Atmosphere

Atmosphere MC Slug has gained some much-needed perspective since the release of 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…

Karina Iglesias

Locally born and bred songstress Karina Iglesias has more soul than a sock with a hole — one listen to her music gives that away. Songs from the singer-songwriter’s repertoire traverse R&B, funk, and beyond while remaining smooth but down-to-earth. Her sultry, throaty vocal style easily navigates the crisp, funk-infused…

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Black Moth Super Rainbow’s recently released Eating Us might not lovingly upset as many stomachs as 2007’s eerily chewy Dandelion Gum. But that’s only because people are acquiring a taste for the western Pennsylvania outfit’s trippy brand of vivid wildness. Sure, the kooky quintet’s latest LP seems almost sedate compared…

No Regular Play Perform at The Bunker this Saturday Night

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…

Latest Incarnation of Os Mutantes Plays Culture Room on October 14

Kurt Cobain was a huge fan. Beck named his album Mutations in their honor. David Byrne personally curated a 1999 retrospective album on the band for his Luaka Bop label, but it seemed like nothing could convince legendary Brazilian Tropicalia band Os Mutantes to return to stage. Then in 2007 two-thirds of the band’s original core, brothers Arnaldo Baptista and…

Concert Review: Big Sam’s Funky Nation at Transit Lounge, July 24

Big Sam’s Funky NationTransit Lounge, MiamiFriday, July 24, 2009Better Than: JambalayaThe Review:New Orleans funkmeister Big Sam Williams brought the bayou to Brickell Friday night, for a regular old boot-stompin’, booty-shakin’ hootenanny at a bustling Transit Lounge. The band of six, led by large – and – in – charge Williams…

Butane Plays Electric Pickle this Friday

Midwestern DJ/producer Andrew Rasse a.k.a. Butane is one of the more cerebral and pragmatic figures of contemporary techno. This is a guy who cites the philosophers Martin Heidegger and Thomas Kuhn as influences, and whose new artist album Endless Forms (on Crosstown Rebels) is a self-described homage to Charles Darwin…

Days of the New Coming to Culture Room August 15

Days of the New is a hard band to classify nowadays. 10 or 15 years ago, it’d have easily sat in the same group as Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. But now that ‘alternative/grunge’ doesn’t seem to be a genre anymore, Days of the New seems, well new. Lead singer…

Concert Review: Miami Wings’ Thursday Night Jazz Jam

Click here to view the full slideshow from this event.Miami Wings Jazz JamThursday, July 23, 2009Better Than: Bedtime on a Thursday night.Miami Wings is a wings joint(duh)/sports bar way down in B.F.E that hosts a weekly underground jazz jam with the help of local serious jazz radio station 88.9 FM…

Victor Wooten and JD Blair at Culture Room September 25

Earlier, Crossfade told you all about how Victor Wooten, one of the best bass players ever, is playing the Culture Room, but the date was unknown. It’s time to clear your calendar starting at 8 p.m. on September 25, because that’s when you’ll be standing in a darkened room, mouth…

Arjona Plays AAA Next Friday

Next Friday, the indomitable Ricardo Arjona kicks off a 19-show US tour here in Miami, named 5o Piso for his most recent album, which dropped late last year. The Guatemalan-born singer-songwriter endured a failed attempt at recording as a young man and abandoned his dreams of the stage to become…

Crookers Return to Miami, This Time at LIV on August 5

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 …

Leonard Cohen to Play BankAtlantic October 17

Every young co-ed that I knew when I was a young man in college loved Leonard Cohen. I’m not sure if he fit some weird Elektra complex type of role in their lives or what, but they couldn’t get enough of his deep monotone vocals and sung-spoken verses. Of course,…