Paco de Lucia at Fillmore Miami Beach April 5

​At the end of 2010, Toronto-based electro-pop trio Dragonette released, “Hello,” a spritely collaborative single with DJ Martin Solveig. Though too late to make the cut for year-end lists and recaps, the track — boasting three centerpiece hooks: a gleefully tickled piano lick; singer and chief songwriter, Martina Sorbrara’s crystal-clear…

Stalley falls somewhere between the consciousness-oriented backpack rap of the late ’90s and the hardcore-hustler-turned-decadent-don narratives of contemporary hip-hop. Though those two approaches may seem to come from completely separate ends of the MC spectrum, the Massilon, Ohio rapper has managed to consistently invoke both the soft-spoken, positive hip-hop of…

The whole process of elections (from PTA to POTUS) is savage, cut-throat, and — when we’re lucky — incredibly stupid. They will shake the hands of thousands of strangers. They will gorge themselves on local cuisine. They will kiss the stinkiest baby. If votes depended on it, a politician would…

Remember when the Red Hot Chili Peppers would run around with socks precariously covering their penises? That signature on-stage antic resonated so much with the alternative rock audience — and eventually wider popular culture — because it was the closest the Peps had ever come to expressing their true essence…

No joke … Miami Heat superstars LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh got together to play a little jazz in honor of Bosh’s 28th birthday. According to TMZ, it all went down at the Adrienne Arsht Center at a high-profile party that included Heat don Pat Riley and producer…

See 305 Fest’s full lineup and set times — plus Crossfade’s interviews with Speedfreak Presents, Merchandise, Torche, Noothgrush, and Dropdead. Local promotion outfit ​Speedfreek Presents has been on a serious mean streak lately, delivering a steady stream of otherwise unbooked concerts featuring all manner of brutality from the national hardcore,…

Red Hot Chili Peppers at BankAtlantic Center April 2

​After enduring hordes of beat freaks who plundered its dollar bins, Sweat Records continues to live up to its namesake, working hard to keep the party going through the rest of the month and well through April. Little Haiti’s favorite indie music store, vegan coffee shop, and all-ages event space…

After Ultra Music Festival weekend (and the preceding, uh, seven days of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week), we envision 90 percent of Crossfade’s readership to be curled under their bedsheets in the fetal position. Every now and then you get up to sip some kombucha, pack a bowl,…

Say it slowly, how it looks, and one syllable at a time: Tahn-starts-bandit. What does it mean? Well, if you mean the word, Tonstartssbandht as a single unit of signifyin’ and communicatin’, well, then it means horseshit. As in nothing. But if you were to see the aforementioned crypticism on…