David “Lebo” LeBatard, Miami’s own globetrotting musico-surrealist painter is getting his own room at Purdy Lounge. For a month. And this Saturday when it opens, there will be music, dancing, and the all-important free drinks. “Purdy is a place I feel most at home in Miami Beach,” Lebo says, “among…
Beethoven’s father was a drunk and his momma was dead. His guts were twisted up. He was clinically depressed. And his mind was full of screaming from the dying cells inside his ears. Cash was low, the girls he loved couldn’t love him back, and the aristocratic bastards he hung…
When it comes to New York City hardcore, Sheer Terror is one of just a handful of bands from the ’80s to still be around and playing shows. The band’s lead singer, Paul Bearer, got into punk rock as a kid in Staten Island. He’s got a face like a…
Experience Hendrix 2012 Tour at Hard Rock Live March 14
The Casualties at Churchill’s Pub March 8
Last time we saw The Casualties in Miami, the circle pit opened up wider than Bicentennial Park. It spread from Biscayne Bay to the Metro Rail and swallowed up everything from manatees to high-school girls, giant tattooed heshers, spike and leather punks, hardcore kids, metal mamas, stoner crusties, skateboard hooligans,…
Former Experience and Band of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox met Jimi Hendrix when they were stationed together at the same army base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Legend has it that one rainy night, Billy heard a guitar screaming in the service club. So he went inside and introduced himself to…
Down in the great, dark marsh of Hell, the river Styx flows ever hateful. But, the band Styx is alive and well on the SS Comeback Tour, and it just keeps “Sailin’ On.” The dudes of Styx have “Too Much Time On Their Hands” to worry about drowning in the…
Shaquille O’Neal might be the greatest comedian since Andy Kaufman. All of that crap the media has dug up about his supposed problems with ex-wives, IT guys, and fumbling police detectives? That’s the masterful art of staying relevant postbasketball, and Shaq is still in the news because of it. Who’s…
Hank III might be Satan’s favorite grandson. His daddy was a cactus, his mama was a bear trap, and he was born with his boots on in a river full of moonshine. At age 11, he ripped out his own throat and cooked it over a forest fire. The next…
At the climax of his glory, Davy Jones left millions of teenage pillows soaking hot and wet with culture-lust. The “Daydream Believer,” popular member of The Monkees, singer, actor, and icon got back all that karmic heartache in the form of massive coronary failure that left him dead at home…
The Allman Brothers are legends of Southern rock. And they rep Georgia hard. But their Florida roots are stronger than a Daytona chrome pipe. Michael Allman, son of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and guitar god Gregg Allman, tours all over America spreading his family’s blend of roots, rock,…
You don’t need a passport, green card, or visa to experience some of the best music in the world. You just need to hit the North Beach Bandshell on April 13 and 14 for the tenth annual Heineken Transatlantic Festival. Seun Kuti, the prince of Afrobeat, and his band the…
See Crossfade’s righteous, nine-part guide to Marley Fest 2012, AKA Nine Mile Music Festival. About 13 spliffs after writing about Stephen, Damian, and Julian Marley dropping out of the Nine Mile Music Festival, we here at Crossfade decided that this alleged cancellation wasn’t true. We became convinced it was all…
Between the New Times Masterminds Awards, The Knight Foundation’s art challenge, and The De La Cruz Collection’s freshly announced Summer Workshop Series, there’s more art money up for grabs in Miami than a big bank bailout.So get off your tired ass and apply for it. Here are the details…
See Crossfade’s righteous, nine-part guide to Marley Fest 2012, AKA Nine Mile Music Festival. Before you roll up and roll out to Virginia Key Beach Park next weekend for the Nine Mile Music Festival (which Miami has known as Marley Fest for as long as anyone can remember), be aware…
While popular electronic music has become synonymous with hugely inflated ticket prices, tables full of empty bottles, and mindlessly overproduced big-room bangers, Miami’s own Jonathan Cowan keeps the fire burning for the South Beach’s long-lost underground. For Winter Music Conference 2012, The Shelborne Hotel and Shine, alongside DJ Mag, will…
Winter Party Miami Beach is so gay that everyone gets there by rainbow, the fire hydrants spew lube, and all women in a 20-mile radius get repetitive-motion cramps in their fingers. Blown-out O-ring repairmen fill the streets, drag queens sell nut hiders out of the trunks of their cars, and…
Lewis Black is a hilarious dude. And not just in his stand-up — though as you’ll see when he hits town for the South Beach Comedy Festival 2012 March 1st, he’s hilarious on stage too. But he’s also funny (and unexpectedly patient) in one-on-one conversation.See, when we heard the perpetually…
Hank III may be satan’s favorite grandson. His daddy was a cactus, his momma was a bear trap, and he was born with his boots on in a river full of moonshine. At age 11, he ripped out his own throat and cooked it over a forest fire. The next…
Tyrannical Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad’s goons would likely shoot, beat, or torture his countrymen for a similar action, but Miami’s pro-freedom Syrian-Americans are proud to flex their democratic right to assemble and protest.Sunday afternoon saw a pan-Arabian rally by Syrians, Saudis, Jordanians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, and other Americans at an anti-Assad…
Revolutionary hip-hop is alive in Miami. This Saturday night, Dead Prez’s M1 and Thirstin Howl, Mecca AKA Grimo, P-Doe, FLO, Maybach Latino, Haiti Blues, Tom Larock, and PP Armstrong are gonna take over Moksha in Little Haiti to celebrate Black History Month, and fight for a better future for humanity…
