Blast From the Past is a weekly column on Crossfade re-examining classic releases from Florida music of yesteryear. To read previous installments, click here.DeathLeprosy (Combat)For this installment of Blast from the Past we’ll be concentrating on Death’s second full-length album, 1988’s Leprosy. Hailing from Orlando, Death were pioneers of metal…
Ghostwridah is a native of South Miami. You know, that little corner of Dade County between the University of Miami campus and Dadeland Mall. He’s been a mainstay in Miami’s diverse hip-hop scene for years and is one of the names that you will hopefully hear a lot more of…
Here’s an MP3 for the upcoming third album by Miami’s Elastic Bond. Ringleader Andres Ponce always does a good job of imbuing his musical efforts with a keen sense of blues, Tropicalia, and little bit of funk that’s usually termed “urban,” but in my book, makes for some good listening…
North Bay Village residents believe Mayor Oscar Alfonso (left), city attorney Joseph Geller (center), and city manager Matthew Schwartz (right) are in cahoots, doing bad things.North Bay Village manager Matthew Schwartz is under fire. This past Tuesday, during the city commission’s regular meeting, a small group of upset residents called…
Weighing In On LuluSo the folks from Greenstreet Café put a billboard up announcing their upcoming Lulu restaurant. Paula Nino of Short Order called owner Sylvano Bignon to ask about it, but he wasn’t around. Greenstreet manager Eric Boucher was around, and claimed it was “premature” to discuss the restaurant…
Sex fantasies at Bardot in midtown Miami
Letters from the issue of February 18, 2010
Okay, okay, so this is the last time we’ll blog about Artopia for now — we just really want you to come to the next one, if you missed this time. (We’ll give you presents.) Miami New Times’ event last Thursday at the Freedom Tower was packed — who knew…
Over here at Crossfade, when we’re home alone, chained to our computers and wasting away from lack of food, booze, and human company, we like to live vicariously through Twitter. (It’s also good for checking when to actually pay attention to some long, boring crap like the Grammys.)And so it…
You can always count on Jose “Pepe” Diaz to give Miami-Dade residents a reason to impose term limits on county commissioners. Seriously, who is advising Diaz? Scott Rothstein?How else can you explain the scam Diaz wants to pull on county taxpayers. Last week, he unveiled a legislative measure that would…
Miami trio Rebel has one of those band names that’s maddening to Google. Luckily, New Times summed up everything you need to know about this Anglophilic trio in a recent feature. In short, it’s been a long road to the band’s current sound. The threesome, who trace their own roots…
Woodward Brooks finally lost his badge for his bad cop behavior. This past February 3, the 46-year-old lawman was kicked off the Surfside Police force following his arrest on three felony counts of official misconduct, grand theft, and filing a fraudulent insurance claim.This is the second time the tiny beachfront…
To my unfocused eyes and deranged mind, this flyer wasn’t just a paper advertisement for some inevitably awesome show. At the time, it looked like the symbological key to a psychedelic netherworld. Those three goth-y faces, the double snakes, and that triangular gloam getting sucked into a squiggly vortex …..
Last night’s New Times banger got off to a lukewarm start. But by 10:30 p.m., the crowd was finally ready to fucking party. With unknown quantities of free Barefoot pinot grigio and a couple hundred pisscups of Magic Hat #9 turning their brains to sponges, people shed their inhibitions and…
Three Miami-Dade police officers lied under oath last year when they told a judge that they read a suspect his Miranda Rights during a traffic stop that led to a felony weapons charge, federal officials say. The three officers — patrolmen Jorge Luis Gonzalez and Alkibiades Dodge, and Sgt. Waell…
Can it be only last week that we were invaded by hordes of screaming, mildly retarded tourists? It seems they have left some of their finest morons, many of them in jail cells throughout the county. Let’s take a look at the Morons of the Week: Super Bowl Aftermath Edition…
Sure red meat makes you horny. And Spanish fly is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs. But what red-blooded American wouldn’t want a cereal mascot to keep his or her hunger satisfied on Valentine’s Day, too? As to what each one could provide in the lovin’ department, well…1. Tony Tiger’s a…
For years, the trashy elements of South Beach have coincided in a relatively peaceful, if not complementary, harmony with its more highbrow and sophisticated forces. Leave it to the power of Jersey Shore to upend all of that.While MTV has yet to confirm reports that the trash-tastic show will film…
To view past editions of Blast From the Past, click here. CokeCoke (Sound Triangle Records)One of the perils of collecting Florida music is the often confusing and frustrating searches one can often endure. There are many reasons for this: small print runs, obscure bands, even more obscure “record labels” and very…
If you’re an old person (25+), then your iPod’s probably still packed with crap like the Strokes, the White Stripes, and Radiohead’s monumental monument of momentous music, Kid A. And all that stuff’s fine or whatever … But maybe it’s time to take a couple steps out of 2000. The kids…
The letter arrived at the judge’s chambers in 2003, signed by a public defender-turned-convict named Anthony Genova. He had been busted for drunk driving, was a self-described Xanax addict, and did time for bankruptcy fraud. It was addressed to his old courthouse buddies — judges and attorneys — explaining he had found Jesus behind bars. His…
Trash Talk A real pain: I can’t believe these a**hole writers are telling out-of-towners how to get pain pills (“Super Blow,” Michael J. Mooney and Gus Garcia-Roberts, February 4). It’s hard enough to get them for my real pain, let alone telling people how to score just to get high…
