Did you know women were the original brewmasters?Arwen Lehman and the Craft Brewjas crew she rolls with aren’t just consumers, they’re also secretly brewing up their own batches of fine suds.We caught up with her and friends at The Federal, The Bar, and The Local to see what she had…
The fiery musical spearchuckers of local big band Lanzallamas Monofónica will soon take their Afro-Latin superfusion sound to the Czech Republic. They’ve recently lined up a three-month residency at Prague’s Retrokafe, a so-called “salsoteka” that may be ground zero for the exploding Latin dance trend in Europe. Lead singer Fabi…
We’ve been waiting for Exxxotica to return for so long that it feels like watching porn on a dial-up modem. And now that it’s finally here, we’re ready to explode from anticipation. This year, the largest freaking event in the USA is full of surprises, and all girls, guys, and…
Ana Tijoux at PAX Miami May 19
Craft alcohologist Nick Armada went to beer college at FIU before starting CerveTech in the Bird Road Arts district.He can tell you all about how yeast are living micro-organisms, why fungi eat sugar and excrete alcohol, and how enzymes make it all possible.Read this week’s feature on Nick’s company to…
Pablo Francisco is a hilarious comedian with more impersonations in his bag of tricks than there are rocks in the average ounce of crack.When we caught up with him, he exploded with a full-on rant filled with amazing quotes about drinking, fighting, and doin’ the nasty. He’s performing six shows…
See Crossfade’s pre-concert interview with Ziggy about the Marley clan, taxes, and country music. Ziggy Marley Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Never under any circumstances leave a car door unlocked on South Beach while grabbing a slice of pizza with your girlfriend after an awesome concert at the…
DJ Fucked-Up is an artist of unmatched audial subtlety and a performer shrouded in a veil of mystery. Our investigations reveal he began his career as Daniel Heimenfrost, a genius with wind instruments. He achieved international notoriety for his performance of “Orificial Sacrifice,” which saw him stretch his musical boundaries…
Buika at Fillmore Miami Beach May 12
The Aggrolites are a skinhead reggae band from Los Angeles. With a faster pace than the ska and rocksteady that came before it, the style got its name from its old-school UK fans, the black Jamaican rudeboys and white mod factory workers who pioneered the original skinhead subculture. We spoke…
Born to a French social worker momma and a Chileno father escaping a tyrannical regime, Ana Tijoux is a golden-era hip-hop superfan, rapid-fire lyricist, musical activist, party girl, and pop star. Her youth was spent running wild in the streets of Paris to a rap soundtrack. But at the age…
Mike Score is the mastermind behind A Flock Of Seagulls. Inspired by Bowie and Alice Cooper, he combined science fiction, hairspray, girl pants, makeup, guitars, and synths to start his band in 1979. Then he led his Flock around the world. Crossfade asked the man himself about the journey in…
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 known as 1984’s…
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 and…
Ziggy Marley at Fillmore Miami Beach May 9
¡Andale way! Once again, it’s that time of year when America gets wasted in the name of the defeat of the French in the Battle of Puebla. Whatever. Tequila rules, the city is on fire, and we don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn. ¡Viva Miami! Here are the…
Buika is a sultry, sexy, raw, and impassioned vocalist who grew up on the Spanish island of Majorca with political refugee parents from Equatorial Guinea. As the biggest island in the Balearic Archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, Majorca is something like the South Beach of Spain, a major tourist destination…
Caution: If you’re an old lady looking for a relaxing weekend of easy listening on an ocean liner, you may as well kill yourself. The Mayhem Cruise 2012 is pure brutality. This inaugural Atlantic-bound metal fest will crush, punish, destroy, and burn down every other music cruise’s lineup. And when…
See also ShipRocked interviews with “Gilby Clarke, Ex-Guns N’ Roses Axe Man” and “Godsmack’s Robbie Merrill.” In the non-Miami parts of America, bands like P.O.D., Godsmack, and Sevendust are still on the radio, and the ShipRocked Cruise is an alt music event of such mythical proportions that rocker chicks get…
Billy Gardell is a funny fat guy from Pittsburgh, and the star of Mike and Molly, one of TV’s most popular shows in which he plays a cop who meets his future wife at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.You might also know him from bit roles on King of Queens, Judging…
Magrudergrind at Churchill’s Pub April 28
There’s a dead body on the beach so full of bullet holes that the ocean can’t keep up with all the blood that’s pouring out. Life is ugly, life is beautiful. And Ziggy Marley’s latest album, Wild and Free, finds the lifelong singer-songwriter mining themes like ego, money, and karma…
