Caribou plays Grand Central October 19
Caribou plays Grand Central October 19
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School of Seven Bells at Grand Central October 16
School of Seven Bells at Grand Central October 16
Caribou Talks Handsome Dick Manitoba, New Album Swim, and Living in London
Originally, Canadian indie guy Dan Snaith called himself Manitoba. He recorded a whole batch of eclectic electro-poppy stuff, sent it out into the world, and started gaining cred with brainy music fans. But then proto-punker Handsome Dick Manitoba (real name Richard Blum) crawled out of a black hole, claimed total…
Blackalicious’s Gift of Gab Talks Trinumeral and the Unifying Force Called Hip-Hop
When a baby’s born with a microphone in his mouth and a name like Gift of Gab, there’s no denying he’s gonna grow up to be a badass MC. It’s almost like the rap gods have got their finger on the boy from the very first minute, steering him toward…
Eprom Drops Digi-Chaos on the Crowd at the Trinumeral Festival Tonight
Drink a case of Red Bull. Stay up for 36 hours straight. And then go listen to the overamped and fucked-up digital noise that soundtracks Eprom’s days and nights. How do you feel? Weird? Scared? Awesome? Like you’re falling into a partially pixilated reality where Wario or some other evil…
School of Seven Bells Will Pick Your Pockets With Guitars October 16
Hidden somewhere in the thick mist and jagged rock of the Andes Mountains, there’s a secret training academy for professional pickpockets and it’s called the School of Seven Bells. Now, maybe this whole thing is a myth, but no one really knows. Even Interpol and the NYPD refuse to fully…
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Trinumeral Festival’s Grant Howl Talks Music, Psychedelics, and the Apocalypse
As the year 2000 loomed and the entire world panicked under threat of complete computer apocalypse, i.e. the bug called Y2k, Grant Howl and the Under One Beat crew gathered a gang of friends and threw a party to appease the digital gods. This was the unofficial birth of the…
Juke and King Bee Kick Off New Times and Gulfstream Park’s Rocktober Tonight
For some people, the month of October means beer and brats. Others get amped for jack-o-lanterns full of candy and firecrackers. And while we here at New Times totally dig booze, encased meats, lollipops, and low explosives, we want more! In fact, we think the tenth month is the perfect…
Roofless Records’ Miami Micro-Show Delivers 15 Bands in 15 Minutes October 16
In the realm of supershort sets, the former reigning champs on the scene were those essentialist hardcore heads, whose performances boiled down to sweaty, shirtless 15-minute blasts of loud and sloppy 60-second songs. These days, however, the scepter of speed and economy has been passed to a generation of micro-show…
Rick Ross at Mansion
Rick Ross at Mansion
Trinumeral Festival with Big Boi, Blackalicious, and Tokimonsta, October 8 to 10
Trinumeral Festival with Big Boi, Blackalicious, and Tokimonsta, October 8 to 10
Bird Names, Dracula, and Self & Other Light Candles, Chant Together, and Step to the Edge
If you go totally fanatic for lightly operatic folk songs sung by candlelight, rollicking guitar-and-drum anthems for googly-eyed weirdos, and surging squalls of epic rock ‘n’ roll, then last night’s Roofless Records show at Sweat would’ve rubbed your eardrums in all the right ways. The lineup: (1) Quiet acoustic cover…
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Eagles Show at the BankAtlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale Rescheduled for October 27
Unfortunately for all of you slipping on your yacht shoes and rolling fat doobies in anticipation of this Friday’s Eagles show, your prep is premature. The news off the wire is Don Henley has fallen ill, forcing three tour dates to be rescheduled. In fact, the bands’s Long Road Out…
Calling Local Ladies: The Dimepiece Magazine Model Search Wants Your Ass Tonight
Hey, ladies. If you haven’t already flipped through a full issue of Dimepiece (or rocked a thong, high heels, and hoop earrings in its pages), let us explain: This is the kind of printed matter often described as “a gentlemen’s magazine.” And no, we don’t mean porn. Go ahead, peek…
Bird Names Will Help You Hear Eternity, Fill Your Belly, and Wash Your Body
Some bands just make music. But others like joyful tribe Bird Names are also expert makers of spiritual experiences, delicious snacks (see photo, right), and organic aroma-therapeutic soap. “It’s good soap. Only $5. People have come to our shows just to buy the soap,” says pitchman and guitarist David Lineal…
Good Charlotte’s October 9 Trip to the Mall Postponed Indefinitely!
Worst! News! Ever! The Good Charlotte dudes just totally bailed on their trip to the Miami International Mall! For 12 whole days and 11 long nights (ever since Crossfade first told you about it), you’ve been feverishly dreaming about your date with celebrity bros and budding fashionistas Joel and Benji…
Who Wants LCD Soundsystem Tickets for Wednesday’s Show at the Fillmore?
Can you imagine if LCD Soundsystem’s notorious crank-ass in chief, James Murphy, actually makes good on his promise to never record or tour again after the band’s current stint “standing in front of people doing things loudly” wraps on 11/11/11? Oh, there will be many moaning and misty-eyed fans of…
Vice Magazine‘s Full Bleed Book Party Starring Lil Daggers, Confetti, and Free PBR, October 2
Go see the 34-photo Full Bleed party slideshow.With Lil Daggers, Beings, Ticks, and Feathers Saturday, October 2, 2010 Bar Better than: A mouthful of asphalt and/or a complimentary Pabst. Typically, there’s no reason a Miami partier would ever arrive early for anything. (The 305 formula: Reported start + Two hours…
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Do Your Duty and Volunteer With the Miami Music Festival
If you occasionally supplement your sloppy party regimen with a healthy dose of wholesome public service (only a small portion being court ordered), then we here at Crossfade have got a new assignment for you. Help ensure the enjoyment of fellow fun seekers as a volunteer at this year’s Miami…
Rick Ross Runs the Joint, Get Corrected at Mansion October 8
Maybe Mr. Officer Ricky Rozay never flooded the streets with keys. But the facts don’t really matter. It’s been two years, a couple of months, and a pair of solo albums since the Carol City rapper (real name William Leonard Roberts II) got outed as a former Florida Department of…
Jacobs Ladder at Churchill’s Pub
Jacobs Ladder at Churchill’s Pub
Win CMJ Passes and Join the Ranks of Music Journalism With WVUM’s Writing Contest
Everybody wants to be a rock star. But eventually you realize that playing power chords, drinking gallons of Jack Daniel’s for breakfast, and slutting it up with groupies of every sex (yes, there are more than two) is a totally ridiculous way to make a living. Sure, it pays hella…