When Air’s Moon Safari came out in 1998, I was 15 years old and still in my teenage ska/punk phase. But here was an album with lush electronic soundscapes and minimal beats that really spoke to me. Air is responsible for introducing me to electronic music and the entire Astralwerks…
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…
Miami New Times Best Hip-Hop Artist ¡Mayday! recently got down with Lil Wayne for a video shoot and some well deserved national attention. Check out the video below. Thanks to the305.com for the heads up…
Here’s a video of Diablo Dimes performing Friday night, December 5th, at Fountain Art Fair 2009 opening for G. Love. Diablo Dimes is a an old-style blues character complete with torn hat, busted old guitar, harmonica, and kazoo, who plays gutbucket, Dixieland, rag time, swamp-ugly music about drinking, fighting, fucking,…
If you aren’t aware yet, it’s the holiday season, which means the advertisements on television are focusing heavily on toys kids don’t really need and will probably forget about a month after unwrapping. Still, that didn’t stop Crayola from brainwashing children into thinking they need a silly contraption called a…
You may or may not have heard the (tragic) rumor that fav south Miami watering hole and all around wonder-dive Bougainvillea’s is closing. It’s been going around for some time, and billings like “Bougie’s Last Thanksgiving Eve Block Party” and “Bougie’s Last New Years Eve Party ever” seem to corroborate…
Plenty to hear in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend, no matter what you’re into. If you’re in the mood to see an iconic punk band, The Misfits are playing Culture Room tonight. Sure they’re minus Danzig, but Jerry Only is still around to blast out the horror punk. If…
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…
Time for a cheesy joke about how Dre “forgot about Miami” or “forgot about Primary Flight” or something. Dr. Dre’s connection to the Primary Flight street art installation around Wynwood — more specifically its gallery version, Blue Print for Space, at the Art Center South Florida — was much hyped…
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…
You’ve very likely caught them at one of their innumerable gigs around town, at Jazid or at Bougie’s. At The Vagabond, perhaps, or Tobacco Road? Or maybe even 90 miles from Cuba, down that southbound stretch of I-95, in the good ole’ Conch Republic’s Green Parrot Bar. And you’ve no…
Here is the video for a song called Turkey Murder (The Thanksgiving Song), it’s no Adam Sandler Thanksgiving Song, but that song is played out anyways. What with all this internet and all these cameras, and all these softwares you’d figure somebody would have come up with a new classic…
This isn’t an intentional effort to get you out of the lines at the Muvico or Dolphin Mall to clear the way and hedge the odds of getting a better seat for Planet 51, Ninja Assassin or The Road, all opening this weekend. I’m the one person who skipped New…
Goodfellas cover the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” at Titanic Brewery & Restaurant in Miami.This is the Godfellas’ description of theirselves on their Facebook page: “GOODFELLAS IS THE GROOVIESTTitanic continues its tradition of showcasing live, local music. Log on to titanicbrewery.com for more info…
What makes a party America’s Best Party? We’re not entirely sure, but if you have a strong desire to give show some hometown love, Miami’s own Poplife is nominated for the title in Paper Magazine’s Fifth Annual Nightlife Awards. The uber-hipster publication has pitted the party against other hipster nights…
Miami hip hop group Flow Official has just released a new album, the Architects LP, which features Itagui from Locos Por Juana, Malverde, !Mayday!, and L.M.S. What Up Kid is a song off the new album. The members of Flow Official are Omniscient, Emo, A Priest Classik, and Sic Vic,…
Well, Thanksgiving is finally upon us. I know I’m not alone when I say that I start getting antsy for this holiday right around the end of summer. After all, I no longer need to fit into my bikini, so why not gorge myself on copious amounts of sweet potatoes,…
Here’s video of Pitbull’s recent performance in Istanbul, Turkey, where he’s famous, and where he claims he had the album of the year for 2009, “Not 305. Not Miami. Not Dade County. Not none of that shit. Turkey. Pa que sepa. Internacional.”…
As usual, there’s plenty of music to hear in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend. If you’re in the mood for some indie rock AND comedy, you should head out to Propaganda to hear John Ralston, Sweet Bronco, and the Beards of Comedy. If you want your comedy more hard-edged,…
Mark this as a must: Annie, who is best known for her tracks “Chewing Gum” and “I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me,” will be making a quick stop at LIV in Miami Beach November 25 for a DJ set alongside Ross One and Contra. We’d really like for this to…
Can you hear that faint thump? It’s the heads of turntable purists smacking their heads against their desks. Still, like it or not, what constitutes “DJing” has forever changed with technology — it’s only a matter of time before somebody figures out how to use the DJ Hero controller in…
If you’re still reading, author/actress (Seriously. She’s on IMDB.) and Elvis’s cousin Edie Hand will be at Borders Saturday to sign copies of her latest novellas A Christmas Ride: The Miracle of Lights and The Soldier’s Ride. Although those don’t have anything to do with Elvis, she has paid homage to…
