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Sweatstock 2013: World of Shit, Nunhex, Beastplague!

Put another Sweatstock in the wrinkly, rain-faded books. The fourth installment of Sweat Records' anniversary party and Record Store Day celebration played out on three stages in Little Haiti. But it's not just good times and dancing in the intermittent sun. It is also bleak, stomach-turning angst ... 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 >>

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

It's the weekend y'all! If the thought alone of these next two days doesn't want to make you get up, shred your papers, and do a victory dance, then maybe we should remind you of a few things. The Miami Heat made it to the playoffs (no shocker there), the Miami Marlins finally realized it was bas ... 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 >>

Mr. Feathers Releases New Album Knife Cream Sundae on Triangle Earth Records

Miami's Five Best Electronic Music Labels

Behold the BassHead!​Don't let us hear you say that Miami doesn't have a kick-ass underground electronic music scene, because we are absolutely brimming with homegrown talent.And the best thing is that it's still a relatively young scene. If there is this much forward-thinking creativity happe ... More >>

Wynwood's April 9 art walk offers robots and body hair

Sweat Records Launches SweatShopMiami.com

​Apparently, Sweat Records isn't only using that bitchin' Knights Art Challenge grant it received in 2009 to throw killer parties. It's also helping spread the love to local bands through latest venture, SweatShopMiami.com.Lauren Reskin, owner of Sweat Records, says the e-commerce site isn't meant ... More >>

Bar's Diverse WMC Lineup Includes Dubstep, Palmbomen, Dino Felipe, and Barbecue

Jason LeivaExhibition by Eric Elms at BarBar is like an everybody-knows-your-name-art-gallery where you can buy beer and booze. But they never seem to have PBR for some reason. ​And for a fairly compact watering hole located on the edge of Overtown, the place has hosted a string of impressive mus ... More >>

Jimmy Edgar at EVE February 20

Jimmy Edgar Headlines the Debut of LSD/DSL at Eve February 20

​The key to making a sexy album about sex? Stop doing it. Celibacy was Jimmy Edgar's formula for success when creating XXX, his last full-length release on !K7. It includes raunchy tracks like "Hot Raw Sex" and "Vibration." Edgar's formative years in Detroit, the electronic heart of America, gav ... More >>

Dino Felipe's My Vomit Is a Crystal Ball

​ To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami's Best Albums of 2010 here. Dino Felipe My Vomit Is A Crystal Ball (Triangle Earth) Dino Felipe has been quietly making loud music in his home for over a decade. His prolific catalogu ... More >>

How Interviewing Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, Luther Campbell, and Lil Wayne Got Me Addicted to ESPN

Trick Daddy is partly to blame for Prunk TV's ESPN addiction.​The weekend before last, I went to the NASCAR Ford 400 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway and it was amazing. I used my press pass to get right up on the track and it felt like my teeth were gonna explode. Kind of like the way they felt a ... More >>

Jose Flores of the Getback Plays Solo Retrospective Gig Saturday at Sweat Records

​To get full disclosure out of the way: Jose Flores is an occasional contributor to Crossfade. Miami's music community is small so it's kind of hard to avoid that incestuousness. You'll probably better recognize, though, the alter ego for which he became best known around town in recent years: Jos ... More >>

Trinumeral Festival with Big Boi, Blackalicious, and Tokimonsta, October 8 to 10

10th Annual Trinumeral Festval Comes To Miami in October with Big Boi, John Hancock & Friends, ArtOfficial, and More

via heard-words.comBig Boi​When something happens in threes, we take note. When Gary Coleman and Dennis Hopper died earlier this year, everyone was asking, "Who's next?" The universe answered: Rick Moranis Art Linkletter. There are three primary colors, three types of matter, three little pigs, t ... More >>

Boom! Pow! Featuring Excision and Willie Morales

Jacuzzi Boys and Beings Scare the Rain Away at the Miami Art Museum

Gabriel Alcala's hair of Jacuzzi Boys.​Jacuzzi Boys and Beings Miami Art Museum Thursday, September 2, 2010 Better than: Another smooth jazz concert in the sculpture garden. The Review: Why can't our cursed subtropical weather just cooperate for one fucking minute? It's like anytime someone's se ... More >>

Hula Hula II with DS and Mr. Feathers at Bar Tonight

​ Do you like surf music? Do you like surf music as it's skewered through the eyes of organizers Mr. Feathers (of Peasants With Feathers and Otto Von Schirach fame) and DS? Do you like Hawaiian-style hamburgers? Ladies, will you wear a flower in your hair? Ah.... You kinda should, it'll get you a ... More >>

Club Mekka Welcomes Technosluts and Combichrist to Miami on July 3

​The crowd at the recurring Technosluts parties across South Florida is pretty much unlike any other. Think a colorful Venn diagram meeting of that rarified overlap between candy ravers, cyber goths, bass-heads, and fetish enthusiasts, and you'll get the vinyl and hair-fall-filled picture. Fo ... More >>

