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Raphael Celebrates Mi Gran Noche at the Fillmore Miami Beach

The international music scene has undergone countless transformations over the past five decades. And to keep up with record label trends, artists have been forced to adapt (even compromise their integrity) to simply stay afloat. But for Spanish singer Raphael, defying the corporate suits has worke ... More >>

Ellie Goulding at Fillmore Miami Beach January 16

Is Regina Spektor a Commie? Find Out at the Fillmore Miami Beach on November 17

Despite all of the hootin', hollerin', and mouth-breathin' about "Obamacare," communism is nowhere near making a comeback. Let's review the facts: It's been more than 20 years since David Hasselhoff rubbed his gargantuan wienerschnitzel all over the crumbling Berlin Wall. China went so far to the f ... More >>

Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Wale, and Machine Gun Kelly Tearing Up the Fillmore Miami Beach

The biggest Bawse in the rap game is taking over the Fillmore Miami Beach. And he's bringing his best buddies with him. Miami's phattest hustler, Ricky Rozay, is gonna tear the roof off that bitch and make all the hos scream when his Maybach Music Tour rolls through South Beach on Wednesday, Decemb ... More >>

Metric Stitches Up a Half-Goat/Half-Seacrest at the Monster Hospital in Miami, September 28

Metric With Half Moon Run Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, September 28, 2012 Better Than: Ugly people playing boring music badly. The last time Metric played in Miami, it was at an outdoor show on the beach during Art Basel. Paired with the band's outsized sound were exceptionally large easy chairs a ... More >>

M83 Finally Makes Proper Miami Debut at Fillmore Miami Beach, September 26

M83 Wednesday, September 26 Fillmore Miami Beach Better Than: Dreaming ... IRL. A "nightmare" is the word Anthony Gonzalez used last night at the Fillmore Miami Beach to describe M83's disastrous appearance at Ultra Music Festival in March. But if Ultra was a nightmare, than the band's performance ... More >>

Los Enanitos Verdes Celebrate Three Decades of Rock en Español at Fillmore Miami Beach

Los Enanitos Verdes' next album won't be out until early next year, but that hasn't stopped the Argentine rock group from promoting it. "We're recording the new album, that's why we're celebrating," lead singer Marciano Cantero recently told Mexico's Diario de Yucatán. "The album's so good, I'm s ... More >>

Pretty Lights Turns on Your Glowstick at Fillmore Miami Beach on October 2

See also "Pretty Lights at Ultra Music Festival 2012" This Friday morning will be greeted by the mashed up sounds of your mouse clicking and you going, "Come on, come on, COME ON!" Why is this news? Because this time, it will be sample-smashing hoodie monster Pretty Lights causing the commotion, a ... More >>

Fiona Apple Announces Concert at Fillmore Miami Beach on September 30

Finding success in the music industry is hard. Pleasing both critics and commercial fans is even more difficult. Doing it all, plus setting a Guinness World Record by the time you're 23 is not only an achievement, it's an awesome feat. And apparently it sends you into hiding. That's the oversimplif ... More >>

Obama, Marc Anthony Hitting Up the Fillmore Miami Beach Together on June 26

Latin crooner Marc Anthony is hitting up the Fillmore on June 26, but perhaps the more exciting news is that his opening act is President Barack Obama. The two are hitting up the historic concert hall for a fundraiser, and tickets are selling for up to $5,000.

Ten Best Live Music Venues in Miami

Legend has it that Ponce de León discovered Florida while searching for "the Fountain of Youth." Historians know, however, this is just a poor translation of "good tunes and a $6 PBR & Jameson combo." In any case, ever since April 2, 1513, Miami has been a hothouse for new musical strains and ... More >>

Puerto Rican Punks and Hangovers: The Duke Spirit Spend 29 Hours in Miami

When Crossfade checked in with The Duke Spirit on Thursday, the London rock band was lost and on the run somewhere outside Daytona Beach. They finally arrived under cover of darkening skies, as the neon tubes buzzed on for the evening in Miami Beach. Crossfade tagged along to see what 29 hours in ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets to Nero's New Year Show in Miami?

