Crossfade Live: Agnostic Front at Churchill’s Pub

Photo by Ben Thacker​Crossfade Live presents live concert audio from the last nine minutes of Agnostic Front’s set from Friday’s show at Churchill’s. They were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of their first album, Victim In Pain. They closed out their all old-school set with “Gotta Go,” “Crucified,”…

Artist Ross Ford Leaving Miami, ArtOfficial Sending Him Off

​Talk about a come-up. Ross Ford started his Miami art career in 2006 by selling his paintings on Lincoln Road and in front of Bayside Marketplace. From there, he moved into alternative spaces and live-painting in nightclubs, then representation from a gallery, and finally his own studio in an artist’s…

Video: Southern Bred from Groundhoggz at Headz Up Barbershop

Here’s a video of Southern Bred live from Headz Up Barbershop in Miami Lakes. He’s a founding member of Groundhoggz. If you’ve never heard of Groundhoggz, they are a local rap group that has been putting in work on the streets of Dade for about the past 12 years. They’re…

Garcia Talks Bangbros Exxotica Party

​Porno sucks, but by now you’ve already heard that Bangbros, the Miami based porno company, is hosting their pre-Exxotica party at Shake at The Vagabond.What you might not know is that local rapper Garcia is their head of booking. He says, “Last year we did this same party at The…

Video: Pitbull “How Low Can You Go” Live In Stockholm

Pitbull has the crowd going crazy to his version of “How Low Can You Go” live in this performance footage from a May 4 show at Fryshuset in Stockholm, Sweden.Maybe it’s not until you see this that you realize how big Miami culture is on a global scale. Keep in…

Christian Rap vs. Devil-Core Live From Miami on YouTube

via Ongchewpeng on Deviant Art.​If Jesus and the Devil are arm wrestling, then Miami is the table their elbows are on. Let’s face it, this place is pretty fucked up. Us humans have done a swell job of transforming a river of grass into a den of iniquity. But despite…

Cubo Kills A Record Exec In New Video

Watch out, Cubo’s comin’! You may have heard of the Pitbull affiliate in years past, but apparently he’s making a run for it now with a couple of new videos on the web and talk of a forthcoming album. The video above for his song “I made it” shows a…

Spam Allstars at Hoy Como Ayer, Bardot, and Sound Theory Live

via myspace.com/spamallstars​ Fuacata! Spam Allstars are getting it in tonight at their weekly residency at Hoy Como Ayer in the heart of Little Havana alongside Rumberos De La 8, a bangin’ Miami percussion group with members from Cuba and Puerto Rico produced by DJ Le Spam. Doors open at 9…

80s Punk and Hardcore Tribute at Churchill’s This Friday

​ You’ll have a hell of a time this Friday at Churchill’s with “Pogo! A tribute to 80’s punk and hardcore.” The show features local bands Trust No One, Knock Em’ Dead, Hardware Youth, Routine Scheme, and Unit Six doing covers of your favorite songs from back in the day…

Tupac Live On Stage For Night of Hip Hop Theater

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnseb/ / CC BY 2.0Live on wax.​”The hate you gave little infants f**ks everybody” is the breakdown of the THUG LIFE acronym Tupac Shakur had tatted on his belly. Before exploding metal cylinders sent his body to the pavement and his soul to Heaven’s ghetto, he’d already survived five bullet…

Crossfade Live at Swamp Stomp with Jahfe and The Lee Boys

Jacob Katel​Any given Saturday in Miami the bass, sweat, sex, liquor, music, and dancing flood the concrete tropics like a hurricane on South Beach. This year a bigger, better Swamp Stomp shook the wooden floorboards at The Bayside Hut to their core with more local soul than the Miami section…

Llamabeats’ Spits Talks Setai, Timbaland, Lil Jon, Distant Relatives

via myspace.com/llamabeats​ Lurking in the trenches of obscurity, tomorrow’s super producers toil in darkened studios surrounded by empty malt liquor bottles and ashtrays full of blunt roaches.Or maybe they’re up and grinding at The Setai. Either way, Llamabeats Crew bring a sample heavy musicality to live guitar, bass, and key…

Swamp Stomp Music Festival 2010 Saturday Bayside Hut

Like Travis Bickle said in Taxi Driver, “One day a real rain is gonna come and wash all this scum off the streets.” When that day comes to Miami (maybe with a big hurricane this summer), and all the bullshit, plastic, glass, and concrete is gone, we’ll be left with…

South Eats

Stone crab, lobster, fish both local and fresh, South Florida is the friggin’ best. We get drunk and have good times, stomachs full, dressed to the nines. We dance in the party lights, just to work up our appetites. We drink a few rounds of red and a few rounds…

Enter WDNA Sweepstakes for Guitar, Hotel Stays, iPod, and More Prizes

via WDNA.orgMusic Director Michael Valentine with the Big Poppa E Epiphone.​WDNA is the realest Jazz station in Miami-Dade. Alright, so they’re the only one. No commercials, no heavy rotation, no computers choosing what songs to play, just real DJ’s selecting whatever tracks they want 7 days a week, 24 hours…

Musician’s Discount Center is a South Dade Vinyl Goldmine

​ Musician’s Discount Center can seem like it’s half way to Key West if you live in downtown Miami, Cuba if you’re in NMB, or Argentina if you’re in Broward, but for Cutler Ridge, West Kendall, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Florida City, and the whole Down South, the store is pretty…