Read Crossfade’s print feature on Taking Back Sunday at SunFest 2011. Throughout history, humans have worshipped the sun in strange ways, often involving mass orgy and human sacrifice. Our ancestors really knew how to party, huh? Well, yes … But it’s now the 21st century and we are reasonable, civilized…
Miami Reggae Festival at Peacock Park April 30
Interpol at the Fillmore Miami Beach April 29
Miami is totally obsessed with Steve Angello. And obviously, the Swedish House Mafia member and Size Records label boss loves us back. How can we tell? Well, Stevie dropped the first hint when he and his fellow Mafia men — Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso — co-dedicated a song to us…
You’re jolted awake at 7 a.m. by the infuriating screech of your dollar-store alarm clock, too tired, too sober, and too pissed off for another work day, just sick of minimum-wage paychecks, thinking, “Fuck my life.” But after you’ve had your wake-and-bake and sipped some coffee, you start to feel…
Early last year, former X-Ray Spex singer and ’70s punk icon Poly Styrene (born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) started work on Generation Indigo, her first solo disc in 31 years. And over the next several months, she worked in the studio with ex-Killing Joke bassist and producer Martin “Youth” Glover, finishing…
It’s time to start planning your road trip to Lollapalooza land ’cause King Perry Farrell just released his 125-name guestlist for this August’s three-day Grant Park extravaganza. And if you don’t wanna be left at the gate, crying and clawing the dirt like a pauper, you better buy a full-weekend…
After spending three hours sitting on our asses for Saturday night’s Borscht Film Festival screenings at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall, we here at Crossfade needed a fucking drink. Now don’t get it twisted … We totally love cinema, especially the Magic City-made variety. And if we were…
Typically, you’d have to wait till your 21st birthday before veering wildly into the realm of endless tequila shots, dry-humping behind the bar, and other forms of 5 a.m. misbehavior. But the Vagabond’s been in the debauchery business from the very first minute of its 1095-day existence. And over the…
We here at Crossfade have done extensive scientific research, compiled the stats, and our report on the correlation between photogenic faces and funniness is ready. The conclusion: Good-looking people with nice tans and beautiful hair are never ever fucking funny. Especially Louis Aguirre. For proof, see the cut and sit…
There was a certain millennial flash-point when New Wave-y New York City goth-pop quartet Interpol seemed as though it might play a major part in the cleanup of a half-decade’s crappy music. This was near the outset of the 21st Century when the whole mall-crawling Western world and every one…
Just yesterday, we initiated you into the Rockaz MVMT, a 10,000-strong Jah-blessed army marching in peace through the Grove. We taught you the mantra. We mapped out a little bit of the history. And we handed you directions to the meeting place for next Saturday’s Miami Reggae Festival. But today,…
Devastated by the news that Transit Lounge would be locking its doors and leaving behind the key in June, we got a little weepy. We reminisced about all those late-night throwdowns with homies like ¡Mayday!, N.O.R.E., and the Rising crew. We remembered our Skate Amigos, booze crew, and party people…
Who’s ready to wild out with compulsive window-smasher and multi-platinum recording artist Chris Brown? How about shaking some ass with the Magic City’s Diamond Princess? Or popping the top off a bottle of Hennessy Black with DJ Khaled and Ace Hood? Well, we here at Crossfade are definitely down. We’ve…
Out in the sloping, snaking streets of Coconut Grove, there are 10,000 Jah-blessed soldiers gathering for a peaceful revolution and they’re chanting the opening lines of the Rockaz MVMT mantra: “We are universal people/Young, strong, focused/Modern sages/Armed with sounds and phrases/Using music as our shield/Embracing this battlefield/Called life/Spreading love and…
We’re now officially entering the final week of the Last Chance registration phase for this year’s Billboard Latin Music Awards and Conference. The absolute deadline is April 25. So all you wannnabe música Latina superstars and reggaetonero minimoguls need to bundle up your dollar bills, rake together your change, and…
Tango Conspiracy at Bardot April 27 for Heineken TransAtlantic Festival
Music venue PAX Miami opens after a tough 12-month overhaul
Did you get the memo, bro? Manic mashup maestro Girl Talk wants to party with Miami … Two times! But before we buy our tickets, slip into something uncomfortable, and suck back a six-pack of Red Bull, Mr. Talk would like us all to take a timeout and learn to…
We all wanna be rock stars. But really, the only thing most of us have in common with our favorite famous musicians is an overflowing love of that sweet magic weed known as cannabis sativa. The real rock stars smoke the good stuff, though, and we smoke the cheap shit…
Sweatstock 2011 With Panic Bomber, Beings, Lil Daggers, Little Beard, Furious Dudes, and Others Sweat Records and Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, April 16, 2011 Better Than: Loitering in a Walmart parking lot for 19 hours. Now despite the fact that the vast majority of America’s music consumers prefer to procure…
You were stoked. You woke up at dawn. You showered. You sipped a cup of spiked coffee. You slipped into your best vintage Black Flag tee. And then you crashed the Sweatstock gates at precisely 10 a.m., kicking off Sweat Records’ second annual miniature music festival in honor of Record…
