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…
The Three Jacks are an amazing Irish/Celtic/Folk/Rock band, a Dade County Dropkick Murphy’s with better musicians. Their singer/guitar player Henk Milne recently met New Times publisher Kevin Thornburg at Churchill’s and then sent him an email detailing the band’s continued quest to save the earthquake ravaged lands of Pisco, Peru…
305Fest is happening this week at the Firefly, maybe some stuff at Goo and maybe one other place which I can’t figure out yet. It seems like it costs 25 bucks for three days of at least 45 bands with a really incredible amount of variety in music from grind…
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…
Anybody been to Poprox yet? I keep hearing about it, so I’m gonna assume yes, though admittedly, I’ve yet to hit it up. I know, I know…bad music writer! Bad! I stand chastised. After all, the site itself explains quite frankly and without preamble, that Poprox is, in fact, “Miami’s…
This might be hard to believe, but you can’t go see The Beatles live anymore, unless you have some sort of resurrection or time traveling technology. If you do have said technology and are using to see The Beatles, you’ve got some problems, so let Crossfade help you out. The…
The aptly titled “Blazed and Confused Tour” is making a stop at Bicentennial Park in Miami on Saturday August 1. Snoop Dogg’s slated appearance for the canceled Langerado was one of the most anticipated of the year, so here’s your new chance to get incredibly high (on music of course)…
Saves the Day and Alkaline TrioWith Nightmare of YouSunday, May 10, 2009Revolution, Ft. LauderdaleBetter Than: Any of the crap under the misapplied “emo” rubric these daysThe Review:Any number of swoop-haired bands of the current Warped Tour generation may, perhaps, boast more Internet “friends,” but few can even hope for the…
Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s AddictionWith Street Sweeper Social ClubFriday, May 8, 2009Cruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm BeachBetter Than: Sex.The Review:Friday night in West Palm Beach marked the kick-off of one of the summer concert season’s biggest tickets: NINJA 2009, a double-headliner vehicle for Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction. The…
@page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> What better way to spend a sweet sweet Sunday afternoon Mother’s Day than with a concert by the super super sweet Raffa and Rainer over at the tiny little joint, Shiso, around the corner from ye…
Fort Myers pop-punkers After the Fact will play Area 7 after streak-attacking the performers and audience at the Girls in Bands event the night before. The boys, though seemingly naked at all other shows as well as in this corresponding photo, will be dressed up as a chipmunk, pig and…
Indie Pop Rockers The Cab have announced an August 1st show at Culture Room. You might not have heard of The Cab quite yet (unless you play Rock Band 2), but that’s probably going to change. They’ve recently signed to Decaydance Records, aka Fall Out Boy’s Pete Pentz’s label. With…
Go ahead and take it up on that. We both know you’re easy. And besides, it’s not like you’re strangers. Whether you’ve stopped in for brunch, dinner and drinks, or just to catch a bit of live jazz, you’ve undoubtedly patronized the Van Dyke at some point during your travels…
Drop Dead, Gorgeous, who have the most well placed comma in band name history, are coming to Fort Lauderdale on June 26, and they’re not coming alone. Dubbed the “Hot N Heavy Tour”, Drop Dead, Gorgeous are joining up with He Is Legend, Before Their Eyes, What Out There’s Ghosts,…
Area 7’s new Avant-Garde Series will kick off May 16 wth “Girls in Bands,” an event promoting acts that feature an experimental, noise, and/or indie sound and have at least one female member. The bands hail from across Florida, including Jacksonville, Miami, and Orlando. Curious Hair will open the show,…
Tomorrow night’s show continues Respectable Street’s recent trend of catering to the darker set. As such, headlining the bill tomorrow is the singularly pseudonymous Voltaire, flying down from his cave in New York as part of a brief national tour in support of his recent musical endeavors. Voltaire calls himself…
Haven’t taken a shower or had a job since 1969? Well you’re probably still at Greynolds Park hangin’ out and you don’t have the Internet to read this, but guess what? All the folks who grew up but wanna relive their youth are gonna come say wassup. Why? It’s almost…
Patrick Walsh aka DJPJ who has been making waves at the News Lounge at Nightdrive and occasionally at Psychic Tuesdays over at Bella Rose is making a DJ appearance at Artwalk’s Awarehouse this Saturday, May 9. You can expect an eclectic and varied set with plenty of rare grooves and…
