To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. It’s the middle of June, so that means it’s about time for the monthly Keirin Cycles open sprints. The event takes place tomorrow night, June 11. At last month’s events, we had a debut local screening of Maca…
…What, like you thought that wasn’t coming? Yes, Crossfade has had one of these newfangled Twitter things for a while now, but now we would really like to join you in a 140-character back-and-forth.Follow us at @Crossfade_SFL and we will follow you back. I promise it is definitely not a…
The soul great Betty Wright is one of Miami’s best not-so-well-kept secrets. Starting out as a gospel singer with a family group, in the mid-1960s Wright switched over to R&B. Her robust mid-range belting and knack for picking funky beats and melodies made her a hit, and Wright quickly racked…
Black Joe Lewis, the elusive, effusive frontman of, well, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, boasts only one studio album to his credit. And already, the myth-making has commenced — because, really, how could such an otherworldly blend of punk-fueled raw soul come from an ordinary human?Lewis picked up the…
Damian Lazarus came to performing music from the enemy side: He started out as a music journalist, a notorious profession in his native England. Still, even as he worked as an editor at the legendary lifestyle mag Dazed and Confused, it was all part of a planned gradual move into…
A scene from last year’s P.A.T.H. sessionLast summer, local musician and hip-hop activist Brimstone celebrated four successful weeks of his inaugural P.A.T.H. School of Hip-Hop Culture. As Brim told New Times last year, the camp was an outgrowth of his attempt to start a hip-hop history and culture program through…
via verymanley’s Flickr photostreamWish You Were There is a new column on Crossfade highlighting pictures and videos from around the web of the weekend’s biggest shows. The biggest thing going in Miami this past weekend was the Poplife 10-year anniversary event, which luckily barely escaped the day’s torrential rain. But…
Ex Norwegian Plays Propaganda in Lake Worth TonightHere are ten wallet-friendly music events this weekend around South Florida.Tonight, Friday, June 5*Atlanta-based power-pop-rock trio Last November plays at Transit Lounge. Cover information is kind of murky but it should be cheap or even free. Click here for a free Last November…
Miami New Times, Churchill’s, and Epiphone are sponsoring a new series of acoustic performances on Wednesday nights at the sort-of-English pub. (Guess since Raffa and Rainer pioneered Can You Rock A Little Softer? (R.I.P.) there, Wednesday is now the official acoustic night!) The series starts on June 17 and runs…
Lissy TrullieThe VirginsWith Lissy Trullie and Anya MarinaWednesday, June 2, 2009Culture Room, Ft. LauderdaleBetter Than: Reading a magazine.The Review:Much of the early hype — and there’s been a lot — about both the Virgins and Lissy Trullie has focused on the “scene” from which they come. Music media addicts know…
Yes, there are more local band battles than you can shake a stick at, but the Fort Lauderdale-based Ghost of Gloria is poised, possibly, to win a big-deal national one. The Hard Rock chain has, over the past few months, sponsored its own “Ambassadors of Rock” series. Hard Rock Cafés…
Friday night’s weekly Flamingo Fridays party at PS14 marks the first show there in a while for Miami foursome Astari Nite. The band has been steadily plugging away at its chilly, Placebo-influenced rock. Now that summer’s here, singer Mychael Ghost and company have set to work on a proper debut EP, heading into…
Since revamping in mid-2007, Shine at the Shelborne has continued its program of high-quality, one-off or occasional recurring events (Bliss, etc.). The club’s Winter Music Conference programming this year was, as usual, a highlight of conference too. But now teh club’s getting its first proper weekly event in a long…
via myspace.com/lastnovemberAtlanta-based trio Last November plays two gigs in South Florida this weekend, hitting an early all-ages gig tomorrow night at Respectable Street Cafe in West Palm Beach, and then Transit Lounge in Miami on Friday. The group first got together in high school, when they bonded over playing acoustic…
via myspace.com/jimwursterJim Wurster is one of the best almost-kept secrets of the South Florida singer-songwriter world, a leading light of a micro-scene that revolves around small venues like the Luna Star Cafe. While his artist bio may be given to, shall we say, hyperbole, this much is true: Once upon…
Today’s throwback comes from wayyyy back in the way-back machine’s gears: 1930, when Phil Spitalny’s orchestral jazz compositions were pop hits. It’s hard to imagine a time before popular music was splintered into a thousand different subgenres, but think about it: Beyond classical and real folk traditions, there was basically…
Friday night’s weekly Flamingo Fridays party at PS14 marks the first show in a while on this side of the county line for the Miami foursome Astari Nite. The band has been playing out relatively frequently, but recent weeks have seen it playing mostly around Broward and even West Palm Beach.And…
Wish You Were There is a new column on Crossfade highlighting pictures and videos from around the web of the weekend’s biggest shows. One of the most anticipated gigs in town this past Saturday was the kick-off of bass god Les Claypool’s national outing with Matisyahu. The weather at the…
via myspace.com/themissionveoThe Mission VeoRecession-minded, “frugal,” or just plain cheap? No problem — Ten Under $10, a new column on Crossfade, gives you budget-friendly music events to check out over the weekend. Tonight, Friday, May 29*The Mission Veo is one of the best local dark, post-punk-type acts going, and tonight they…
photo by Jill Weisberg, via myspace.com/bfgfbandEver loved your sugar pie honeybunny pookie bear soooo much that your relationship already felt like beautiful music? I guess that’s what Me She and Chris V of new local act BFGF were feeling, and they decided to express that feeling in song. And thus,…
It’s virtually impossible to have avoided the buzz surrounding two of Miami’s best female-fronted acts: Afrobeta and Steph Taylor and the State Of. Here’s a good opportunity to catch them for free in a cozy (and smoke-free!) environment. Both bands play an in-store at Sweat Records this Saturday, starting at…
Colorado just doesn’t know: Don’t mess with Little Havana. This is a couple days old (and thus a million years in blog years), but in case you missed it, Pitbull bit back at a rowdy fan in Aspen. It’s really weird, actually, to imagine the rapper performing in the Rocky…
