Providence (Rhode Island)

Metric Headlining Bud Light Music First Tour's 50/50/1 at Fillmore Miami Beach

"50 concerts, 50 states, one day" ... Just a couple of weeks ago, we here at Crossfade announced that Bud Light Music First tour would be coming to Miami. Other cities had already gotten their headliners, including Kendrick Lamar and The Hold Steady, for "Bud Light Music First's grand finale, 50/ ... More >>

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

Top Ten Completely Insane Moments From Ten Years of International Noise Conference

"Power supply is no big deal," says Rat Bastard, hunched over a row of disemboweled computer hard drives resting on his kitchen countertop. "I'll put one of these over there and pull one of the power supplies out. Then I'll be fuckin' with five computers." It's a Monday night at 11 p.m. and this Cr ... More >>

Rat Bastard's International Noise Conference: Insane 135-Act Lineup, Celebrates 10 Years

According to the Internet, a ten year anniversary is to be celebrated with diamonds. Because "a marriage that lasts ten years is as durable and beautiful as a diamond."Now, "durable" and "beautiful" may not be the first words one associates with Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra's annual International N ... More >>

Tenacious D Announces Old School Acoustic Style Tour, Coming to Fillmore Miami Beach

Rock is dead. Just ask Tenacious D. "Started with blues, Belly of lead/Then there was Elvis, Nicky some red/Beatles arrive, started a trend/Axl Rose, give me some head/It's all over, rock 'n' roll is dead." And that's exactly why Jabels & KG (otherwise known as Jack Black and Kyle Gass) are go ... More >>

Wiz Khalifa Announces 2050 North American Tour: Miami, Montreal, Chicago, 33 Other Cities

Remember when Miami New Times columnist, booty bass pioneer, and free speech enthusiast Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell lambasted Pittsburgh weed rapper Wiz Khalifa (AKA "the boy behind the popular hit 'Black & Yellow'") for breaking the hip-hop code and hooking up with another rapper's ex-boo? We ... More >>

Primus 3-D Tour's Gonna Be "Really Trippy ... Bringing Acid Rock Back to the Masses"

Whoa, dude ... Primus just announced its "first-ever traveling 3D-enhanced live musical performance." And it's gonna be "really trippy." That's what weirdo ringmaster Les Claypool tells Billboard, adding, "The past couple of years, Primus has gotten pretty psychedelic. We keep joking that we're bri ... More >>

A$AP Rocky Announces LongLiveA$AP 2012 Tour With Fillmore Miami Beach Show

See also "Soulja Boy to SpaceGhostPurrp "We Gone Eat Yo Face," Thows Bath Salts on A$AP Beef." Extraordinary swag and a mouthful of gold ... Yeah, we're talking about A$AP Rocky, the preternaturally talented 23-year-old Harlem Mob boss, rapper, and grillz model who's been beefing with SpaceGhostPu ... More >>

Johnson & Wales, Tulane University Unite Chefs and Doctors for Total Health Curriculum

Johnson & Wales University announced yesterday a long-term collaboration with the Tulane University School of Medicine to improve the nation's health through the unity of chefs and doctors in a culinary health curriculum.This may be the first time a leading medical and culinary institution have ... More >>

The Who Announce Quadrophenia and Classics North American Tour, Kicking Off in SoFla

Is that the sound of a 68-year-old screaming to the tune of the CSI: Miami theme song? Well, yeah. And you know what that means ... Legendary rock 'n' roll band The Who has just announced another arena road trip -- The Quadrophenia and Classics tour -- a two-leg, 36-show jag across North America, w ... More >>

305 Fest at Churchill's Pub July 6 to 8

305 Fest Is Going National: "I Get Messages Asking for Hotel Recommendations!"

See also "305 Fest's Completely Insane, 47-Band Lineup: Bastard Noise, Noothgrush, and So Many More." "The thing I like most about festivals," says Roger Forbes, half of live-music promotion powerhouse, Speedfreak Presents, "is that there's always going to be some bands you don't know." In fact, ... 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 >>

Miami Among America's "Most Overpriced Cities"

​In news that will shock no one who eats out on South Beach, parks in Brickell or tries to buy some influence with the Miami-Dade County Commission (those lobbying fees ain't cheap!), Miami has been honored this morning as one of the most overpriced towns in the nation.High unemployment, skyrocket ... More >>

