Grand Opening of The Techno Loft at Space this Saturday Night

A coalition of Miami’s local techno talent can be found this Saturday night playing under one roof at the grand opening of the new weekly Techno Loft party at Space. This opening will double as a CD release party for local producer Simon Wish’s new “Road To Berlin” record on…

Last Night: Ray LaMontagne at The Fillmore Gleason

Ray LaMontagneApril 30, 2009The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason TheaterBetter than: Hearing a gruff James Taylor front The Band in the early ’70s — had you never seen either James Taylor or The BandJohn HoodI’m gonna get a lot of flack for this, but here goes:Last night Ray…

Red White and Bluegrass comes to Hollywood Beach

Break out your straw hats, your spoons and those coveralls you wore with one strap down back in middle school because it’s time for a good old fashioned hoedown. From Friday May May 8 through Sunday May 10, Hollywood Beach will be home to some of the finest banjo picking…

Stay Hitt Performing Tonight at Churchill’s

Stay Hitt is one of those Miami bands that is destined to go down as one of the best, catchiest punk ‘n’ roll outfits that Dade County has ever produced. Unfortunately, they are also apparently destined to never actually produce a record or ever leave the state of Florida, or…

Incubus at the Brand New Bayfront Park Amphitheater August 16

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…

Last Night: Katy Perry at Revolution Live

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…

Last Night: SunFest New Music Night with 311

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 Come To Transit Lounge Tomorrow Night

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…

Shake Presents Dyamilet’s Quince

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

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…

Harry “Choo-Choo” Romero

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…

Amon Amarth

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 Offers Free Download of New 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…

Green Day Announces Venue for August 4 Date in Miami

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…

LMFAO Can’t Say Away From the City That Inspired Their One Hit

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…

The Heavy Pets Return to South Florida May 16

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…

Creed Reunites, Announces West Palm Beach Show on September 16

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…