Rick Rubin

Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch Dead at 47

See Russell Simmons, Rev Run, and others' Twitter reactions to the death of Adam Yauch as well as Crossfade's memorial slideshow of Beastie Boys concert photos. Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch (AKA MCA) is dead. Details about what ultimately took his life have not yet been released. UPDATE: The rapper a ... More >>

Russell Simmons, Rev Run, and Others' Twitter Reactions to Death of Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch

See Crossfade's obituary for Adam Yauch as well as Crossfade's memorial slideshow of Beastie Boys concert photos. The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch is dead. But the Beastie Boys live forever. The rap crew's global cultural influence was cemented the moment they dropped the atomic boulder of musicality ... More >>

Hard's Gary Richards on Holy Ship! Electronic Music Cruise January 6 to 9

See Crossfade's obituary for Adam Yauch as well as Crossfade's memorial slideshow of Beastie Boys concert photos. The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch is dead. But the Beastie Boys live forever. The rap crew's global cultural influence was cemented the moment they dropped the atomic boulder of musicality ... More >>

N.E.R.D. to Kanye to Odd Future: five key moments in hipster-hop

See Crossfade's obituary for Adam Yauch as well as Crossfade's memorial slideshow of Beastie Boys concert photos. The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch is dead. But the Beastie Boys live forever. The rap crew's global cultural influence was cemented the moment they dropped the atomic boulder of musicality ... More >>

Five Key Moments in the Chronology of Hipster Hop

Tyler the Creator: Is he the über-hipster hopper?​There is no escaping the young-and-vulgar West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future. There was a brief incubation period on the internet. But ever since performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the group has been everywhere: SXSW, Coachella, and ... More >>

Linkin Park at BankAtlantic Center January 20

Tyler the Creator: Is he the über-hipster hopper?​There is no escaping the young-and-vulgar West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future. There was a brief incubation period on the internet. But ever since performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the group has been everywhere: SXSW, Coachella, and ... More >>

Concert Announcements: Brandi Carlile at Culture Room and Dropkick Murphys at Revolution Live

via Flickr user Guy McCullough​Hey look! It's a concert announcement that has nothing to do with jam bands, '80s hair metal, or sugary pop-punk acts! Don't worry, they'll be back next week. For today, let's focus on Brandi Carlile's announcement that she'll be coming to Culture Room on February 20 ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: Top 10 Musicians Who Have Served Time in Prison

Many famous musicians have spent a day or three in jail for driving drunk, holding drugs, or something really stupid. But only the select few have spent a serious stretch of time in prison, which brings us to David Allan Coe. The original country outlaw performs Friday at the Culture Room in Fort La ... More >>

Metallica's Death Magnetic tour stops at BankAtlantic Center

Many famous musicians have spent a day or three in jail for driving drunk, holding drugs, or something really stupid. But only the select few have spent a serious stretch of time in prison, which brings us to David Allan Coe. The original country outlaw performs Friday at the Culture Room in Fort La ... More >>

Slayer Slashes into South Florida

With a new album, the thrash titan reclaims the metal world's throne.

Q&A With Tom Araya of Slayer, Headlining Mayhem Festvial at Cruzan on August 12!

photo by Mark Seliger​For all his band's purported fascinations with life's uglier aspects, Slayer frontman Tom Araya sure is a cheerful guy. Calling from a moving bus in rural Washington state, Araya laughs seemingly every couple of minutes. Surely, though, it's this laissez-faire sense of humor ... More >>

Brotherly Love

Folk-bluegrass duo the Avett Brothers finds sweet music in sibling harmony.

Friday Night: ¡Mayday! at Transit Lounge

BernBiz and ¡Mayday! blow up at Transit on Friday ¡Mayday! Friday, June 19, 2009 Transit Lounge, Miami Better than: A photo of yourself. The Review: Sometimes a club fills with 400 and every single one seems to be starring in his or her own personal reality show. That was the ... More >>

Clipse and Cool Kids Perform at Sneaker Pimps this Saturday

Never sleep in Miami. Never rest. This Saturday night, May 30, Sneaker Pimps is coming to South Florida again and this time with a live blast from Clipse as well as Cool Kids.  I am not a huge fan of CKs but Clipse is extra special good.  If you haven't had a chance, you can download a mix ... More >>

Jim Jonsin Is on Top of Hip-Hop

The South Florida native is the new producer king.

Aerosmith and ZZ Top Coming Somewhere in Fort Lauderdale Area on July 13

Not actually ZZ TopAlthough the place isn't set yet, the date and the bands are. On July 13th, Aerosmith and ZZ Top will be playing somewhere in South Florida in support of their retirement funds.  Aerosmith isn't releasing a new album (although they do have a new-ish video game on the market: ... More >>

Estelle: Birth of a Diva

She proves she's more than a lady in waiting.

Metallica

Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

Throwback Tuesdays: Metallica "Nothing Else Matters"

Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)

Heat Rave

Ten summers that rocked.

Full Tires, Spare Liars

Anti-politico bike race hits the streets.

Q&A with Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed!

Anti-politico bike race hits the streets.

Witch Board Blues

The Mars Volta's ghoulish space race.

2007 Music Year in Review

It's all in the stars.

Chris Cornell on Life After Soundgarden and Audioslave

It's all in the stars.

They're Just Like Us

Rock stars get haunted too

Def Entrepreneurial Jam

Russell Simmons has knowledge to spare

Release the Bats

Glenn Danzig brings a double-album's worth of lost material back from the dead

Ours

Glenn Danzig brings a double-album's worth of lost material back from the dead

Radical Chick

You can't tell Natalie Maines to Shut Up & Sing

Down, Doggie

Def Jam Records founder finds yoga and some fly ladies

Spank Rock

Def Jam Records founder finds yoga and some fly ladies

Johnny Cash

Personal File (Columbia Legacy)

Rivers Changing Course

Weezer's auteur takes a tentative step into the real world

Various Artists and

Bow Wow

Jermaine Dupri Presents . . . Young, Fly & Flashy, Vol. 1 So So Def/Virgin

Wanted Sony Urban Music/Columbia

Loretta Lynn

Van Lear Rose Interscope

Videocy

Good and bad, music videos gave us something to talk about this year

Could It Be ... Satan?

Good and bad, music videos gave us something to talk about this year

Rotations

Good and bad, music videos gave us something to talk about this year

Born to Run

Good and bad, music videos gave us something to talk about this year

All the Young Dudes

Good and bad, music videos gave us something to talk about this year

A New Tale to Tell

Good and bad, music videos gave us something to talk about this year

Rotations

Good and bad, music videos gave us something to talk about this year

Rotations

Good and bad, music videos gave us something to talk about this year

Rotations

Good and bad, music videos gave us something to talk about this year

Rotations

Good and bad, music videos gave us something to talk about this year

Big Mac Attack

Hollywood meets Silicon Valley in the music industry's new modem operandi

L.A.'s Boulevard of Dreams

A Miami heavy-metal band goes for the show-biz brass ring

Danzig In th Dark

These devil's advocates give the hard rockers their due

Livin' X-tra Large

The Beastie Boys get phat