Top Five Porn Stars at the Exxxotica Expo

​It's totally unrealistic to expect this weekend's Exxxotica Expo to unspool like some kind of real-life porn movie. Or is it? Indeed, the Miami Beach Convention Center will be packed with approximately 115 people who make their living by putting their privates to very graphic use on an almost dai ... More >>

Countdown to Sweatstock: Q&A With Sweat Records' Lolo Reskin, Part Three of Three

via sweatrecordsmiami.comVinyl bins inside the store.​In anticipation of Sweat Records' five-year anniversary party this Saturday, we sat down with Sweat head Lolo Reskin for a chat on the store's past, present and future. If you missed the first two parts yesterday, click here for part one, and h ... More >>

Basshead Music Nine-Year Anniversary Party at Vagabond on Thursday

​Dubstep has taken Miami by storm in the last year -- hardly surprising in a city that has always loved its bass. The emergence of this once marginal sound rooted in the UK underground is due in no small part to record label/promoters Basshead Music fostering Miami's local bass culture over the ye ... More >>

More Free Music: No Age and Teenanger, Both Storming Miami April 17

No Age to the left, Teenanger to the right.​All you hardcore weekend warriors can just keep on keeping on, living "in the moment," and partying so unendingly hard that your eyes, teeth, and toenails hurt till Wednesday. Personally, I'm taking a fucking break.Why? 'Cause I don't really give a shit ... More >>

WMC 2010: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

We are sort of stretching this since Winter Music Conference wrapped up Sunday, but it just took a while to finally sit down and process everything we did over the course of last week. But here it is, our final call on all the great and not-so-great things that we experienced last week.Photo by Sant ... More >>

Get 'Em While They're Hot: Artopia Tickets!

Arted-up Ladies from Artopia 2009​We all had that rich friend growing up, the one with an elevator in his house, a pet tiger, and the parents who rented a Ferris wheel for his birthday parties. Well, that spoiled brat is all grown up, and he keeps throwing outrageous soirees. This year, he's hired ... More >>

2 Live Crew Plays White Room on Friday, November 20

​​Downtown-type promoters love booking 2 Live Crew. (It hasn't been too long since they played the Vagabond, and there were those shows at the old Studio A before that.) This always creates a magical mash-up of a crowd that falls along a very, very wide irony spectrum. The thing is, no matter wh ... More >>

Review: Miami Bass Warriors, Miami Bass Warriors 12"

​Miami Bass WarriorsMiami Bass Warriors 12"(Palm Tree Snuff/¿Que Pasa M.I.A.?)You ever stand around and realize that you are completely surrounded by fucking children? Yeah, it happens... that's how old age dawns upon you and it don't matter how cool and with it your little record collection is, ... More >>

Your Friendly Neighborhood Slasher Flick

MP3s of the Day: Miami Bass Warriors' "Going Back to Calle Ocho" Remixed

​The Miami Bass Warriors, a sort of supergroup featuring Otto von Schirach, Debbie D (Avenue D.) Jose el Rey and El Tigre, has been getting the remix treatment courtesy of the Nome and Chris Video of BF GF.MP3: Miami Bass Warriors - "Going Back to Calle Ocho" (the Nome remix) MP3: Miami Bass Warri ... More >>

Phoenecia Opens for Modwheelmood

Phoenecia Opens for Modwheelmood at Respectable Street This Saturday

via myspace.com/schemalandNothing about the Fourth of July exactly screams "clanging, experimental electronic noise" -- but then again, the elusive, quasi-legendary Miami duo Phoenecia doesn't appear live too often, either. So for fans of the loosely labeled genre known, unfortunately, as IDM ("inte ... More >>

Aural Filth

MP3 of the Day: "Forever Mine, Forever Yours" by Astari Nite

Friday night's weekly Flamingo Fridays party at PS14 marks the first show in a while on this side of the county line for the Miami foursome Astari Nite. The band has been playing out relatively frequently, but recent weeks have seen it playing mostly around Broward and even West Palm Beach.A ... More >>

Go Ahead, Punk, Make My Movie

Local heroes and cool kids make a film!

Miami Bass Warriors on Pitbull's La Esquina, Blowfly on Chocolate News

Who let these guys on TV all in one night? No clue, but they deserve a gold star for making the evening boob tube schedule just a little bit more full of major LOLs. First up tonight, if you get Mun2 (actually, relatively few people do, so check your cable listings), check out La Esquina, the show ... More >>

Astari Nite's Mychael Ghost Is a Proper Frontman

Modeselektor

Record Setting

Sweat Records hangs on for its third year.

Super Soundz

As producer Kentsoundz, and one half of the group Junc Ops, Kent Hernandez is slowly expanding Miami's musical minds

Artist as Prisoner

Ed Bobb punched a few keys and went to jail. Where's the justice?

To the Future and Beyond

WMC Week Two

Basshead

Optimist

Hook Up

Miami rockers are forming a new, virtual neighborhood on MySpace

Hott People

Electro-pop duo Finesse and Runway jump around, get down, and break down

The Horror, the Horror

A frightful journey into the art of darkness

Rotations

WMC 2003

The week rolls on with more sun, sex, and sounds

Gorge! Binge! Purge!

Schematic Records lays out an electronic banquet worthy of the Roman Empire