via Phinzup’s Flickr photostreamThe biggest thing going for retro culture lovers over the past weekend was, of course, Hukilau 2009. Los Straitjackets headlined the weekend’s biggest show, Friday night at the Bahia Cabana hotel. There are a ton of amazing photos of the whole event on Phinzup’s Flickr photostream. Mr…
via Milonakis’ TwitpicTweet, tweet ya’ll! Guess who was spotted yesterday at Poplife’s Just Add Water at the Fontainebleau? Funny man/boy Andy Milonakis, who just release a new single “Let Me Twitter Dat” via Diplo’s Mad Decent label, wasn’t showing off his pre-pubescent body but our cameras caught him enjoying some…
Is a DJ a musician? Some say yes, some say no. If you say yes, what happens when the DJ ditches the turntable and kicks on the Serato? Are they still musicians? And what about the Pioneer CDJ folks? Or the Apple core crowd? Are they musicians too?The question is…
photo by JipsyTo read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. There’s a side of me people hardly ever see, simply because I am old enough to understand the business and the attitudes people carry. Like me or not, if I get hired to do a job, get…
Awesome New RepublicI just saw this on the Off the Radar blog. Richard Haig aka Panic Bomber gets down with MJ and B-Robb of Awesome New Republic on a collabo remix. This is like a Miami New Times Best of 2009 love fest for dance fans. It’s FreeFreeFree.com. Follow the…
When you’ve spent a quarter century reinventing rock music, altering the landscape not only for yourself, but for pretty much every band to come after, releasing a new album can be a tricky affair. It’s not just a matter of increased expectations — of course everyone expects their musical gods…
The Mission Veo is a local favorite on Nova’s Radio X.Dialed In is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists for South Florida’s campus radio stations. Click here to read past installments.University of Miami – WVUM 90.5 FM, “The Voice”The Voice is dedicated to playing music that commercial…
This is old news, but bears repeating: The version of 2 Live Crew does not feature Luke. Ok, that’s out of the way. But as the remaining members of the group — Fresh Kid Ice and Brother Marquis — told Miami New Times last year, that doesn’t really matter. Luke…
The rock-country hybrid is nothing new. Employed by everyone from Garth Brooks to Country Western Troubadour of the Dead Unknown Hinson, subgenres have popped up ad nauseam since the 1950s. See, for example, rockabilly, punkabilly, and even gothabilly. (Who would have ever expected the term hillbilly to get reappropriated by…
Fans of Los Straitjackets may have first come for the novelty, but they’ve stayed for the sound — a furious instrumental assault of twangy surf, hard rockabilly, and psychedelic garage. Oh, the Nashville band still sports the Mexican wrestler masks and Chuck Taylors, and it still knows a marketing angle…
Now that Heidi and Spencer have gotten married for realz, MTV has decided to give our fair city its very own week of in-depth musical coverage. This introductory article mentions the accomplishments of the usual suspects – Lil’ Wayne, Flo Rida, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Khaled, and Cool &…
via myspace.com/diallosharifWhen New Times first caught up with DJ D-Up, the DC native was bringing his no holds barred “party music” to The Rose Bar at South Beach’s infamous Delano each and every Saturday night. He also was swooping into the continually cool Mokai once a month or so.Fast forward…
A scene from last year’s P.A.T.H. sessionLast summer, local musician and hip-hop activist Brimstone celebrated four successful weeks of his inaugural P.A.T.H. School of Hip-Hop Culture. As Brim told New Times last year, the camp was an outgrowth of his attempt to start a hip-hop history and culture program through…
Grizzly Bear’s newest made the top five at Sweat and Radio-Active.Moving Units is a new column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to see past top sellers. Top Sellers for the Week of June 1 – 5:Sweat Records, Miami 1. Veckatimest, Grizzly…
via verymanley’s Flickr photostreamWish You Were There is a new column on Crossfade highlighting pictures and videos from around the web of the weekend’s biggest shows. The biggest thing going in Miami this past weekend was the Poplife 10-year anniversary event, which luckily barely escaped the day’s torrential rain. But…
Photo by Jipsy, nefariousgirl.comTo read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. Here it is, the rainy season. For months it was dry. So dry, that we knew global warming was upon us and our days were coming to an end. We had a cold winter with gorgeous…
One Jagger too many?What do you get when you cross a bass line that can’t decide between bubblegum bouncy and driving like a Mack truck, guitars that go from subtle to psycho in one second flat, keyboards that quiver like a speedball junkie, drums that alternately whisper and crash in…
Make the people screamPool Party taught us about the universal truths that aren’t always the same. They taught us that coffee and sex were equivalent entities.They showed us how to do it right sometimes by doing it like a warrior every time. Now they show us how to be careful…
To celebrate the upcoming release of their 12″ three-way single, Miami Bass Warriors have released their newest track “Bro, That Chick’s a Basser.” If you saw their performance at this year’s Calle Ocho, you might have already heard it, but this is the actual studio cut, free from the background…
Animal Collective has released nine albums in the past nine years, all challenging, all imperfect but innovative, all substantially different. Some are placid, others orgiastic; some are convincingly reminiscent of dreams and drug trips, others convincingly reminiscent of third-graders; some are gummy and formless, others almost — just almost —…
The first thing I saw upon approaching Off the Hookah was a brightly dressed bevy of shrieking party girls. Amid running mascara and tiny shaking fists (with perfectly manicured fingernails), I heard rumblings about a “fake I.D.” and witnessed the subsequent expulsion of the entire pack from the club. As…
Raveonettes still rule at RadiateDialed In is a new weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists for South Florida’s campus radio stations. University of Miami – WVUM 90.5 FM, “The Voice” The Voice is dedicated to playing music that commercial stations leave out of their broadcasts.1. Begone Dull Care, Junior…
