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Ten Best Music-Related Things Under $10 to Do in Miami This Weekend

So it's the weekend and all you wanna do is drink, dance, and drink some more. But there's one little detail stopping you from having the best weekend ever: you're broke. But just because your pockets may be a little on the empty side this weekend, doesn't mean you can't party it up. Check the cut ... More >>

Sweatstock 2013: ANR, This Heart Electric, Testokra!

Sweatstock is for lovers. Lovers of independent music and record stores, yes. But also lovers of drunken groping before the sun has fully gone down. A good chunk of the attendees of Sweatstock 2030 were conceived indoors (and out) this weekend, spurred on by a hurricane season clothing-optional dr ... More >>

Beatmachines on Sweatstock and Live Show: "From Trap Beat to Thrash Metal in a Second"

There are few locals that Miami electro-pop darlings Afrobeta haven't converted into undying fans during their years on the scene. Of course, though, chanteuse Cuci Amador's sweet Latin freestyle vocals are decidedly feminine and dance-y. So any bro looking for a more aggro masculine sound should ... More >>

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

Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

Sure, Record Store Day is usually a day when indie rock enthusiasts take the spotlight. But maybe you prefer BPMs to bands. That's alright. There are still plenty of bottle-poppin' moments to look forward to this week. And the underground's in for a treat too. Get ready for some trap, tech, deep ... More >>

Sweatstock 2013's Full Lineup and Set Times

Go wild in the streets! Score swag! Mosh! In exactly 49 hours, everyone's favorite Little Haiti music shop, Sweat Records, will be celebrating Sweatstock 2013, its third annual one-day music fest, anniversary party, and Record Store Day bonanza. There will be limited-edition RSD releases, indie m ... More >>

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

It's finally here! Record Store Day (and cough, 4/20) is right around the corner. And that means tons of great acts are ready to get down and dirty with all y'all Miami music lovers. Whether you're looking for rock, punk, hip-hop, jazz, synth-pop, booty bass, or Latin, there's the perfect party wi ... More >>

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 >>

Joe Preston (AKA Thrones) Predicts Miami Show With Floor Will Be "Best Part of the Tour"

If Joe Preston had simply hopped from prolific, legendary stoner metal band to prolific, legendary stoner metal band, he would still probably be Joe Preston. But he didn't. In addition to performing as a member of some of the genre's all-time heaviest hitters - Earth, The Melvins, High on Fire, and ... More >>

Sweat Records' Sweatstock 2013 Lineup, Raising Money via Indiegogo

Record Store Day 2013 Ambassador Jack White said it best: "We need to re-educate ourselves about human interaction and the difference between downloading a track on a computer and talking to other people in person and getting turned onto music that you can hold in your hands and share with others." ... More >>

International Noise Conference at Churchill's Pub February 6 to 9

Terror and H20 Unloaded Hard Riffs and Flailing Limbs on Churchill's Pub, February 5

Terror and H2O With Backtrack and Code Orange Kids Presented by Breakeven Booking and Speedfreek Churchill's PUb, Miami Tuesday, February 5, 2013 "We are not a rock 'n roll band," insisted Terror vocalist Scott Vogel, as he addressed the sweaty mass of hardcore fans between songs during one of the ... 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 >>

Corrections House's Mike IX on How to "Destroy/Annihilate/Depress/Confuse"

True metal, hardcore, and punk junkies will not be strangers to the long and illustrious recorded legacy of Mike "IX" Williams. Influential on all fronts, especially with well-respected New Orleans sludge band Eyehategod, he has made massive contributions -- as a musician, former editor of Metal M ... More >>

Fang and South Florida Friends Destroyed Churchill's Pub, December 22

Fang With No Fraud, Powerhouse, To Be Hated, Out of Sorts, and FWA Presented by Idle Hands Churchill's Pub, Miami Saturday, December 22, 2012 Better Than: An Xmas weekend spent with anything besides loud abrasive music and old friends, reminiscing about those who are no longer here, in a sea of col ... 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 >>

Holly Hunt's Year One Release Show With Torche at Churchill's Pub, December 14

Holly Hunt's Year One Album Release With Torche, Post Teens, and The Tunnel Churchill's Pub, Miami Friday, December 14, 2012 Better Than: Any episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that didn't have to do with a spaceship battle or a malfunctioning holodeck. Over the weekend, Miami was given a s ... More >>

Holly Hunt Releases Year One: "Our Sound, If It Wasn't Blowing Out Your Eardrums"

In the rapidly proliferating world of stoner/droner/doom metal, it has become increasingly more difficult to say something original and relevant. While most anyone with a taste for the sludgy side of things appreciates any band doing something of quality (regardless of innovation or lack there of) ... 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 >>

