*CNN’s complete coverage.*Rolling Stone’s extensive tribute, with links to coverage throughout the RS archives.*SPIN magazine remembers Michael as a hero, not as a punchline.*At New Times’ sister paper LA Weekly, an exclusive interview with longtime MJ lawyer Bob Sanger.*Also at the LA Weekly web site: a slideshow, remembering Michael Jackson…
Wow. Do we like this new look for the Postmarks? They were always pretty low-key in the hair/make-up/costume department before, but their new makeover is sharp. They look like mod assassins! Actually, frontwoman Tim looks more than a bit like a brunette Francoise Hardy here. It’s appropriate, since the bandmates…
Awesome New Republic was celebrating its most extensive national tour to date — but that’s now most definitively in the past tense. The story goes that B. Rob, half of the band’s awesomeness, was on some vaguely western body of water, and bet that he could jump from one dock…
I guess the mini feud between DJ Laz and Crossfade is over. Apparently he didn’t like what we had to say about his single “She Can Get It,” and said as much on the air a while back. (But, hey, at least he reads Crossfade!) But that’s all in the…
photo by Ben ThackerJacuzzi Boys played Saturday night.So Raw Festival’ISM Gallery and Upper Eastside Garden, MiamiJune 19 and 20, 2009Better Than: Packing into yet another dance club and emptying your wallet.The Review:I have only good things to say about the So Raw Festival, which celebrated its inaugural edition last weekend…
Slip N Slide’s been on a signing binge lately, with head honcho Ted Lucas snapping up Atlanta R&B group Jagged Edge, as well as a slew of other new acts. When I spoke to him in late May, Lucas waxed particularly enthusiastic about Georgia-based rapper Swazy Baby.His first single, “F…
After a final album together, 2008’s Go Away White, Peter Murphy and his former bandmates have finally hammered the last nail in the Bauhaus coffin. But that’s actually good news for the group’s rabid fans. Its erstwhile frontman is finally comfortable performing these songs on his solo tours, which have…
It may seem like there’s been a blog avalanche on Crossfade about the Pretty Faces, but it’s because they deserve it. The Boca-based quartet is one of Palm Beach County’s best-kept rock secrets — a welcome, refreshing blast for fans of the Kinks, the Raspberries, Badfinger, and any number of…
Wish You Were There is a new column on Crossfade highlighting pictures and videos from around the web of the weekend’s biggest shows. Click here to see past installments.via J A I M E’s Flickr photostreamThere were several (although not obnoxiously too many) photographers at the So Raw Festival this…
Friday, June 19*The So Raw Festival starts tonight at ‘ISM Gallery in Wynwood, Miami. Individual show tickets are just $10, and a whole weekend pass is just $18. This includes free beer and vodka, people. Do it. Click here for full details.*Miami New Times’ 2008 Best Hip-Hop act, Mayday!, celebrates…
Local music/culture webzine Revmiami has just introduced a fun new video series called Big City Breakdown. The aim, they announced in this post, is to take favorite local acts, set them loose in the urban wilds, and tape them performing a song in one take. It’s a concept that’s been…
Don’t sleep this weekend. Now the So Raw Festival goes all day, night, and late-night on Saturday. The first show that day goes from noon to 4 p.m. at the Upper Eastside Garden, followed by an evening show back at ‘ISM Gallery in Wynwood, starting at 7 p.m. (Check out…
It’s unclear whether the big, bad economy can be blamed for the less-than-full turnout at Jim Norton’s South Beach Comedy Festival gig last January at the Lincoln Theater. While Norton regularly sells out large venues around New York, alas, the radio morning show where he largely got his start, the…
South Florida techno lovers, listen up. Pornograph Events has one hell of a double booking lined up this Saturday, with legends Derrick May and François K scheduled to play Nocturnal’s Eden Terrace Garden this Saturday. Derrick May is, of course, one of Detroit’s legendary “Belleville Three,” the trio of early…
Fatboy Slim will be forever preserved in the mainstream pop-culture annals as that funk soul brother who all but left so-called “electronica” behind as he crafted commercial-ready dance hits. Seriously, his late 1990s/early 2000s hits are so massive that they need not even be named. (Oh, here are a few…
via myspace.com/peoplefromvenusPeople From Venus is one of the most under – the – radar quality local acts, but that should change soon with the late-summer release of the band’s debut album. I waxed ecstatically about them not too long ago on this blog, but suffice it to say their songwriting…
The P.A.T.H. School of Hip-Hop Culture, run by Brimstone and partner Amit Regev, is one of the most worthwhile homegrown music-related projects in a long time. You can read more about it in a recent Crossfade post here, but to sum up, it’s a homegrown, labor of love summer camp…
via Phinzup’s Flickr photostreamThe biggest thing going for retro culture lovers over the past weekend was, of course, Hukilau 2009. Los Straitjackets headlined the weekend’s biggest show, Friday night at the Bahia Cabana hotel. There are a ton of amazing photos of the whole event on Phinzup’s Flickr photostream. Mr…
The Pretty Faces play Alligator Alley’s anniversary party on Saturday.Friday, June 12*South Florida music scene sweetheart and Sweat cofounder Lolo celebrates her birthday at the Vagabond in Miami tonight. DJ Hottpants is the special guest, and there will be cupcakes and candy galore. Cover is free before midnight, and just…
Fatboy Slim will be forever preserved in the mainstream pop culture annals as that funk soul brother who all but left so-called “electronica” behind as he crafted commercial-ready dance hits. Seriously, his late Nineties/early 2000 hits are so massive that they need not even be named. (Oh, here are a…
This is old news, but bears repeating: The version of 2 Live Crew does not feature Luke. Ok, that’s out of the way. But as the remaining members of the group — Fresh Kid Ice and Brother Marquis — told Miami New Times last year, that doesn’t really matter. Luke…
Yesterday I posted an introduction to Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, and a link to a free Amazon download of the band’s excellent song “Sugarfoot.” Forgive me for waxing ecstatic, but this is one of my favorite new acts to come along in a while. In the music there’s…
