NSFW continues this week at Live Nation. Unfortunately, it doesn’t stand for Not Safe For Work (if you’re looking for that, click here), instead it’s No Service Fee Wednesday. That means that tickets for most shows at Live Nation venues throughout South Florida (Cruzan, Pompano Beach, and Bayfront Park Amphitheaters…
The debate between Elvis fans and Beatles fans over which rock god/gods were more important or influential has been waging for half a century. “Paul is still making music!” “Elvis died a has-been on a toilet!” “Elvis shook the establishment!” “Elvis is king!” “Elvis was the hillbilly cat, and the…
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 voice is not your typical college radio station. They pride themselves on introducing new and innovative music to the greater Miami area…
Dylan Eiland, better known as Le Castle Vania, is a product of the mid-decade electro-house scene — or blog-house — which produced superstars like Justice, MSTRKRFT and Steve Aoki. While many proclaimed the genre was here to stay, it didn’t last. Instead, it evolved and quickly replaced by nu-disco, progressive…
“If it ain’t about money, nigga…fuck how you feel,” says Opa Locka’s Nove. Tonight, Take One Cocktail Lounge is having a release party for Nove’s Product of My Environment mixtape. I was in Opa Locka recently, hanging out in the studio with Nove as he put the final touches on…
The third round of the Summer Spin Series is in the books. DJ Christi 10hagen completely refrained from playing The Black Eyed Peas (something that’s been a rarity during this competition) and still managed to impress the crowd and judges enough to declare her the winner.DJ Christi 10hagen will be…
Bad news for record geeks: The DJ set/performance by Black Devil Disco Club scheduled for the Vagabond this Friday night is canceled. And although DJ bookings by people with complicated names are a dime a dozen in this city, this one was rather special. While the name sounds like any…
Friday’s rally and vigil for TPS (temporary protected status) for Haitians in the USA at Virginia Key Beach Park was a sparsely peopled, but powerful affair. (Quick side note: The historic beach is now in danger, as the trust that operates it risks having its funding cut by the City of…
=”” height=”250″ width=”302″>We’ve for the most part stayed away from this topic over the course of the past several weeks. Meanwhile, fans of America TV across the city have watched pundits on every show in the lineup debating Juanes’ motives for going to perform in Cuba in the controversial concert…
Tonight, try to figure out whether ska is making a comeback or is just enjoying a South Florida resurgence. Bowling for Soup is playing at Revolution Live tonight starting at 6:30. If you’d rather not break out the Doc Martins and checkered pants, Stage 84 is hosting Shawn Snyder’s CD…
You know here at Crossfade we like to give you guys plenty of locally relevant music news. Like cool goings on having to do with some of your favorite local acts, MP3s you can download for your own listening pleasure, the skinny on concerts in town and other fun stuff…
Trick Daddy feat Society – Amerikaby foxysoulTonight is the Public County Budget Meeting where the people of Dade rise up and tell our local government what’s important to us, and how we want our tax money spent.Mayor Carlos Alvarez is a fucking asshole. He doesn’t deserve the title. The real…
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 Albums for the Week of September 6-12Florida International University- WRGP 88.1 FM & 95.3 FM, “Radiate”Radiate 95.3 FM transmits from the…
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The CrumbsInsubordination Fest ’08: Live From Baltimore (Insubordination Records)insubordinationrecords.com Here are the Crumbs down to a three-piece, rocking harder than most of their contemporaries in an excellent live document of one of their retrospective gigs. (The Crumbs have 16 years in the game, baby!) The DVD gives them the full…
Picketing, boycotts, sit-ins, marching; protests can take many forms, though most, with the exception of the bumper sticker, involve some sort of action-oriented defiance. But in 1969 Yoko Ono and John Lennon proved yet another advantage of being famous. While the rest of us risk contending with pepper spray and…
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…
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…
If you haven’t heard of Casual Sax & The Saxual Revolution, you’ve probably been in some kind of soap operatic coma for the last few years. Induce and Sven Barth compromise the duo that found viral success after Perez Hilton featured their video for “Baby I’m Black (From the Waist…
In this economy, people are struggling to keep their homes and jobs, and businesses are closing. If people are investing, they’re doing so conservatively. So it may not have seemed especially prudent when promoters Garo Gallo and Yvonne Colon opened the Bubble four months ago. Outside of the rock-club trifecta…
Songstress and Miami native Sol Ruiz seems to go by a lot of monikers–Neo Hippie Rain Maker of Cuban decent and flower child of Psychedelic Cuban Blues, just a few of them (though admittedly the most catchy). The later is probably the closest thing to pass for a description of…
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…