OFF! and Negative Approach at Grand Central Miami, September 26

Better Than: Dead Kennedys without Jello, The Misfits without Danzig, and the last 25 years of Bad Brains. Last night, Downtown Miami dance hall Grand Central hosted yet another righteous punk show. In fact, this might've been the best rock concert that we've ever seen at the club. See also: -OFF ... 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 >>

305 Fest's Completely Insane, 47-Band Lineup: Bastard Noise, Noothgrush, and So Many More

Local promotion outfit ​Speedfreek Presents has been on a serious mean streak lately, delivering a steady stream of otherwise unbooked concerts featuring all manner of brutality from the national hardcore, metal, and extreme music scenes. The agency was founded in 2011 when Torche drummer and lon ... 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 >>

Warped Weirds Wonderland

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

Tom Tom Magazine's All-Star Art Basel Showcase at Churchill's Pub

Tom Tom's about ladies with drums. The crowd at Churchill's Pub for Tom Tom Magazine's Basel showcase wasn't all chicks with drumsticks. But there certainly were many of both. The night opened with an all-female percussion group, Gainesville's Cave Rave. A cave rave is apparently the opposite of a ... More >>

Saturday's Best Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 Events

​Can you feel it? It's in the very back of your mind, but it's there -- that half-disappointed, half-relieved feeling that always hits you on Basel Saturday. It's the realization that the annual Basel bacchanal will be over in just a couple days. Maybe you're already Baseled out, ready for all the ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011's Ten Best Parties and Concerts

Introducing The Cost! The Guys Talk Jacuzzi Boys, Smokin', and Groovin' 9-to-5

The Cost is one of those bands that you might hear amid, like, a dozen others and think, "These guys ... Maybe they get it." This is a band of babies. Each member is under the age of 23. They haven't released any music. They've only recorded a few tracks and a demo CD. So if you wanna hear them off ... More >>

Roofless Records' Cinema Sounds IX at O Cinema November 23

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Roofless Records Talks Ballscarf and Nightmarish Chaos at Cinema Sounds IX

Image by Ronnie RiveraBallscarf's Aiden Dillard will scare you shitless at Cinema Sounds.​An astute and insightful cultural seer once observed that the movies are actually mankind's collective dreams. But what about our freaking nightmares? Well, our fave films can be anxiety-soaked, terror-indu ... More >>

AIDS Wolf Obliterates the Distinction Between Tight and Sloppy at Churchill's Pub, November 3

​AIDS Wolf With Last, Holly Hunt, Unicorn Hard-On and The Laundry Room Squelchers Churchill's Pub Thursday, November 3, 2011 Better Than: Whatever else was happening last night. Whenever some chump wants to talk shit to you about how much they hate "noise," you should maybe ask what exactly th ... More >>

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 >>

This Month's Best Musical Movie Options in Miami

Shake your Bacon with Footloose.​Last month, a remake of one of America's most cherished musical films was released. Of course, we're talking about Footloose, the movie about one young man's struggle with authorities to express his overwhelming desire to dance! The remake is now screening all o ... More >>

Don't Miss Meat's Smoking Weed With Jesus Release Party Tonight!

Roy Neil Hunter looks like he's 17. But that's OK, since the main mastermind behind the band Meat is merely a fresh, young 24. This musician has played in other Miami bands with mouth-watering names like Strawberry Dirt, Sparkling Purple Mango, and Ice Cream. We're honestly starting to think these ... 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 >>

F*#% the World With Anti-Rock Stars Angels in America at Sweat Records Tomorrow

​These days, being a rock star isn't about mystery, aloofness, and fuck-the-world attitude. Thanks to the inescapable ever-presence of the internet and the slow death of the music industry, the rock 'n' roll lifestyle has become a sterile, never-ending cycle of virtual fan friendship, high-speed ... More >>

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 >>

Set Times for Sweatstock 2011

Go psycho at Sweatstock with Panic Bomber.​Are you ready to go psycho with Sweat Records, Panic Bomber, and the other 35 local noise fiends set to invade the Little Haiti record shop, its parking lot, and the entirety of the Churchill's Pub complex in t-minus five days? Well, we here at Crossfad ... 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 >>

Shitstorm Explodes at the Cave This Thursday

Photo by Zac Wolf​There is only one adjective that does the almighty Shitstorm justice ... Relentless. For starters, can you think of a local act that plays faster, nastier and harder? We certainly can't. Figure in that the grindcore outfit has been smokin' suckers since 2004, and you've got ... More >>

Hahahelp's Ryan Welch Throws International Noise Conference Kickoff Show at La Cueva

Ryan in a dress with a drum.​​Somewhere in the middle of Crossfade's interview with drummer Ryan Welch, Mr. C. of Churchill's Pub interrupted to say that he's taking this Friday off because of Rat Bastard's three-day International Noise Conference. He said the people that come to INC are a bunch ... More >>

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