How awesome would it be if the Jacuzzi Boys met Frank Zappa in a sonic cage match and they all emerged after three minutes, hugging each other, laughing at little private jokes, and humming beautiful music? Well, even if it’s impossible, that’s a battle (or love-in) I’d like to see…
Even 207 years after Lewis and Clark dared to make that first incredibly dangerous cross-continental trip, millions of Americans — like local prog-punk trio Jacobs Ladder –continue to head West, looking for fame, inspiration, intoxicants, babes of both sexes, and giant bags of cash. Needless to say, most of these…
By all measures, David Brieske is a quiet and gentle man. It should be no shock that a lot of South Florida’s visual artists also create music. And Brieske’s solo work, under the virtually unpronounceable banner of Fsik Huvnx, has been gaining momentum lately. His instrumentation is simple. But the…
What’s up, party peeps? Holla, if you’ve been waiting all the damned work week for Friday to roll around, and now find yourself watching the clock, counting the minutes until the whistle blows, so you can blow off some steam of your own. Yep, we’re right there with you. And…
Go gas up your midnight purple donk, load six Marshall stacks into that big-ass trunk, snag some Hennessy and promethazine, and pick up your girl ’cause next Friday, come sundown, we’re driving into the deep, dark, insidiously dry heat of the Arizona desert for a bass rager so brutal you’ll…
Evan Rifas has been active in South Florida’s music community since the early ’90s and he has maintained a relatively quiet presence that has allowed him to fine-tune his astute and articulate sensibilities. Aside from being a great poetic lyricist, he seamlessly weaves personal experience with observation and quirky pop…
While we were all raving at Bicentennial Park this past weekend, Miami’s most generous couple, Patricia and Phillip Frost, donated $35 million toward the construction of the new Miami Science Museum to be erected adjacent to the Miami Art Museum in what is presently known as Bicentennial Park.If you attended…
Creep Guirdo is one of those musical aberrations that occurs from time to time. Unintentionally funny due to being a German national of Hialeah descent, he’s largely been the figurehead for local disco rock ‘n’ rollers Pool Party. He recently sat down with us in preparation for April Pool’s Day…
The Magic City isn’t exactly known as a rock music hub. And in a town like this one, where traditional live venues are uncommon and turntable virtuosos are frequently in higher demand than musicians of the guitar-wielding, drumstick-spinning variety, it’s hardly fair to expect the kind of noise that’s made…
Ex Norwegian really had its shit together. Two critically acclaimed albums, viral videos, national tours, corporate sponsors, and an innovative sound … But this past weekend the local indie-pop quintet decided to call it quits for good, playing a farewell show called The Last Tango at the Stage on March…
The Dyslexic Postcards have been around in one way, shape, or form for a long time now. And their particular breed of rock ‘n’ roll via the acid wash of alt-psych, punk, blues, and New Wave inflections are the makings of a love-’em-or-hate-’em type of band. Regardless of which, the…
Miami Chum Bucket, a DIY punk venue, distro, and practice space, held its inaugural event this past Saturday night. The show was free and the lineup featured all of the key South Florida punk bands that have played a role in the space’s emergence. In the course of extended fundraising,…
For the last four years, the folks at Sixthman have steamed out to sea with the annual Cayamo Cruise, a week-long luxury vacation that also happens to be a seven-day music festival. Last Thursday, organizers announced that the fifth annual edition of Cayamo will take place February 5 to 12,…
Miami, couldn’t get enough of Hard’s measly one-day event at Grand Central last week? Well, you’re in luck! Hard is returning to South Florida in January 2012 with its first-ever Hard Cruise!We noticed flyers scattered around the city during Miami Music Week promoting the Hard Cruise. But we’ve received confirmation…
On October 19, 1963, a potential heir to the throne of best rapper alive was born in the Bronx. His name was Keith Matthew Thornton. And after an incubation period of 25 years, the kid became a crazy lyrical chemist who called himself Kool Keith. Starting out as one-fourth of…
Jump around! House of Pain’s touring again. And on April 1, Everlast and Danny Boy are going to jump up, jump up, and get down with you at LIV. Earlier this month, two-thirds of Pain’s original lineup (DJ Lethal’s out working on a new Limp Bizkit record) kicked off a cross-country…
If you missed out on last year’s Sweatstock, Sweat Records’ birthday bash and Record Store Day celebration, you’re gonna want to make time for this year’s event. The Little Haiti store has announced the first phase of the lineup for its April 16 bash. The outside stage returns this year –…
Who are Miami Chum Bucket and what are they doing in Allapattah? They are house punks, skaters, workers, drifters, schoolies, and grads. They are dropouts, misfits, fuck-ups, uglies, and normals. They are players, haters, riders, and sliders. They are secretaries, architects, assistant managers, and thugs. They are lovers, fighters, rockers,…
Chris Brown’s new album, F.A.M.E., is out today, and so is part of a window at Good Morning America’s New York City studio. Various sources are reporting that the 21-year-old pop-star-with-major-anger-issues went all Chris Brown on a window, smashin’ that bitch after becoming enraged during an on-air interview with GMA’s…
Dyslexic Postcards Spare the Altar (Self-released)myspace.com/dyslexicpostcards There is something magnificently debauched about Miami’s Dyslexic Postcards that might be hard to put into words without actually triggering your porn filters. That said, these guys (in particular longtime frontman Joshua Xmas) put that seed of corruption into my teenage mind many, many…
We don’t like to admit it. But sometimes we here at Crossfade screw up. The most recent example: In an item on the Pretty Lights Showcase from last week’s special New Times Miami Music Guide 2011, we stated that Derek Vincent Smith’s party at the Fillmore Miami Beach had “sold…
Boomers, halt! There’s no need to spend the next 29 hours swaddling yourself in a million chiffon scarves or feathering, highlighting, mousseing, and teasing your hair in deference to Witchy Stevie and ol’ Rod the Bod. Tomorrow night’s Heart and Soul Tour nostalgia session starring Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart…
