We here at Crossfade already had some serious munchies for the upcoming Earth concert at Will’s Pub in Orlando. We’re talking about the band that invented instrumental stoner metal, perfectly merging psychedelic drone experiments and amplifier worship with the bombast of rock ‘n’ roll. Oh, and there’s also the fact…
Chan Marshall never really seems to catch a break. While her management and PR team were pushing Marshall’s new album Sun as the ultimate proof that she’d finally gotten her shit together, we here at Crossfade knew something was up when the songstress was hospitalized and Tweeting weird shit, just…
Miami’s increasingly unfuckwithable curator of extreme tuneage, the appropriately named Speedfreek booking agency, is ripping out shows faster than a death metal drummer zooted on green tea caffeine pills. But no matter how quickly the 305’s calendar fills with assorted acts, flown in from all over the country being to…
King Pubert says, “BOO!” Com Truise, Poolside, and Bonde do Rolê EVE, Miami Saturday, October 27, 2012 The decentralization of Halloween (that is, when the All Hallow’s Eve actually falls on a weeknight and nobody knows when to party) makes an already surreal holiday that much weirder. Instead of one…
With the holidays and Art Basel right around the goddamn corner, it’s starting to heat up in the ol’ South Florida nightlife department. Take this weekend, for instance. There’s too much to do! It would be totally impossible to have all the fun that’s being offered this weekend. So we…
According to every wave of punk rock, the genre has been dying since it was born. Crossfade disagrees. We firmly believe that, despite decades of embarrassment and confusion, only now is punk rock truly reaching peak appropriation within popular culture. Case in point: CBS has announced a new sitcom named…
The Dwarves at Churchill’s Pub October 27
Jessica Simpson has really been put through the pop culture wringer. She built a career around her supposed-to-be fairy tale marriage to 98 Degrees crooner Nick Lachey. And then they got divorced. Ever since, Jessica hasn’t been able to escape the merciless crosshairs of every tabloid Gollum with a lust…
Sex rules! And you know what’s even better? Sex outside! That’s ’cause the threat of being shamefully discovered tickles the universal voyeuristic/exhibitionist funny bone. All people (spanning every continent) either want to watch people have sex. Or have other people watch them have sex. And then sing about it. Here…
Rhythm Foundation’s 25th Season Celebration Featuring Gilberto Gil New World Center, Miami Beach Sunday, October 21, 2012 Better Than: Tim Robbins’s CD collection in High Fidelity. Last night, the Rhythm Foundation kicked off its 25th season of international music by hosting an intimate evening with world-renowned Brazilian guitarist Gilberto Gil…
As executive director of the Rhythm Foundation, Laura Quinlan is more than a little familiar with world music stereotypes. “Guys sitting around the fire playing their digeridoos,” she offers, playfully. “Full-moon drumming.” In fact, parodies of international folk’s hippie and/or New Age contingents have practically made the term world music…
Ferny Coipel answers the phone with an enthusiastic, “What’s up, brother?!” that sounds like a cross between Cheech, Chong and Hulk Hogan. Though we suspect the Humbert guitarist and Hialeah Fest coordinator is the kind of guy who is perpetually stoked on life, his enthusiasm may be partially attributed to…
Gwar at Revolution Live October 20
Hardcore is a truly North American phenomenon. Sure, Scandinavia, Japan, and Latin America have all left serious imprints on the genre. But guess where the punk rock subgenre was invented? California. And straight edge? Washington D.C. And then there’s Boston, arguably the United States’ capital for old-school tough-guy HC. Yeah,…
Punk rock is a big tent. What other genre manages to link seemingly disparate entities like British rude boy skinheads with screamo-haircuit mall goth in Nebraska? And the best part: All these highly segregated factions bicker, sometimes to the point of physical violence, over whose interpretation of punk ethos is…
Art is cool. But the coolest part is the free booze and tiny extravagant hors d’oeuvres. Remember that Basel week when the punks raided a truckload of Campari and then drank it all in the parking lot next to The Stage? Well, this weekend’s gallery get-togethers might not yield any…
When it comes to metal (be it heavy, hair, stoner, black, gluten-free), there is only one color … Extra-dark black. We can already hear the posers whining, “But black is a pigment!” Do you think grindcore savages Pig Destroyer gives a hot fuck about the absorption of all color in…
Sometimes you gotta blog about poop. Certain people (e.g. coprophobics, squares, the devoutly religious, the squeamish) will gasp at the mere mention of doo-doo. But Crossfade will not stand for the repressive constraints of a hegemonic power structure that demand we deny the relationship feces has to existence, from birth…
Andrew BirdWith Here We Go MagicFillmore Miami BeachMonday, October 8, 2012Better Than: Combing NPR’s All Songs Considered archives. Last night, the Fillmore Miami Beach was temporarily transformed back into the old Jackie Gleason Theater as incredibly skilled multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird brought his talents to South Beach…
Hip-hop is a giant pissing contest set to music. But while diamond-plated rims and gold watches will always be rap music standard bearers, you rarely hear declarations of being tremendous in the most literal sense possible. Yes, many rappers are fat. However, only a certain subset of the hip-hop community…
Much like phony-baloney award shows or boring-as-shit overpriced music festivals, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is — generally speaking — a big bunch of bullshit. Or as the Sex Pistols would say, “a piss stain.” Look, we’re totally stoked that Kraftwerk, N.W.A., and Public Enemy might finally going…
Wow, Chris Brown is such a bummer that we’re thinking about moving to The People’s Republic of China so we can’t even Google him. But alas … With each passing day, Breezy does something weird (like get a ratchet neck tattoo of a battered woman that kinda looks like Rihanna),…
