Ed Hale Ballad on Third Avenue (Dying Van Gogh)Ed Hale’s outfit Transcendence was the kind of band that allowed ambition and extravagance to find equal footing. Progressive by design, its sumptuous arrangements often overshadowed Hale’s skills as a songwriter, which featured some great melodies at the core. Hale seems to…
Sometimes you just want to have fun, without some egghead turntablist letting his noggin interfere with your nightlife. And you don’t need no stinking holier-than-thou white label purist insisting that you worship every nuance of a track’s rarity. You want to hit the club, and you want to dance –…
Otto von Schirach in Berlin The year is 1945 and Berlin falls to the allied troops as World War II comes to an end. Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun have one last glass of apple juice as they depart for the big ol’ Deutschland in the sky. I wonder what…
A woman was shot Monday night outside of the White Room, near downtown Miami. Allegedly an encounter between passengers of two cars escalated into gun violence, with the suspect fleeing the scene after firing three shots into a vehicle containing two women. Eyewitnesses dispute the account so far that the…
Ida No and Johnny Jewel of Glass Candy.If you’re planning to stop by the Vagabond tonight to check out Portland duo Glass Candy, you are definitely in for a disco-laced treat. But if your knowledge on the pair is pretty much equivalent to your knowledge of quantum physics, let us…
Courtesy of myspace.com/mrsoulvilleWhen Slip ‘N’ Slide Records announced their 2008 Next Big Superstar Tour, artists from all over the country answered the call. But only one, Mike Bless aka Mr. Make It Happen, could win the title. Though there’s a whiff of Flo Rida’s breakthrough hit “Get Low” track-wise and…
Photo by JipsyDJ AM at the AG Adriano Goldschmied store on Washington in 2007.To read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. Over the weekend I felt I was the only one not at the Depeche Mode concert. Texts and tweets blew up my phone on Saturday night…
It was 2008, and another term of Republican rule remained a cruel possibility. Then Bruce Springsteen — the year’s second-highest-grossing touring act — led a supergroup that included Billy Joel through a hope-inspiring “Born to Run” at a fundraiser in New York City in October. The Boss then introduced “the…
There have always been misconceptions surrounding Reverend Horton Heat. For starters, there is no preacher frontman – it’s just a name. Then there’s the whole genre-classification issue. Despite the popularity of the band’s awesomely unhinged ’90s cut “Psychobilly Freakout,” the trio doesn’t really fit under the banner or feel a…
There are reasons Depeche Mode is so often called “critic proof.” The group’s performance this past Saturday night at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise was, in a word, transcendent. That sounds like hyperbole, but ask any of the nearly 20,000 people in attendance that night. The performance drew its otherworldy…
If Grammys were awarded for hard work and hustle, Dainamite would win at least one every year. He’ll play anywhere for anyone at any time. And if he’s not performing, he’s either producing other artists or hustling up new beats. And he does it all from his little home studio…
Let’s see… You can spend your Sundays watching mindless TV, laundering your undergarments, balancing your checkbook, or doing something equally and pathetically lame. Or you can slather on some suntan lotion and transport yourself to a tropical, drunken, decadent paradise during a five-hour minivacation at the poolside Hilton Hotel tiki…
Jacob Jeffries Band …Waiting for the Piano Movers…Eleven:11 Entertainment Jacob Jeffries is absurdly young — barely out of his teens — to be so abundantly talented. And despite his age, he’s clawed his way to the top strata of South Florida’s pop elite, thanks to last year’s aptly titled debut…
If the current South Florida thrash scene were a rotting animal carcass, then Vultures are Wolves would be the three-headed scavenger beast sent forth from, as the band describes it, the “disgusting swamps of Miami” to clean up the mess. (Well, maybe I shouldn’t say clean up so much as…
The Earth’s moon was full as we arrived at the medieval castle for the OpenFields Festival, in the Belgium village of Rêves.The Bermuda Triangle’s Flamingo prince, Otto von Schirach, instinctually quenched the crowd’s thirst for his signature style of alien beats, playing for close to two hours.As Otto performed under…
Now that La Roux has fallen from the top, French electro-rock band Pony Pony Run Run has taken the number one spot.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.Top Ten…
To realize just how truly awesome this last Depeche Mode show was at BankAtlantic Center — and, well, to realize just how obsessive the band’s fans are — just punch in “Depeche Mode BankAtlantic Center” into YouTube. Despite the band’s rejection of most official media outlets’ photo requests, a large…
The knock on the door came late; too late for most folks. But DJ Heron was working in a recording studio, where work often doesn’t start till the witching hour. And the cat doing the knocking said he was a friend of a friend who’d been working in the studio…
Otto von Schirach & Nastie – Budapest, 2008Greetings to all my friends in the Bermuda Triangle, this is your boy, The Notorious Nastie. I am very excited to announce that this special New Times blog has been established to document the Otto von Schirach Speakermelt Tour. We will be spreading…
These days it has become exceedingly rare to see a show flyer that’s been produced entirely without the aid of a computer. (I mean, we as a people are so obscenely wired that it seems the next logical step should be embedding a Bluetooth into my skull and/or seamlessly interfacing…
Ready for the weekend? Well, you might think you are, but not until you download this DJ mix by local mix-master Sean Drake, also known as Mister Drake. Formerly a resident DJ at Pawn Shop Lounge, Drake has been away from the music game for a while. He made his…
Photo by JipsyThis news comes to us as quite a shock: After only 16 months, Bella Rose is closing it doors at its 16th Street and Washington Avenue space in Miami Beach. Owners Alfred Spellman and Keith Paciello broke the news early this morning via bellarosemiami.com.But there is good news…
