Here's video of Pitbull's recent performance in Istanbul, Turkey, where he's famous, and where he claims he had the album of the year for 2009, "Not 305. Not Miami. Not Dade County. Not none of that shit. Turkey. Pa que sepa. Internacional."
Lizard King Jim Morrison, one of the most influential American rock singers ever, was born in Melbourne, Florida on December 8, 1943.
He went to UCLA film school, graduated, and hung out on Venice Beach, where he and Ray Manzarek started The Doors.
There's a famous incident that took place at Dinner Key Auditorium in Coconut Grove known to a world of Doors fans as The Miami Incident that involved drugs, nudity, 13,000 people, the police, the Miami Herald, a student-led decency campaign at the Orange Bowl, and the national media.
Click here for more info on that. Watch the video above for some of Morrison's response to the incident courtesy of the Wolfson Archive on YouTube.
According to the YouTube description for the above video, "The Techno Vikings themselves return to our local stomping ground after a well deserved break. Hailed as one of the original and founding artists of Electro Bass / Electro funk in Florida, the United States and World Wide, Dynamix II comes correct with an all new performance featuring all the classics we love as well as new future anthems."
DJ's for the event are Johnny Dangerously & DJ Storm. Duncan Beatz, Kriya, and DJ Cheezy will perform as well.
Dance performances and visual entertainment by Christa Knox and Hypnotic Gurlz.
Wednesday, November 25. Respectable Street Cafe, 518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. Doors open at 8 p.m., admission is $10. Ages 18+ with ID. 561-832-9999; respectablestreet.com
Christmas music ain't for everybody. Some people even think it sucks. But, a lot of people like it, even Bob Dylan, who just cut a whole album of Christmas songs.
One thing's for sure, there are plenty of places in South Florida where a guitar-playing, holiday-music strumming, Santa-hat wearing drunk is the life of the party.
If you wanna be that guy (or girl), you gotta learn the songs. Head up to George's Music (1801 Palm Beach Lake Blvd #274A) in West Palm Beach on November 28 at 1 p.m. and let Joey George teach them to you.
Joey George is a West Palm blues specialist. Log on to myspace.com/joeygeorgemusic to hear a few of his tunes.
Local funnyman Dave Barry usually introduces him as "The only guy I know who's been a minister and a coke dealer." That's according to Sam Barry, his brother, a guy who used to ruin lives, save souls, and is now working for book publisher HarperOne and sidegigging as an author.
Sam Barry's new book is called How to Play the Harmonica: And Other Life Lessons (Gibbs Smith) and he was at the Miami International Bookfair promoting it as a speaker on a Saturday morning panel that included Tom Wilson, the guy who does the Ziggy cartoon and was well attended by gray hairs, bald heads, and wrapper crinklers.
Sam Barry is a funny dude, check out our video of him playing the harmonica and check out his own videos on his Sam Barry TV channel on YouTube.
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 Marie Cotto, this Mexican-American songstress grew up in Waco, Texas and Atlanta, where she began to hone her sound as a singer, songwriter, and lyricist. You can hear a tiny bit of that city's influence in the mechanical, low-end grind of this song's beat.
But where L.A.T.I. really sets herself apart is in bringing feminine energy to hip-hop/pop that is sexy, but powerful. You won't find her grinding or demeaning herself for attention, and indeed in this song she demands respect -- in both English and Spanish. The video's simple lighting and edits keep things classy, recalling the great R&B videos of the '90s while keeping things updated for 2010. Enjoy.
Oh, and local bands, musicians, DJs, etc. -- if you have a new music video to share on Crossfade, please send it our way. I'll probably see it faster if you send it to me on Twitter, but email is fine too.
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 in the studio a couple months ago, we ran into Cyrus Bolooki, NFG's drummer, as he was producing the new JL EP. Bolooki had just gotten into town on a red-eye from L.A., where he and his band had just finished filming this video, for the song "Don't Let Her Pull You Down." Here he is, again, telling Crossfade about it:
Anyways, check out the new video after the jump. In classic pop-punk's best tradition of goofiness, it's a fun romp through a landscape of, to quote from the dialogue, "zombies and girls with boob jobs on steroids."
