Photo by Ian WitlenT-Pain performing at last year’s Best of the Best.If there is one thing Memorial Day Weekend in Miami is known for is perhaps the sickest dancehall/hip-hop concert this side of Jamaica. Best of the Best’s name might seem a bit boastful but it’s hard to argue otherwise…
Pirate StereoWe are only a few weeks away from Winter Music Conference mayhem and new events are still being announced.If you are excited to see Passion Pit live at Ultra Music Festival, but can’t make it, don’t worry there will be consolation prize when band members Ayad Al Adhamy and…
The namesake guitarist of the Damon Fowler group may look, at first, a little too fresh-faced to really know about the blues. And yes, Fowler is a cherubic Gen Y-er, but he already boasts more than a decade on the live circuit. Growing up in the Tampa Bay area, he…
In what may be a somewhat dubious distinction, D.O.N.S. is best-known to many clubbers as a remixer of Technotronic’s immortal “Pump Up the Jam.” In 2005, some 16 years after the original track’s release, the Hamburg, Germany-based producer managed to take his reworked version high into the reaches of the…
Minnesota punks Off With Their Heads have been grinding out some of the best melodic “don’t call it pop” punk the Twin Cities have put out in recent history. For the past seven years, the band has gone under the radar. But a stable lineup since 2007 and heavy touring…
It’s got to be a hell of an undertaking to be a Pink Floyd tribute band. Most cover bands — your Led Zeppelin and AC/DC and Beatles homage-payers — simply have to look and sound the part; usually the most elaborate you’ll get is the fire-breathing, platform-boot lunacy that comes…
Dropkick Murphys are a familiar sight and sound at Boston-area sporting events. The Beantown bruisers have performed at several Bruins and Red Sox games, and those teams have adopted the band’s “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” and “Tessie,” respectively, as post-game victory anthems. Their concerts resemble sporting events themselves, with…
One of the longest-running roots reggae bands around, Steel Pulse now boasts a list of former members twice as long as that of its current lineup. Only two of its current players have appeared on all 11 of the band’s studio albums: keyboardist and backing vocalist Selwyn Brown and lead…
Oh you think it’s a game!? You think it’s a game?Liiiiiisten. DJ Khaled’s new album “Victory” dropped yesterday, and the response via Twitter proves that Miami’s biggest loudmouth knows what he’s doing.People around the world have something to say about it, most of them good things. One things for sure,…
Crash into us, HenryHenry Rollins is coming in town tonight at Revolution (doors at 7 p.m.) to tell us a thing or two.Before we enter his chamber of clarity, let’s reflect on a few gems we’ve received over the years from this precious source for hardcore wisdom. The following selections…
MaydayParty people, get ready. This is going to be one of those weekends. You know the ones–the kind that make Miami such a great city. The ones where you whip through it in a frenzy from Friday to Sunday, in whirlwind of activity, only to awake Monday morning, perhaps a…
In a recent Head Spins column here on Crossfade, we marveled at the rise of South Forida dubstep as far out of Miami’s epicenter as West Palm Beach. (Props to the Reazin for holding things down at Respectable Street and Propaganda). Here’s more proof the low-end sound is sweeping the…
Miles away from arbitraryThanks to the influential meme-crowning fashion and culture blog HIPSTER RUNOFF for pointing out a SXSW flyer featuring Surfer Blood and the rest of the Pitchfork/Windish Agency’s showcase set for March 19 in Austin.Writer Carles or whomever makes the unattributed claim that Pitchfork “comes under fire” for…
via myspace.com/diociousHard-working and constantly touring, Orlando’s psychedelic funk-rock act Diocious is definitely making waves throughout Florida and the Southeast. The trio is riding a swell of shows through the month of March, including three dates opening for the prominent San Francisco jamband Tea Leaf Green and a slot at the…
Photo by Ian Witlen311 performing at SunFest 2009.West Palm Beach hasn’t had this much musical excitement since Ozzy Osbourne rolled through town. An impressive crop of national acts are set to play the 28th installment of SunFest, which takes place April 28 – May 2 in downtown West Palm Beach…
Suenalo plays March 13.Last week, we announced a retooling of the music policy at the King is Dead’s. Though the polished, grown-up-boho vibe continues there unabated, every Friday and Saturday night, the lounge is bringing in some live music for added flavor. (DJs will still spin in between sets). There…
photo by Derrick TurnerDooms De PopFlorida? Yeah!With the Waves, Radar vs Wolf, Dooms De Pop, Alexander, Retrocities, and Manifest Test SubjectsThe Poorhouse, Fort Lauderdale Saturday, February 27, 2010Better Than: No “Florida? Yeah!”The Review: After hibernating for three months, the beast that is “Florida? Yeah!” awoke with a roar in the cavernous Poorhouse…
The Andalusians are not from Spain; they are from Washington, D.C. They are not horses, either; they are nice white kids. Basla Andolsun is the lady in charge of the act, and to further stamp her über-coolness, her outfit’s got a seven-inch out on Dischord Records (for the uninitiated, that’s…
Jason Handelsman used to be on the staff at Miami New Times. Then he was abducted by aliens, aliens who party, and he became The Ghost of Dirty. Now he splits his time between making videos with Rick Ross, Cash Money Birdman and Kevin Rudolf, working on his “Paranormal Art,”…
Say what you will about the commercial trappings of the “Swedish House Mafia”, but they currently rule the international dance music mainstream, so whatever they’re doing, they’re doing right. Although with that said, who are we kidding? Everyone knows that the recipe for commercial success in the world of electronic…
Mary J. fans, this is your year. Not only did she release an excellent studio album, Stronger With Each Tear, but in the next six months, if you’re willing to drive across a couple counties, you can catch her twice in South Florida. Over the summer, the queen of hip-hop…
Anyone who has swung through Miami’s Design District on any given Tuesday over the last two years would have noticed a fair bit of bedlam. Not that there have been riots — but there has been the kind of heavy traffic that comes about when something successful is going down…
