The idea behind Miami Summerfest is pretty straightforward: a bunch of up-and-coming local acts playing in the sweltering heat of a mostly-outdoors venue on a Sunday (that’s the “summer part”). But seriously, the event doesn’t start until after the sun goes down, and the acts selected so far are pretty…
What do you get when you take Greg Grunberg and Adrian Pasdar from Heroes, Teri Hatcher and James Denton from Desperate Housewives, mop-topped Bob Guiney from The Bachelor, and Jesse Spencer and Hugh Laurie from House? Yes, the cast listing for the 2015 season of VH1’s Surreal Life, but also…
Now this is an interesting promotion. As regular Crossfade readers know by now, ZZ Top and Aerosmith are playing the BankAtlantic center on Monday July 13. Aerosmith is doing a big promotional push on their newest video game: Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, and part of that promotion involves you. Before each…
Area 7 will hold its first Opera Mash-Up event Wednesday May 20, an event which “mashes” opera with various genres of music. Singers will come in and perform their favorite opera numbers, while sound engineer Billy (no surname) records them. From 9 to 10 p.m. the night will consist of…
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,…
No matter what you think of Sugar Ray, you’ve got to respect their choice of titles for their upcoming CD: Music for Cougars. You’ve also got to respect the band that’s been around since 1992 and has admitted it’s failed at trying to branch out and change their sound. In…
While Respectable Street has booked a number of darkwave and, um, “old wave” groups of late, this is probably its most impressive coup to date in recent months. Peter Murphy, onetime Bauhaus leader and pretty much the granddaddy of all that is goth, plays the club on June 24. Last…
Once upon a time, you couldn’t walk down certain lower Manhattan blocks without tripping over sidewalk vendors’ card tables loaded with cassettes. Sometimes, they’d be bootleg concert tapes, but a lot of the time, they were the latest hip-hop mixtapes. And in the golden age of that form, no one…
Chris Martin and company return to the road, again, in support of their latest album, last year’s Viva La Vida. The relatively experimental followup to the number one, 10-times platinum album X&Y, Viva La Vida has drawn both praise and scorn from fans and critics for departing from the previous…
When the mainstream media and trendies of yore decided, in the late 1970s, that punk Version 1.0 was over, the Vibrators never got the memo. Perhaps, in true spiky Brit fashion, they just ripped it up and spit on it. Either way, the London-based band boasts the unique distinction of…
The Cuba Nostalgia expo was created in Miami ten years ago, as its website explains, to provide “a journey back in time for those who remember the island’s glamorous times — and for those who never experienced them.” If you’ve never witnessed the weekend-long event at the Fair-Expo Center in…
It takes a versatile artist to write a number one country hit (1980’s “Starting over Again,” for Dolly Parton), simulate an orgasm on a 17-minute disco record (1976’s “Love to Love You Baby”), and win a Grammy for an inspirational performance (1983’s “He’s a Rebel”). Donna Summer has done all…
Eighties heartbreaker Pat Benatar will play Hard Rock Hotel and Casino July 2 with her husband Neil Giraldo. Unfortunately Blondie, who just announced she and Benatar will be touring together for the first time later this year, will not be there. But one 1980s icon may be enough. Benatar boasts some cheesy songs…
The Electric Pickle is poised to delight downtown’s techno cognoscenti again this Friday night with a special DJ set by acclaimed DJ/Producer Alexi Delano. Chilean-born Delano spent his formative years in Sweden where he was part of the first wave of notable Swedish EDM producers in the mid-’90s. He has…
Here’s a music festival you can feel good about attending. The May Flowers Music Event is coming to the Corporate Pavillion at C.B. Smith Park on May 23, and net proceeds will be donated to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to help find a cure for Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s Disease,…
Jam Cruise 8 is setting sail January 3 through 8, 2010 from Fort Lauderdale. JC8 is headed to Ocho Rios Jamaica and George Town Cayman Islands before heading back home. Along the way, sailors will be treated to almost non-stop music, with most acts playing two different sets and a…
Rose Max is no stranger to the local music scene in Miami. She’s kept busy since arriving in 1993, constantly performing and winning fans along the way. She’s won the Brazilian Press Award three times (in ’97, ’98 and ’01) for “Best Female Brazilian Singer Residing and Performing in the…
The annual Florida Music Festival kicks off its eighth year tonight, and while it’s up in Orlando, more and more South Florida bands are turning towards the multi-day music crawl as a sort of SXSW lite. Billed as featuring 250 performances across 15 stages and three days, the FMF is…
The Ataris are coming back to South Florida courtesy of Grizz and the kids in Alukard, who are bringing them to the Sandbar of all places, down in dirty Kendall on Memorial Day weekend. These guys, who are basically Kris Roe plus whoever he has with him, have and been…
Jam fans rejoice Of A Revolution (aka O.A.R.) is bringing the patchouli wearing crowd together again. Promoting their newest album “All Sides”, O.A.R. and Brett Dennen are scheduled to play the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre on August 29 at 8 p.m. sharp. In true jam band fashion, the band has recently…
Just when I thought the hipster-hop genre was dead, in comes up-and-coming Brooklyn MC Theophilus London to save the day. London has been on the cusp of breaking it big for that last year or so and has received plenty of accolades from publications likes The Fader and Urb, which…
A heads up to Miami’s techno lovers: Pornograph Events has one hell of a double booking lined up for June, with legends Derrick May and François K scheduled to play Nocturnal’s Eden Terrace Garden on Saturday, June 20. For those of you born yesterday, Derrick May is one of Detroit’s…
