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Tupac's "Live" Performance Will Bring Back More Dead Artists

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke marvels at the technology that brought Tupac back to life. The lifelike image of Tupac Shakur performing onstage at Coachell ... More >>

The Worst of Coachella 2012

See LA Weekly's complete Coachella coverage -- the top moments from Friday, April 20, four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips' Biggie Smalls "hologram, and the five best things from Sunday, April 22. It couldn't all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasan ... More >>

Top Ten Dance Moves at Coachella 2012 in Animated GIF!

See "Crossfade's Top Ten Dance Moves at Ultra Music Festival in Animated GIF!" -- plus LA Weekly's West Coast Sound for tons more Coachella 2012 coverage. At Coachella, folks come from all over the world to lose themselves in the music. They'll employ almost anything in this quest. But mostly drugs ... More >>

Coachella 2012: Snoop, Dre, Santigold, and Other Top Moments From Sunday, April 22

See LA Weekly's complete Coachella coverage -- plus the top moments from Friday, April 20 and four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips' Biggie Smalls "hologram." By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more ... More >>

Freak Yo Friend and Nine Other Dirty Dances at Coachella 2012 in Animated GIF!

See the "Top Ten Dance Moves at Coachella 2012 in Animated GIF!" -- plus "Crossfade's Top Ten Dance Moves at Ultra Music Festival in Animated GIF!" During Coachella's second weekend, temperatures topped 100 degrees every day. Yet somehow folks were dancing even crazier! Most just stripped down an ... More >>

Tupac Hologram? Boring! Top Five Dead Musicians That Should Be Digitally Resurrected

We tried to warn you people back in January: Coachella Music Festival Totally Sucks. But, no ... You refused to heed our warning, shelled out the dough, plopped on your Spirit Hood, and spent the weekend getting ripped off by hippie dealers peddling research chemicals. And then you had to sit thro ... More >>

Rihanna Gets High at Coachella and Four Other Hip-Hop Heavyweights Who Love Weed

Music festivals and illicit drugs. It's no big deal to see someone roll up a fat blunt, get high, and force some dude to carry them on his shoulders at Coachella. But when a pop princess with a bangin' body does it, Media Takeout loses their shit. Over the weekend, "The most visited urban website ... More >>

Video: Tupac Rises From the Dead and Performs Live With Snoop Dogg at Coachella 2012

A resurrection of biblical proportions -- Tupac Amaru Shakur rises from the dead for a three-song set with his homie Snoop Dogg at Coachella 2012. In miraculous fashion, the unbelievable happened last night in the desert. In front of a massive Coachella crowd, a shirtless Tupac 3D hologram virtual ... More >>

Coachella 2012: Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Other Top Moments From Sunday, April 15

See the video of Tupac Amaru Shakur's resurrection-slash-performance at Coachella; a six-point recap from Friday, April 13; and the top moments from Saturday, April 14 -- plus "Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs." Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and ... More >>

Nate Dogg Becomes First Dead Musician to Co-Headline Major Music Festival

Headlined by the Black Keys, Radiohead, and west coast rap superstars Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Coachella's back-to-back weekend stint at Indio, California's Empire Polo Ground kicks off tomorrow. While the festival will inevitably produce memorable moments, few will top the resurrection of Nate Dog ... More >>

Dragonette at Mansion Miami April 6

Headlined by the Black Keys, Radiohead, and west coast rap superstars Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Coachella's back-to-back weekend stint at Indio, California's Empire Polo Ground kicks off tomorrow. While the festival will inevitably produce memorable moments, few will top the resurrection of Nate Dog ... More >>

Dragonette and "The Right Woman" Get Disco Dirty at Mansion on April 6

​At the end of 2010, Toronto-based electro-pop trio Dragonette released, "Hello," a spritely collaborative single with DJ Martin Solveig. Though too late to make the cut for year-end lists and recaps, the track -- boasting three centerpiece hooks: a gleefully tickled piano lick; singer and chief ... More >>

Magnetic Man at Ultra Music Festival 2012: A 15-Photo Recap

​Magnetic Man is a collabo between three dubstep dudes from the UK -- DJs Benga, Skream, and Artwork -- who met at a record store in the '90s and have been raging ever since. They're all big-name DJs and producers in their own right. As Magnetic Man, though, Benga, Skream, and Artwork have a maj ... More >>

Music Loves Fashion Starts Today With Avicii, Tomorrow Skrillex

​Music Loves Fashion has been putting on events that combine music (duh!), fashion (duh!), beautiful people, celebrities, and great locations near Los Angeles and Montreal for a while now. It's best known events are the ones at the Riviera Hotel in Palm Springs, California, which coincide with Coa ... More >>

