Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to view past top-sellers. Top 5 Albums for the week of October 18 – 24Madonna is still the Queen of Pop with her greatest hits album, Celebration.Sweat Records, Miami Declaration…
Maybe it’s bad taste to get on some kind of eulogy bender before the corpse is even cold, but the diagnosis is terminal and it’s only a matter of time … Your favorite hipster bar, PS14, is dying. So say goodbye, Miami, and make amends for all the wrongs you’ve…
So long.You never appreciate what you have until its gone. Sorry to report that downtown Miami dive bar/lounge PS14 (28 NE 14th Street) will be graduating from its 14th Street locale after October 31. But it’s not because of any financial troubles, the owners have simply decided not to renew…
Photo by Rebecca Smeyne Surfer BloodEvery day, RollingStone.com publishes news on the music industry as part of its Rock and Roll Daily blog. Each day averages about 25 stories. And yesterday, between “Led Zepplin II Turns 40” and “Lenny Kravitz: I Want to Work With Jack White,” the site’s Hype…
Sarah JacobDamask(Reppertoire) According to the Merriam-Webster, Damask is a firm lustrous fabric make with flat patterns in a satin weave on a plain-woven ground on jacquard looms. After listening through Miami’s own Sarah Jacob’s Damask, I can say the title is fitting. It’s filled with flat patterns, plain-woven lyrics, and…
The last time indie-electro outfit Junior Boys played in South Florida was during Winter Music Conference 2007 at Poplife’s awkward temporary venue Post, a restaurant/lounge located on the edge of Brickell. The duo was no stranger to Miami’s hipsterati set; Junior Boys had easily found success at the height of…
KissDuring the age of the live album (Cheap Trick’s At Budokan; Frampton Comes Alive, Ted Nugent’s Double Live Gonzo!, AC/DC’s If You Want Blood You’ve Got It, etc.), Kiss rocked out with Alive! in a way that even the band’s heaviest contemporaries couldn’t match. Of course, much of what set…
Why the hell Leonard Cohen appeared at BankAtlantic Center rather than, say, the Fillmore Gleason is anybody’s guess. But if he had staged it at a theater instead of in an arena, his show would’ve been even more remarkable. That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with the BankAtlantic Center…
These days, soul music is a genre often stuck in the side aisle of the record store or passed off into smoky cafés and ’70s reunion shows. The originators of American soul music — Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and early James Brown — commandeered ears when they blasted on the…
There’s something about Ireland that just makes people wish they were there. It might be the beautiful scenery, the culture, or the Irish reputation for reckless beer swallowing and superior liquor holding. After some deliberation, the powers that be realized it was the imbibing, and the American Irish pub was…
Photo by Rebecca SmeyneSurfer Blood performing Tuesday afternoon at Cake Shop.CMJ is in the full swing in New York and reports are already coming back from our sister paper, the Village Voice. Zach Baron, in particular, reports on Surfer Blood’s performance at Cake Shop. Unfortunately, the West Palm Beach band…
Photo by Aigin LarkiEver wondered what screamo-lectro dudes do to unwind after a particularly strenuous hipster bikini dance party? Well, apparently, if the dudes in question are Daniel Werb and Paul Banwatt of Toronto synth-and-drum duo Woodhands, then it’s all about a nice, relaxing, man-on-man bubble bath. Why the bubbles?…
Bardot isn’t even a month old and it already finds itself in some legal trouble. It seems our assumption that Bardot Hollywood and its Miami counterpart were related was wrong. We received an email from the Hollywood establishment’s publicist Stephanie Fessler saying, “While imitation is the highest form of flattery,…
Who is Brad Paisely? He is a country music star with seven recorded studio albums, all of which have gone at least gold.According to Wikipedia, Brad Paisley graduated high school in West Virginia. That’s about as country as it gets, except for the graduating high school part. Paisley is currently…
Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists on South Florida’s campus radio stations. Click here to view the top tracks from previous weeks. The Texans and New Yorkers from electro-pop group Neon Indian topped Radiate’s chart this week. Florida International University- WRGP 88.1 FM &…
Hello everyone! We’ve been traveling the country for about two weeks nowand here it is summed up:The fall is starting to settle, the leaves are changing and the cold weather is kicking!!! Layers are very essential at this point. The lowest temperature we’ve hit so far has been 33 degrees…
Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to view past top-sellers. Top 5 Albums for the week of October 11 – 17Monsters of Folk, an indie supergroup comprised of members from My Morning Jacket and Bright Eyes,…
Miami Bass WarriorsMiami Bass Warriors 12″(Palm Tree Snuff/¿Que Pasa M.I.A.?)You ever stand around and realize that you are completely surrounded by fucking children? Yeah, it happens… that’s how old age dawns upon you and it don’t matter how cool and with it your little record collection is, you’ll be hard-pressed…
Shawn Snyder Stripmall Troubadour (Live at the Moose) www.shawnsnydermusic.comwww.myspace.com/shawnsnydermusicTurnip-haired homeboy Shawn Snyder made quite a splash with last year’s sophomore set, Romantic’s Requiem, an album that earned it New Times’ kudos for being among the best local releases of 2008. For its follow-up, Snyder strips things down, offering up a lo-fi acoustic…
Album art by Reeve SchumacherFor five years, local duo Michael John Hancock and Brian Robertson of Awesome New Republic have made hipsterized pop that sounds like some dead future from the ’80s. They self-describe as “punk, soul, R&B,” but that hardly probes the bloggy depths of the ANR enigma. It’s…
Dutch DJ Tiësto is like clubland’s equivalent to J.R.R. Tolkien’s one ring. The recipient of multiple DJ awards from DJ Magazine and other publications, this arena-sized attraction is the one who rules them all. There are also plenty of antitrance advocates, of course, who would love to see Tiësto thrown…
The parted top of Gregg Allman’s long, blond hair nearly touched the tour bus ceiling. His damaged but muscular body filled the narrow hallway in which he stood to greet us. Ancient tattoos covered the 58-year-old’s long arms. We shook hands, traded salutations, and then — I froze. The music…
