Sol Ruiz’s album fundraiser at PAX February 10
Sol Ruiz’s Album Fundraiser at PAX February 10
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Destroyio Records Says “F$#% Valentine’s Day!” at Churchill’s Pub on February 17
Every Valentine’s Day is exactly the same — the candy, the flowers, the teddy bears, and some slutty lingerie. Don’t people ever get sick of spending a bunch of money on a bunch of stupid crap so some Hallmark execs get that big V-Day bonus? Or wonder just what the…
Weird Wives and Luma Junger Square Off Against Alligator Alley, Wise Wizards, and Gulf Coast Fauna (Plus Free Music!)
Alligator Alley, the artery connecting lower Southwest Florida with the Gulf Coast b/w The Everglades, is so flat, straight and strikingly unremarkable that it takes on the vertiginous qualities of the most hypnogogic labyrinths. That is to say, I-75 is so boring that it’s damn near psychedelic. Nevertheless, Crossfade was…
Shake’s Moombahton Over Miami Returns to The Vagabond on February 23
“We’re always trying to stir up Miami’s musical melting pot,” says prolific party promoter, Sweat Records manager, and bass music aficionado Jason Jimenez, talking about his now-institutional weekly hip-hop dance party Shake. Along with his partners, a pair of rabid professional party animals known as Aholsniffsglue and Slim Biscayne, Jimenez…
Demi Moore Loves Miley Cyrus’s Penis (Cake)
Just when you thought the fact that Miley Cyrus loves penis cake was officially too hot to handle … TMZ has revealed that Miley ain’t the only one who’s got a need for desserts fashioned after gargantuan shlongs. Yes, it’s true, Demi Moore has been implicated in The Great Penis…
R.I.P. Mike Kelley, Artist and Founding Member of ’70s Freak Rock Band Destroy All Monsters
Not only is the world mourning the death of Soul Train’s Don Cornelius. But Crossfade is sad to report the passing of another iconic figure in music — Mike Kelley, prolific visual artist and founding member of avant-punk agitators Destroy All Monsters. Wrought from the same Nixon-era malaise that spawned…
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Kid Sister at Grand Central February 4
Kid Sister at Grand Central February 4
Method Man at Cameo February 4
Method Man at Cameo February 4
Neil Young: I Hate MP3s and So Did Steve Jobs
Neil Young’s extreme audiophilia — that is, his obsession with acoustics — sometimes borders on insanity. For example, every minute of his 2010 album, Le Noise, produced with acclaimed rock technician Daniel Lanois, was recorded live, exclusively during full moons and using Lanois’s pipe organ as an organically reverberating amplifier…
Paco de Lucía, Flamenco Master Shredder, at Fillmore Miami Beach on April 5
The concept of shredding — that is, achieving an enlightened and evolved state of being via guitar — is almost exclusively discussed in the context of metal. You have the righteously soloing heavy metal axeman, the frenetic yet intricate tech-grind guitar nerd, the lumbering stoner behemoth. In their own way…
Nine Noisiest Acts at International Noise Conference 2012
Every year, producer-musician Rat Bastard throws his globally acclaimed International Noise Conference at Churchill’s Pub. And, every year, squares of every shape, size, and variety — from costumed punk rock LARPers to “serious musicians” with serious chips on their shoulder — bitch and moan every chance they get. The most…
Justin Bieber Ambushed Outside Bathroom by Paparazzi: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown
What would you do to get a glimpse of Justin Bieber? Personally, we here at Crossfade would stop at nothing short of an epic backstage break-in, tying up security guards and stealing their clothes, crawling through air vents, and oh-so-sensually seducing tour bus drivers. But, uh, we’d definitely draw the…
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Ten Songs Barack Obama Should Sing Next If He Wants a Second-Term
Dude makes running for President look like American Idol. When Barack Obama busted into a few bars from Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” at an Apollo Theatre performance, he reminded the entirety of the United States of why we elected him back in 2008: He’s a total rock star! If…
Sol Ruiz’s New Album Promises Postcolonial, Horny Cuban Blues
”Playing in Cuba was more than just a gig,” says postcolonial and quirky acoustic songstress Sol Ruiz. “It was spiritual. It brought meaning to my existence.” In keeping with the passionate reverence she expresses toward performing music in the ancestral homeland that she has long been barred from visiting, everything…
Ten Reasons the 2012 Grammys Are a Total Joke
As popular culture continues to be consumed by a seemingly inexhaustible inferno of idiocy – dubstep trickle down, reunion shows, Drake, the list goes on – the Recording Academy is putting on their best Nero costumes and getting their fiddles nice and tuned. Yes. That’s right. It’s fucking Grammy season…
Electric Pickle’s No Name Party Plans to Save Dance Music From Itself, Starting Tonight
No genre has been more ripped off, watered down, and straight-up bastardized than techno. To the lay person, say, a classic rock aficionado or maybe a jazz head, the mere mention of this Detroit-bred electronic music genre (and really, less a stable conventional “genre” and more an unwieldy collection of…
Miami’s 12 up-and-coming bands, producers, and promoters
Miami’s 12 up-and-coming bands, producers, and promoters
Kid Sister’s Gonna Kiss and Tell at Grand Central on February 4
Ever since the internet turned every last drip-drop of intellectual property into the featured item at an ever-extending, all-you-can-download digital buffet, nobody’s even sure if concepts like “underground” or “mainstream” exist anymore. But Chicago electro-hop diva Kid Sister straddles the line like the best of them. After cutting her chops…
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Method Man Giving Away Free Champagne at South Beach’s Cameo on February 4
The world’s formal introduction to Clifford Smith — then, now, and forever known as Method Man, the Wu-Tang Clan’s most ruthless and bloodthirsty assassin-slash-MC — came via an intense spoken-word skit on the Clan’s 1993 debut, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Before launching into his signature, eponymous track, “Method Man,”…
Dinosaur Jr.’s Top Five Face-Melting Guitar Solos
Everybody hates Monday. But the sound of the alarm in the early a.m. at the start of the work week is particularly brutal. Like, medieval. Crossfade would even go as far to wager that the hobbies and habits that constitutes one’s stress-relievers and vices (everything from healthy options like kombucha…
Miami’s 12 Bands, Producers, and Promoters Set to Take Over the Scene in 2012
With the first month of 2012 dead and gone, it’s time to take a survey of up-and-coming South Florida music and maybe try to predict what the rest of the year has in store. This is not a best-of list. Nor is it a complete appraisal of South Florida’s expansive…
Dinosaur Jr. at Grand Central January 23
Dinosaur Jr. at Grand Central January 23