Jan Hammer

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Perception Is Reality

Drugs, guns, violence, beauty, style, and the illusory world of Miami Vice

Vice Virtues

Drugs, guns, violence, beauty, style, and the illusory world of Miami Vice

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Wide Open Spaces

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Long Play

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Rotations

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Smashed Hits

From The Heights to the depths of bad TV songs

Miami's Jesp Releasing Debut November 3 via Sweat Records

​It's about time that someone take back the synth-pop sound back to the Magic City. Joseph Espinosa, a.k.a. Jesp, seems to be doing exactly that. With sound that something of cross between Chromeo and Jan Hammer, Jesp will drop his debut album, Heart Rhythm, November 3 via Sweat Records' website a ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Jesp "Removing the Heartache"

​Miami musician and Berklee grad Joseph Espinoza, AKA Jesp, is back with a new track called "Removing the Heartache." This release comes on the heels of last year's full-length Heart Rhythms, a synth-pop heavy which we described as a mix between Chromeo and Jan Hammer.The new track features more o ... More >>

Junkie XL, Jan Hammer Make Sweet Miami Love On New Track

The proverbial cherry on top: this guy and his sweet hairdo.​Pastels. Girls in bikinis. Expensive cars. Drug lords. Sweet, sweet synths. So few cities can be boiled down to such few words like Miami. Take that and put into music video form and you've got Junkie XL's new video "Made For Each Other, ... More >>

Soul Clap Set Their Fazers on Fun at Electric Pickle July 23

​For a tag team that hails from the city where Puritans landed, where Paul Revere rode his horse, and where tea was dumped in that infamous harbor, Soul Clap knows its roots. Of course, we're talking about the P-Funk Mothership, which Eli Goldstein and Charlie Levin say transported them to Earth ... More >>

Soul Clap Give Us Their Top Ten Miami Jams

​Read Crossfade's preview of this Saturday's party with Soul Clap at the Electric Pickle. If Bostonian power duo Soul Clap are known and revered for one thing, it's an infectious passion for old-school jams. Eli Goldstein and Charles Levine have turned '90s music appreciation into an institut ... More >>

Soul Clap at the Electric Pickle July 23

​Read Crossfade's preview of this Saturday's party with Soul Clap at the Electric Pickle. If Bostonian power duo Soul Clap are known and revered for one thing, it's an infectious passion for old-school jams. Eli Goldstein and Charles Levine have turned '90s music appreciation into an institut ... More >>