Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.Mai-Kai 3599 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale 954-563-3272; maikai.com If love makes the world go ’round, alcohol makes love a little easier to find. That’s why, this week, I’ve selected a few great places you can…
Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Top Five Albums for the Week of December 6 – December 12 Sweat Records, MiamiMiami-based electro-pop artist Panic Bomber is getting on everyone’s mind at Sweat Records. 1. Getting On My Mind,…
via MTV NewsLast Thursday, controversial reggae star Buju Banton (aka Mark Anthony Myrie) was busted for trying to buy nearly 15 7 kilos of cocaine from an undercover DEA informant. Myrie is as notorious for unapologetic, anti-gay lyrics as he is for his wine-worthy music, but according to the AP he could be…
If you thought Phoenix dubstep duo UltraBlack’s minimal moniker was some kind of warning scream against the sleek and opulent evils of future technology, you were wrong. Truth is, Bryan Marek and Nick Suddarth make dark party tracks that, perversely, seem to revel in the debauched potentialities of a not-so-distant dystopia…
This is addressed to everyone who was at the Max Fish pop-up bar in downtown Miami last Friday night, celebrating the ridiculousness of Art Basel Miami Beach. I want to thank the people who continually stepped on my shoes. I want to thank the guy who unintentionally gave me a…
Just because an artist matures doesn’t mean his fans will. So while Chris Palko, AKA Cage, may have experienced a personal epiphany that’s taken his music in a new direction, he doesn’t blame his fans for not wanting to come along for the ride. The rapper’s latest, Depart From Me,…
Hating R&B is more or less the default setting for the critically inclined nowadays. Seriously, name a straight-up R&B artist you hold in anything better than mild contempt. John Legend? Usher? Ever since leading light R. Kelly became entangled in any number of crazy debacles, it seems that contemporary R&B…
In either an extremely clever or perhaps just a brave bit of scheduling, the inaugural Miami Music Festival launches Thursday, less than a week after Art Basel Miami Beach. Despite the lack of recuperation time, though, this event is worth checking out if you truly want to support South Florida’s…
The best way to tell if a song’s got what it takes to be a hit is to see how quickly and indelibly it sticks in your head. A song doesn’t need that annoying kind of stickiness found in pre-fab pop but rather the kind that makes you hum after…
Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists on South Florida’s campus radio stations. Top Albums for the Week of November 30 – December 5University of Miami- WVUM 90.5 FM, “The Voice” The voice is not your typical college radio station. They pride themselves on introducing…
Last week was, of course, utter art, music, and media ridiculousness — so of course, it’s captured all over the social web. Missed out on a show? Don’t feel bad, practically all of the week’s musical events are on YouTube! Reading reviews of both OK Go’s electrified performance at Design…
Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Top Five Albums for the Week of November 30 – December 5 Sweat Records, Miami Alternative hip-hop artist Edan topped Sweat Records’ list with his mix tape, “Echo Party”Echo Party, Edan Blakroc, Blakroc…
In a digitally distorted blaze of electro-house glitch, local party starter Panic Bomber, a.k.a. Richard Haig, has spent the last year going supernova. First came his six-track EP effort, Calling in Threats, a December 2008 release loaded with crunchy club killers like “Miami Stunnaz” and “Disillusionment.” (Cop it at PanicBomber.com…
If you’ve lived in South Florida for any length of time, chances are, there are fewer than six degrees of separation between you and the tight-knit Pundik family. Of the three creative Pundik kids, Jordan is the singer for New Found Glory (and is currently on tour with his friends…
After disappearing briefly and temporarily to record its debut album, local indie-glam party band People From Venus is back. And totally energized by the new slab of future pop in its ass pocket, the Miami Beach-based crew seems set to re-stir the supercharged ions of hype still lingering from being…
One of the coolest things about Skinny Puppy is how the act has always been more than just a simple band. Since its inception in 1982, this Vancouver industrial juggernaut has turned out live shows that are complete, shocking audio-visual experiences. A Skinny Puppy concert was then, and still is, really a mixed-media…
You’ve seen them dance like graceful maniacs in their own Chicago backyard to the tune of “A Million Ways.” You’ve wondered at their remarkable facility with treadmills and how it applied to a song called “Here It Goes Again.” But if things work out the way they’re supposed to, the…
It was really only a matter of time before chillwave found its way to South Florida. A fledgling, blog-fueled movement, chillwave, also known as glo-fi or hypnagogic pop, is an offshoot of the synth-based psychedelia of albums like Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. Chillwave, however, takes the sound in a…
Over the past two decades or so, the term indie rock has been so abused, it no longer stands for a way of being; we now use it to describe a particular sound or genre more than anything. But Metric, a Canadian synth-pop band that’s carved a niche out of…
Locals will tell you it’s a little-known hot spot. The Commercial Boulevard pier area in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea boasts a strip of high-quality dining establishments, gift stores, and, my favorite destination of all, boozin’ joints. The whole walking district has a supercool, ultrarelaxed vibe; the perfect smattering of savvy tourists (the ones…
Miami New Times, the Southeast’s top alternative news weekly, is giving away $4,000 in awards to local artists. As part of our annual Artopia® celebration, artists of all stripes — filmmakers, fashion designers, visual artists, performance artists, writers – can apply for a MasterMind Award. It’s easy to enter: Applicants…
Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Top Five Albums for the Week of November 23 – 29 Rap-rock collabo Blakroc made it to the lists at Uncle Sam’s and Radio-Active this week; luckily, Adam Lambert did not. Sweat…
