Pulling off the whole big-room commercial house music thing without falling into the lowest common denominator is no easy feat (I’m looking at you, David Guetta,) but The Shapeshifters have managed to find that difficult balance between mainstream appeal and true musical quality fairly successfully. The West London DJ/production duo…
Nocturnal, the other major superclub on NE Eleventh Street, has suffered its ups and downs, surviving through its fare share of closing and re-opening rumors over the years. But that’s just par for the course in nightlife, where longevity is rare and a fifth birthday, which the dance warehouse celebrates…
Any given Saturday in Miami the bass, sweat, sex, liquor, music, and dancing flood the concrete tropics like a hurricane on South Beach. This year a bigger, better Swamp Stomp shook the wooden floorboards at The Bayside Hut to their core with more local soul than the Miami section in…
The local super-indie label Destroyio Records made it all the way to the finals of Miami New Times’ recent Mastermind Awards contest this past winter. That was not a small feat, considering the artsy-fartsy, more “establishment”-type entries in the pool. The one-man operation deserves plenty of credit for keeping proper…
Now Crossfade isn’t taking any steps to become Sunfade for the week, but there’s going to be a lot of SunFest coverage. The lineup, which includes Weezer, the Flaming Lips, Nas, among many others, is strong to say the least. And, assuming the weather is nothing like the buckets of…
Our giveaway of tickets for the screening of Animal Collective’s visual album ODDSAC, this Sunday at Grand Central in Miami, is now closed. Congratulations to the winner!For everybody else, advance tickets are still available for $15 at this link. A pretty good deal — just a few dollars over the…
Friday’s closing bell is only hours away, and there’s a whole weekend’s worth of angst yet to spend. On Saturday evening, one option worth risking a black eye for is a run of seven local hardcore acts at Brogues on the Avenue Irish Pub in Lake Worth (621 Lake Avenue).Dubbed…
Jon Cowan deserves a lot of credit in recent years for keeping alive some hope of quality dance music on the Beach. Back in the ’90s, he was known for spinning around town and co-promoting the Bliss parties at Groove Jet, which were responsible for beginning the tidal wave of…
Julieta VenegasWednesday, April 21, 2010Dolce Ultra Lounge, Miami Beach(Even) Better than: The last time I saw her, at the Gibson Showroom in 2008, actually.Julieta Venegas is something of a shape shifter. Her sound has remained in a state of perpetual motion throughout her career. Hers has been a constant evolution…
John Fogerty performed at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood on Thursday, April 22, 2010
Like Travis Bickle said in Taxi Driver, “One day a real rain is gonna come and wash all this scum off the streets.” When that day comes to Miami (maybe with a big hurricane this summer), and all the bullshit, plastic, glass, and concrete is gone, we’ll be left with…
I’m guessing that Dave Daniels saw this as an opportunity to make some capital improvements on the joint since outside there will also be a mural painted live by Paul Andras and Avtar Rojas. I wonder if these dudes will do my townhouse too…. Anyways, incidental music will be provided…
Surfer BloodWith Turbo Fruits, Love Handles, and the DewarsRespectable Street, West Palm BeachApril 20, 2010Before your faithful Broward-Palm Beach Crossfade contingent became a member of the New Times staff, he attended a fateful Surfer Blood show January 27 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. The concert also featured Israeli…
Jacuzzi Boys – Smells Dead from John McSwain on Vimeo.Just a couple weeks before an extensive national tour that will keep them on the road for two months, the Jacuzzi Boys have released this new video for “Smells Dead.” In a sign of the band’s growing national cred, the director…
Over the past couple of years, much of the American iteration of “indie rock” has gotten mired in a latte-scented puddle of mild psychedelia on one hand and purposely low-fi, pedal-doused noise on the other. There’s a lot of cool stuff in between, but what nearly nobody is doing anymore…
Describing L.A. quartet Bigelf involves a swan dive into the adjective grab bag, employing all the clichéd linguistic parlor tricks of the rock critic’s trade to find words for surreal yet disturbingly visceral forces. You know — bombastic, epic, thunderous, mind-bending — all the words you read in rock reviews,…
It seems like the guys of Deep Dish are spending more time apart than together, but the musical results become more and more interesting as the two collaborators diverge. The clear maverick of Sharam and Dubfire is the latter. Born Ali Shirazinia, the Iranian-American grew up around Washington, D.C., in…
Ben Bridwell’s swelling sonic ambitions were apparent early in his musical career. Now the frontman and main brain behind Band of Horses, he had a knack for pushing the borders of jangly, somewhat mopey rock toward outer space when he was part of Seattle indie act Carissa’s Wierd. After that…
The Electric Pickle has something for everyone this Friday night with a stellar triple booking hosted by top local EDM contingents PL0T and Poplife that should provide for a delectable melange of sounds ranging from indie to techno. To kick things off, Mr. Andy Rourke of The Smiths fame will…
Over the past 15 years or so, Jamaican dancehall has been fusing more and more with American urban music. It’s really been reflected in the last few in the lineup of Best of the Best, the biggest dancehall-centric concert of the year in South Florida. Hip-hop artists have been figuring…
Caetano VelosoThe Fillmore Miami BeachApril 20, 2010Better Than: A world cruise through an aural netherworldThe Review:It’s virtually impossible to categorize the music of Caetano Veloso. World Beat is weak. Because though what he does is both global and rhythmic, the term doesn’t even begin to describe its aural majesty. World…
The musical legend born James Osterberg is Miami’s most famous rock and roll resident. And though he guards where, exactly, it is that he resides, lately it seems it’s been easier than ever to see him out on the town. And boy, the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau should…
