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Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

Most art is silent. Even during Basel week. That's why we here at Crossfade -- an admittedly hopeless gaggle of noise junkies -- just can't get through the week without offsetting our 12-hour days at the art fairs with 12-hour nights at Miami's hipster bars, rock dives, and downtown concert hall ... More >>

Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

Art Basel Miami Beach Keeps Booming

December brings a music festival, seven new fairs, plus all the usual art world insanity.

Coral Morphologic: Aquatic Ambassadors

FIU Students Speak Up! Top Five Places to Chow Down

​Short Order has friends in all the right places. Florida International University won this year's Best of Miami's Best Food Court, and now we're asking its students tell us where their favorite food spots are.The categories are as follows: Best Hangout Spot, Hookah & Hookup, Drunk Munchies, I ... More >>

Borscht Film Festival's Post-Movie Party With ANR, Afrobeta, and Animal Tropical at Villa 221

Photo by Ciara OsorioAnimal Tropical's Jose Castello.​After spending three hours sitting on our asses for Saturday night's Borscht Film Festival screenings at the Adrienne Arsht Center's Knight Concert Hall, we here at Crossfade needed a fucking drink. Now don't get it twisted ... We totally lov ... More >>

John Hancock's Antenna Death

​To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami's Best Albums of 2010 here.John HancockAntenna Death (St. Ives/10K Islands)The end of 2010 again belonged to Awesome New Republic. On the strength of its latest full-length, Stay K ... More >>

Video: "Not Scared at All" by John Hancock of Awesome New Republic, Playing the Vagabond Tomorrow Night

John Hancock seems to have always been the slightly more out-there member of local favorites Awesome New Republic, continually releasing his own, more experimental material during the band's down time. The latest addition to his solo oeuvre is a new vinyl-only album, Antenna Death, out now on 10K Is ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: "Conspiracy" by Thomas Function, Playing the American Legion on January 29

via myspace.com/thomasfunction​The Alabama foursome Thomas Function makes its label home on Fat Possum, that Epitaph offshoot that began as a blues imprint. That family tree indeed tells you a bit about the band's sound -- propelled largely by a punky euphoria, but informed by a bit of a Muscle Sh ... More >>

Q&A with Nicolas Jaar, Playing Electric Pickle Tonight

​Young prodigy Nicolas Jaar has enjoyed unprecedented international acclaim in the last couple years through his association with the Wolf Lamb collective and a growing body of work widely praised for its distinctive and genre-defying sound. Born in NYC and raised in Chile, Jaar found equal part ... More >>

A guide to the major music events during Art Basel Miami Beach

Concert Review: Busy P at Electric Pickle, October 31

Photo by Jipsy​Click here to view more photos from this event.Busy PSaturday, October 31, 2009Electric Pickle, MiamiBetter Than: The prefect pair of alt breast, y'all.If websites like Hipster Runoff have taught us anything is that when the alt community comes together for a 'meaningful' experience ... More >>

Poplife Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary

The long-standing local shindig went down at White Room.

WMC 2009: Rum and Coke with a Squeeze of Drop the Lime at Bacardi B-Live Press Party

Michelle SolomonA-Trak spinning at Bacardi B-Live.If you were one of the 300 "regular" folks, or the 150 or so "press" types who got invited to the Bacardi B-Live Press Pool Party on Tuesday night, say a hefty thank-you prayer to the God of Groove.Inside the basement Japanese restaurant, Fountainble ... More >>

WMC Preview: Q&A with Carles of HipsterRunoff.com

Carles, is that you?When we heard that the "blog worth blogging about" Hipster Runoff was hosting a party during Winter Music Conference, we admittedly thought WTF. Not because it's a bad thing, but because this means we might be able to meet the man (or woman, we aren't sure) behind the site. He go ... More >>

Hip Once Again, Hall and Oates Return to Play Mizner Park

Soul really matters to a new, unlikely generation of the duo's fans.

The Ween Abides

Ten reasons Ween is better than your favorite band.

Youth Shall Be Served

The barely legal members of Orlando's Band Marino are already making pop music for the ages

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"Gibson should just get on with it.... What an asshole. I’ve lost all respect for him."

Roll Over, Oakenfold, and Tell Tiësto the News

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"This movie was refreshing and poignant, and I had to go back twice"

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