With the dawn of Miami’s own late ’80s and early ’90s booty music contingent, hip-hop was evolving to the point of becoming an entirely new sonic construct. Explicated most famously (and crudely) by 2 Live Crew — and integral to Miami’s skimpily clothed beach-and-barbecue culture — the new guard had…
WMC 2012 Record Collectors Show at the Beachplex March 24
New Order as part of Ultra Music Festival 2012 at Bayfront Park March 23
Henry Rollins’s spoken-word show at Revolution Live March 9
Record fairs are like hypercompetitive, cut-throat, life-or-death archaeological digs. But instead of some swarthy scientist digging up the missing link between man and ape or some rugged Indiana Jones type discovering lost civilizations, you’ve got über-nerds frothing at the mouth, damn near ready to shank a motherfucker over a mint-condition…
As the world’s most comprehensive electronic party extravaganza, Ultra Music Festival is dominated by the sonic phenomenon known as the drop. Simultaneously present in seemingly unrelated genres — such as the soulful vocal crescendos of house, the interlocking pulses of techno, or the bombastic bass-wobble breakdowns of dubstep — the…
No genre has been more ripped off, watered down, and straight-up bastardized than techno. To the layperson, say a classic-rock aficionado or maybe a jazz head, the mere mention of this Detroit-bred electronic music genre (and really, less a conventional genre than an unwieldy collection of variants, everything from minimal…
Though obviously rooted in the beat matching and live mixing of the disc jockey, the mashup, as we know it today, is a distinctly ’00s phenomenon that revealed itself at the very beginning of the decade. And the modern blueprint for expertly splicing together two songs (often from mind-blowingly disparate…
Art and politics can make strange, confusing bedfellows. German playwright and all-around commie Bertolt Brecht would say: Unless your work directly protests the global capitalist hegemony by alienating the bourgeois theatergoing audience, it amounts to little but titillation for the ruling classes. On the other end of the spectrum, though,…
See the full 28-photo Radiohead at the American Airlines Arena slideshow.Radiohead American Airlines Arena Monday, February 27, 2012 Better Than: Doing whatever one does on Spotify, with Radiohead. Leading up to Radiohead’s kickoff concert for their first U.S. tour in four years, we explored a theory that Thom Yorke and…
Tommy Trash at Amnesia Miami February 24
Moombahton Over Miami V at the Vagabond February 23
Radiohead at American Airlines Arena February 24
Big ups to British siren Adele for keeping it seriously real at last night’s Brit Awards. The “Rolling In The Deep” singer was in the process of accepting the award for Album of the Year when, seconds into her speech, actor and Brit presenter James Corden interrupted her to introduce…
Though obviously rooted in the beat matching and live mixing of the disc jockey, the mash-up, as we know it today, is a distinctly 2000s phenomenon that revealed itself at the very beginning of the decade. The modern blueprint for expertly splicing together two songs (often from sources so disparate…
Art and politics can make strange, confusing bedfellows. German playwright (and all around Commie) Bertolt Brecht would tell you that unless your work directly protests the global capitalist hegemony by alienating the buorgeois theatre-going audience, it amounts to little but titillation for the ruling classes. On the other end of…
Dubstep is officially one of those genres that started out as one thing, ended up another, and now nobody can tell if music (as a whole) is even good. Maybe it’s great? But it’s probably terrible. With Skrillex’s pop canonization by the Grammys, there isn’t a lone old-timey basshead who…
Yesterday, Crossfade reported on prolific pop/rap producer Scott Storch’s recent arrest for cocaine possession in a Las Vegas hotel. The story was simple: Homeboy didn’t want to pay his bill (probably because he spent all of his money on coke) and when the cops rolled up they found a few…
Compare the Sarah Connor in the original Terminator to the Sarah Connor in Terminator 2.The former? Straight chillin’ in the ’80s, teasing her hair and shrieking like a useless wench whenever murderous robots from the future popped out from around the corner. The latter? A total badass — Straight hair,…
As subtly alluded to via our front page illustration (see right), the Storch story involves a shit-ton of drugs. Not just any drugs, mind you. He wasn’t just smoking a lil’ weed and hitting a whip-it every now and then. No, Scott Storch — whose collaborators include Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Dr…
See the full 35-photo Sleigh Bells and Diplo at Grand Central slideshow. Diplo, Sleigh Bells, and Liturgy Grand Central Miami Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Better Than: A Valentine’s Day spent home alone, dancing with yourself to Diplo. On Valentine’s Day 2012, highly manicured young (and then some) adults swarmed like…
International Noise Conference 2012 at Churchill’s Pub February 8-11
