Lil Wayne releases Tha Carter IV
Lil Wayne releases Tha Carter IV August 29
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Psychedelic Self-Experimentation: Voice of the Valley Noise Rally 2011, Day Two
Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #3 Pentress, WV 8/28/2011 Our journey was long, arduous, strange and had already brought us to the doorstep of Dixieland, and the middle of Mountainland Nowhere, West Virginia. Before…
Among the Hill People and the Trees: Voice of the Valley Noise Rally 2011, Day One
Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #2 Pentress, WV 8/27/2011 Miami’s DWNTWN/Wynwood/etc. music scene has been talking (yelling?) a lot about venues lately. The firestorm started with Death to the Sun coordinator Ricardo Guerrero’s bold…
Beyoncé’s Baby Bump! Top Five Pop Star Offspring In Honor of Queen B’s Pregnancy
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards served as R&B megastar Beyoncé’s formal announcement of her pregnancy with hip-hop mogul Jay-Z. With an heir to Hova’s thrown on the way, Crossfade can’t help but wonder: Will the baby have Beyoncé’s booty? Jay-Z’s lips? Both? Will this kid be a performer? Wouldn’t…
Candied Pecans and Confederate Graveyards on the Road to Voice of the Valley 2011
Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm, and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #1 Richmond, VA 8/26/2011 This is Crossfade and Bleeding Palm reporting from Richmond, Virginia on the road to Voice of the Valley Noise Rally 2011.Despite the still-looming threats of…
Michael Gira and Swans Swoop Down Upon Respectable Street September 14
Working with bands such as Angels of Light, World of Skin and, most famously, Swans — not to mention what he describes as enough collaborators to fill a small stadium — post-punk pioneer Michael Gira has been experimenting with sonic extremes for over three decades. In the days following the…
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Satanic Panic! Five Musical Artists Accused of Loving The Devil
Remember the good ol’ Satanic Panic of the 80s? It was an exciting time when children everywhere were constantly on the brink of performing ritual abuse as instructed by devil-worshipping cult leaders. Or at least that’s what the media — from daytime television to afternoon talk shows and late-night specials…
Jacuzzi Boys release Glazin’ at Churchill’s Pub August 27
Jacuzzi Boys release Glazin’ at Churchill’s Pub August 27
Bassnectar Saves the Bass Future From Itself at the Fillmore October 22
A quick survey of the cars surrounding you in rush hour gridlock will prove, once and for all, that the line between man and machine has been completely eradicated. Look at these fleshy bags of bones and organs: Their bodies are frail, so they strap themselves in with seatbelts. Their…
An Extremely Detailed Breakdown of Vanilla Ice Ripping a Giant Juggalo Bong
Wanna get ripped like a juggalo? Meet the Ice Man at Seminole Casino’s free Labor Day concert September 3. Vanilla Ice is one chill dude. He not only sang “Ice, Ice Baby.” He also found a way to adapt it to nu-metal! Just imagine the stoner youth of America never…
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Take ’80s Synth-Pop to Grand Central September 16
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — or more simply, O.M.D. — is Exhibit A in New Wave’s final evolutionary leap toward synth-pop. While many people had only just heard the Sex Pistols two years before O.M.D. released its first single, “Electricity,” the song — and the band, really — were…
Suge Knight’s Greatest Hits: Feuding With Uncle Luke and Four More Thuggish Highlights
Suge Knight, the notorious, oft-incarcerated former Death Row Records kingpin, has joined the long list of rappers getting arrested for totally wimpy, non-gangsta offenses. His crime and punishment: Driving with a suspended license and 36 months of probation. In 2008 and 2009, Knight was involved in some legit club scuffles…
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Lil Wayne Sued by Rich Rick Over “How to Love,” His Worst Single Ever
TMZ is reporting that Birdman’s baby, Weezy “F”, is being sued by rapper Rich Rick over the beat to Wayne’s recent ex-lax-smooth single “How To Love.” The beat was part of a recording suite cooked up by rap production team Drummer Boyz, and spanning instrumentals written from 2006 to 2009…
Summer of Weirds II’s Mind-Shatteringly Crude Show at Churchill’s Pub, August 19
See the full 24-photo Summer of Weirds II slideshow. Summer of Weirds II Churchill’s Pub Friday, August 19, 2011 Every single piece of press about Summer of Weirds II at Churchill’s Pub, including the feature story published by New Times, opened with a mention of the festival’s incredibly rabid Facebook…
Kanye West Releasing Emo Synth Remix of Amy Winehouse’s “Back To Black”
For a while there, Kanye West was the least popular man on Earth.But his career didn’t start off that way. In fact, if you told Crossfade that the fresh-faced and manic MC who released that crazy-ass “Jesus Walks” single would one day be the bonafide sultan of swag, we would…
Cam’Ron Wants You To Smell His Balls at Bardot October 27
Cam’ron and his assorted homies (including Jim Jones and Juelz Santana) have been a major presence on the rap scene for over a decade. And if he keeps up his grind, he’ll be one of the few who stay relevant for two.Cam (real name Cameron Giles) has been averaging an…
Abbey Rader and John McMinn at PAX August 24
Abbey Rader and John McMinn at PAX August 24
Summer of Weirds II at Churchill’s Pub August 19
Summer of Weirds II at Churchill’s Pub August 19
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Anne Hathaway Raps Like An Un-Funky Grandma On Conan
Last night, 21st-century leading lady Anne Hathaway was on Conan to promote the third Chris Nolan-directed Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, in which she plays quintessential femme fatale, Catwoman. We’re big fans of Batman, Tim Burton’s Batman Returns and Michelle Pfeiffer’s incredible psychosexual interpretation of the role. (Sorry, Halle!) So…
Did Shepard Fairey Deserve to Get Beat Up by Danish Anarchists?
Yesterday, British newspaper the Guardian reported that artist Shepherd Fairey was attacked after a gallery opening in Copenhagen. The 41-year-old artist gained a cult following for his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign and then crossed over into mainstream consciousness via his iconic Barack Obama “Hope” poster. He…
Jay-Z and Kanye Announce The Throne Tour Stop in Miami November 15
There’s no doubt that Jay-Z — even as hip-hop’s retired-unretired elder statesman — still balls like the best of ’em. Just last night Hova was makin’ it rain at the Fountainebleau’s LIV in Miami Beach, dropping more $100,000 on a single bottle of champagne in celebration of the release of…
Voice of the Valley Noise Rally 2011 With Crossfade, Roofless, Bleeding Palm, and the Squelchers
Last night, noise swami Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra appeared to Crossfade in a strange dream.He didn’t say anything. But even if he did, it would have been drowned out by the sound of his hands (which were, uh, made of broccoli) forcing his four-string telecaster to cry out in tongues.Skull-cap…