Thursday’s show was meant to be a huge booking coup for Miami all-ages venue the Dugout; warehouse drama has now shifted the show to Ground Control, a similarly bare-bones venue in West Palm Beach. Evergreen Terrace is arguably Jacksonville’s most famous musical export in recent years, a megapopular heavy band…
Much about the overall aesthetic of new Fort Lauderdale favorite Murderous Rampage can be gleaned from the band’s new video, for its song “Programmed to Kill.” The stars therein are topless zombie chicks who are way more brutal than Jenna Jameson (no matter how much Nietzsche she reads). They don’t…
Canadian producer Joel Zimmerman, AKA Deadmau5, can come off as a dead ringer for other dance favorites. There are pretty good odds that you could put on some new Deadmau5 tracks, chant “Because we are… your friends,” and have a convincing facsimile of J.U.S.T.I.C.E. or any of the other overdriven…
For many, the thought of Southern California in the ’80s brings to mind a Less Than Zero-style existence full of cocaine and Ray-Bans. But the sun-baked swath of turf from L.A. south became, at the beginning of the decade, the cradle of searing underground punk. London’s punk had its angular,…
In the early ’80s, the guys of L.A. Guns were proudly members of the dirtier subset of Sunset Strip denizens. Acts like Poison tarted themselves up in blush and aimed for pop crossover from the beginning, but the Guns and their fellow sleaze-rockers were more punk-inspired. The L.A. Guns were…
As an expert needle-wielder at Miami tattoo shop Ochoplacas, John Vale turns out works of art that are clean and eye-poppingly bright. But as frontman for the Miami quartet Furious Dudes, he specializes in all that is sleazy and dirty. If Vale’s very enviable, awesome beard doesn’t sway you immediately…
Compared to airbrushed, frosted-bang pretty boys like Rascal Flatts, Atlanta’s Zac Brown Band looks like it came straight to Nashville from a bare-knuckled dustup with the Kentucky Headhunters. However, the strand of Southern rock Brown and cohorts are steeped in most is the freeform Widespread Panic variety; their high harmonies…
YACHT, the duo led by former the Blow member Jona Bechtolt, had a good portion of their lunch eaten earlier this year when Discovery released LP, the laptop R&B record Bechtolt and his Portland cohorts had been trying unsuccessfully to make for years. But a lot’s happened since 2007, when…
Lita Ford has been a professional musician since she was a teenager. As the tough lead guitarist with L.A. all-female hard rockers the Runaways, the statuesque California blond held her ground onstage and shredded as ferociously as heroes Ritchie Blackmore and Jeff Beck. The group recorded four studio albums (and…
Hey, lost soul. Word is, you’ve been searching for some kind of trippy party shaman to lead you on a spirit quest to the center of your very own inner outer space. True? OK, then, it’s totally time you took a tab of that Space Voodoo Crystal stuff. Hence, today’s…
She calls herself Ms. Jones, Broward County First Lady and according to her Myspace page “A fake bitch will take you were you need to go – A real bitch throws you her keys and says it needs gas!”She has a song called “Ice Cream” that follows the South Florida…
It’s been a rough couple weeks for show cancellations, so we’ll file this one under good news. Rather than canceling a show, punk rock and rollers AFI has just announced a venue change. The show will no longer be at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater, now it’s going down at Revolution Live…
via lividrecords.comThe Crumbs are recording a new 10″ for Livid Records.*The party Heat_r is back up and running, bringing indie electro back to Fort Lauderdale, now at Exit 66. We heard it was pretty well-attended. The party’s ostensible web site, though, which was at heatrparty.com, seems to have been subsumed…
Miami’s true house music aficionados need not be reminded that South Beach is, for the most part, the last place one goes to find quality underground dance music. With the exception of a few sporadic misplaced bookings here and there, venturing east over the causeway means entering a wasteland of…
via mofrofans.comMore jam news for you to go with today’s Phish announcement. You know that Galactic show scheduled at Revolution on January 9? Well it just got a whole lot better with JJ Grey and Mofro being added to the set. The Florida based swamp-rock studs will open the show,…
Bebel Gilberto is considered by many to be at the forefront of modern Brazilian music. Though she was actually born in New York City, she was born into all-star lineage, her mother being Brazilian singer Miucha and her father Joao Gilberto, considered by many to be the “Father of Bossa…
Ah, Champion Sound. This weekly jam at Electric Pickle deserves ten gold stars for being one of the few regular parties in Miami where quality hip-hop lives. Tonight’s edition is special for two reason: One, it’s a birthday celebration for Crossfade/New Times music contributor Esther Park. Happy birthday, Esta!Second, it…
via phish.portals.musictoday.com/Alright, nobody really believed that Phish would stay away forever after their “final” concert in 2004. The only thing surprising about the beyond-jam-band gods’ reunion last year is that, perhaps, it didn’t come sooner. And they must really like Miami, even though Miami itself hasn’t been too kind to…
After Sleepless Night in Miami Beach this past Saturday, Crossfade’s Twitter friends (let’s follow each other, I’m at @Crossfade_SFL) and, uh, real-life people were raving about a performance by MASS Ensemble. This Malibu, California-based quartet performs a sort of global, downtempo trip-hop kind of thing, but the musicians do so…
via myspace.com/losangelesgunsIn the early ’80s, the guys of L.A. Guns were proudly members of the dirtier subset of Sunset Strip denizens. Acts like Poison tarted themselves up in blush and aimed for pop crossover from the beginning, but the Guns and their fellow sleaze-rockers were almost more punk-inspired. The L.A…
photo by Gokhan KaliLatin and Caribbean beats may be in Miami’s blood, and when you track the rhythms back to Africa, their enduring presence does make a sort of sense. But of all the beats in all the world, wouldn’t it make just as much sense for us to embrace…
JusticeYes, you read it correctly. Just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach, Mansion is bringing French electrohouse duo Justice to Miami Friday, December 4.The pair haven’t really played a proper club set since Winter Music Conference 2007 when they spun at the Fixed/Ed Banger party at Studio A. They’ve…
