What more could a concert-goers ask for from the Bayfront Park Amphitheater? How about a better bayfront view, no more wooden benches, new VIP boxes and more concession stands so (theoretically) the lines will be a bit more tolerable?Your wishes have been granted, or at least they will be by…
Katy PerryWednesday, April 29, 2009Revoluton, Fort LauderdaleKaty Perry is annoying. There’s no getting around it. I went to her sold-out show at Revolution Wednesday night with an open mind. I swear. I like “Hot N Cold.” Despite the song’s frustratingly sexist lyric criticizing a dude for changing his mind like…
SunFest New Music Night with 311Wednesday, April 29, 2009West Palm Beach IntercoastalBetter Than: Jeremiah’s Weed-Ade…though that didn’t stop me from drinkin’ ’em.Well, the first day of SunFest ’09 is in the can. What can I say? I love a good festival. The imposing overabundance of food. Alcohol in greater supply…
The Pinker Tones’ sound is not exactly easy to describe, though for all intents and purposes, simply electronica will have to do. But in truth, there is much, much more to it. From their home base of Pinkerland the Barcelona-based duo tinker with audio vibrations the way a mad scientist…
What do you have in common with Afrobeta and José El Rey? Well, if you’re Latino or grew up with Latino friends, you’ve no doubt partaken in that most hallowed of celebrations: la quinceñera (sweet 15?). And even though we’re grown up, we’ll do it again, this Thursday at the…
People from Venus might be one of the most aptly named bands on the local circuit — the group can seem, at certain musical moments, as though it has beamed in from another planet. Take those weird, eerie beeps and bloops at the beginning of “Lipstick,” the band’s should-be-a-hit song…
New Jersey’s Harry “Choo-Choo” Romero has a locomotive moniker, but the house DJ and producer isn’t known for train-wrecking records. Instead, he has somehow remained relevant in a fickle scene since the mid-1990s. Subliminal Records, the label he founded with Erick Morillo and Jose Nuñez, is one of the lone…
Metalheads looking for enough hair windmills — a circular type of headbanging that, um, is exactly what it sounds like — to give Don Quixote a coronary will find their Valhalla at Culture Room this Thursday when the Viking-obsessed Swedes of Amon Amarth roll through town. Over the band’s seven-album…
Awesome New Republic’s new album is up for free on their website. It is really good. Check out this Miami pop band’s latest emission, Rational Geographic Volume I. They are infectious, often-talked about and very fun live. Of course, you probably already know this, because this rag always writes about…
Last week Crossfade announced that Green Day is playing somewhere in Miami on August 4. That somewhere is officially the American Airlines Arena. The ticket sale dates are still up in the air, so we’ll trickle the information on to loyal Crossfade readers as it becomes available. For now, waste…
Remember the Clevelander? Of course you do. What Miami resident doesn’t have at least a handful of fond memories of the iconic Art Deco structure on the corner of 10th and Ocean? It stood watch over one of SoBe’s busiest avenues, a patient guardian, its arms open, welcoming the public…
For more than a year, LMFAO (SMS shorthand for “laugh my fucking ass off”) has been bastardizing the hipster-hop genre with their single “I’m In Miami, Bitch!” off their 2008 Party Rock EP. At one point acts like Kid Sister, Spank Rock, Amanda Black and The Cool Kids seemed like…
If you missed out on scoring tickets to her upcoming sold-out show at Revolution, or you somehow just can’t get enough of Katy Perry, you’re in luck. The shape-shifting popstress returns to South Florida on May 7, playing a free gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach as part of the…
Fort Lauderdale-based jammers the Heavy Pets will play three shows in South Florida to remind us what could have been at Langerado. The band, which consists of guitarist Mike Genius, guitarist and vocalist Jeff Lloyd, bassist Felix Pastorius, drummer Jah Newitt, and pianist Jim Wuest, has been touring for the…
Maybe you don’t like loud ass rock and roll played with abandon and actual feeling. Or maybe you just really really love paying nine dollars for a beer. It could be that you like paying a big – ass cover charge to get into a place where everyone looks at…
Rejoice ladies and gentlemen, music’s saviors Creed are coming to West Palm Beach on September 16. It’s been a long hard five years since Creed has toured, and clearly music has suffered greatly in their absence. There’s been an enormous lack of songs about going higher and having arms wide…
Metalheads looking for enough hair windmills — a circular type of headbanging that, um, is exactly what it sounds like — to give Don Quixote a coronary will find their Valhalla at Culture Room on Saturday as Viking-obsessed Swedes Amon Amarth roll through town.Over the band’s seven-album career, its stubborn…
What do you have in common with Afrobeta and Jose El Rey? No, not a police rap sheet as thick as a phone book, comprised mostly of various counts of public intoxication and indecent exposure. You shouldn’t assume that of Afrobeta just because it’s true of you (sorry Jose, but…
Somehow I missed the flier for this show, even though I was in Broward last Friday. Southern Flaw is one of my favourite versions of South Florida music and they are playing tonight at the Bar-Tv building in Ft. Lauderdale with a bunch of other bad ass bands. The show…
Miami’s annual Best Of The Best concert has become an international Memorial Weekend destination event. This year, some of the world’s most popular dancehall, soca, and rap stars will take the stage at Bicentennial Park and most likely rock an over-capacity crowd. If you plan on going, get your tickets…
My love for my roots and subsequent displays of Cubaneo are no secret. Cuban culture is a beautiful thing, and despite the stranglehold of a 50-year dictatorship, nowhere has it shone more than in music. Which is why I want to take a moment to talk to you about timba…
NYC DJ/producer Harry “Choo Choo” Romero has gained renown since the mid-1990s with releases on various house labels -including Erick Morillo’s Subliminal Records- and a reputation for funky uplifting club sets that blend soulful house, US garage, and Latin rhythms. Among various side projects and collaborations, his original production work…
