Megadeth

One of the most tragicomic moments in the 2004 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster features not the band but rather Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. In a touchy-feely on-camera counseling session, Mustaine reveals some major inferiority issues with Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich. He even seems to come uncomfortably close to…

DJ T

Proof that music journalists are sometimes good for something, Thomas Koch, AKA DJ T, made his true mark in the industry by founding Groove magazine some 20 years ago. With Koch at the helm as editor and publisher, it quickly became the bible in his native Germany for everything related…

Get Physical With DJ T at Electric Pickle on Thanksgiving Eve

Proof that music journalists are sometimes good for something, Thomas Koch, a.k.a. DJ T, made his true mark in the industry by founding Groove magazine some 20 years ago. With Koch at the helm as editor and publisher, it quickly became the bible in his native Germany for everything related…

Megadeth at Revolution on November 25… Yes, Really, Revolution

One of the most tragicomic moments in the 2004 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster features not the band itself, but rather Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. In an touchy-feely, on-camera counseling session, Mustaine reveals some seemingly major inferiority issues to Metallica’s drummer Lars Ulrich. He even seems to come uncomfortably…

Concert Review: The Get Up Kids at Revolution, November 12

Click here to view photos from this show.The Get Up KidsWith Mansions and Kevin DevineThursday, November 12, 2009Revolution, Fort LauderdaleBetter Than: Actually regressing back to 1999.The Review:For better or for worse, the Get Up Kids’ reunion comes with no new album, just a tour (at least for now), behind the…

Video: L.A.T.I. – “Spaceship”

Here’s the latest video from local artist L.A.T.I., who is our friend (or whatever you’re supposed to call a mutual connection) on Twitter — you can follow her at @Latimusica (and us at @Crossfade_SFL). It’s for “Spaceship,” the lead single off her debut album, due out next year. Born LaTisha…

2 Live Crew Plays White Room on Friday, November 20

​Downtown-type promoters love booking 2 Live Crew. (It hasn’t been too long since they played the Vagabond, and there were those shows at the old Studio A before that.) This always creates a magical mash-up of a crowd that falls along a very, very wide irony spectrum. The thing is,…

Video: New Found Glory – “Don’t Let Her Pull You Down”

Okay, so this one’s been out for a few weeks, but it bears sharing. Broward County’s best pop-punk exports are still releasing new stuff to support their most recent album, Not Without a Fight, which dropped this past spring on Epitaph. When Crossfade caught up with local guys Jacobs Ladder…

L.A. Guns

In the early ’80s, the guys of L.A. Guns were proudly members of the dirtier subset of Sunset Strip denizens. Acts like Poison tarted themselves up in blush and aimed for pop crossover from the beginning, but the Guns and their fellow sleaze-rockers were almost more punk-inspired. The L.A. Guns…

Battalion of Saints A.D.

For most, the thought of Southern California in the ’80s brings to mind a Less Than Zero-style existence full of cocaine and Ray-Bans. But the sun-baked swath of turf from L.A. south became, at the beginning of the decade, the cradle of searing underground punk. London’s punk had its angular,…

Wednesday Blog Watch: Heat_R Photos and Hip-Hop MP3s

*The party Heat_r is back up and running, bringing indie electro back to Fort Lauderdale, now at Exit 66. We heard it was pretty well-attended. The party’s ostensible web site, though, which was at heatrparty.com, seems to have been subsumed by a catch-all nightlife site called Nightcure.com — which hasn’t…

Dynas Album Release Party at Champion Sound at Electric Pickle Tonight

Ah, Champion Sound. This weekly jam at Electric Pickle deserves ten gold stars for being one of the few regular parties in Miami where quality hip-hop lives. Tonight’s edition is special for two reason: One, it’s a birthday celebration for Crossfade/New Times music contributor Esther Park. Happy birthday, Esta!Second, it…

Wish You Were There: MASS Ensemble at Sleepless Night

After Sleepless Night in Miami Beach this past Saturday, Crossfade’s Twitter friends (let’s follow each other, I’m at @Crossfade_SFL) and, uh, real-life people were raving about a performance by MASS Ensemble. This Malibu, California-based quartet performs a sort of global, downtempo trip-hop kind of thing, but the musicians do so…