Now wait a second before you shit your hipster pants ’cause this blog’s headline is somewhat misleading. In case you got the wrong idea, those awesomely amazing bands we just namedropped won’t be performing live in concert at your favorite SoBe hangout this weekend. Instead, the eMusic Road Show (basically…
Growing up in suburban White Plains, New York, during the early ’90s, Matisyahu (born Matthew Paul Miller) was a pretty average teenage kid. He watched a lot of MTV. He listened to De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest. And he smoked some weed. The son of liberal, social…
For a certain kind of music snob, there’s nothing more annoying than all that saccharine radio pop stuff called bachata. At best, it’s elevator muzak. At worst, it sounds like a sad baby wailing over a karaoke tape full of stuttering guitar, bongo, and maracas. But there are millions of…
Television is a magic medium. It’s also evil. And sometimes shitty. But really, who thought that Ricky Martin and the Roots would ever hook up? No one. And yet, thanks to TV (and the fact that Questlove’s crew decided they needed a day job), we’re all gonna get to watch…
Normally, if you wanted to spend your Thursday night getting drunk off Cîroc while paying a pretty girl for 10 minutes of therapeutic body contact, we’d give you directions to King of Diamonds, Goldrush, or our ex-girlfriend’s apartment. But tonight, we’re gonna suggest you head over to SoBe’s Vita by…
Whoa, have you heard Nicki Minaj’s remix of “Hold You,” the sexy hit single by smooth reggae dude Gyptian? If the answer is no, then you are way, way, way behind the game (and potentially celibate) ’cause this lusty little tag-team track totally dominated the Summer 2010 baby-making season. Oozing…
If you can believe it, there was a time, commonly called back in the day, when a female with a microphone could be cute, dirty, sexy, funny, and smart. This was before Lil Kim and the boom of the MC slut. And back then, the undisputed rap scene queens were…
As an Iranian-American teen caught up in Washington, D.C.’s ’80s music scene, Ali Shirazinia became a fan of hardcore and New Wave. But when that decade died out, the kid switched, like a lot of ex-punks, to electronic noise. He learned to DJ, eventually adopted the stage-name Dubfire, and cofounded…
Unfortunately, the rabidly anticipated Ultra-week edition of Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel is still 52 days away. So all you overeager party people need to just chill out and figure out a positive way to spend those megawatts of pent-up energy. Sure, you could set the Stockholm trio’s certified crossover…
In 1983, French composer Yann Tiersen was a newborn post-punk convert on the cusp of adolescence. He had studied classical violin for six years and was finally fed up. So he destroyed his instrument, smashing it to bits. “It was really personal. I never wanted to be an instrumentalist and…
Art, when successful, should open up our senses, show us things that are lost if not looked for, give us sounds we never really listen to, or help us forge connections between ideas we never pair. Art gives us a new way of experiencing our world. On February 10, Miami…
After sorting the mail, painstakingly assessing the applications, arguing viciously about their merits, getting drunk, sleeping it off, and then agonizing over the decision for weeks, we here at New Times are finally set to announce our 2011 MasterMind Awards finalists. In the sound category, we’ve got Harvard-educated hip-hopper Black…
One month, a week, and three days ago, Crossfade dropped the awesome bomb that Swedish House Mafia would be bringing Masquerade Motel back to Miami for an Ultra week explosion of overindulgence and excess. At the time, we only had a date, March 26. There wasn’t (and still isn’t) a…
In 1983, French composer Yann Tiersen was a newborn post-punk convert on the cusp of adolescence. He had been studying classical violin for six years and he was finally fed up. So he destroyed his instrument, smashing it to bits. “It was really personal. I never wanted to be an…
With Billygoat Electric Pickle Friday, January 28, 2011 Better than: Getting fucked by an extraterrestrial? (See paragraph 16.) How does Little Dragon travel from gig to gig? Well, if you’ve spent the last few hours prepping for the Swedish band’s live show by soaking the contents of your skull in…
What are you doing tonight? Wanna go scream about stuff like anger, aggression, and fratricide? Well, ditto local punk crew Nobodys Hero. So here’s a tip: Drag your wild ass up I-95 to Fort Lauderdale’s Revolution Live ’cause there’s gonna be a pit party and these 305-ers will be ratcheting…
Straight outta the 305, J Nics has spent the last few years honing his style in semi-private while constantly rising through the MC ranks. Back in September, he dropped his debut slab, The Stimulus Package, one of Crossfade’s favorite albums of 2010. And now, he’s about to unleash the follow-up,…
As an Iranian-American teen caught up in Washington, D.C.’s 1980s music scene, Ali Shirazinia became a fan of hardcore and New Wave. But when that decade died out, the kid switched, like a lot of ex-punks, to electronic noise. He learned to DJ, eventually adopted the stage name Dubfire, and…
Unfortunately, the rabidly anticipated Ultra week edition of Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel is still 59 days away. So all you overeager party people need to just chill and figure out a positive way to spend those megawatts of pent-up energy. Sure, you could set the Stockholm trio’s certified crossover…
Were you born without an imagination? Then there’s no reason to keep using colorless, stock phrases like synth-pop to describe Little Dragon’s music. With some effort and a few minutes of listening time, you’d probably come up with something as quirky, cute, and strangely apt as singer Yukimi Nagano’s preferred…
Hey film lovers, get your cigars and spectacles out ’cause Churchill’s Pub is turning into a fancy movie house tonight. Sorta. The occasion: A screening of self-described film tramp Bill Daniel’s Sonic Orphans: Lost and Found Music Films 1965-87. It’s gonna be an experimental (and mostly silent) film night…
How many margaritas is too many margaritas? Well, when you start falling face first off the freaking stage in the middle of burping your way through “Magaritaville,” it’s probably time to pack up your shaker of salt. Yesterday, Jimmy Buffett took a dangerous dive during a concert at Sydney, Australia’s…