She calls herself Ms. Jones, Broward County First Lady and according to her Myspace page "A fake bitch will take you were you need to go - A real bitch throws you her keys and says it needs gas!"
She has a song called "Ice Cream" that follows the South Florida tradition of sexplicit fuck music. "Damn boy see that ass look nice, you know you wanna hit that ass for the right price. Ima slaughter your cock, and make my pussy pop. Hot girl drop drop it like it's hot."
She also has a song called "Steve," a pussy eating anthem, a remix of and challenge to Plies' "Becky."
Boynton Beach country girl Amber Leigh rocked the stage at Homestead's Ribfest yesterday from 2 to 3 p.m. The video above is her rendition of the Charlie Daniels Band classic "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." Amber Leigh throws in a Led Zeppelin fiddle breakdown.
Amber Leigh's web site describes her as "a 23-year-old vivacious red-head specializing in crossover country music with a Celtic twist." She is an independent recording artist with a 200 show a year touring schedule. Visit amberleigh.com for more info.
If you missed it, and it's your kind of thing, you missed out: NeckFace's Devil's Disciple opening at O.H.W.O.W. was one of the best parties on Halloween. And Busy P's set at the afterparty at Poplife didn't disappoint, either. As much as we wanted to hate on it and find the track selection stuck in 2006, Pedro Winter has updated his style and can definitely still get a crowd moving. (Click for our slideshows of the opening and the afterparty at Poplife at Electric Pickle.)
The confluence of everything hipster-ish at both segments of the evening was a little mind-boggling -- ironic costumes, a bustling skateboard ramp, street art, free beer, and so on. But it was a good time, and, if you didn't make it inside, it was documented all over the Internets.
Here's a before-it-happened video, of NeckFace painting the outside of the haunted house he designed for the opening only. It's from YouTube user meetlouiz.
If you spent the earlier part of the decade at places like Piccadilly Garden, Soho Lounge or I/O Lounge--all now deceased venues--you are familiar with Peaches. Along with acts like Felix Da Housecat, Miss Kittin, Larry Tee and Tommie Sunshine, she's is pretty much responsible for ushering in the electroclash era. In her latest album, I Feel Cream, she delves a bit back into those roots that made her popular with the underground set. Friday, she is set to take the stage at Revolution and show why at 42 years old and four albums later, she is still on top of her game.
Above is the recently release video for the title track from her latest release. At first it sounds like Peaches at her most reserved, but listen carefully and you'll see that she's just as nasty as ever.
Every last tiny speck of brain matter splatted against the Columbus, Ohio stage he was riffing on when he was killed by a crazed gunman may have already been sold on Ebay, but the legend of Dimebag lives on through recorded documentation of his music.
The video above features Dimebag Darrel shredding with Pantera in West Palm Beach in 1997. According to the upload description "rex, vince and phil kick ass too!"
There is no better Halloween song than The Misfits - Halloween. The Fiend Club will be out in force when the band, featuring Danzig's brother Jerry Only, and Dez Cadena, and Robo from Black Flag, hits Culture Room on December 4th. Here are the lyrics to The Misfits - Halloween.
Bonfires burning bright
Pumpkin faces in the night
I remember Halloween
Dead cats hanging from poles
Little dead are out in droves
I remember Halloween
U-Tunes is a musical competition show produced by college students for the University of Miami's television network. The show is a joint venture between the School of Communication and The Frost School of Music.
This episode, the season premiere, features the band Ex Norwegian, a Miami indie band who has a song critiqued by a three-person panel of local music industry professionals.
Log on to umtv.miami.edu/U-Tunes for more info, to stream the show live, or to view other episodes, or click here to catch up with U-Tunes on Facebook.
