Beatriz Monteavaro

Sweatstock 2013 at Sweat Records and Churchill's Pub April 20

Sweat Records, Kenny Millions, and Holly Hunt Talk Sweatstock 2013 and Saving Record Stores

Skeptics predict the local music shop is going extinct like the penny arcade. But for the last six years, so-called "independently owned, stand-alone brick-and-mortar retailers" around the U.S. (and the world) have been banding together under the Record Store Day banner to, paraphrasing the immorta ... More >>

Corrections House, Shroud Eater, and Holly Hunt Destroyed Churchill's Pub in Miami

Corrections House With Shroud Eater and Holly Hunt Presented by Speedfreek Churchill's Pub, Miami Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Better Than: Not being "destroyed," "annihilated," "depressed," and "confused" on a Wednesday night. In the Internet age, it is pretty much impossible for anyone with a com ... More >>

Miami's Top Albums, EPs, and Singles of 2012

Miami's Best Albums, EPs, Singles of 2012

Heavy bass, ear-shredding distortion, booty beats, syrupy synths, and prime rhymes. Even though the 305 is a sunny city, it's definitely got a weird, dark, and dirty side. So while this year's top local releases were often sexed-up and fun-obsessed, they were also experimental, X-rated, drugged-ou ... More >>

Thurston Moore, Rat Bastard, and Kenny Millions Play Art Basel House Show (Video)

"Where's Thurston Moore?" That is the question we've been asking each other since the Sonic Youth frontman and South Florida native was first spotted at nontraditional art spaces around town during Art Basel Miami Beach week. He was in Miami to perform in honor of his late friend Kurt Cobain at t ... More >>

Andrew W.K. 2, Holly Hunt, Crucial Taunt, and Plan B's Halloween at Churchill's Pub

Plan B From Outerspace With Holly Hunt, Crucial Taunt, and Andrew W.K. 2 Churchill's Pub, Miami Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Better Than: Throwing a party on a Native American burial ground, moshing with mummies, and Trick-or-Treating at Britney Spears' house. Miami has a tendency to turn every hol ... More >>

Holly Hunt Opening for Earth: "We Wouldn't Be Playing What We're Playing Without Them"

We here at Crossfade already had some serious munchies for the upcoming Earth concert at Will's Pub in Orlando. We're talking about the band that invented instrumental stoner metal, perfectly merging psychedelic drone experiments and amplifier worship with the bombast of rock 'n' roll. Oh, and th ... More >>

Scraping Teeth's Worst Band in America 2012 Tour Kickoff at Churchill's Pub April 10

Rat Bastard and Scraping Teeth Are Back for The Worst Band in America Tour 2012

​Hellish hiss and skull-splitting feedback explodes into a swirlingly atonal shit-cloud of expertly terrible guitar noise, erratic yet superprecise drum strikes, droning bass, garbled shrieks, and totally indecipherable lyrical chatter. That's the sound of Scraping Teeth. And it's the fucking wors ... More >>

Corrosion of Conformity With Holly Hunt, Consular, and Shroud Eater at Grand Central Miami, March 19

Corrosion of Conformity​ With Holly Hunt, Consular, and Shroud Eater Grand Central Monday, March 19, 2012 Louder Than: Volcanoes, stampedes, and a skirmish in the valleys of Afghanistan. Can someone please explain how Corrosion of Conformity ended up playing an only-show-in-Florida date at G ... More >>

Miami postpunk band Beings releases posthumous seven-inch single "Social Creep" on Discosoma Records

Beings Talk New Posthumous Single and the Potential for Future Releases (Spoiler: It's Slim)

​Meaty post-punk trio Beings was a South Florida rock crew that transcended the micro-genres -- hardcore, No Wave, metal, shoegaze, rock 'n' roll -- that influenced its high-energy, pogo-friendly anthems. When Beings broke up unexpectedly back in May, the punks, metalheads, and art-damaged fans ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach at 10

A decade of debauchery, deals, and disasters.

Tom Tom Magazine's Mindy Abovitz on Art Basel Showcase and Lady Drummers

Photo by Bex Wade​It's a proven fact that the hottest thing in rock 'n' roll is a woman on drums. So Crossfade is superstoked that Tom Tom Magazine, the only print publication focused on female percussionists, will be bringing a notable showcase of lady drummers to Churchill's Pub for Art Basel M ... More >>

Greasy Drums, and Five Other Essentials for the Participatory Grease Worship

​What's your reaction to entering a fog-filled room where drums are being pounded to the cult classic Grease? Just yell out: "I've got chills! They're multiplying!" And then, of course, you gotta lose all self-control. Expect to have this response on Friday night at the Participatory Grease Worsh ... More >>

Holly Hunt, Shroud Eater, Ether, Orbweaver, and Slashpine at Churchill's July 21

Prunk TV and Holly Hunt's Gavin Perry Talk Guitars, Jim Morrison, and Speaking in Tongues

Photo by Niuvis MartinShredding with Holly Hunt's Gavin Perry.​Have you met Holly Hunt, the fairly new skull-crushing doom metal atmospheric sludge band that's taking Miami by storm? The band's two members -- Gavin Perry and Beatriz Monteavaro -- are both visual artists who live and work in Miami ... More >>

