I first met Wisin & Yandel a year ago, in the swank lobby of a San Juan hotel in their native Puerto Rico. At the time, they were the most popular reggaeton group in the world, and the guys of the self-proclaimed “Dynamic Duo” had practically done it all. They’d…
How Miami’s own DJ Irie handles his heavy schedule is anybody’s guess. He boasts residencies at the Delano, the Forge, the Ganesvoort, Cameo, the Shore Club — and that’s during off-season. When it’s high season, Irie is also turntabling at the American Airlines Arena for Heat games, as well as…
Rock geeks across the county have already shuffled (real rockers don’t run or flock) to check out MoCA’s superhip summer exhibition, “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967.” But the whiz-bang opening, featuring bands in a soundproof box, and free “What Would Neil Young Do?” was…
Over the course of previous releases — a split album with Swedish doom-monger Witchcraft and two CDs on their own — these Austin-bred metal apologists have never ventured too far from well-worn paths. But so what? There’s actually a sort of poetry to The Sword’s metal homages — kinda like…
Finding out that Nigeria had thriving psych-rock and funk scenes in the Seventies is akin to discovering Yemen harbored a killer ice-hockey league in the Phil Esposito era. But several bands in the Lagos area were absorbing the Anglo-American funkadelic Zeitgeist and putting distinctive spins on freaky groove construction, largely…
Miami/Hialeah punk stalwarts Guajiro are never ones to shy away from a little controversy. The band’s affable frontman, Will Lopez, has been talking for months about recording a pro-Obama song because he feels like no other local acts are doing anything to get people stirred up for the presidential race…
Motley Crue are fast, cheap, and easy… Uh, the tickets to see them are, at least. Attention cheap (I prefer the terms “clever” and “thrifty”) music lovers who wish to attend any of the marquee-name shows coming up at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach. Today, and today only…
Here’s something to get you excited for tomorrow’s IHEARTCOMIX/Scion tour shebang at the Vagabond tomorrow night. On the bill are Radioclit, Drop the Lime, and of course, IHEARTCOMIX founder Franki Chan (who’s no stranger to Miami decks). Download Franki Chan’s mix for the new Iheartcomix two-disc sampler for free, by…
If you were part of the Revolver scene back in early part of the decade, you know Lazaro Casanova, who we picked as “Best Local Electronica Artist” in this year’s Best of Miami, very well. Then again, if you haven’t heard him spin in a while, you probably don’t know…
Logan Fazio Modest Mouse with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Friday, June 23, 2008 The Fillmore, Miami Beach Better Than: The mental meltdown scribbling in your seventh-grade diary. Modest Mouse and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band kicked off their North American tour together last night to a packed, enthusiastic audience…
A few of us over here at Crossfade (okay, mostly me) were excited about the upcoming Boy George gig scheduled for July 25 at Club Cinema in Pompano. So, um, I was totally bummed out when I just received an official missive from Boy George’s camp announcing that the entire…
Montserrat She doesn’t sound very concerned with how many bodies will – or won’t be – occupying seats inside the Byron Carlyle in Miami Beach on Wednesday night. “That’s out of my control,” says Spanish soprano singer Montserrat. “As long as the people there accept my work and I’m able…
It’s fashionable, isn’t it, pulling an In Rainbows and giving away your music or letting people pick their own price. It’s also fashionable to like the Pittsburgh DJ/producer/remixer guy Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk… Sooooo is it any surprise you can download the latest Girl Talk CD for…
The Counting Crows kick off their summer tour at the end of July in Virginia Beach. It doesn’t roll down to South Florida until October 4 at the Cruzan Ampitheatre in West Palm Beach, but it’ll still be hot as hell then so we’ll still count it as summer. As…
If you haven’t heard of the Fort Lauderdale based hip-hop group, Major League, they’ve been making a strong name for themselves as one of the hardest working groups in South Florida for close to a year now. They gig all over town, throw a weekly every Friday at the White…
VH1 reported yesterday that Lil Wayne finally confirmed the rumors floating around that he’s forming a “supergroup” with T-Pain. In typical Weezy, uh, succinct fashion, he confirmed it thusly: “Yeah.” (T-Pain, however, was a little more talkative on the matter.) Still, that’s just two people; technically it would take at…
True hometown hero (Miami born and raised!) Desmond Child gets inducted today into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York. Boasting almost three decades in the biz, Child may not quite be a household name – but the stars for whom he’s crafted megawatt hits are. Enjoy this streaming…
It’s been a tough couple of years for the Futureheads. Following the mixed reception to 2006’s ambitious News and Tributes, the British postpunk quartet was dropped by its label and briefly considered packing it in. Instead, they soldiered forward, forming their own label and releasing their third album, This Is…
Like Green Day, Rancid was once reviled as a band of poseurs by much of the punk-rock intelligentsia but is now seen as a standard-bearer for the genre — and sheer persistence is a big factor. Early discs such as 1995’s And Out Come the Wolves were so derivative of…
One could say Jamaican singer Papa Winnie had a serendipitous hand in the creation of O Rappa, the Rio de Janeiro-based fusion reggae/funk-rock band that performs this weekend in Pompano Beach. In 1993, Winnie arrived in Brazil for an extended tour with no backing musicians. A pick-up band was quickly…
The most bizarre voice in rock these days belongs to Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock. His Tom Waits-esque yowl guides an array of drunken characters through the churning guitar swirl that has been the band’s bread and butter since its earliest recordings with Calvin Johnson. Now proud members of the…
Less knowledgeable folks might be tempted to consider Drop.D nothing but another DJ in a long line of hip-hop-spinning wide boys who’ve come to set up shop in South Beach. But they would be wrong: The kid called Drop.D (a.k.a. ill skill) outclasses his half-ass predecessors, and does so at…