Earlier this summer, ¡MAYDAY! released its Technology EP, which is available free for download via Bandcamp. Off that release, the guys have decided to release a video for the track "Red Carpet Affair." The video features Brooklyn musician and artist Andrew Strasser, a.k.a. Bad Brilliance, who was in town during the summer while preparing his exhibit, "Bad Brilliance in Miami," at the Bas Fischer Invitational. Check out the video, which was filmed mainly at Transit Lounge in Miami, above. And after the jump, a bonus video of Strasser's teaser for his exhibit.
​Last Friday, Miami live-action hip hop group ¡MAYDAY! brought six band members, keyboards, amps, monitors, guitars, drums and a sound guy named Monkey to a WDNA studio further cramped by a show host, engineer, intern, and 3 separate camera folk.
The occasion was the real time broadcast of Sound Theory Live, the Friday night show on 88.9 FM (streaming live on wdna.org) that puts local bands live on non-commercial, community FM radio playing and talking about their music.
Show host Carlos Garcia is always looking for musical talent of all genres to feature on his show so if you're interested or know someone who is, then reach out to soundtheorylive@gmail.com.
Here are some pictures and a video from ¡MAYDAY! on Sound Theory Live.
Well, the contemporary flouting of respect for copyrights has provided one great thing. If you miss some big club or music event, you're sure to find it on the Internet, somewhere. "Amateur" videographers and photographers are as good as the pros these days, and YouTube now has HD, so.... I missed the Junior Boys at the Vagabond last Saturday thanks to the flu (boo), but I got to catch, this morning, at least one song, thanks to YouTube user ZManBarzel. Here are the boys doing "Teach Me How to Fight," which, yes, sounds sexy as hell, just like our reviewer said. The picture quality is impressive; ZManBarzel surely knows how to use his zoom in an economical and classy way. Most importantly, the sound is awesome. Enjoy the video below.
Also, not local, but it looks like this person attended the Sonar Festival this year (lucky), and got some similarly good video of Little Boots an Fever Ray. Check them out here.
Tallpree is a Soca artist from Grenada who's song "Wicked Jab" has been tearing up the streeets. Here is an interview with Tallpree live from Carnival Miami 2009.
Here's the song. Where's the Miami style remix? Get to work.
When disco revivalists Glass Candy performed at the Vagabond back in September we were told they were surprised by the turnout and audience response. But with sweet hooks and silky production, how can you not fall in love with the duo? Well, while surfing the web this weekend, we stumbled across videos of Glass Candy's performance of "Miss Broadway" (above) and "Candy Castle" from September's Vagabond show. Now you yourself can witness what was (personally) one of the best performances we've seen in 2009.
​Watch out Zombie Strippers, Murderous Rampage has just released a video for their song "Programmed to Kill." And the topless zombie chicks are way more brutal than Jenna Jameson (no matter how much Nietzsche she reads). They don't strip, they just want to kill you.
Or maybe just kill their creator (think The Terminator), played by MR frontman and horror aficionado Tommy Newman. The "Programmed to Kill" video starts off with a sleepy Newman dozing off amid his many life-size zombie mannequins. (Creating the undead mannequins is actually a real-life hobby of Newman's. He has them throughout his house). The protagonist dreams he's being chased by three of his bloody, half-naked, come-to-life creations, and therefore attempts to flee. But the zombies are just too damn clever. Not-much-of-a-spoiler alert: There's a shower scene!
Pushed on by fist-pumping choruses, gutteral, shouting vocals, straight metal riffs, special effects, and the never-satisfied thirst of the undead, Murderous Rampage's video for "Programmed to Kill" is as brutal and artful as you can get on no budget. Another fun fact: The make-up took over 3 hours. (Though they must have saved time on costuming, the zombie women don't have much of a wardrobe!)
We've already said plenty about Danny Daze, so we'll keep this short. Above is a video interview with the Miami DJ/producer did for Scion Radio 17. In it he talks about his side projects DiscoTech and Señor Stereo. He also talks about how he got his start DJing and how he manages to keep sane despite having to cater at times to a mainstream sensibility.
