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.
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