Oh, what have we done to deserve this? In just two short months, iconoclastic synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys (otherwise known as Mr. Neil Tennant and Mr. Chris Lowe) will be unveiling their 12th studio album, Electric. And then they’ll be venturing across our continent for the “Pet Shop Boys’…
If all y’all follow Bad Girl RiRi on Instagram, you already know she loves the weed, the green, and the big booties. So it’s no surprise that Rihanna got down with the Magic City’s finest smoke, cash money, and fat asses after her 4/20 show in SoFla. Just check the…
The panic alarm had sounded. It was time to save the Fillmore Miami Beach. “In case you haven’t heard, here’s the situation,” Sweat Records’ Lauren “Lolo” Reskin warned local music fans in a call to action earlier this month. “Two companies have proposals on the table to completely renovate the…
Tuesday morning around 9:35 a.m., Wilbrent Bain Jr., the brother of local rap legend Trina (born Katrina Laverne Taylor), was shot and killed in Northwest Miami-Dade near 91st Street after a dispute with a friend devolved into gunshots. His street name was “Goonkie.” He’d survived another shooting in 2008. And…
Oh, Radio broke your heart. Today, everyone’s favorite “bi-polar pop band from Hialeah” announced that “the time is right to end our beloved project.” After four years and two albums, this New Times reader’s pick for Best Band of 2009 is calling it quits. And the only consolation: “We do…
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. But did you know it was Satan who buried “67-million-year-old giant fossilized lizard bones” all over this spinning rock, just to trick gullible humans into believing that our planet isn’t 6,000 years old and Our Father is a sham? Yes,…
How did Dick Dale (AKA the Grandaddy of Shred) finally stop setting speakers on fire? “With the output transformers that Leo Fender and I built together,” the 75-year-old King of Surf Guitar explained to Crossfade, “and the 15-inch D130 speakers. “Back then, the transformers were 10, 12, and 15 watts…
It is a dark day for booty- and bottle-poppin’ EBT welfare ballers in the FLA. Following a Thursday vote in the Florida house of representatives, Electronic Benefit Transfer cards are now prohibited “from being accepted in certain locations” like the strip club “or for certain activities” like buying booze. Sponsored…
Go ahead. Ask Roofless Records honcho Matt Preira “about the future of the record store” … Oh yeah, that’s a dare. Because even though Mr. P isn’t as pessimistic as Kenny Fucking Millions (who doesn’t give “a shit about the future of anything”), he will share some pretty terrifying nightmares…
Holly Hunt is two people. And collectively, they’ve been hanging ’round the Miami music scene, like, forever. Drummer Beatriz Monteavaro has done duty in rock crews including Human Oddities, Methadone Actors, Funyuns, Basils, Cavity, and Beings. She’s also an artiste who does paintings, installation art, and other stuff. Ditto guitarist…
“Drink lots of water.” That’s just a lil’ piece of practical Twitter advice from EDM meme megastar Baauer for any of y’all beat freaks planning to spend a whole night raving, raging, and “Harlem Shake”-ing. Especially when he arrives to “ey, ey, ey, ey, shake, ta, ta” at Grand Central…
Via facebook.com/anrmiami Immaterial music formats will take over. Vinyl will disappear. (Or become contraband in some dystopian future.) And still, the world will survive. “But,” says Michael-John Hancock of ANR (otherwise known as Awesome New Republic), “there are physical artifacts that have history to them, that keep you connected to…
Go wild in the streets! Score swag! Mosh! In exactly 49 hours, everyone’s favorite Little Haiti music shop, Sweat Records, will be celebrating Sweatstock 2013, its third annual one-day music fest, anniversary party, and Record Store Day bonanza. There will be limited-edition RSD releases, indie music, sweet munchies, indie music,…
Hey Lolo, why bother rescuing music shops? 1. “Service you’ll never, ever get at a Best Buy.” 2. “We’re one of the only all-ages event spaces in town, we’re a vegan-friendly coffee bar, a meeting place.” 3. “Anyone who cares about culture in general should support record shops.” OK. Sweat…
Sweatstock 2013 at Sweat Records and Churchill’s Pub April 20
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The Prez and Hova “got a little bond there.” But Obama insists he didn’t help his pals, Jay-Z and Beyonce (AKA The Carters), secure clearance from the Treasury Department for their fifth anniversary vacay to Cuba. “This is not something the White House was involved with,” POTUS tells the Today…
“Holy fucking shit … Is this Meshuggah?” That’s how Carol City creep rapper SpaceGhostPurrp reacts when Canadian weirdo interviewer Nardwuar bestows a fine slab of Swedish metal upon him. Why? Because SGP is the rare hip-hopper with a deep and abiding fanaticism for dark and heavy death-obsessed rock. “This shit…
Oh yeah, naked mind, whack frack attack … Enter the world of Cog Nomen’s Ulysses Perez and Buffalo Brown, where everyone’s shimmying to that “Indietronic Psychedelic” sound. “Kind of Pink Floydish,” Mr. Brown explains, “with some songs without words that are just about transporting you.” We here at Crossfade recently…
Bieber-free and de-Disneyfied, post-teen pop star Selena Gomez is begging all y’all to “Come and Get It.” She just broke up with the Biebz. She just starred in Harmony Korine’s weirdo art blockbuster Spring Breakers. And she just performed her new sexed-up single at the MTV Movie Awards. Now Selena’s…
Skeptics predict the local music shop is going extinct like the penny arcade. But for the last six years, so-called “independently owned, stand-alone brick-and-mortar retailers” around the U.S. (and the world) have been banding together under the Record Store Day banner to, paraphrasing the immortal Beastie Boys, fight for their…
Praise the pot gods. We have all survived to see another 4/20, the highest, holiest, and happiest of weed holidays. The crop has been harvested. It is lush and green and good. Now if only there were someplace to celebrate with a nice, ceremonial, musical smoke out … Here are…
