The Florida Grand Opera is gearing up for their next show, Don Giovanni, and if you’re comfortable sword fighting then strap on some tights and head over to Doral Center Rehearsal Studio on February 15 for your chance to earn a paying, non speaking, non singing role in the production…
Crossfade’s favorite shock rocker, Alice Cooper, turns 63 today. And even though he’s probably out at some exclusive country club working on his celebrity golf game, we like the image of vintage Alice that involves prop blood, live chickens, and nightly decapitations. So to celebrate AC’s birthday, Crossfade decided to…
El Jefe doesn’t give Cultist much time off, but when he does, we like to spend our hard-earned blog money road tripping through Florida, stopping at quirky roadside attractions and buying-up neat little souvenir-stand knickknacks along the way. So much so, we decided to start our own mini-travel series, “Worth…
What happens when a love-crazed Miami club promoter spends a few days in Las Vegas, hits a small jackpot in a roulette table, and then ties the knot at a kitschy wedding chapel complete with an Elvis-impersonator minister? For Oski Gonzalez, Tobacco Road’s resident DJ and head promoter, that wild…
After 14 years of playing music together, the White Stripes are calling it quits. A statement on the band’s website claims that the breakup happed for “a myrid of reasons, but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band.” The White Stripes’ disbanding was expectedly unexpected. The…
On Monday, we wrote a letter to Fleet Foxes about their upcoming tour. We assured them that Miami’s music scene is on the up-and-come, and promised that if they came down here, we’d willingly fork over the price of admission for a night of culturally relevant indie rock. The band…
Dear Fleet Foxes, Thanks for letting us download “Helplessness Blues,” the title track off your upcoming album dropping on May 3, for free. If the song is any indication as to how the rest of the record’s going to sound, the almost three-year gap between your self-titled debut and Helplessness…
Ricky Martin, Crossfade’s favorite author, recently performed in front of about 200 people at a special mini-concert for an upcoming MTV Tr3s series called Studio Tr3s. We were lucky enough to be at the studio for the production, and saw firsthand how a bicultural, bilingual variety show comes to life…
Sleigh Bells, the noise pop duo from Brooklyn whose debut album, Treats, generated a shit-ton of blog buzz last year, including Pitchfork’s “Best New Music” award, and a nearly perfect review in Paste, is hitting the road this spring for a North American tour with CSS. But when Derek Miller…
Cultist classed it up Saturday night at the Arsht Center for the Florida Grand Opera’s second production of the 2011 season, Jacques Offenbach’s three-act opera, The Tales of Hoffmann. And since it was this correspondent’s first operatic excursion, we took full advantage of FGO’s pre-show lecture conducted by Justin Moss,…
Coachella announced its 2011 lineup a couple days ago. And while there’s plenty of great bands listed in fine print (the Morning Benders, Tallest Man on Earth, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down) on the festival’s e-flier, the headliners listed in bold read more like a shitty Now That’s…
Starbucks’ unveiling of Trenta, the 31-ounce iced coffee, iced tea, and iced tea lemonade option that debuted in 14 states yesterday, has generated plenty of buzz. It was a trending topic on Twitter, the envy of 36 states, and the inspiration for Taiwan’s Next Media Animation’s (NMA) “Starbucks Super-sizes its…
Today, suburbia’s corporate crack dealer, Starbucks, is rolling out a 31-ounce option for iced coffee, iced tea, and iced tea lemonade in 14 states, and Florida made the cut. But Short Order isn’t racing to the nearest ‘bucks to order up a super-sized iced latte just yet–we’re still trying to…
In California, weed cures all. From back pain to panic attacks, epileptic seizures to ingrown hairs, just about any symptom (and $200) merits a doctor’s note allowing you to smoke medical dank without the threat of incarceration. But we live in Miami, a city where bricks of yay and pounds…
Kylie Minogue, the Australian pop princess who burst onto the music scene in 1988 with “Locomotion,” just announced a 2011 North American tour. But even though Miami’s been named the 15th Gayest City in America, the Magic City didn’t make the tour schedule. Instead, fans will have to hitch a…
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is next Monday, and we want to help you plan the perfect long weekend: Take a trip to the Everglades with Dave Shealy, director of the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters. It’s in Ochopee, a small town just 60 or so miles west of Miami, which…
Ted Williams, the dude with a voice like Lurch’s from the Adams Family, was “detained” Monday night by the Los Angeles Police Department following an altercation between he and his daughter at Hollywood’s Renaissance Hotel, according to Los Angeles Times. The paper’s sources say the investigation is ongoing, and no…
There were a lot of great albums in 2010, and we caught a lot of great shows too. But what’s in store for 2011? Will Katy Goodwin leave the Vivian Girls after La Sera’s full-length drops in February? Will Alex Ebert’s (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) solo debut, Alexander,…
Beastie Boys fans have plenty to look forward to this year: MCA is cancer free and the Brooklyn trio’s Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 is on track for a Spring 2011 release — even though part one’s indefinitely delayed.In 2009, the Beasties had to pull out of several headlining gigs…
The Bruise Cruise is a little over a month away and Crossfade’s still begging El Jefe to pony up $1230 for us to secure an interior, two-person cabin on the Carnival Imagination. Maybe the fact that Ian Svenonius will serve as the cruise’s master of ceremonies will convince boss man…
Wouldn’t it be great if we were all lucky enough to spend New Year’s Eve snorting an entire uncut key of White Diamond caviar while guzzling ice-cold magnums of Piper Heidsieck 1907 as if it were Gatorade? Unfortunately, you’ve got to be a Kardashian, some guy with a rare and…
There have been rumors that Playboy is going out business, and Hugh Hefner’s empire of fake tits and airbrushed cellulite would wither away like the editor’s wrinkly wiener after the Viagra’s worn off. There was also a rumor that Lil Jon suffered a mild heart attack after drinking a pimp…