Flying Lotus Bringing Avant-Hop Beats to Ultra Music Festival on March 24

​Flying Lotus isn't like most acts you'll encounter at Ultra Music Festival. The Los Angeles native, born Steven Ellison and known as "FlyLo" to his fans, doesn't make dance music -- at least not in the traditional sense. The acclaimed knob fiddler (Pitchfork named his Cosmogramma the 14th best ... More >>

Chemical Brothers' Don't Think Movie Opens With Miami Screenings at Four Theaters

​For EDM fans, there are only a handful of live experiences worth hundreds of dollars. And while we wait patiently for Daft Punk to announce a new tour, the Chemical Brothers reign supreme as old-school dance masters we just gotta see. Luckily, Miamians are about to get the chance to knock this ... More >>

Top Five Second Saturday Art Walk Parties in Miami

​Art sucks. Get drunk. Music sucks. Dance harder. The lights are too bright. Turn them all off and let the bass drown your body till your heart rattles in your ribcage. Throw your phone against the ground, quit paying your internet bill, never trust a wireless modem, and check out these five Se ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012's Ten Most Exciting Acts

​Coachella's lineup got announced on Monday. And personally, we were underwhelmed. But it got us thinking how excited we are for Ultra Music Festival 2012. Sure, Deadmau5 may think the number of headliner acts on the bill is horrible. But we have to disagree with you, Zimmerman. We haven't been ... More >>

Top Ten Reasons Coachella Music Festival Totally Sucks

That way to Suckville!​Festivals are sort of the Costco of live music. Take, for example, the upcoming 2012 edition of Coachella. If you purchased individual concert tickets for every artist on the lineup, the cost would far exceed the festival's more-or-less $400 fee. But when you visit Costco t ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Tickets Now On Sale

Get ready party people, Ultra tickets are now on sale.​On October 1, Ultra Music Festival organizers alerted its fans via email and social media that early bird tickets were on sale for $149.95. In a couple of hours, they were gone. In fact, the demand for tickets crashed the servers, forcing Ultr ... More >>

Afrobeta Talks Under the Streets, Identity Festival, and 40-Person Bear Hugs

Photo by Daniel Sannwald​For five years, Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio have been playing together as Afrobeta. These two are pros at getting crowds sweaty and riled up. Right now, they're getting ready to kick off a summer tour with the Identity Festival by throwing one more party at the Electri ... More >>

N.E.R.D. to Kanye to Odd Future: five key moments in hipster-hop

Photo by Daniel Sannwald​For five years, Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio have been playing together as Afrobeta. These two are pros at getting crowds sweaty and riled up. Right now, they're getting ready to kick off a summer tour with the Identity Festival by throwing one more party at the Electri ... More >>

Five Key Moments in the Chronology of Hipster Hop

Tyler the Creator: Is he the über-hipster hopper?​There is no escaping the young-and-vulgar West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future. There was a brief incubation period on the internet. But ever since performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the group has been everywhere: SXSW, Coachella, and ... More >>

Ceu at North Beach Bandshell April 29

Tyler the Creator: Is he the über-hipster hopper?​There is no escaping the young-and-vulgar West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future. There was a brief incubation period on the internet. But ever since performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the group has been everywhere: SXSW, Coachella, and ... More >>

Céu Talks Samba, Afrobeat, the Brazilian Scene, and the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival 2011

​You say you're not familiar with Brazilian chanteuse Céu? We cry bullshit. You may have stumbled across the sultry, sexy songstress while picking up a frap at your local Strabucks. Or jamming out at Coachella a few weeks back. But the fact is, her recent buzz has been big. And once you sample h ... More >>

Sexy Brazilian Songstress Céu Hits the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival 2011

Photo by Caroline Bittencourt​It doesn't take a connoisseur to know that Brazilian music offers some of the most soothing and sensual sounds you're ever likely to find. And we're not just talking "The Girl from Ipanema" here. From rhythmic samba to bossa nova, which has influenced some of our ow ... More >>

Grammy Winner and Cocaine Convict Bruno Mars Announces Miami Gig With Janelle Monae

​Straight from scoring a gold-plated gramophone statuette for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at last Sunday's 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, Hawaiian pop crooner Bruno Mars and his bouffant hairdo were pleading guilty to cocaine possession in a Las Vegas courtroom. Back in September, the Mars man g ... More >>

IDMA 2011 Nominees Announced and Crossfade Picks the Winners

James Murphy deserves an IDMA or two.​Every year, coinciding with Winter Music Conference, the International Dance Music Awards (IDMAs) recognizes those who make electronic music great. Sure, it's not exactly the Grammys or MTV's Video Music Awards. But dammit, it's a homegrown awards show and tha ... More >>

