Just like Ms. Whitney Houston, former Fugees frontwoman and diva of the new millennium Ms. Lauryn Hill was a mind-blowingly successful pop star and actress who freaked out under the pressure of her own fame. But where Whitney disappeared into a billion-dollar mansion and ten thousand hits off the crack…
UPDATE: We’ve just been informed that today’s show has been cancelled because of rain. What do we know about Entresol? Well, like all good 21st century journalists, we here at Crossfade subscribe to incredibly laborious methods of research, such as Googling stuff, poking through Tumblr blogs, and checking out Facebook…
All you old-school heads, it’s finally safe to creep out from your trenches and return to the club. If only for one night, the non-stop digital assault on classic wax has been called to a halt. And tonight at the Electric Pickle’s Champion Sound, the 45 rules! Leading the retro…
Man, there ain’t nothing that typifies the American Dream like speeding through the suburbs at night in your brand-new Buick Regal GS while the Plain White T’s hit “Hey There Delilah” blasts out the radio. OK, the above statement isn’t entirely accurate unless you replace “the suburbs” with “Death Valley”…
When middle-aged rock stars start breaking their backs like Bono, it’s hard not to wonder whether fans should request a mandatory retirement cutoff for all arena-level entertainers. But following emergency surgery in May and the cancellation of a bunch of tour dates including this summer’s original Miami stop, U2 actually…
Exactly 40 days ago, Crossfade broke the news about Plastikman’s Richie Hawtin’s scheduled invasion of Miami. (UPDATE Due to some press release confusion we made the mistake of assuming the DJ would be performing Plastikman material. Sorry.) And we also talked some shit about the fact that “buying a Richie Hawtin release…
Somewhere right now, a Halloween moon is still rising. And evil clowns, half-naked ladies, and psychopathic serial killers are raging through their 60th hour of candy- and cocaine-fueled mayhem in a (literally) underground club. But if you, like us, belong to the lame-ass workaday class, then you’re already at the…
See Crossfade’s review and photos from Ms. Lauryn Hill’s UM Homecoming concert. Just like Ms. Whitney Houston, former Fugees frontwoman and diva-of-the-new-millennium Ms. Lauryn Hill was a mind-blowingly successful pop star and actress who freaked out under the pressure of her own fame. But where Whitney disappeared into a billion-dollar…
With Holy Ghost! and Depressed Buttons The Electric Pickle Saturday, October 30, 2010 Better than: A pillowcase full of snack-size Snickers and black-market cigarettes. In the run-up to Hollerween, Tony Smurphio and Cuci Amador absolutely insisted on keeping their freak fest costume plans a total, non-negotiable, lockbox secret. Every time…
Read part one of the Afrobeta interview. Stretch out your candy sacks. Sharpen your fangs with a nail file. And prepare for fire, crushed pumpkins, and a plague of too-old kids in costumes. It’s Hollerween. In seven hours, Miami’s Afrobeta and two other electro-indie party crews — NYC creep poppers…
If your name were “Steve Lawler,” you’d probably spend Wednesday afternoon spinning for the Masters of the Universe on the deck of some Cyprian millionaire’s giga yacht off the coast of Dubai. Then Thursday, you’d take the red-eye back home to collate your 1001 solid-platinum platters. And Friday, you’d teleport…
What the hell is Burnie anyway? He looks like a rejected Muppet that’s been sleeping in a dumpster, a 7’6″ bag of ratty orange fur with a swollen green mini-basketball for a nose. And his official Miami Heat bio doesn’t help at all. It just totally dodges the question. Anyway,…
Read part two of the Afrobeta interview. Man, the last time we hung out with local new wave-y freestyle faves Afrobeta was way back in June at Grand Central. So after almost five months spent zigzagging between the recording studio and big-ticket gigs like Glastonbury, Burning Man, and Space Ibiza,…
Back in the early 2000s, cool kids everywhere became obsessed with all kinds of lupine creatures. Maybe it was irony. Maybe it was rabies. Or maybe the moon had slipped off axis. Whatever the cause, almost everyone between the ages of 16 and 28 was wearing a howling wolf’s head…
Afrobeta at Electric Pickle October 30
Boys Noize at Mansion November 3
Crocodiles at Grand Central November 3
The Smoker’s Club Tour at White Room October 29
After three decades on the scene, Brit legend Pete Tong’s got nothing to prove. He’s been a critic, an A&R guy, a producer, a BBC jockey, and one of the most massive club DJs in the world. But still he’s hitting the decks hard, night after night. It’s almost like…
At approximately 8 p.m. last night, a totally sold-out crowd of indie chick jailbait, brainy head-bobbers, and jocks in silkscreened black hoodies overran the Fillmore Miami Beach in anticipation of MGMT’s impending psych-pop explosion. In fact, the place was so freaking packed that Crossfade couldn’t even smuggle a reviewer into…
Man … Is somebody selling Tron: Legacy™ timeshares? If so, please email sean.pajot@miaminewtimes.com immediately because I would be totally willing to pay $1,000,000,000 for the privilege of spending seven days per annum immersed in this gloriously cheesy, Daft Punk-ed digital dystopia. From the snippets that Disney’s allowed the world’s to…
Only this morning, Crossfade hyped the upcoming Crocodiles concert at downtown cool kid club Grand Central with a hyperactive blurb about the San Diego band’s recent single “Kill Joe Arpaio” and the Arizona sheriff’s angry, Twitter-driven counterattack. This evening, though, we received an unfortunate piece of news via email that…