Via facebook.com/nerouk​Will the world end in 2012? Probably not. Historically, apocalypse predictors are kooks. But there's always an infinitesimally tiny chance that they're actually right this time. So when the Doomsday Clock clicks to midnight on December 30, beginning a frenzied 24-hour cou ... More >>

Steve Angello at Club Space November 23

Tracking Sting's Evolution From Police Chief to Adult-Contemporary Guru

​There are some artists who can't escape their past, no matter how hard they try. Paul Simon is inextricably linked to Simon & Garfunkle. Robert Plant will always be the tousle-haired, bare-chested vocalist of Led Zeppelin. John Fogerty will never fully put Credence Clearwater Revival behind ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets to Il Volo's Miami Concert This Thursday?

​We here at Crossfade spend most of our time doing stuff like looking for legit work at Miami Beach megaclubs, making it rain with C. Breezy at the strip club, or waging guerrilla warefare on Biscayne Bay at the AAA. But now and again, we get this undeniable urge to spend an evening with three ni ... More >>

Rock the Bells With Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, and Mobb Deep, September 13

Photo by Marta PerezRaekwon the Chef cookin' it up.​See the full 20-photo Rock the Bells slideshow. Rock the Bells Rakewon and Ghostface Killa With Mobb Deep and ArtOfficial Fillmore Miami Beach September 13, 2011 Better Than: Album-length karaoke renditions of Ol' Dirty Bastard's Nigga Please ... More >>

Atmosphere's MC Slug and Ant Gonna Paint That Shit Gold September 16

Atmosphere's MC Slug knows what to do when life hands you lemons.​The sensitive MC has always been a rare figure in hip-hop. While the early 2000s did see a spike in "politically conscious" backpack rappers like Talib Kweli and Mos Def (both of whom took a page from Common's socio-empathetic rhy ... More >>

Chromeo Gets Solange Knowles Pregnant in "When the Night Falls" Video

Solange at the moment of conception.​The greatest danger involved in making superpotent sex music is the high risk of inadvertently impregnating an entire roomful of glammed-out party girls. Just ask Chromeo's Dave 1 and P-Thugg ... There is no condom, diaphragm, spermicide, morning-after pi ... More >>

Matisyahu Brings a Full Band and a Full Beard to the Fillmore Miami Beach August 25

​With similar holy praise and spiritual righteousness, Matisyahu scratches the Haile Selassie out of reggae music and gives it up to G-d. Born Matthew Paul Miller, the musician made it all the harder for us to say his name when he started using the Askenazi version of it. This former Phish-head ... More >>

Gal Costa Brings Musica Pop Brasiliera to the Fillmore Miami Beach March 19

Photo by Daniel Klajmic, via galcosta.com.brBrazen Brazilian songbird Gal Costa.​It's possible you're not too familiar with Gal Costa. Hell, you may have never heard of her. But if that's the case, you probably aren't all that into Brazilian music in the first place. Because Costa's career in musi ... More >>

Have Hart

LCD Soundsystem at the Fillmore Miami Beach, October 6

Photo by Ian WitlenLCD Soundsystem's James Murphy.​As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami's Best Concerts of 2010. LCD Soundsystem October 6, 2010 The Fillmore Miami Beach Imagine going to the best dance party of your life w ... More >>

Willy Chirino at Fillmore Miami Beach December 4

Phoenix and Wavves at the Fillmore Miami Beach, October 27

Photo by Ian Witlen​Check out the full 30-photo Phoenix slideshow.PhoenixWith WavvesWednesday, October 27, 2010The Fillmore Miami BeachMiami used to suffer from one of the worst geographical disadvantages in the country. Touring bands on tight budgets often skipped the drive, resulting in only hug ... More >>

Phoenix's Midnight Sneak Attack, Grammy Win, and Sold-Out Show at the Fillmore

Thomas Hedlund/wearephoenix.com​On May 25, 2009, French foursome Phoenix launched a midnight sneak attack on the American indie scene. Like the blue, red, and black bombs on the cover of its new album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, the band came screaming from the sky, out of some unseen nowhere, and d ... More >>

