Average White BandWar and the Average White BandHard Rock Live, HollywoodTuesday, June 30, 2009 Better Than: Hearing both of these groups play in another 10 years. The Review: With a bill of two of the funkiest multi-cultural groups from the late 1960s still alive and kicking, the Hard Rock promised…
It’s no secret Crossfade thinks Stonefox is the bee’s knees. If you want to find out exactly why, you can go through the archive and read the blogs we’ve written about them, or you could wait for the upcoming feature, or better yet, you can just clear your calendar on…
Miami natives Erik Slemon and Matt Gardner first started making music together more than a decade ago, when they were still apple-cheeked students at Coral Gables High and Columbus, respectively. Perhaps those early attempts were humble — “We played, like, Nirvana covers at a couple of house parties,” Gardner recalls…
If you missed Goldcure’s shows at Bull Bar and Propaganda back in May, you missed a hell of a good time. But fear not, young music lover, you’ve got a shot at redemption. On September 5, the Austin-based Indie-poppers are making another trek to Propaganda in Lake Worth. Let me…
Jipsy Surfcomber – when it’s good, it’s packed!To read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. Some of you have a three-day weekend and will be heading out for a nice vay kay, but this chick will be sticking it out in good ol’ Miami. The weather pretty…
Let’s say tomorrow rolls around and you finally manage to tear yourself away from CNN’s round-the-clock coverage of all things Michael Jackson to celebrate the birth of our nation and the day Will Smith freed us from alien annihilation. You find yourself on South Beach for some Fourth of July…
I was just listening to 2008’s good luck with twisted space from Swamp Valve, a.k.a. Jorge Rubiera (Down Home Southernaires), and just really enjoying the explosive high octane energy and down-right Marc Bolan-eque coolness of it. The music is sticky good straight ahead rock. You can download it for free…
Lex HernandezAll they did was party. MSTRKRFT took over the decks at LIV Wednesday night. Click here to view the full slideshow.MSTRKRFTWednesday, July 1, 2009LIV at the Fontainbleau, Miami BeachBetter than: Doing blow off the toilet seat at LIV.My relationship with MSTRKRFT is an old one. Before all the hype,…
You’ve probably seen Brooklyn-bred MC Rahsaan on Crossfade before (and here), and with regular shows and a loyal following from his adopted home of Miramar to the BK, why wouldn’t he be? As of today, Rahsaan is adding another element to his game – business owner. Today is the grand…
As new numbers for jobs lost come out this month, everyone is filled with anxiety, anxiety about pursuing dream jobs vs. realizing responsibilities and weathering the economic storm. But at the same time everyone maintains hope, that ever-overused word that got pounded into our subconscious with Obama’s election. Musicians, however,…
Photos – Jacob KatelCome on in. Bobby Macintyre’s Studio 71 in the City of Miami is where he writes and records music. He’s got sessions between sessions, projects on top of projects, and on this day he’s working with Gil from Endo on what he called “comping,” going through 20…
DJ ManuversLong-time fixture on the Miami hip-hop scene DJ Manuvers has a new podcast up. So far it sounds like a super breezy and very dope mix of jazzy stuff, hip-hop, slow grooves and whatnot. It includes some unreleased jams as well. Really it sounds like the perfect mix for…
As long as you can stand the smell of clove cigarettes and the sight of fetish-gear on public display, this is a show you won’t want to miss, especially if you’re planning on going to KMFDM on October 30. German Synthrock/Electronica/New Wave group Project Pitchfork is scheduled to play Respectable…
Hard Rock Live in Hollywood is classing it up on July 14 when Paul Potts comes to town. For those of you who don’t regularly watch British television, Potts is the original winner of the Simon Cowell-produced Britain’s Got Talent, where he astonished audiences and judges alike week in and…
The Fort Lauderdale-birthed four-piece Nonpoint came up in the late 1990s, a particularly fertile time in South Florida for experimental heavy rock. At clubs like Cheers, Fubar, and other one-named venues long defunct, they’d share the bill with other arty-but-loud local leading lights like Endo, Darwin’s Waiting Room, and the…
You’re not going to hear Timb on the radio anytime soon. It’s not that he’s untalented or too vulgar; it’s because he’s simply unclassifiable and might literally destroy the airwaves if he were broadcast on them. The best way to try to describe one of Timb’s live solo shows is…
Ready for some proselytizing? Stonefox is one of the current saviors of South Florida rock. That’s a lot to heap on a trio of guys in their early 20s, but this Boca- and Lauderdale-based band has clearly digested the gospel of rollicking, psychedelic, bluesy, rock ‘n’ fucking roll. Lots of…
Nothing about the Fourth of July exactly screams “clanging, experimental electronic noise” — but then again, the elusive, quasi-legendary Miami duo Phoenecia doesn’t appear live too often either. So for fans of the loosely labeled genre known, unfortunately, as IDM (“intelligent dance music”), this show adds a little luster to…
“It’s not full of sunshine.” Fixing his gaze out of the window, Carlos Oni could well be referring to the weather — the streets outside the Gables Diner in Coral Gables are still slick and damp from an early-morning downpour. But in fact, he is attempting to describe the type…
One would think that a DJ who boasts a residency every night of the week would have neither the time nor the inclination to add to that roster. But if you were thinking about longtime South Beach fixture J Felix, you’d be wrong. See, this Miami native believes there’s no…
In an early scene from one of our cinematic treasures, 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Phoebe Cates’ character, Linda, points out, “There are three girls at Ridgemont who have cultivated the Pat Benatar look” before the camera hones in on three chicks with striped shirts, tights, spiky hair, heels,…
And Then There Was You And Then There Was You Indianola Records Myspace.com/attwy Powerful, melody-driven, three-and-a-half minute ditties propel this album above and beyond the muck of what has sadly become the post-punk/hardcore scene. The extremely adept rhythm section of Alex De Renzis (drums) and Steven Vasquez (bass) ably set…
