Hark, Miami music fans! Do you realize it’s a miracle that there are even tickets still being sold at the American Airlines Arena box office for next month’s Maná show? Usually, tix to a night of Drama y Luz with these Mexican rock gods evaporate quicker than a little “Lluvia…
See Sweatstock 2012’s full lineup and set times — plus our interview with Sweat Records’ Lolo, Jsin, and Emile about Record Store Day. Are you a total vinyl junkie afflicted by an excessive perspiration problem and an out-of-control obsession with the Miami music scene? Is your home a geodesic hut…
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Sweatstock 2012 at Sweat Records and Churchill’s Pub April 21
See Crossfade’s Sweatstock 2012 miniguide to rocking out, buying records, and getting weird — plus our interview with Sweat Records’ Lolo, Jsin, and Emile about Record Store Day. Protect your ears and armpits. In less than 69 hours, the scene at Sweat Records and Churchill’s Pub will become a loud…
“Dinorocks!” We here at Crossfade just received that non-sensical message from The Overthrow’s Sam Baum via text, email, and phone. Our reply: “WTF … Our favorite’s the Triassic era. So what?” His response: An official Overthrow newsletter containing hype about a secret show and afterparty with Mad Decent’s “Original Don”…
Dude, Langerado is dead. Forever. So how’s a Miami indie band like South Miami teen foursome Astronaut ever gonna get to play a big-deal rock music festival? The answer: Win Bonnaroo’s Road to Roo contest with a little help from Crossfade, local scene supporters Space Between Words, and the 0.5%…
He was born in Toronto. He hung around the NYC music scene for a few years. And then he settled in the MIA circa 2008. But now superskilled and masterful singer, songwriter, and solo recording artist Tristan Clopet is heading “back to New York.” “So why am I moving?” he…
Seven days ago, the airwaves at “Miami’s Party Station” went (figuratively) dead when SoFla booty bass pioneer and 22-year radio vet DJ Laz announced he was quitting his morning show at WPOW-FM. “Rumors are true, I am no longer with Power 96,” Laz confirmed last Monday night via Twitter. “I…
Fuck the haters. Like, literally. In public. With an oversized inflatable banana. While wearing just a blazer and zebra-print speedo. In addition to laughing their effing asses off, screeching “I’m in Miami Bitch,” and doing non-stop “Shots” of Viagra-infused booze, LMFAO’s Redfoo and Sky Blu have become famous for their…
Scraping Teeth’s Worst Band in America 2012 Tour Kickoff at Churchill’s Pub April 10
Hellish hiss and skull-splitting feedback explodes into a swirlingly atonal shit-cloud of expertly terrible guitar noise, erratic yet superprecise drum strikes, droning bass, garbled shrieks, and totally indecipherable lyrical chatter. That’s the sound of Scraping Teeth. And it’s the fucking worst. No, really. Almost 20 years ago, Spin Magazine launched…
Wanna perspire till you pass out? Try squeezing into a rubber suit, guzzling 32 ounces of java, and running some treadmill in the sauna. Or … Test the limits of dehydration and heat exhaustion at the 2012 edition of Sweatstock. Just a couple of weeks ago, this annual indie music…
Are you beat-freaking kidding me? We’re still uhntz-uhntz-ing around Ultra Music Festival 2012, waiting for EDM riot-starter Kaskade, David “The French Tickler” Guetta, and super-Dutch trance man Armin van Buuren to hump up onto the Main Stage and bring this sweaty, pheremone-soaked festival of dance to a furious, fist-pumping climax…
See Crossfade’s original post about Madonna at Ultra Music Festival 2012 and read Deadmau5’s response to Madonna’s Ultra appearance: “Fuck off, you fucking idiot.” After spending the entire afternoon holed up at the Delano Miami Beach for a private “Gang Bang” (i.e. the release of Madonna’s MDNA Nightlife Edition Remix…
Check out Crossfade’s daily WMC and MMW party guide — plus the fifteen best parties. The King Rat says, “This is The End.” In less than 24 hours, Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival will be over. The clubs will close. The uhntz-uhntz will fade. The…
Check out today’s top WMC and MMW parties — plus Crossfade’s fifteen best parties. Honestly, if you’re gonna survive 96 hours of Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival, then your emergency EDM supply kit will need to include a gas mask, goggles, a bikini and/or banana…
Watch the full six-minute and 52-second clip of Madonna at Ultra Music Festival 2012 and read Deadmau5’s response to Madonna’s Ultra appearance: “Fuck off, you fucking idiot.” According to malaki9332, a dedicated viewer of Ultra Music Festival 2012’s live YouTube stream, the abbreviation “MDMA = MaDonna’s Meaty ASS.” That is…
If you’ve only ever raved and raged with Ultra Music Festival while totally naked and home alone with your laptop, a 12-inch glowstick, and the fest’s live YouTube stream, then it’s fucking time to physically visit Bayfront Park. Just think of everything that you’re missing by staying cloistered in your…
Check out Crossfade’s daily party guide — plus WMC and MMW’s fifteen best parties. Good morning, beat freak. Over the last seven days, you’ve gotten down with a genderqueer rapper in Overtown, raged at each and every free fucking party on the sked (not to mention WMC and MMW’s fifteen…
Even though Ultra Music Festival’s lineup and set times are conveniently and instantly available via the fest’s official app, we here at Crossfade wanna highlight three two reasons why all y’all beat freaks might need an easily printable, plain-text version of the UMF sked: 1. You can’t afford a fucking…
When you’re Tiësto, a 43-year-old superproducer who’s accomplished, like, everything … How do you even drag your ass outta bed in the beat-freaking morning and then uhntz-uhntz off to work? Honestly, if we here at Crossfade had won DJ Mag’s Top 100 Popularity Poll three times and then gotten named…
