Arcade Fire as the Reflektors Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami Presented by Rhythm Foundation Thursday, October 24, 2013 Better Than: A Reflektor-less existence. “We couldn’t have made this record without Haiti.” On two consecutive nights, Arcade Fire’s Win Butler confided this same thing to Miami crowds. His band’s new album,…
Ever thought, Bro, these EDM shows just couldn’t get any more intense, with, like, all these lasers and LED screens and pyrotechnics and confetti cannons and robots on stilts and naked people? If you’ve answered “Yes!” then your imagination obviously sucks and you’ve never fantasized about electronic dance music in…
“Dress up and come party with us!” That’s an excited invitation from Win Butler, Arcade Fire, and a weird bunny rabbit to this week’s Reflektor concerts in Miami. Of course, you (probably) don’t have tickets. And that means you’re screwed harder than a cottontail at the peak of mating season…
As a certain world-class party boy might ask: “Where U Been?” For the last two weeks, Life in Color, AKA “The World’s Biggest Paint Party!,” has been teasing beat freaks and goop junkies with a sloooooow reveal of the 15-act lineup for its first-ever festival at Sun Life Stadium in…
R. Kelly James L. Knight Center, Miami Thursday, October 17, 2013 Hotter Than: “Sex in the Kitchen” … Uh huh. A night with Robert Sylvester Kelly is just as sexy as we’d always fantasized. But it was also weird, hilarious, filthy, absurd, and heartfelt. As Kells told Crossfade when he…
Beat freaks and goop junkies! Last week, Life in Color, “the World’s Biggest Paint Party,” revealed that Calvin Harris will be the star of its self-described “first-ever festival” at Sun Life Stadium on December 27. Obviously, though, if it’s gonna be a full-on fest, we’re gonna need more than one…
For all the jerks who scoffed: “Why the fuck would Arcade Fire choose Miami of all places for semi-secret, ultra-exclusive shows to promote its awesome new record, Reflektor?” … We here at Crossfade offer a three-part answer. 1. Our city is home to almost a quarter-million Ayitiens. And Arcade Fire’s…
Laidback Luke is an international EDM superstar. And yes, he’s also a world champion kung-fu fighter. But even famous DJs and (almost) master martial artists can’t avoid from the same kind of worries that plague average folk like us. Just check the cut for Luke’s take on learning your electronic…
As we at New Times often gush: “Austin Mahone is a teenage dreamboat.” But even teen idols get sick. And sadly for millions of Mahomies, the 17-year-old Cash Money-signed cutie has come down with a bug that’s forced him to cancel both his Miami and Orlando concerts his entire 2013…
Your great-grandma thinks DJs work at radio stations. The rest of the world believes that disc jockeys have replaced rock stars, living to rule the pop charts, make multi-millions, and play the biggest festival stages on Earth. Oddly enough, neither great-grams, nor the rest of the world is entirely wrong…
Yep. The Reflektors is Arcade Fire. Yesterday, we here at Crossfade noticed a curious update on local world-music promoter Rhythm Foundation’s website for a special edition of the monthly Big Night in Little Haiti at the Little Haiti Cultural Center starring a band that we’d never heard of. Oddly, though,…
Laidback Luke isn’t just some international EDM superstar. He’s also a kung-fu master. But like all truly dangerous martial artists (and genuinely famous DJ-producers), he prefers to undersell his neck-snapping and ass-kicking skills. “I’m not really a master yet,” Luke insists, modestly. “But I am practicing at a high level,…
“This is the weirdest scenario.” That’s how DFA Records founder and former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy half-laughingly reacted to Bardot Miami’s (almost claustrophobic) living room-like setting for his Red Bull Music Academy Couch Session at the inaugural III Points Festival. There were fans sprawled all over the low-lit hipster…
Who’s the newest member of the “LIC Nation”? Well, as Life in Color reps reveal: “We are pleased to announce Calvin Harris as your main headliner.” That’s right … The richest DJ of 2013 will be getting the paint-splattered t-shirt and designer jeans needed to prove his LIC citizenship when…
Dude’s an OG. In fact, those are his initials. Born and bred in Miami, Oscar Gaetan started DJing at 12. And he became internationally famous in his 20s, making megahit house bangers as one half of Murk, alongside childhood friend Ralph Falcon. So yeah, Oscar G is undoubtedly a godfather…
You know that amazing dream where you’re, like, chillin’ on some supercomfy sofa in a swank hipster bar, and then former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy just — poof! — magically appears outta nowhere, plops down beside you, and commences to shoot the shit while punctuating his sentences with wry…
“We the Miami Heat of hip-hop.” Now, obviously, when Rick Ross uttered that boast, it was meant as more than just a Bawse-ly metaphor. Because big homie and his buddy DJ Khaled got such skills from the stripe, they recently won $120,000 in a free-throw contest. See also: Rick Ross…
“What more can I say? We did it again.” That’s what Floyd “Money” Mayweather tweeted after slapping Saul “Canelo” Alvarez ’round all night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Yeah, yeah, yeah … It ended up being a split decision. But let’s all just agree that judge C.J. Ross’…
Wanna get caked?! Good. Because EDM superstar, Dim Mak label head, and master baker Steve Aoki has been slaving away in the kitchen, prepping hundreds of sweet, edible props for his Aokify America Tour with Brick Squad boss, rapper, and dessert enthusiast Waka Flocka Flame. Stevie’s been mixing up all…
“Bitch dont look at me…i ain hear to start trends.” That’s the word from Robb Bank$, a 19-year-old, born-in-Brooklyn, bred-in-Coral-Springs rapper who’s all about not giving “fuks,” writing lines on “dat lean,” and hollering “out wit tha old in wit tha new i guess…but wut next?” And this is what’s…
Welcome to The Weeknd’s Kiss Land. It is a glitteringly cold, irreversibly twisted, bleakly sexy netherworld where we’re “all faded off the wrong thing” and we “gotta pay with [our bodies].” You know, a lot like Miami. There is a “room where the kisses ain’t free.” (But the Adderall cocktails…
When lil’ rappers like Drizzy Drake go to sleep at night, of what do they dream? A Miami Vice-slash-Scarface world in which they are outlaw heroes with a mansion, an armory stocked with illegal machine guns, a closet full of suits and t-shirts, and an ethnically ambiguous girlfriend who needs…
