Fiona Apple

Rock 'n' Roll's Seven Baddest Chicks

Rock 'n' roll is dirty business. It's made of spit and blood and piss and drugs, smeared lipstick and dirty laundry and stale beer. When you're a rock 'n' roller, your hair gets sticky, you smell bad, and you can't remember what day it is. Some would say it's no place for girls, but some would be s ... More >>

Grammy Awards 2013 Nominees: From Frank Ocean to Black Keys and Rick Ross

Grammy-tastic! Last night, amid goofy, sexually tense intergenerational banter between co-hosts LL Cool J and Taylor Swift, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States announced the nominees for its 54th Grammy Awards, airing Sunday, February 10, on CBS. Genre-bending ... More >>

Obama vs. Romney: Top Ten Musical Endorsements, From Vanilla Ice to Pitbull

Pop music celebrities are sex-drenched, weapon-obsessed, drug-addicted, angry, deranged, and sometimes criminal. In short, they're unconventional, always-entertaining personalities who may or may not have politically valid opinions. But let's face it, celebrity endorsements are cultural collatera ... More >>

Nelly's Tour Bus Raided by Texas Cops: 36 Bags of Heroin, 10 Pounds of Weed, Loaded Gun

It's gettin' "Hot in Herre." Last night, as reported by Crossfade's sister blog with the Riverfront Times, Nelly tour bus was raided by cops in Sierra Blanca, Texas. The rapper/actor/non-profit philanthropist's ride was stopped at a border patrol checkpoint. A police dog detected the presence of n ... More >>

Fiona Apple at the Fillmore Miami Beach September 30

Fiona Apple Busted for Hash and Weed Near the Mexican Border

Hashish will make a lady do some crazy shit. Like give her new album a 23-word title. Say, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do. Or maybe even make a run for the Mexican border while carrying "Criminal" amounts of cann ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets for Fiona Apple at the Fillmore Miami Beach?

See also "Fiona Apple Announces Concert at Fillmore Miami Beach on September 30." Even if every penny of your savings from that mid-'90s stint as a Lilith Fair roadie has run out, there's still no reason for all you Fiona Apple superfans to stay at home alone, scream-singing "Criminal" till your ey ... More >>

Band of Horses, Regina Spektor Added to Fillmore Miami Beach 2012 Concert Schedule

President Obama didn't mention Band of Horses when he was asked about the music on his iPod during an interview with Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner, but British Prime Minister David Cameron did. In a chat with the Daily Telegraph, Cameron admitted that Band of Horses and Lana Del Rey are among his fa ... More >>

Best Coast at Grand Central July 10

Andrew Bird, Chris Issak Added to Fillmore Miami Beach 2012 Concert Schedule

The geographical disadvantage that has historically plagued Miami's live music scene is seemingly dissipating. Touring indie acts are traveling further south than ever before, logging the extra 250 miles from Orlando or Tampa to play shows in Miami-Dade. While venues like Bardot and Grand Central ... 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 >>

St. Vincent Announces Miami Concert at The Stage on May 31

Quirky, sexy, and cool, St. Vincent's Annie Clark may just be the Zooey Deschanel of rock 'n' roll, i.e. she's adorable, she's legitimate, and she's totally impossible to avoid. Yesterday, St. Vincent was named by Spin Magazine as the 93rd best guitar player ever. And today, we here at Crossfade w ... More >>

Wocka Gabba Doo! Red Hot Chili Peppers' Top Five Completely Ridiculous Lyrics

​Remember when the Red Hot Chili Peppers would run around with socks precariously covering their penises? That signature on-stage antic resonated so much with the alternative rock audience -- and eventually wider popular culture -- because it was the closest the Peps had ever come to expressing th ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers at BankAtlantic Center April 2

The Best of SXSW Music: Wednesday 3/14/2012

​If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving musi ... More >>

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Bridesmaids: A movie made worse by and for men

Ten songs men shouldn't sing in public

10 Songs Men Shouldn't Sing in Public

Don't get us wrong, we love it when guys, especially big macho meatheads, are caught in public crooning along with Alanis Morrissette's "Ironic," Fiona Apple's "Criminal," or any other song that looks weird coming from a throat with an Adam's apple. But let's be clear. We are laughing at you, not wi ... 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 >>

Concert Review: Afrobeta, The State Of, and Sno Cones at Propaganda, July 17

Tom Wilco Nabedi Osorio (left) and Steph Taylor of The State OfSno Cones, The State Of, AfrobetaFriday, July 17, 2009Propaganda, Lake Worth Better Than: The metal show I saw later Friday night at the Poorhouse. The Review: XX-chromosomes and some serious musical variety ruled the night Fri ... More >>

This Weekend in Broward and Palm Beach: The State Of, Nachtmahr and LA Riots

Tom Wilco Nabedi Osorio (left) and Steph Taylor of the State OfShows this weekend by local artists, or concerts that are otherwise under-the radar in Broward and Palm Beach. Friday:Piano and drums mixed with vocals that are simultaneously haunting and tough define the sound of The State Of, ... More >>

Get Your Red, White and Blue on With Huma Rojo

Let's say tomorrow rolls around and you finally manage to tear yourself away from CNN's round-the-clock coverage of all things Michael Jackson to celebrate the birth of our nation and the day Will Smith freed us from alien annihilation. You find yourself on South Beach for some Fourth of July fe ... More >>

Fiona Apple's Sister and Cabaret Singer Extraordinaire Maude Maggart Plays Colony Hotel, Palm Beach on June 12 and 13

Fiona Apple has an older sister, Maude Maggart. And she's kind of a big deal on the cabaret circuit. Drawing praise from most major media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and Entertainment Weekly, Maggart has gained a following for her haunting and exquisite renditions an ... More >>

Ximena Sariñana Is Anything but Mediocre

Don't be fooled by her debut album title.

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