Here's a quick video we shot of the world famous Pointer Sisters at last night's opening party for Prelude, Barton G's new restaurant at the Arsht.
The Pointer Sisters have sold a lot of records for songs like "Slow Hand," "How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)," and of course "I'm So Excited."
OrganicArma is one of a handful local bands who won a spot to play an official CMJ showcase through SonicBids. Their CMJ debut took place last Tuesday at the Ace of Clubs, on Great Jones Street in the East-ish Vilage. Here's a quick video probided by the folks at SonicBids, with a few seconds of performance and an interview afterwards. It looks like, for this gig, they eschewed much of their usual costumes and make-up, and performed as just a duo instead of a trio. Still, in the half-minute we get here, it seems like they managed to build up a pretty good groove.
Here goes a video of Miami live-band-hip-hop-improvisation group The Cornerstoners playing a party at the 2am Warehouse.
The audio is mastered low on this video so you'll have to turn your speakers up, but the mix is nice, with a great stereo field. Listen with headphones, you'll be right there with them.
Duece Poppi is a veteran Slip-N-Slide Records artist you may have never heard of, but dude is a serious operator that has behind the scenes ghost written more tracks than Casper with a pen and pad.
He's got a new album coming soon, and this song "My White Friends" is set to take over the pop music airwaves.
This video features Duece talking about, participating in, or featuring some great white stereotypes like skateboarding, monster trucks, keg parties, sky diving, snorting coke, rich parents, manicures, OMG!, Travis Barker, and a Rolls Royce.
Now based in British Columbia, of all places, the singer-songwriter Alex Cuba is surely a long way from the homeland reflected in his stage name. Born in the town of Artemisa some 35 years ago, he grew up on the island with a guitar player father, Valentin Puentes, and took up guitar himself as a child. But his ticket out of Cuba didn't come until the late '90s, when he married a Canadian and eventually emigrated to her hometown.
Still, the frigid north hasn't taken the sunshine out of Cuba's amorphous sound. In his teens and twenties, he specialized in playing jazz fusion, and while his new material is more melodic and structured, it still displays some of that style's percolating experimentation. And while he sings entirely in Spanish, the rhythms of his native country fade in and out seemingly at random. His is sort of a refined world pop, the kind of thing that could win over fans of surf-y troubadours like Jack Johnson, even.
This Thursday is a particularly good time to get acquainted with Cuba. His last appearance in Miami Beach was at the Fundarte-sponsored Global Cuba Music fest earlier this year. Ticket prices to that were, frankly, a little steep for the average curious concertgoer, considering each $20 ticket got you just one performer. This time around, Fundarte has wised up and made this Lincoln Road show completely free.
Alex Cuba. With Russian Red. Thursday, October 15. The Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach. Show starts at 8 p.m., admission is free. 305-316-6165; fundarte.us
​Finalists in New Times' 2009 Battle of the Bands, Miami group King Bee plays heavy alt-rock that feeds off a bluesy underbelly. The scruffy trio are masters of the subtle build-up, hitting their stride with wail-out sessions that creep up faster than you can say crescendo.
I caught the last song of their show at Propaganda September 25. I was amped because I figured it portended similarly good, or maybe better, music to come. But I was sorely disappointed in second act Noble Rocket as well as in closing band and over-hyped act The Beauvilles, whose performance made me giggle uncontrollably. (Am I the only one who feels like the vocalist/guitarist's theatrics are forced?).
King Bee is releasing an EP later this month and its third album, To The Moon, some time in January. They shot a video for one of the singles coming out titled "Balls." The video, inspired by David Fincher's A Perfect Circle video for "Judith," won the Audience Award at the Florida Music Festival's Independent Film Jam and was highlighted on the $99 videos website, a site for creative DIY videos made with less $100. Watch the video after the jump.
B.O. and Gunline Entertainment rep Richmond Heights, Peerrine, South Dade, goon muzik, and tearin' ya ass. Here's what Big O had to say about his song "Tear My Ass," after the jump.
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