Nine Noisiest Acts at International Noise Conference 2012

Photo by Bleeding PalmJust wait till you hear the racket Rat Bastard has planned for this year's I.N.C. ​Some people really get their panties in a twist over noise music. Every year, producer-musician Rat Bastard throws his globally acclaimed International Noise Conference at Churchill's Pub. And ... More >>

Meet Araabmuzik, the MVP of the MPC, at Eve Miami on December 14

​Invented in the late '80s by electronics wizard Roger Linn, the Music Production Center is a pimped-out drum machine on steroids, usually equipped with eight to 16 pressure- and velocity-sensitive pads, multiple MIDI inputs and outputs, a superpowered sequencer, advanced sampling systems, and an ... More >>

Trip Out With Jim Drain and Forcefield's "Warmup" in Total Darkness Tonight

​In the mid '90s, noise band and performance art collective Forcefield were spawned from the damaged sounds of a Providence, Rhode Island scene revolving around Load Records and the collective's base of operations, the prolific Fort Thunder. The group donned psychedelically fetishistic full-body ... More >>

SBWFF 2011: More and More at Best of the Best

Chocolates from Andrew Shotts of Garrison Confections in Providence, Rhode Island​What's your idea of the good life? Is it a sprawling private event held in something called "the Sparkle Ballroom" in a glamorous over-the-top Miami Beach resort? Is it top-rated bottles of rare, aged grapes all sile ... More >>

Hall Pass: Owen Wilson and Christina Applegate get raunchy

Girl Talk Extends North American Tour and Announces Miami Gig May 19

Photo by Paul SobotaGirl Talk worms out from the underground.​A night out with sample-happy psycho Girl Talk (AKA Gregg Gillis) is never gentle. Imagine your brain being force-fed 36 hours of music in 36 minutes, pushed to the brink of seizure, and then fucked by a superpowered laptop that's been ... More >>

International Noise Conference Announces Another Bout of Chaos February 10

Photo by Mike NunnGet yr noise with Clang Quartet.​Hey noiseniks, it's almost time again to put your auditory system through those 72 hours of awesome sonic abuse commonly known as the International Noise Conference. As always, Rat Bastard and Laundry Room Squelchers will be helming the whole th ... More >>

The W South Beach's Thomas Merolla Talks Cocktails

Paula Niño​Thomas Merolla moved to Miami from Providence, Rhode Island sixteen years ago looking for something new and different. He was only 18 but his first job, bartending at the then newly opened Delano Hotel, marked the beginning of a career creating cocktails for some of the hottest spots i ... More >>

Deer Tick

Lightning Bolt

MP3 of the Day: "Sun Street" by Deer Tick, Playing White Room July 28

​Any attempt at actually narrowing down the sound of the Providence, Rhode Island-based quartet Deer Tick ultimately comes up short. To the band's credit, that's because it actually defies definition. The fact the foursome often falls back on an alt-country approach may enter the equation, but equ ... More >>

Playground Theatre's Inanna and the Huluppu Tree resurrects ancient myths

Obama, Biden Snub Manny Diaz's U.S. Conference of Mayors Going-Away Party

Miami Mayor Manny Diaz's time as head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors has come to an end, and usually the sitting American president sends administration officials to the conference -- this year held in Providence, Rhode Island -- but the Obama administration pulled out. The reason: Providence May ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Midas

This DJ's got that golden touch.

Tin Chefs

The disconnect between a culinary student's white-collar dreams and the restaurant world's blue-collar reality

International Noise Conference

Critics Pick

Devil or Angel

True or False:

David Collins is Miami's leading bail bondsman.

David Collins has lots of friends in law enforcement.

David Collins says he's put his criminal past behind him.

Letters from the Issue of March 7, 2002

More debate about "Strings Attached"

"I Rode for Lansky"

Miami Beach's premier crooked jockey reminisces

A Sweet Deal in a Stuffy Place

Corporate cooking culture

Have Horn, Will Travel

Hold on, Roomful of Blues is comin'

Blues Power

Southern Gothic

For Miami filmmaker Tag Purvis, completing his first full-length movie wasn't just a matter of going home. He also had to stay alive.

News of the Weird

Night & Day

May 21 - 27, 1998

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Putting the Sir in Sirloin

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Bake the Grade

Learning Curve

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