Photo by EMNo, Calahoney won’t take your dinner order, then wash the dishes. (Although, they might consider it, if you ask nice and promise to buy their album.) Truth is, Josue Cruz and Laura Askins don’t even run a restaurant. They’re a husband-and-wife duo who “teach in the winter and…
Photo by Ben ThackerDavila 666 at Churchill’s Pub Tuesday night.Click here to view the full slideshow from the event.Davila 666 with Jacuzzi Boys, Electric Bunnies and Lil DaggersTuesday, August 11, 2009Churchill’s Pub, MiamiBetter than: BerlitzPuerto Rican neo-rock ‘n’ roll group Davila 666 shook things up Tuesday night for a happier-than-usual…
By all accounts the last soirée at The Bunker on August 1st was an exceptionally groovy affair, due in no small part to a killer lineup featuring No Regular Play, Old Wives’ Tale and Melting Mandarin, along with the sleek minimal sounds of PL0T residents Basti and Mansur. The Bunker…
What the hell is a singjay? Good question. A singjay is a reggae musician who combines a “traditional” type of singing with a rhythmic, monotone chanting.Ripton Joseph Hylton, a.k.a. Eek-a-Mouse is one of the first and biggest artist to popularize the style. What’s even cooler, according to IMDB, Hylton played…
Today, most younger folks know Bret Michaels for his part-time career of bedding a colorful array of barely legal, drunken, cat-fighting, groupie tramps in a misguided search for love and reverence in the annals of VH1 superstardom. But before all that, he was a young, skinny, androgynously pretty blond rock…
Ever wondered what happened to ’80s piano-man cheeseball Richard “Right Here Waiting” Marx? Well, he shared the 2003 “Song of the Year Grammy” for co-writing Luther Vandross’ “Dance with My Father,” and, perhaps even odder, co-wrote two songs with Travis Tritt on the Georgia-born longhaired outlaw’s 2007 LP The Storm…
There’s nothing like a good festival. The food. The beer. The lengthy and varied lineups of entertainers. Festivals make for an all-around damn good time. The only problem is finding a decent Latin festivals. Sure, if the signs along the Palmetto are any indication, there’s a Colombian festival every other…
Judas Priest’s masterstroke album British Steel is officially 29 years old — it was released on April 14, 1980. Still, the band is currently on a tour celebrating its 30th anniversary. It deserves such a celebration. With dueling lead guitars, galloping grooves and high, squealing vocals that pushed histrionics to…
Whatever you may have heard about the Jonas Brothers, their new album, Lines, Vines, and Trying Times, isn’t too bad at all. To be sure, their first album, 2006’s It’s About Time, was a wretched, so-bad-it’s-funny collection of bubble-gum pop tunes, unpalatable from the first track: “That’s what I go…
Watch this video for inspiration. Lil E has a show where he records interviews with underground rappers from Lighthouse Studios. It’s called Da Lighthouse Show and in this segment he interviews Shoe aka Shoebox Head a.k.a Shoehead. Shoe is from the south side of Broward County. He talks about how…
You’ve heard me gush over the grrrly bands The State Of and Bonnie Riot (previously Sno Cones) on Crossfade before. The State Of takes drum n bass out of the jungle for a dark but fun mix of piano and percussion. Word is they’re having a CD release party sometime…
The on again off again post-industrial mega band Skinny Puppy has announced a November 20 stop at Revolution Live. Nivek Ogre and cEvin Key, the band’s only two constant members, have been grinding out their brand of dark electronic music since 1982. After breaking up in 1995 and again in…
OMG! You’re so, so ecstatic. It’s crazy that you’re actually gonna be there for Mos Def’s brainy hip-hop throwdown this Saturday at the Arsht. The anticipation is enormous. It’s like pretty, little butterflies dropping happy bombs in your belly every hour on the hour. And, to be honest, you’ve been…
Summer is almost over, and Live Nation is offering (at least) one more deal to heat it up. From now until midnight tonight, Live Nation is offering all inclusive $10 lawn tickets and select $15 reserved seat tickets to shows at the Cruzan and Bayfront Park Amphitheaters. That means no…
CapsuleMiami HC/post-HC standouts Capsule are playing at Benton’s weekly No Brainer party next Thursday at PS14. This is part of a string of dates around the Sunshine State that were to be in support of Chicago’s Lautrec, that is until Lautrec’s lead singer hurt himself really badly in California and…
Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, a.k.a. Thievery Corporation, are bringing their electronica/lounge act Thievery Corporation to the Fillmore Miami Beach on October 9. Thievery are almost as well known for their politics as their music. They’re big time supporters of the World Food Programme and have crafted more than a…
A last minute heads up to the house music fiends: Jazzy Eyewear, Miami’s best kept secret and pretty much our most talented local proponent of classic Chicago-style funky house will be spinning at the Electric Pickle tonight. Fabian Giannattasio a.k.a. Jazzy Eyewear is an Argentinian transplant who migrated to the…
You know what’s better than New Wave? Swedish New Wave. And it becomes even more intriguing when the lead singer of the Swedish New Wave band has aspirations to “be the best female vocalist of this century” as she told a Scottish news station. The Sounds most recently visited South…
Photo by JipsyNastie flanked by TM Sisters.Click here to view a full slideshow of photos from the event.Aiden Dillard’s Death Print Movie PremiereThe Colony Theater, Miami BeachAfterparty at the Vagabond, MiamiSaturday, August 7, 2009Better Than: Whatever the leathery South Beach cliches at Segafredo next door were up to after they…
”Florida,” a single off Miami-based duo (though they tour as a trio) Awesome New Republic’s July release Rational Geographic II, taps kinetic echo-y vocals over New Wave synths and steady drumming for an anthem that is memorable and infectious; you’ll sing it for days. Think dance-pop a la Dogs Die…
Agent OrangeD.I., Agent Orange, and FearWith Bloodhook and Total ChaosRespectable Street, West Palm BeachSaturday, August 8, 2009Better Than: It actually was just as good as fucking while high on cocaine. The Review:My Saturday certainly got itself started with a whole fucking bunch of Parrot Bay on Friday night and a…
Whether you know it or not, you’ve almost certainly heard a Trans-Siberian Orchestra song. Most likely, it was this commercial that introduced you to TSO.TSO is, quite simply, a rock orchestra who, for one reason or another, have a penchant for writing and remaking traditional Christmas songs. Their stage shows…
