Surprisingly, as a music editor, I don’t get to listen to full albums all that often. I’m too busy doing the editing part to get caught up fully in that music bit. I did, though, spend December listening to album after album that came out in 2013 so I could…
Tonight, brace yourselves: funk will be in total abundance in South Florida. You just might not know how to handle it. Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band will be playing at one of Boca’s funkiest venues, Mizner Park’s Funky Biscuit. To get the lowdown on their newest album, big booties…
Opened just this past summer, Lake Worth’s UNIT 1 is already getting tons of local love. Like the kid who just moved to a new high school from a different country, everyone is clamoring to learn more about it and sit at the same lunch table as founder Jacques de…
In this age of universal social networking, it is difficult to find mystery. When you discover a new artist, writer, cook, or fire marshal, you can instantly uncover every facet of their lives. The Atlanta band Del Venicci flies in the opposite direction. Only two of their songs, “Speaking to…
Fellas, let’s face it: It’s hard being a man in a woman’s world, especially when it comes to nightlife. Ladies are always the ones who get to party (and get drunk) for free. So what’s a guy to do when he wants to hang with the boys, watch football, and…
Photo by Ian Witlen Crazy costumes have always been a big part of the electronic music party scene. But these days, you’re nobody unless you’re pretending to be somebody you’re really not. Perhaps it’s the sense of anonymity that comes with a disguise. Or maybe it’s because every single one…
Photo by Ian Witlen After three years of raging at sea, Hard Events’ Holy Ship cruise has proven itself to be the best nautical EDM adventure that money can buy. (Of course, we here at Crossfade enjoyed press accommodations, so we didn’t actually pay.) It might still be a new-ish…
One of the important life lessons, a cliché that’s oh-so-true, is that all good things must come to an end. Things that bring us delight and wonderment diminish all too quickly — like boy bands, Twinkies, or fanny packs. Just yesterday, though, a treasured Fort Lauderdale tradition announced it is…
Kat Dahlia continues to prove that she’s more than just a pretty face in contemporary hip-hop. Blessed with an acerbic wit and a wavy delivery that is equal parts mournful soul and soaring hope, her work is the end result of a filtering process of her admittedly short life’s experience…
If you claim you never had a ska phase, you’re lying. Bands like Less Than Jake, especially in Florida, are an essential stopping point on the road to discovering your musical tastes. And while you may not have carved ska into your daily listening routine, the faint noise of horns…
You never know what will happen when you go out in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Who will you see? What will you do? How long will it take to heal? It can be an unpredictable mash of booze and muscles. But there is one certainty in any given night spent wondering…
Love her or Donald Trump-level hate her, Rosie O’Donnell is a kind of a big deal. Chances are pretty good you spent a childhood afternoon, or fifty, watching The Rosie O’Donnell Show back when her face was a daily television habit. Having left that post back in 2002, Rosie’s heyday…
Jorma Kaukonen is a genuine musical journeyman, a man whose trajectory has all but ensured his musical immortality. As a member of both the Jefferson Airplane and its bluesy offshoot Hot Tuna, which he formed with bassist and longtime friend Jack Casady, his name is forever ingrained in the annals…
“I started the club on a wing and a prayer with no bar experience at all,” Rob Stannard says of the beginnings of now-legendary Fort Lauderdale rockabilly watering hole Monterey Club. Though it shuttered its doors on New Year’s Eve in 2011, its spirit powers on, and by the end…
There are as many answers as there are comics for the question of whom America’s best stand-up comedian is. But if you’re asking who the most popular comedian is, Pollstar magazine will tell you the only correct answer is Jeff Dunham. Dunham is a ventriloquist who crafts and designs his…
When New Times spoke with Les Claypool last month, he said the live experience of his Duo de Twang was “more of a hang than a show.” The man does not lie. With the house lights set down low and a campfire with artificial orange embers below faux logs, Les…
From the ashes of I Don’t Know, South Florida’s most carnival-esque and eclectic outfit Humbert has been ambling along at their self-imposed snail’s pace with a handful of releases to their name. They recently self-released an EP, Se Reparan Todos. It’s the first in a quartet of EPs the band…
With the lineup announced for this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival held in Indio, CA, one is torn between financial prudence and musical reward. The general admission for the three day festival starts at $375 (before service charges). Many are seeing money as no object, since the first…
If you liked to party, you’ll always like to party, at least a little. It’s part of who you are. All those years of sloshing cheap booze down your gullet and getting blasted on bass have integrated party-time into your actual physical being. Those flashbacks don’t come from nothing, and…
Whether you’re broke from spending money at concerts you couldn’t really afford (like Billy Joel or Jay Z, anyone?) or are still in debt from buying holiday gifts and copious amounts of booze for New Year’s, ya need to go easy on your wallet this weekend. So, without further ado,…
Probably because of the movie Deliverance (or maybe old Bugs Bunny cartoons), the banjo is still seen today as the instrument of the slack jawed yokel. A stringed tool that can be mastered by anyone no matter how closely related their parents might be, nor how many jars of moonshine…
The latest trend in leading nightlife destinations isn’t “bigger is better.” Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York City are all taking a step back from the bombarding pulse of festival-style EDM and taking things to a more sophisticated plane. Dinner clubs offer the grown-and-sexy crowd opportunities to start their…
