Crossfade has been updating you on the ticketing changes at several South Florida Live Nation-controlled venues, so here’s some more news. Previously, the company announced that the Fillmore Miami Beach, Mizner Park Amphitheatre, and the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre were to only use the company’s own ticketing service from now on…
From driving a biodiesel-powered bus to hangin’ with the likes of Snoop Dogg and Ryan Adams, pretty much everything Country Music Hall of Famer Willie Nelson does is pure, inarguable badass. The OG of the outlaw country movement in the 1970s also continues to add to his considerable songbook, releasing…
Against All Authority has been keeping it real for over a decade and a half now, forming in the Magic City back in 1992, anchored mainly by bassist/vocalist Danny Lore and guitarist/vocalist Joe Koontz. While the band often gets easily lumped into the “ska-punk” category, it has mostly eschewed the…
Last month, Crossfade reported on mixed signals regarding a Morrissey tour kickoff ostensibly set for Feb. 28 at Mizner Park Amphitheatre in Boca. Well, we’re happy to report the show has been finally, officially announced! Tickets go on sale Friday, January 16 at 10 a.m. They cost $35, $45, $55,…
Racing Exit 13 is, technically, a hardcore-influenced Staten Island band. But calling Racing Exit 13 “New York hardcore” makes you think of a bunch of beefy Biohazard-type dudes running around. This quintet has a much subtler vibe than that, name-checking plenty of those heavy, but, errr, thoughtful acts of the…
Like a pissed-off, mistreated dog, Travis Reilly yelps, This is how downward spirals start. Then he growls, This is a convoluted attempt to find some source of hope. Later, he barks, This is the best and worst things will ever get. Reilly’s Long Island-based hardcore outfit, This Is Hell, seems…
I know, I know, WMC talk already — yikes, we just celebrated the new year. But if you’ve got any interest in WMC then you know that the Shelborne always grabs absolutely stellar lineups who play legendary parties. If you like big-room house music, you’ve already been to some of…
(Photo via www.donnathebuffalo.com)Donna the Buffalo, a band who hails from Trumansburg, New York, sounds inseparable from the Great Outdoors. These are the kind of old Deadheads who probably chose to cover John Anderson’s Everglades ode “Seminole Wind” because it’s got otters and gars in it. Their originals suggest holistic hippies…
Ultra Music Festival released the second phase of its lineup, and while the biggest names in the list offer no big surprises, a number of other, smaller acts added to the bill demonstrate more of the festival’s forward-thinking approach this year. So here are the titans who will play (again):…
This Friday’s excursion into sonic brutality at Churchill’s Pub is not just another exercise in aggression. This time, it’s to support a nascent all-ages venue in the inner city, tentatively called GOO. The project is being spearheaded by a local music fan, Kenneth Fee. The graduate of Hialeah High has…
Scottish indie rock act Bis’ overtures were expressed rather neatly in its 1997 single “Tell It to the Kids”: “And now, coming through the airwaves into your home/Introducing the new transistor heroes.” San Francisco’s hey willpower lacks a similar expressive salutation, but it shares Bis’ affinity for trash culture, “kandy…
Little, it seems, can stop the improbable Tampa-based female party – rap juggernaut that is Yo Majesty. Not even the occasional almost-implosion of the group itself. Early last summer, some undefined internal meltdown sent home half of the group, the gospel – trained vocalist – turned – rapper Jewel B…
Pat yourself on the back for attending Saturday’s early-evening, all-ages extravaganza at Revolution. It’s sponsored by Music Saves Lives, a California-based group that aims to “create opportunities for people to save lives with simple contributions, and to teach the facts about the effects of what they contribute to.” In other…
Retro-videogame nerds, don’t get too excited. Friday’s guest act at The Vagabond has nothing to do with the mostly forgotten Nineties Nintendo game, but rather has appropriated the moniker, à la Crystal Castles, to broadcast a fascination with retro bleeps and bloops. The multicolor, eight-bit-style graphics festooning Panic Bomber’s various…
Beyond the unending, dentist-office-like whir of hundreds of tattoo needles buzzing, the Miami Tattoo Expo will feature another soundtrack: an impressive lineup of local and national music acts. While other South Florida tattoo conventions have relied mostly on rockabilly cover bands and the like, the Miami convention has garnered a…
Credit it, partially at least, to the rise of smooth – jam – loving new indie-ish bands like Tigercity, the Yacht Rock series on YouTube, and the unexpected, fanatical boosterism from people like Travis McCoy of the Gym Class Heroes. The blue-eyed soul duo of Hall & Oates is experiencing…
To read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. With the tattoo convention coming up this weekend in Miami, I want to talk about how these conventions are full of jackasses. I used to work for Eulogy Recordings, one of sponsors of it, and Madball is playing on…
A family-led operation, the Machito Orchestra was established in 1939 and continues to attract some of the best-known musicians in Latin jazz. The New York-based group comes to town on Thursday, January 15 in a celebratory mood. The show pays homage to three departed legends of the genre: the Machito…
As the Seventies ended and disco pushed into the mainstream, those who came of age during that period always seemed to be reminded that they had missed out on the great cultural revolution of the raging Sixties. As many recall, former Beatle John Lennon himself pretty much summed it up…
Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter still looms in the margins of jazz history. Until now, her contributions during the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies were known mostly to insiders, aficionados, historians, and journalists eager to sensationalize her association with the death of Charlie Parker, who famously died in her living room in…
Probably the only surf-rock song nearly everyone recognizes is “Wipe Out!” (if you really need a reminder, click here). And the version with which people are familiar is that done in 1963 by the Surfaris, a California quartet still making bank on the nostalgia circuit today. By all accounts, pretty…
This past December, Rolling Stone published an interesting industry – centric article detailing the ongoing business battle between ticket-sale monolith Ticketmaster, and live-show monolith Live Nation. Of course, everybody knows that until very, very recently, Ticketmaster was inescapable, even at certain small venues (locally, for instance, even Culture Room uses…