Big Business's Jared Warren Talks Miami, the Melvins, and Eating Deep-Fried Garbage

Big Business's Jared Warren with tiny dogs.​If you were to mix the arena-style hard rock riffage of AC/DC with the drumming of Rush's Neil Peart, throw in some Man Is the Bastard-style crusty sludge, a teaspoon of Black Sabbath, and garnish it with a cup of minced Thin Lizzy, the music would sound ... More >>

Beings Break Up, Last Show Ever at Bardot Tonight With Davila 666

​Early yesterday afternoon, Crossfade received word via mass text that punk rock trio Beings would be performing their final show tonight at Bardot. When we contacted drummer Beatriz Monteavaro, she couldn't offer any insight into the situation beyond that the gig was an engagement booked prior ... More >>

Homegrown Homage

Five Questions with Beings' Beatriz Monteavaro

​South Florida artists wear many hats and no one wears them better than Beatriz Monteavaro. A darling in the contemporary visual art scene, Monteavaro's revered as a living legend by fans of sludge-pop-metal outfit Floor. And her current band, Beings is gaining great momentum at both the local a ... More >>

Prunk TV and Billy Blue Talk Conspiracy Theories, Jay-Z, ESPN, and Weed

Poe Boy's Billy Blue.​This past weekend, Miami had so much going on. It went by without a minute of sleep.  On Saturday, I got a ride to my Transit Antenna gig in the backseat of one of Flo Rida's limos. And I was sitting next to Poe Boy recording artist Billy Blue. We talked about his smash ... More >>

Augurari's Jay Hines Talks Cassette Tapes and Kicking Ass in a Decidedly Non-Avant Garde Way

Augurari's Jay Hines performs as Nags Head.​Miami seems to have a lot of record labels these days. The Discosoma singles series is red-hot, with seven-inch releases from Beings and ANR. Destroyio Records and Pendejo Productions hold down the butt-flap punk beat, with the latter issuing new ... More >>

Davila 666 Brought Everyone Onstage at Churchill's Pub, March 1

The six dudes of Davila 666. Davila 666 With Love Handles, Snakehole, Heartstrings, and Ticks Churchill's Pub Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Better Than: Christian Bale's Masshole accent.The (and we mean the) Puerto Ricans who rock 'n' roll, Davila 666, performed at Churchill's Pub for the second time ... More >>

Meet the nine MasterMind award finalists

No Age at Grand Central, January 18

Photo by Ian Witlen​View photos from No Age's performance at Grand Central here.No Age With Beings and Rene Hell Grand Central Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Better Than: The outcome of the Heat game a couple blocks away. No Age shows in Miami, by now, seem to attract two distinct but related groups. ... More >>

Jacuzzi Boys and Beings Scare the Rain Away at the Miami Art Museum

Gabriel Alcala's hair of Jacuzzi Boys.​Jacuzzi Boys and Beings Miami Art Museum Thursday, September 2, 2010 Better than: Another smooth jazz concert in the sculpture garden. The Review: Why can't our cursed subtropical weather just cooperate for one fucking minute? It's like anytime someone's se ... More >>

Bloom of Doom

Miami Art Museum's "New Work Miami 2010" showcases breadth and scope of local talent

Artistic Cheat Sheet

Artistic Cheat Sheet

Flyer of the Day: Beings, St. Dad, and Heart Strings at Sweat Records on Wednesday

​Usually we save the "Flyer of the Week" accolades for Friday, but here's a last-minute entry that we have to share before it becomes null and void. We give you the yellow-and-black job heralding, uh, "a new kind of playas ball" at Sweat on Wednesday. Back in the days of actual photocopied flyers, ... More >>

Ten Under $10 For the Weekend of October 23 - 25: WOW POW, Junior Boys, Alligator Alley RIP, and More

Junior Boys play the Vagabond on Saturday​Friday, October 23*Local live hip-hop-ish duo the Big Bounce -- made up of piano man Brendan O'Hara and beatboxer Komakozie -- play tonight at the mod Moonchine in Miami. It's a restaurant, so admission is technically free, but you'll have to buy dinner. L ... More >>

Let's Do it For Cheap

Concert Review: Radio-Active Records' Eighth Anniversary Party, July 18

photo by Ian WitlenRadio-Active's punk selection is serious.Click here to view a full slideshow of photos from the event.Radio-Active Records' Eighth Anniversary Party With Beings, Jose El Rey, and the ShakersRadio-Active Records, Fort LauderdaleJuly 18, 2009Better Than: Stumbling upon a rare 12" or ... More >>

A Windfall in Wynwood

Get Disturbed

At Centro Cultural Español, Hispanic artists go radical on culture

Latino Arts Afire

A Collaborative Canvas

Mining the energy of the collective

Art Capsules

Artquake

ArtBasel: Where Did It Come From? What Does It Want?

Art Listings

Mortality Rules

Some pop-Goth reflections on death as told through art

What's It All About, Basel?

Locals weigh in on the meaning of Miami's week in the artistic sun

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This Week's Day by Day Picks

The Hyperreality of It All

In a town that worships image, local artists take it one step further

Calendar for the week

Calendar for the week