DJ Shadow at Mansion Miami December 14
DJ Shadow at Mansion Miami December 14
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Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame Launches in Miami, Announces 2013 Nominees
The Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame’s official mission: “To educate, preserve, honor and celebrate the legacy of the greatest Latin songwriters from all over the world and their music in every genre.” Founded by a Grammy-winning pair of writer-producers — multimillion-selling Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee Desmond Child (Bon Jovi,…
Ne-Yo and Monica Added to Lineup for Jazz in the Gardens 2013
Got your “I Love JIG” tees? Well, looking deliver on their promise of an “an all the way live weekend,” Jazz in the Gardens and mayor Oliver Gilbert have just added human “Stress Reliever” and pop-hop loverboy Ne-Yo as well as R&B diva Monica (AKA “Miss Thang”) to JIG’s 2013…
Rick Ross on Gangster Disciples, Canceled MMG Tour: “Never Was It Due to Any Threats”
“I’m a certified man. I am a real boss.” That’s the official Rick Ross response to all the suckas who think that death threats from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples could keep the Bawse from doin’ work. Last week, GDs from NC warned Rozay about exploiting the…
Tenacious D Announces Old School Acoustic Style Tour, Coming to Fillmore Miami Beach
Rock is dead. Just ask Tenacious D. “Started with blues, Belly of lead/Then there was Elvis, Nicky some red/Beatles arrive, started a trend/Axl Rose, give me some head/It’s all over, rock ‘n’ roll is dead.” And that’s exactly why Jabels & KG (otherwise known as Jack Black and Kyle Gass)…
Daniel Johnston at Grand Central During Art Basel 2012: A 10-Photo Recap
Dressed in two t-shirts, gray sweatpants, and flanked by a sheet music stand, Daniel Johnston delivered a short, sweet early-evening Art Basel Miami Beach week set at Grand Central. He gulped four bottles of water. He sang those happy-sad, love- and death-obsessed songs. And he even showed off some sketches…
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Jenni Rivera, Latin Pop Star and “Diva of the Banda,” Dies in Private Plane Crash in Mexico
On Sunday morning at approximately 3 a.m., latin pop star Jenni Rivera boarded a private Learjet in Mexico, along with two pilots and four other passengers including her publicist, lawyer, and makeup artist. Ten minutes later, they were all dead. The victims of a tragic plane crash in the desert…
Metric at VH1’s Scope Miami Art Fair Party:
A 10-Photo Recap
Two years ago, indie-pop ice queen Emily Haines and Metric unleashed a free ocean-side show on Miami’s artiest rockers with Art Basel Miami Beach’s Art Loves Music beach bash. For 2012, billed as the “You Oughta Know Artist,” this New Wave-y dance rock foursome returned to Miami Art Week week,…
Rick Ross’s Remaining MMG Tour Canceled
The Bawse just canceled the last six shows of his MMG Tour. Earlier today, we here at Crossfade mentioned that two dates in North Carolina got nixed after Ross received death threats from Gangster Disciple members. But now representatives of Maybach Music Group tell us that all concerts till December…
Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
Most art is silent. Even during Basel week. That’s why we here at Crossfade — an admittedly hopeless gaggle of noise junkies — just can’t get through the week without offsetting our 12-hour days at the art fairs with 12-hour nights at Miami’s hipster bars, rock dives, and downtown concert…
Rick Ross Gets Death Threats from Gangster Disciples, Cancels MMG Tour Dates
The Bawse is wanted. Just two days after a triumphant hometown throwdown at the Fillmore Miami Beach with his Maybach Music crew, Rick Ross has received death threats from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples, a street gang founded on Chicago’s South Side in the ’60s by David…
DJ Shadow Announces U.S. Mini-Tour, Coming to Mansion Miami on December 14
DJ Shadow says, “Listen.” From ’90s sample-heavy hip-hop to millenial hyphy experiments, he has been predicting the next phase of rap music for 20 years. But now the 40-year-old experimental hip-hop DJ-producer (born Joshua Paul Davis in San Jose, California) has just released a multi-disc, career-spanning, glow-in-the-dark retrospective boxset entitled…
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Thurston Moore and KURT During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
No one wrote “Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit” on the wall. Still, the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts reeked, ever-so-slightly and not-so-literally, of sweaty punk armpits, greasy faded flannel, and the sweet stink of grunge. Last night, KURT, “a multi-discipline exhibition and study of the…
UR1 Promises to Announce “New Festival Dates Along With Refund Procedures”
There have been grumblings about the festival’s unwillingness to refund ticketholders’ cash.
Ultra Music Festival’s Ultra Europe Sells Out Early-Bird Tickets in Ten Minutes
Fun fact: “Music makes the world go ’round.” Well, at least according to the official hype for Ultra Europe, the three-day EDM extravaganza from Ultra Music Festival and Croatian partner company Adria MM Productions. Another fun fact: “Music” (and especially “electronic dance music”) makes early-bird tickets disappear. In ten minutes…
UR1 Offers Free Basel Concerts: Daniel Johnston, LA Riots, Bob Sinclar, Pete Tong
Bummed the UR1 Fest didn’t go down during Art Basel Miami Beach week? Well, “as a courtesy to loyal fans and customers,” the “UR1 Music & Art Festival Team” would like to offer some free tix. No, not to its eventual two-day pan-sensory extravaganza. Just four of this weekend’s concerts,…
Grammy Awards 2013 Nominees: From Frank Ocean to Black Keys and Rick Ross
Grammy-tastic! Last night, amid goofy, sexually tense intergenerational banter between co-hosts LL Cool J and Taylor Swift, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States announced the nominees for its 54th Grammy Awards, airing Sunday, February 10, on CBS. Genre-bending R&B guy Frank Ocean scored with…
Y100’s Jingle Ball at the BB&T Center December 8
Y100’s Jingle Ball at the BB&T Center December 8
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Thurston Moore, As Part of “Kurt,” at Gusman Center December 7
Thurston Moore, As Part of “Kurt,” at Gusman Center December 7
Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
Moksha Art Fair 2012 Music Lineup: Toubab Krewe, Sounduo, Elastic Bond, Beatmachines
Will you be there when the “Eagle Meets Condor”? That is the question. And hopefully, you’re already answering in the affirmative, clutching a pair of tickets while giddily blurting, “Dude, I totally haven’t missed a Moksha Art Fair since, like, ever.” See also -Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami…
Flying Lotus and Zola Jesus Cancel on Windish Agency’s Basel Party
Bad news, Baselites. If you were stoked about seeing tripped-out experimental pop-hop producer Flying Lotus during Art Basel Miami Beach … It ain’t gonna happen. After the hugely anticipated UR1 Fest got postponed, we here at Crossfade — just like you, FlyLo, Zola Jesus, and Dan Deacon — made plans…