We asked singer, songwriter and leader of his own partially eponymous rock band, Ted Leo, how he might describe his music: Is it indie-rock? Or, really, just rock? Punk? Or pop? Politically charged? Or laden with emotions? Like most musicians — especially internationally recognized touring artists who are constantly forced…
Barely legal teen pop queen (and Justin Bieber’s girlfriend) Selena Gomez received a seriously threatening letter from a superfan-turned-stalker named Thomas Brodnicki and Crossfade can’t help but wonder if those naked gold statues had anything to do with it. Regardless, it’s ridiculous for a 46-year-old man to become so obsessed…
Just as Big Boi was finally getting off the hook for trying to fly with a mountain of ecstasy, and, er, Viagra …. Another big-name hip-hopper is behind bars for possession of a controlled substance. The rapper? None other than barely-old-enough-to-drink proto-#swag spitte Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em. And the substance?…
Sometime toward the end of the second Dubya Bush term, we found ourselves on the back patio of a Downtown Miami nightclub in full-throttle Friday night mode. Inside the club, sweaty bodies writhed and wiggled all over each other like an overturned bucket of earthworms. Rightfully so, as the tunes…
“I can’t imagine making a more difficult album,” says Battles drummer John Stanier when asked to describe the process behind Gloss Drop, the first full-length in four years from the recently downsized (once a quartet, now a trio) post-math-rock ensemble. While the band’s 2007 record, Mirrored, catapulted the previously cult…
From the day TMZ revealed the existence of an amateur sex tape featuring West Coast gangsta rap martyr Tupac Shakur getting, ahem, polished in public, Crossfade has been obsessed with unmasking the pornographic video’s anonymous owner. We have a list of prime smutspects. And evidently, so does Makaveli’s Mama, Afeni…
Crossfade is extremely sad to report that Sonic Youth founders and indie rock’s always-cool Mom and Dad, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, have announced a separation after 27 years of marriage. The obvious question in the wake of Kim and Thurston’s shocking split … Will Sonic Youth survive? Or is…
‘s execution in the Spanish Civil War. Lorca was a man comprised equally of progressive social values and untameable passion. And accordingly, one of his greatest tragedies is not only a harsh critique of custom, decorum and values, but also a raw depiction of the intense emotional responses produced by…
Spooky Miami is a four-part series featuring supernatural, paranormal, and otherwise unexplained phenomena throughout Dade County.”Miami is my hometown,” Sandy Walker says with pride. “I’ve always known it to be haunted.” For six years, Walker has led the Coconut Grove Ghost Tour, a two-hour walking survey of one of South…
Tequila, Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac, and Brooklyn coffeehouse singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins … It sounds like the beginning of a joke. But no, it’s the basis for the inaugural Cabo Wabo Tequila Off The Record webseries, where “up-and-coming” music artists pair with wash-ups to shill hooch. In this dark, weird…
We all know Whitney Houston likes to keep it, um, reckless, and her latest flare-up is the direct product of the R&B siren’s disregard for safety and basic public decorum. The big to-do? Ms. Houston made a fuss on a Delta Flight from Atlanta to L.A. over the buckling of…
Every weekend, you finish work, catch dinner and drinks with friends, catch some more drinks, and maybe some pills at the club … And before you know it, you’re waking up Sunday morning (uh, afternoon) and you’re passed out under a car. On Halloween, it’s pretty much the same deal,…
FOX’s cult-hit-turned-fan-favorite, Arrested Development, is returning to the airwaves for a victory lap season leading up to the grand finale feature film. Word of an AD movie has long been buzzing on the interweb, so the added bonus of a full-season’s worth of Bluth family catchphrases has us boiled over in…
Norwegian party rockers Turbonegro get down like their lives depend on it. And next Tuesday night, Churchill’s Pub will host the latest edition of its monthly cover shows with a tribute to the denim demons themselves. You can expect lampshades worn like helmets, drinks hurled like grenades, and miserable corner-of-the-room…
Electric Beer Pong Battle of the Bands at Churchill’s Pub October 16
A rapper spending a night at the club — the gentleman’s club, that is — is like a scientist spending overtime in the lab, or an archivist hitting the microfilm. Yeah, it looks like an OK enough time. There’s booze. There’s bling. There’s your own music roaring over the house…
Someone needs to sit down and finally sketch out the ultimate South Florida punk rock family tree. Because, we’re willing to say at any given moment in the past, say, 10 years of Miami punk and hardcore, each sub-scene (Friday night mohawk, oogle, hardcore boy, hardcore boi, etc.) has had…
Post-Tha Carter II and right up until the year or so after Tha Carter III, you couldn’t get Lil Wayne to shut the fuck up about slugging back big Styrofoam cups of Purple Drank, an unholy brew of soda, jolly ranchers, and cough syrup. He opened his epic-as-the-original freestyle remix of Rich…
Wynwood-based synth-pop quartet Krisp has emerged from the Miami music-and-arts ether to gig around town like an old-school classic rock workhorse. Of course, the band’s done its requisite time at Little Haiti’s portal to seedy England — and Miami’s widest open door for booking — Churchill’s Pub. It’s braved the…
Boyz II Men have announced a Miami stop on their latest tour, along with fellow 90s smooth-crooner Keith Sweat and gangsta diva Faith Evans. And Crossfade anticipates the concert will be a top-shelf seminar in panty droppin’. Yeah, yeah, yeah … Boyz II Men can sing. They broke Billboard records…
In Miami Chum Bucket’s two years of existence — first as a fundraising-slash-organizing effort, then as a short-lived warehouse-b/w-multipurpose space in Allappattah — the DIY punk venue has been continuously weighed down by process. First, the process of opening, which provoked enough skepticism that the organizers cheekily (and in good…
Since erupting in New York City’s Zuccotti Park on September 17, the #occupywallstreet movement has been taking the nation by storm with it’s populist rage and youthful vigor. One sure sign OWS is a youth movement is the increasing number of musicians and performers who have been dropping by unannounced…