Five Coachella 2011 Headliners Absolutely Not Worth the Dehydration and Sunstroke

Kings of Leon ... Not worth it, dude.​Coachella announced its 2011 lineup a couple days ago. And while there's plenty of great bands listed in fine print (the Morning Benders, Tallest Man on Earth, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down) on the festival's e-flier, the headliners listed in bold read mor ... More >>

Timo Maas and Lee Burridge at Nocturnal November 24

Kings of Leon ... Not worth it, dude.​Coachella announced its 2011 lineup a couple days ago. And while there's plenty of great bands listed in fine print (the Morning Benders, Tallest Man on Earth, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down) on the festival's e-flier, the headliners listed in bold read mor ... More >>

Timo Maas and Lee Burridge Team Up at Soho Studios November 24

Why so cranky, Timo?​After an entire decade behind the decks as a DJ-for-hire, German spinner Timo Maas finally became a full-blown techno convert in the early '90s. He hung around warehouses and cut together live mixes that kickstarted his ascent through Deutschland's rave scene. There were res ... More >>

Meatless in Miami: Vegetarians in Popular Song

​A couple of months ago, Sweat Records booked L.A. punk rock duo No Age. I knew they're vegan, so I made sure we were stocked with an array of sumptuous goodies to feed them. After their insanely high-energy show, the fact that they could replenish with local songstress Raffa's vegan chili nearly ... More >>

Q&A With Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, Playing Grand Central Tomorrow, June 10

​Sure, socially conscious artists are prevalent in Spanish-language music. But few acts have committed themselves so completely to fighting for the greater good than Aterciopelados, whose zeal for placing social and political causes right before the public's eye is legendary.The band's most recent ... More >>

FriendsWithYou Loves Die Antwoord Via Kooky Tour Graphics

via FriendsWithYouI see you Malfi.​When interwebs sensation Die Antwoord first exploded, we noticed an odd thing on their MySpace page: FriendsWithYou was one of their top friends. Well, in the days of Facebook, Twitter, tumbr, etc. these connections mean very little, but it piqued our interest. A ... More >>

Black Kids Hit the Vagabond July 2

​It feels like only yesterday when Jacksonville locals Black Kids released their first single "I'm not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance with you" in April of '08. Since then, their debut album, Partie Traumatic, has reached worldwide acclaim, landing them the #5 spot of UK Album charts t ... More >>

Rumor: Ultra Music Festival Expanding to Three Days in 2011

Photo by Ian WitlenUltra may be expanding to a three-day bender.​Word is swirling around that Ultra Music Festival's organizers have decided to expand next year's festival to three days, presumably Friday through Sunday. Supposedly the decision was made after this year's sellout event.We've emaile ... More >>

Sisterhoodliness

Photo by Ian WitlenUltra may be expanding to a three-day bender.​Word is swirling around that Ultra Music Festival's organizers have decided to expand next year's festival to three days, presumably Friday through Sunday. Supposedly the decision was made after this year's sellout event.We've emaile ... More >>

Miami's DJ Craze To Play Coachella

​...Speaking of DJ Craze (check the previous post on this blog for an un-missable nugget of joy he passed along), Miami's finest DJ champ will head to the desert this summer to play Coachella for the first time. On the mega-festival's second day, Saturday, April 17, he'll take the stage with frequ ... More >>

Rumble on the Reservation

​...Speaking of DJ Craze (check the previous post on this blog for an un-missable nugget of joy he passed along), Miami's finest DJ champ will head to the desert this summer to play Coachella for the first time. On the mega-festival's second day, Saturday, April 17, he'll take the stage with frequ ... More >>

Q&A with Tokyo Police Club's Greg Alsop

Any band that can crank out seven songs in the span of just 16 minutes and not give up a thing is all right by me.  And that's exactly what Tokyo Police Club did with their 2006 debut EP titled A Lesson In Crime.  Their single off that EP, "Nature of the Experiment", which features br ... More >>

Cop to It

Toronto's Tokyo Police Club hits Studio A on Friday.

Beyond the Ultra World

The legendary Ultra Music Festival celebrates its 10th birthday.

The Rhythm Is Gonna Get You

Tonight! At the screening of Festival in the Desert.

Let Her Bang

The female sibling of Flosstradamus’s J2K comes into her own as a sharp-tongued MC

Musical Meltdown

It's sweltering outside, but there's still music worth hearing

Just Like Heaven

Ultra Music Festival grows and surprises

Dead Again

Gothic pioneers revive themselves for one more tour

Bang! Music Festival

Gothic pioneers revive themselves for one more tour

What Does It Mean?

Gothic pioneers revive themselves for one more tour