and the Electric Pickle, respectively. SAFE’s Art Basel special at Grass last weekend, featuring Radio Slave and Argy, seemed to mark the resurgence of the Design District lounge…

Miami Music Festival and MP3: “Yellow Man” by Arboles Libres, Playing this Saturday

​It’s inevitable … Sometime this Saturday-night-slash-Sunday-morning your half-drunk ass will find itself wandering, like a partied-out zombie, through the near-abandoned labyrinth of weird, winding roads that buffer Transit and those temporary Miami Music Festival tents from the banker-bustle of Brickell. But wait, before you pass out and puke on that…

Q&A With Cage, Playing at Revolution on Saturday

No one would ever accuse Chris Palko, the New York rapper who goes by Cage, of coming across as warm and cuddly. From the beginning of his career on the circuit, he’s mined his own set of personal traumas for musical gold. He’s long discussed his fucked up childhood to…