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Beach House at Fillmore Miami Beach May 8

Beach House's Victoria Legrand on Bloom, New Songs, and Practicing Musical Magic

In its recent music issue, Entertainment Weekly declared Baltimore-based dream pop duo Beach House to be one of the 30 greatest bands working today. Though the duo was number 30, the list also included the legendary Bruce Springsteen and pop sensation Adele. "I saw that thing, and it kinda freaked ... More >>

The Wholetones' Alex Dorris Talks Bluegrass Jams Under a Bridge and Living at the Alamo

​You wonder: What's that thrashing? The sky is dark. The fields have gone silent. But there's a bonfire off in the distance, surrounded by vaguely human shapes and a furious funnel of sound -- acoustic axe, banjo, cello, upright bass, mouth organ. This is the middle of nowhere and you've just s ... More >>

The Honeymoon Series with Zeds Dead at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 5

​You wonder: What's that thrashing? The sky is dark. The fields have gone silent. But there's a bonfire off in the distance, surrounded by vaguely human shapes and a furious funnel of sound -- acoustic axe, banjo, cello, upright bass, mouth organ. This is the middle of nowhere and you've just s ... More >>

The Moon Is Out! Live Nation and Embrace Team Up for the Honeymoon Series

Photo by Marta Xochilt PerezThe neo-raver, grandchild of the hippies.​The Honeymoon Series begins this Saturday with Datsik, continuing with Zeds Dead May 5 and Borgore June 17. Back in the LSD-soaked '60s, a big boxy San Francisco building named the Fillmore Auditorium was routinely overrun by l ... More >>

An Open Letter to Fleet Foxes, Love Crossfade

Wikimedia Commons​Dear Fleet Foxes, Thanks for letting us download "Helplessness Blues," the title track off your upcoming album dropping on May 3, for free. If the song is any indication as to how the rest of the record's going to sound, the almost three-year gap between your self-titled debut ... More >>

Iron and Wine at the Fillmore Miami Beach, November 18

Marta Xochilt PerezIron and Wine's Sam Beam.​See the full Iron and Wine slideshow. With Nomo The Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, November 18, 2010 Better than: Cheap beer chilled in the river and chugged at noon. Unlike weak revivalists, fourth-generation freaky folks, and other bullshitters, S ... More >>

Iron and Wine at Fillmore Miami Beach November 18

Marta Xochilt PerezIron and Wine's Sam Beam.​See the full Iron and Wine slideshow. With Nomo The Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, November 18, 2010 Better than: Cheap beer chilled in the river and chugged at noon. Unlike weak revivalists, fourth-generation freaky folks, and other bullshitters, S ... More >>

Iron & Wine Show Announced at the Fillmore Miami Beach

via his MySpace page​We like to lay claim on musicians whenever we can. If they've lived in South Florida for more than a few months, went to school here, had a girlfriend from here, or even their dog lived here, we like to think they're ours. So it should come as no surprise that we consider Sout ... More >>

Band of Horses

via his MySpace page​We like to lay claim on musicians whenever we can. If they've lived in South Florida for more than a few months, went to school here, had a girlfriend from here, or even their dog lived here, we like to think they're ours. So it should come as no surprise that we consider Sout ... More >>

Tickets Still Available For Band of Horses at the Fillmore Miami Beach, April 28

photo by Christopher Wilson​Ben Bridwell's swelling sonic ambitions were apparent from early in his musical career. Now the frontman and main brain behind Band of Horses, as a member of the Seattle indie act Carissa's Wierd, he had a knack for pushing the borders of jangly, somewhat mopey rock tow ... More >>

Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Sonic Youth's latest topped the lists at Sweat and Radio-Active.Moving Units is a new column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to see past top sellers. Top Sellers for the Week of June 8-12:Uncle Sam's Music, South Beach 1. Behind th ... More >>

Moving Units: Top Sellers at Sweat, Radioactive, and Backbone Music

Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 classic was a top seller at BackboneMoving Units is a new column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Top Sellers for the Week of May 22-29:Sweat Records, Miami1. It's Blitz, Yeah Yeah Yeahs2. Entertainment, Fischersp ... More >>

Party Like It’s 1979

Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 classic was a top seller at BackboneMoving Units is a new column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Top Sellers for the Week of May 22-29:Sweat Records, Miami1. It's Blitz, Yeah Yeah Yeahs2. Entertainment, Fischersp ... More >>

Top Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic ... More >>

Free #$%*! Ice Cream!!!

The "Ice Cream Man" a.k.a. Matt Allen is a dude who rolls around the country in an old van named Mitch giving away free ice cream. We caught up with him at O.H.W.O.W Gallery (Our House West of Wynwood) on NW 7th Ave and 32 Street during a Basel week party. There were several hundred people there and ... More >>

The Postmarks Leave Their Stamp with a New Album

They’re more than one-hit wonders.

Review: Iron & Wine at Revolution

They’re more than one-hit wonders.

Iron and Wine

They’re more than one-hit wonders.

The Ween Abides

Ten reasons Ween is better than your favorite band.

Miami's Best Albums of 2007

Suicide Blonde picks 'em.

Monday Afternoon Music Fix

Suicide Blonde picks 'em.

Calexico/Iron and Wine

In the Reins (Overcoat Recordings)

Distortion to Silence

The best way to hear the Six Parts Seven is to be quiet

BEST LOCAL SONGWRITER

Sam Beam

BEST LOCAL ALBUM OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS

Our Endless Numbered Days

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Woman King Sub Pop

Basshead

Bits and Pieces

Best of 2004

Bits and Pieces

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

Trend-Spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote.

Basshead

Around the Storm

Pink Mountaintops

Pink Mountaintops Jagjaguwar

Texas High Notes

The SXSW music fest showcases the city as much as the artists

Rivers of Song

The history of Florida courses through the folk music of Miami transplant Iron and Wine

Perfect Disguise

Modest Mouse leader Isaac Brock waxes on the moon and Speedo

Rotations

Modest Mouse leader Isaac Brock waxes on the moon and Speedo

BEST SOLO MUSICIAN

Sam Beam

BEST Local album of the past twelve months

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The Creek Drank the Cradle

The Natives Are Restless

Can you feel the bass?

The Sounds of Silence

Tune out the empty rhetoric from both the White House and the antiwar camp; you'll hear a new anthem

Tourist Trappings

Altcountry newcomers send a mint julep postcard from Holopaw

Love at Last

Rilo Kiley brings a bountiful breadbasket from the heartland

Local Lullaby

Out from the Beach, a debut release of cradle-rocking melodies