This year’s annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors awards show seems to be one of the most contentious to date, thanks to its focus on “Honoring the Dirty South.” On one hand, you’ve got major Southern artists like Scarface, who feels the show is just ghetto-izing his peers. (The Houston rapper, actually,…
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While most of the big-deal shows rolling through town lately have tended towards the loud and brash, this Saturday at Grand Central marks an evening for gentler souls. In honor of Poplife’s anniversary, the party returns to its Anglophilic indie-loving roots for a show headlined by Surfer Blood and the…
For the past four years, Boca-based Livid Records has been slowly but steadily releasing some of the better Florida (and beyond) rock records. With a roster that’s curated more by feel than specific genre, founder Chuck Livid has revived the careers of some old South Florida classics — like the…
Fun news. Miami has finally scored a proper show by part of the holy triumvirate of Establishment-Accepted Brooklyn Art-Pop: Yeasayer! (MGMT and the Dirty Projectors would round out the trio…. One can continue to dream.) The only bummer is that by the time Yeasayer down here, the guys might be…
Yesterday, bummed at the news of the passing of Rue McClanahan, who played Blanche Devereaux on Golden Girls, we took to YouTube to look up some old favorite clips from the show. Clicking around, we remembered: Those girls (and their relatives, apparently) sure liked to sing. Here are five fun…
Friday, June 4*The Big Bounce makes for some pretty classy drinking music, so it’s appropriate that the “lounge-hop” duo plays an extended happy-hour from 4 to 9 p.m. at Mia at Biscayne. Admission is free. Click here for details. *Saturday’s awesome garage/punk/rock and roll extravaganza at Churchill’s — with Sloppy Seconds,…
If you haven’t heard of Kat Stacks, it’s okay. It means you spend a healthy time away from Twitter and from following the minutiae of struggling, up-and-coming rappers in Miami’s busting hip-hop industry. Still, for the past month she’s been taking the rap-centric Internet by storm with her spicy tales…
The crowd at the recurring Technosluts parties across South Florida is pretty much unlike any other. Think a colorful Venn diagram meeting of that rarified overlap between candy ravers, cyber goths, bass-heads, and fetish enthusiasts, and you’ll get the vinyl and hair-fall-filled picture. For the past four years, this loose artistic…
While people complain about the lack of live music in town, and (usually) the same people complain about going to South Beach for anything, Jazid is a lone soldier quietly battling to prove these naysayers wrong.Sure, the venue has changed plenty over the years — for one thing, only one…
Dirty South’s methodical mixing skills can be traced to the DJ’s humble beginnings. He was born Dragan Roganovic in Belgrade, Serbia, and the encroaching unrest in then Yugoslavia sent his family packing to Melbourne, Australia, when he was 13 years old. Already a budding music nut, young Roganovic began taping…
Churchill’s seems to be humming along with renewed energy thanks to the semirecent addition of booker Nayra Serrano. Under her watch, the venue (finally!) got an updated website, an up-to-date online schedule, and a slate of shows by an increased number of touring bands, with overall greater quality control. This…
We want to like Miami rapper Jacki-O. We dig her tattoos, her spitfire raps, and her scrappiness in her attempts to bounce back from a checkered past that includes a shoplifting charge and personal bankruptcy. And though she was once poised to become as famous as Trina, she lost her major-label…
It gives us hope when bands from the all-ages circuit try for something other than faux death metal and helium-powered pop-rock. That’s why we’re stoked on Totally Nebular, a local three-piece that met three years ago in high school but bonded over a love of electronic-tinged psychedelia rather than Warped…
According to our tireless reviewer Esther Park, this year’s Best of the Best concert was even more intense than the last. With so many big-name artists scheduled to perform every year, there are always unexpected changes, pleasant surprises, and, it seems, a crazy sprint through the final leg of the…
Grand Central is on fire ever since it celebrated its official opening. Regular weekly parties on Friday and Saturday nights are bustling (it seems aiming for a lower age restriction of 18 was particularly wise), and a number of live performances keep getting added to the line-up.Last week we announced…
Rick Ross may possibly be the last rapper on the planet to join Twitter, which, along with its fascinating reports on desk workers’ lunches, seems largely these days to be a big chain of celebs A- to Z-list @ mentioning each other. (For an up-to-the-minute stream of Crossfade staff’s sandwich…
Churchill’s seems to be humming along with a renewed energy lately, thanks to the semi-recent addition of booker Nayra Serrano. Under her watch, the venue (finally!) got an updated web site, an up-to-date online schedule, and a slate of shows by an increased number of touring bands, with an overall…
If you, like Crossfade, are guilty of watching way more VH1 than is worth admitting, you may be hotly anticipating this year’s edition of the annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors awards show. This year’s official focus is on “Honoring the Dirty South,” and it airs live on the channel next Monday,…
One of the worst thing about being a devoted live music fan is the sticker shock that comes when a ticket’s final price is totaled up. A ticket that’s about $20 can end up as much as $40 sometimes when you lump in all the nebulous service charges, “venue charges,”…
As we mentioned this past Friday in our weekly 305 Live local hip-hop news column, Lil Wayne may be physically behind bars, but still, he’s everywhere. This past Memorial Day Weekend may as well have been Weezy Weekend, as a barrage of new videos and remixes by him appeared, all…
Today’s gratuitous but awesome giveaway is brought to you by the folks behind the new site becausesoundmatters.com. Music collectors who love to buy new music on vinyl will find lots to love here, a site that gathers all of Warner Music Group’s labels’ in-print releases in one spot. That includes giant…
