The man has led a thousand lives and survived them all. Now 60 years old, Manno Charlemagne has been a singer-songwriter, political activist, and mayor of Port-au-Prince. Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Haitian authorities incessantly harassed him for being a popular advocate of political change. He received death threats. He…
A few years ago, local guitarist Steve Vaynshtok began hearing squalls of instrumental noise crashing off the inside walls of his skull. So he started a two-man band called Fight Like Animals. “It’s music I want to listen to,” Vaynshtok says, “but no one is making.” Originally, he teamed with…
Last week, Crossfade had a casual chat with Mr. Jason Friedman and Ms. Eleanore Everdell of Brooklyn boy-girl band The Hundred in the Hands. The topics ranged from THITH’s namesake (“A Native American battle from the 1800s,” Friedman explained) to collecting printed matter, defying this hyperdigital age, and returning to…
The Big Man has died. On June 12, Bruce Springsteen’s good friend and longtime E Street Band saxophone player Clarence Clemons suffered a massive stroke at his home in Singer Island, Florida. He was immediately rushed to the hospital, where two brain surgeries were performed to stop cranial bleeding. In…
According to the Emerald Isle’s Central Statistics Office, the average Irish male can expect to prowl around Planet Earth for about 76 years, 9 months, and 18 days. Do you know what that means? It means that U2, as a band, is totally middle aged. (Formed in 1976, the bombastic…
Despite the name, Brooklyn band The Hundred in the Hands isn’t a great, big, sprawling indie-pop orchestra. It’s just two people — singer-keyboardist Eleanore Everdell and guitarist Jason Friedman — and a whole arsenal of sequencers, pedals, and assorted black boxes. In September 2010, this duo dropped its debut self-titled…
According to the Emerald Isle’s Central Statistics Office, the average Irish male can expect to prowl around Planet Earth for about 76 years, 9 months, and 18 days. Do you know what that means? It means that U2, as a band, is totally middle aged. (Formed in 1976, the bombastic…
Killer Mike at PAX June 17
Borgore at the Fillmore Miami Beach June 17
Curren$y at Grand Central June 16
Have you ever seen a zombie shake some ass? Well, it happens more often than you’d think. And surprisingly, when they’re not humping each other silly in the club, the undead go all Wacko Jacko for the choreographed dance steps from “Thriller.” In this particular case, we’ve got a bunch…
If you’re hitting up Zo’s Summer Groove, y’all gonna get to discover a “Woman’s Worth,” chill with “My Boo,” and slip into an “Empire State of Mind” at Saturday night’s benefit dinner and gala. That’s right … Soul-pop diva, 14-time Grammy winner, and Swizz Beatz’s baby mama Alicia Keys was…
Yo, it’s the second night of the week, AKA Lapdance Tuesday, again. And as always, there’s gonna be booties and bottles popping at Cameo. But tonight, you get to bust a nut, knock back some stiff stuff, and blow those stacks of cash with Maybach Music Group homie Meek Mill…
Do you love U2 so much that you’ve been seized by sweaty nightmares of getting stuck outside Sun Life Stadium’s gates on the evening of June 29, ticketless and tearful? Well, Bono heard your midnight screams! Tomorrow morning at precisely 10 a.m., a last-minute block of general admission field tickets…
Read Crossfade’s Q&A with Junip’s José González. Does Junip make that big, blood-pumping muscle in your chest go pitter-patter in an irregular way? Well, you’re not alone. These three Swedes — José González, Elias Araya, and Tobias Winterkorn — do fucked-up things to Crossfade’s cardiovascular system too. So watch for…
When guitar god Dick Dale straps on his superpowered Fender Strat, he’s not fucking playing. Strings will snap. Ears will bleed. Speakers will explode. And last night at the Vagabond, the 74-year-old axe master — also known as the King of the Surf Guitar, the Godfather of Heavy Metal, the…
For the last decade and a half, Back Door Bamby’s been calling out all of SoFla’s sexy weirdos for a weekly freak scene. So it was no surprise the guestlist for Saturday night’s 15th anniversary party at the Vagabond included monster-sized yellow fowl with breast implants (see right), strangely sexy…
Last week, Crossfade got so stoked about Dick Dale’s Sunday night surf rock party at the Vagabond that we restrung our Strats, waxed our boards, and called the King’s cell to talk “Hank Williams, big waves, ukeleles, lions, tigers, leopards, Latino tunes, and how to make people’s ears bleed.” Tonight,…
If you follow Lil Wayne’s every word, whisper, tweet, or bowel movement with the same kind of psycho obsession as Crossfade, then we suggest you get a life, a little professional help, and maybe even some medication. It’s ruined our life. And it can ruin yours too. But if you’re…
On June 16, 1971, a little thug by the name of Tupac Amaru Shakur came screaming into this world. He was the son of Black Panther Party members, a scrawny kid with a big mouth, who grew up in the streets during the crack epidemic, studied ballet and jazz at…
Start the motherfucking countdown! The Rising is upon us! Indeed, we’re just days away from unleashing our big, fat Best of Miami 2011 issue upon the world. And to honor the occasion, we’ve decided to surf against the tide of time by rifling through our massive digital archive of back…
Have you ever had one of those really fun nightmares where everyone’s dancing at superspeed while eating loads of bad drugs, shrieking like overloaded human synths, and playing 32-bit video games in rubber underwear? Well, you’ve obviously never passed out at 5 a.m. with Borgore’s “Nympho,” “Gloryhole,” or even his…
