Ben Wash couldn’t be anything further from a snob. Talking with him, he’s affable and surprisingly energetic, especially considering we’re calling him in the midst of a busy visit to California, where he’s promoting his debut full-length album, Snob Rock. “It’s something I kind of throw around,” Wash says when…
Last week, we here at Crossfade spoke with Caribou ahead of his highly anticipated upcoming live show at downtown Miami’s Grand Central, and he had nothing but praise for Jessy Lanza, his opening act on the current tour and a collaborator on his new album. Of course, the critical acclaim…
DJs are a dime a dozen these days. Thanks to the ubiquity of user-friendly DJ software and digital music, everyone and their grandmother can call themselves a DJ as long as they own a laptop. So what makes a masterclass DJ? In the case of celebrated Scottish record slinger and…
There is a stigma attached to Christian music. And Atlanta-based rapper Lecrae wants no part of being stereotyped. “My music is not Christian, Lecrae is,” he often explains to the press. “I think Christian is a wonderful noun, but a terrible adjective,” he tells Crossfade. “Are there Christian shoes, Christian…
Interpol With Hundred Waters Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday, November 8, 2014 Venture onto South Beach on any given Saturday night and you’ll likely find a gridlocked mess of sports cars and tourists blocking streets, parking spots, and doorways. Add the South Florida Auto Show to the mix… and you’re in…
Going from dirty clothes to filthy rich isn’t easy, but Fort Myers’ Pretty Boy Gangsta has done it by traversing Alligator Alley to Miami for more than a decade. The rapper whose brother built the label and studio that made Plies famous is about to star in his own MTV…
It’s never easy having to wake up at an ungodly hour just to spend the entire day slaving away in your cubicle. But hey, working eight hours a day is the only way you’ll be able to treat yourself to some pretty good music. Just check out the five best…
Haochi Waves has been living up to the second part of its name for some time now. From the ashes of Pretty Please, husband-and-wife creators Juan Oña and Ana Farina Mackliff reemerged, joined again by Didi Aragon. And now they’re poised to release their latest band’s first full-length album, Peggy…
Tucked away beside I-95, Sidebar promises to be a haven for those who think nightlife hoods like Wynwood and downtown have seen better days. But Brickell? Yes, places like Kukaramakara, Fifty, and Blue Martini already exist in the area, but they tend to serve the occasional weekend warrior who needs…
One of the perks of living in the 305 is that you’ll never have a shortage of weekend plans … Even if you’ve been eating Ramen Noodles and Frosted Flakes for dinner all week. When you’ve got Crossfade’s weekend guide on the cheap, you can still live it up with…
It’s rare that Miami plays host to a rock event with the potential to be of worldwide consequence. But that may in fact be the case on December 6, when Phil Collins and a support cast of assorted stars congregate at the Fillmore Miami Beach for a special concert on…
Before Sam Forgarino provided the beat for Interpol, one of the biggest (and best) indie-rock bands of the past decade, he was a fixture of our city’s punk scene. As a member of one of the area’s most underrated bands ever, the Holy Terrors, Fogarino has deep musical roots in…
Blowfly, otherwise known as Clarence Reid, is more than just the world’s first recorded rapper, a smooth-singing soul crooner, and a sex prophet for profit. He is living proof of Miami’s global relevance to the world of music. And there are not many people who know Blowfly as well as…
Amid the megaclubs and tourist traps that dominate South Beach, it’s tough to find a cool, laid-back bar where you can enjoy a few brewskies, chow down on some tasty grub, and jam to live music. But Hush Bar & Lounge hopes to change that. “We’re definitely catering to industry…
Magic isn’t real. At least not in the sense of pulling rabbits out of hats. Or cutting ladies in half. But music is one of the rare and mysterious mediums in our world that can render man spellbound. With just a melody and a beat, a night can be transformed…
No more playing ’round with your heart, Basel lovers. The artsiest week of the year is almost upon us. And the latest #ABMB tidbit… Solange Knowles, Saint Records founder and Beyoncé’s sis, will be headlining and curating six nights of Basel week music for Select Art Fair 2014. Oh, and…
Niko Javan be going through some changes. “I’m letting out my inner James Blake, but I don’t wanna act like I’m not a fucking clown,” the Miami music producer and member of O’Grime says. This “inner James Blake” is expressed beautifully on his new Trench EP, featuring vocals from The…
In Miami, nothing ever gets in way of partying, not even the Hump Day slump. So gather up your crew and hit the streets of the 305 for the six best club parties going down this week. Check them out, from the Magician’s funky dance grooves at Grand Central to…
Partying is serious business. Just ask Life and Death, the Berlin-slash-NYC-slash-Miami dance music collective. For the third straight season, L&D is teaming with PL0T to throw an Art Basel Miami Beach bash. But for the 2014 edition, they’ve also recruited the party pros at Poplife. Meanwhile, among the underground DJ/producer…
Deep bass tones set the mood for the humming of a soft, melodic voice. A bit of blues-infused heartache shot through with the trill of Latin pop, the richness of soul music, and a hint of rebellious folk. These are the kinds of musical moments, urgent yet graceful, that flow…
That Caribou (AKA Daniel Snaith) is such a singular, idiosyncratic artist with a sound all his own has much to do with his being a self-confessed studio production nerd. It’s hard not to agree that the bespectacled 30-something mathematics PhD from Canada perfectly embodies the stereotype of the sonic mad…
“I CANNOT WAIT!” Oh yes, all caps and exclamation points… That’s how excited Taylor Swift is about her 1989 World Tour. Another reason Ms. Swift is stoked: The 24-year-old record sales machine just released 1989, her fifth studio album (named, obvi, for the year of her birth), and it’s already…