MP3s From ARP, Opening For Caribou at Grand Central Next Tuesday

photo by Sean McFarlandARP​Next Tuesday's Caribou show at Grand Central just continues the wave of musical excitement washing up on Miami's shores this October. (Before this, of course, there's Beach House and Vampire Weekend at the Fillmore on Wednesday -- if you got tickets -- and Active Child a ... More >>

Myriam Hernandez Indulges Dangerous Love at the Fillmore Miami Beach October 15

​It's a well-recorded rule that a smart man never speaks of a woman's age. Still, Myriam Hernandez is no spring chicken, which isn't to say that the 43-year-old Chilean songstress and television personality isn't still a hottie. But she's put in her time -- and then some. Hernandez started her l ... More >>

Vampire Weekend Returns to Fillmore Miami Beach October 13, Beach House Opens!

We've lost track of the hype-backlash-hype-backlash cycle that aims to tell us whether it's currently "cool" to like Vampire Weekend or not -- but who really cares. The band's sophomore album, Contra, achieved the previously unthinkable feat of scoring number one on the Billboard charts. It was welc ... More >>

Hombres G at the Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday

​If you're either a) one of those that were bummed to have missed Enrique Bunbury, formerly of Heroes del Silencio, at The Fillmore yesterday, or b) were in fact at the Fillmore on said night, catching one of Spanish rock's old schoolers, than this show on Wednesday at the same spot is right up yo ... More >>

New Kids on the Block VIP Passes and Cruise Sold Out, General Admission Still Available

​Four and five star VIP ticket packages equipped with meet-and-greets, photo ops, a pre-show party and "an exclusive NKOTB gift" have officially sold out for next Thursday's New Kids on the Block show at the Fillmore.I've been a New Kids on the Block fan since I was about six. I had the pink comfo ... More >>

Q&A With David Gray, Playing the Fillmore Miami Beach Tomorrow, April 14

via livenation.com​After three albums and nearly a decade of trying to attract some wider notice, you'd think David Gray would have been pleased when he finally landed in the Top Ten via his international smash "Babylon" and the best-selling album from whence it came, White Ladder. Yet, as th ... More >>

Around Town: Of Montreal, Marlins, '80s Freestyle Jams, Mitchell Davis, and Jimbo's

Spring, glorious spring. Start your frolicking at the Marlin's first home game or at the Fillmore, where a colorful indie band from Athens, Georgia plays Scandinavian-style pop music. Spend Saturday outdoors watching BMX racing or rugby. You have your pick of celebrating two cult figures on Sunday. ... More >>

Willy Chirino

Air Making Miami Debut at the Fillmore Miami Beach March 13

Photo by Luciana Val & Franco MussoAir​When Air's Moon Safari came out in 1998, I was 15 years old and still in my teenage ska/punk phase. But here was an album with lush electronic soundscapes and minimal beats that really spoke to me. Air is responsible for introducing me to electronic music ... More >>

Please, Save the Last Dance

Don't Even Try to Syke Her Out

Better than HDTV

Two television regulars take the South Beach Comedy Festival stage.

Miami's Best Live Music of 2008

From GWAR to Torche, the acts that rocked the Magic City.

Rufus Wainwright Croons at The Fillmore Miami Beach

Check him out Saturday night.

Cirque du Soleil Returns to Miami

The troupe was spurned in favor of The Fillmore, but no hard feelings.

On the List - Tepr, Lee Burridge, Benny Benassi, and I Love Techno

The Weekend in Live Music, Labor Day Edition

This Just In: Common and N.E.R.D. to Play the Fillmore Miami Beach on Sept. 5th

Mannheim Steamroller

Crack Yourself Up

Let’s hope tonight won’t be a Katt-astrophe.

One Hot Ticket

Check out Spiegelworld before it’s gone.

Concert Review: Kid Rock at The Fillmore

The Byrds

Live at the Fillmore -- February 1969

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