This week I would like to talk about how the punk rock and hardcore scene here really has no support anymore. Today, kids see “punk rock” on MTV and channels like that, but the truth is that shit’s not real. The bands you see there are bands that really didn’t…
The name Switchfoot sounds like the moniker for an awful pop punk band trying to capitalize on skateboarding culture. Instead, Switchfoot is an alternative/grunge band from San Diego whose name is capitalizing on surfing culture. They’re touring in support of their upcoming “Hello Hurricane” album, set to release on October…
John Dawson fronted this pioneering Americana band.To read past installments of Notes from the Soundboard, click here. It’s become all too common in our society to mourn the passing of those whose fame has taken them to the heights of international stardom, while all but ignoring others who perhaps lack…
It’s been a slow summer for the Miami quartet Mendacity, whose last show was this past March, and in Orlando, to boot, at that city’s stop of the Taste of Chaos tour. A few months’ break is no big deal for this long-running band, though — the foursome came together…
First, the Pitchfork TV love, and now, an interview in another national indie taste-maker mag. Awesome New Republic is (finally!) properly on the verge of a breakout beyond this peninsula. Starting yesterday, Filter magazine began posting a three-part Q&A with ANR on its web site. (The third part is dated…
Michael Jackson dies and all of a sudden he’s the greatest entertainer of all time. Not so fast. MJ made three great albums, invented the moonwalk and, well…. Let us take another look at the performers who have truly proved most thrilling over the years.1. Elvis Presley Michael Jackson may…
Worldstar Hip-Hop is one of the most heavily trafficked sites on the Internet. Last week, the site featured a New Times episode of Prunk TV on its front page. As of now it has accrued 70,000 hits and change. Thing is, somebody downloaded it off the New Times YouTube channel,…
Just because a star was bred in Hollywood doesn’t necessarily mean he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Just take Mickey Avalon, the unlikely king of L.A.’s swanky clubs. He came from beginnings far beyond dubious and instead well into deranged, a fact he’s celebrated in his…
Celebrity culture is big business. It’s just that the definition of celebrity gets looser and looser. Pseudoreality entertainment has given us train wrecks, villains we love to hate, or modern-day spectacles akin to old bearded ladies of yore (Octomom, anyone?). But on the flip side, there are the few who…
Fort Lauderdale is perhaps better-known for its nickel slots and three-for-one drink specials than for its cultural pursuits. But you could have fooled the hundreds of people who attended Friday night’s kickoff party for the multimedia extravaganza that was the Red Eye exhibition, held at Broward County’s ArtServe space. In…
Jackal & Hyde fuse breaks, punk provocation, and whacked-out synths for mind-altering electro that’s sinister enough to quench your inner ghoul but not quite dark enough to stifle your inner groove. Made up of the visually nondescript Scott Weiser and seemingly Aztec-styled fetish warrior Todd Walker, the duo became a…
You wouldn’t think the American Civil War and reggae music would be closely associated. Nothing’s less Rasta than people warring over states’ rights and abolition, right? But John Brown’s Body begs to differ, at least when it comes to the band’s name, cribbed from a marching song for the Union…
Atmosphere MC Slug has gained some much-needed perspective in the time since 2005’s You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having.”The identity that comes with [being a rapper] carries a lot of self-entitlement,” Slug (AKA Sean Daley) says from his South Minneapolis home. “That’s a good thing. It’s part of…
In the Venn diagram of modern electro, fidget, and hip-house, Milan-based DJ duo Crookers resides in the overlap. The pairing of producers Phra and Bot, Crookers is often mentioned alongside the Bloody Beetroots, a similarly beat-saturated set of Italian DJs that rose to prominence through blogs. But Crookers differentiates its…
With 2004’s resounding, career-reviving smash American Idiot — and now, with the superior 21st Century Breakdown — Green Day has not so much evolved as been completely reborn. Even its name seems to have transformed, from a J-smoking lazy-afternoon joke to maybe something environmental. This is not simply because the…
It was Friday night, and I was chilling at industrial, sexy music haven Club 101. I was up on a black VIP couch, free bourbon and Coke in hand, chilling with some laid-back buddies. Suddenly, bam, I had an eyeful. Two trashed party girls — both slender-framed and long-legged, each…
Photo by Jose D. DuranPoplife founders Barbara Basti and Aramis Lorie.Poplife has never really been a faithful lover, so White Room should have seen this coming from a mile away. We heard the rumors weeks ago, but we were told it was off the record. However, today we received word…
via myspace.com/djntypeDJ N-TypeBlack Sheep as we know it may be extinct, but its erstwhile proprietor, Juan Basshead, is still dedicated to the low frequencies. As such, he’s got a hand in a number of wall-rattling events around town, and on Thursday, August 6, he and the Shake crew reunite for…
Raffa and Rainer’s beloved Can You Rock a Little Softer night long ago moved on from Churchill’s. But for the summer, at least, you can still get your Wednesday night fix of local acoustic music at the sort-of English pub. As we reported here before on Crossfade, the weekly event,…
The Miami Bass Warriors, a sort of supergroup featuring Otto von Schirach, Debbie D (Avenue D.) Jose el Rey and El Tigre, has been getting the remix treatment courtesy of the Nome and Chris Video of BF GF.MP3: Miami Bass Warriors – “Going Back to Calle Ocho” (the Nome remix)…
“Diva is the female version of a hustla.” Beyonce Actress and singer, Drew Sidora recently moved to Miami from LA to finish her upcoming debut album for Slip-N-Slide Records. You may remember Drew from a previous episode of Prunk; we met up again over the weekend at a clothing store…
No Regular Play is the Brooklyn-based production duo of Nick DeBruyn and Greg Paulus (originally of indie darlings Beirut). Part of a new American generation of EDM producers rooted in more instrumentalist-based music forms, their experimental genre-bending take on house and techno defies all expectations of what dance music can…
