RotagillaSeason For Leavin’ (self-released)You’d think it was 1970 again, for Chrissakes, what with the way the guys of Rotagilla let out their inner Led Zep. Granted, there’s no hint of a Robert Plant or Jimmy Page lurking among this lot. However, in recycling the old school power trio format and…
It’s official: Poplife turns 10 next month. Last year, when we sat down and spoke with founders Aramis Lorie and Barbara Basti about the party turning 9, we thought that was a milestone, but 10 sounds so much more official, no? And to celebrate that achievement, the party is bringing…
photo by Aaron BristolJim JonsinThis week’s New Times includes a feature on Jim Jonsin, the Coral Springs resident who’s quickly become a super-producer and is blowing up the hip-hop and pop charts. (You’ve doubtless heard one of his recent hits, any number of synth-driven tracks like Soulja Boy’s “Kiss Me…
Back in late April, Christopher Lopez wrote a 867-word article on Miami band Radioboxer. Someday they should make newspapers that come with speakers and lCD screens and the ability to hook up to the worldwide global information superhighway. Till then, you can just use your computer to check out the…
First there were the Three Tenors — or was it the Four Tenors? Sorry, we’ve lost count. Regardless, the standard was set by hefty gentlemen with booming operatic voices prone to dazzling their audiences with rich and riveting performances. Now there’s the next generation, a group of twentysomething Australians dubbed…
Notes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing weekly on Crossfade, focused on pop music’s history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. Click here to read past installments. I try not to spend too…
South Florida seems to be a haven for jam bands of late. Hot new acts like the Heavy Pets are making their mark, the Jam Cruise announced its biggest lineup yet, and when Langerado dropped the jam, the festival folded. Perpetual Groove is coming to cash in on the Jam…
Ready to slay itThe Secondhand Outfit a.k.a. DJ Sensitive Side a.k.a. Jasper Delaini has been making steady waves on the underground side of the South Florida music scene through releases, parties, and performances. He’s making a few appearances in the next few weeks at some pretty cool jams in both…
Thanks to an infusion of younger blood (namely in the form of new and youthful producer Andrew Hevia), WLRN TV is getting on board the newfangled YouTube thing and putting some of its programming online. Yay. So if you missed its original air date earlier this week, check out this…
Lex HernandezBrooklyn MC Theophilus London performing at Rokbar Tuesday night. Click here to view the full slideshow.Theophilus LondonTuesday, May 19, 2009Rokbar, Miami BeachBetter than: The current wave of hipster-hop.I’ll start off by admitting I don’t know much about the up-and-coming singer/MC Theophilus London expect that he’s from Brooklyn, he performed…
photo by James Robert Farmer, via myspace.com/thisismotherfatherYesterday we recommended tonight’s show at Churchill’s, which features local acts Ex Norwegian and the Jean Marie, opening for Nashville quartet Mother/Father. Here’s a free taster from the headliners, a song called “Youngest Gods.” While the band’s other songs are full of swirly, reverb-laden…
About 25 people watched Michael Borosky, a nondescript 26-year-old opera singer, belt out about seven numbers from various operas Wednesday as part of the first in a series of Opera Mash-Up events at Area 7. He was lit from above by a disco ball, and surrounded on all sides by a bunch of…
Here’s a guide to some of the hottest parties tonight that kick off the long weekend on South Beach.Welcome to MiamiInk Nightclub, 717 Washington Ave., Miami BeachDoors open at 10 p.m., Tickets cost $30, miaminiceweekend.comSouth Beach Jump OffHosted by Fat Joe and Trick Daddy;With DJs Khaled, Entice, and BulletproofMansion, 1235…
Fresh off dropping their longtime record label Geffen, Counting Crows is going on tour and making a stop in Miami at Bayfront Amphitheater. The Counting Crows, who were huge for a few years in the 90s with the single “Mr. Jones”, have been not so steadily touring ever since. Lead…
via nkotb.comThe highly-anticipated (read the comments, doubters) NKOTB cruise docked at the Port of Miami Monday morning and dumped a couple hundred disappointed fans onto our shores. Danny Wood, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, and 2100 of their biggest fans boarded the Carnival cruise ship Imagination under…
Everywhere we look — USA Today, iTunes, the CW — we see 21-year-old Cleveland singer/songwriter Kate Voegele’s face. There she is — singing songs from, talking about, and inviting you to download her music. Voegele has been slowly building buzz over the past couple of years with her personal pop…
Watching Young Love mastermind Dan Keyes wriggle his hips behind the microphone as he yelps “If you get the chance/You must dance dance dance” on the R&B-tinged “Find a New Way,” one would never know that he used to be a member of an emo band. Keyes, formerly the moping…
Between his acting career, his unsavory legal troubles, and the simple fact that he’s seemingly been around forever, it’s sometimes easy to forget that Busta Rhymes is still an active recording artist — especially when you consider that beyond the awesomely Daft Punk-jacking “Touch It,” dude hasn’t really made an…
Austin quartet Goldcure plays a straightforward blend of indie-ish pop-rock, but the Texas still comes through. Guitars are bright, rollicking, and purely American, and frontman Adam Buhman’s rough-edged croon can veer close to twang. But the band’s real talent is in reducing its roots and rock influences to their essences,…
It’s a recent Saturday night, and producer Jim Jonsin is installed at the console of his midtown Miami studio, as he is for about 15 hours on an average day. It’s been a banner year for the Coral Springs native, born James Scheffer, and he’s wearing a multimillion-dollar smile. “Winning…
Out of the countless towns he’s played during his band’s national tours, Sammy Gonzalez, bassist for local trio Jacob’s Ladder, still prefers tiny Frankenmuth, Michigan. An obscure, German-themed tourist destination billed as “Michigan’s Little Bavaria,” Frankenmuth is home to one “amazing promoter,” Jacobs says. “He throws shows at a place…
Not many DJs can boast a big-screen portrayal by Wilmer Valderrama. Then again, not many DJs can brag about surviving some of the most decadent nights of 1990s New York clubland either. But both are the case with DJ Keoki, who spun his way through nights so depraved that they…
