With all of those stacks of paper piling up on your desk and influx of emails flooding your inbox, you may feel like curling up into a ball and hiding underneath your cubicle. But hang in there, party people — the weekend is just around the corner! Soon, you’ll ditch…
Henry Stone first met James Brown in about 1954, when King Records founder Syd Nathan told both him and Ralph Bass to race to Macon, Georgia, to sign the R&B singer to a record deal. Bass got there a day before Stone and inked the contract with James Brown for…
Dutch producer Martyn Deykers already boasts releases on groundbreaking electronic music labels like Brainfeeder, Otsgut Ton, and his own 3024. But signing to the legendary Ninja Tune label puts him in the company of some truly seminal acts, especially of the boundary-pushing and genre-defying variety — think Coldcut, Amon Tobin,…
It wasn’t long ago that DJ Drastic X turned his “It’s All Gravy” show on FIU’s WRGP Radiate FM into the vehicle by which artists like Pitbull, Rick Ross, Flo Rida, and DJ Khaled saw some of their first college radio airplay. And today, he continues to break new ground…
“We’re going to need a bigger boat!” Oh, that’s just the captain of the All Gone to Sea cruise. And he’s a tad panicked because his ship, the Carnival Victory, is about to be overrun by the inimitable Mr. Pete Tong and his 50 closest DJ friends. Sailing from Miami…
Churchill’s the Movie is currently in production, and there’s a Kickstarter campaign raising funds to help complete Little Haiti Rock City. The dude responsible is Franco Parente, a freelance filmmaker born and raised in Miami. He has won numerous film festival awards. He has a French television series development deal…
Morrissey Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami Saturday, May 31, 2014 The Moz is beloved as the undisputed master of post-punk balladry, louche melodrama, and biting lyricism. But he’s just as revered (and loathed) for his proclivity toward provocation on a great many subjects, including the consumption of meat and the futility…
Last chance to play, gamers. There’s only 62 hours left to whip those nimble wrists, spring that trigger finger, crank that button thumb, and vote in New Times’ Best of Miami 2014 readers’ poll. So far, 3,800 locals have cast their ballots. But the final deadline is Wednesday, June 4,…
Don’t you just hate it when you wake up thinking it’s Friday only to realize it’s actually Monday? Yeah, we’ve all been there, and from experience we can say it really sucks. But one thing that doesn’t suck are all of the good shows going down this week, from shirtless…
Some know him as Roach. But the Miami Beach Police Department prefers the name Glenn Thor Larsen. Once a Miami punk rocker who played drums in hardcore bands like U.F.C. and Sound4Sound, Larsen also served as a sound guy at Churchill’s Pub during the 2000s. But yesterday, the 34-year-old man…
The 305’s nightlife scene is notoriously fickle. Since last year, more clubs than ever before, specifically in Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road and downtown’s Brickell neighborhoods, have relocated to other parts of town or closed their doors. Places like Score, the Van Dyke Café, and now Mova Lounge have all moved…
Blood. Shit. Spilled beer. “And a girl,” as Churchill’s Pub enforcer Nicky Bowe recalls, “pissing into a saucepan.” Only a few examples of the weird, wild, and occasionally disgusting stuff that can happen in the course of a trip to Our Beloved Shithole at 5501 NE Second Avenue on any…
The weekend has finally arrived, party people. And since you live in the Magic City, you know there’s always gonna be a bash to crash and music to jam to even if you’re a little on the broke side. Just take a look at the ten best things to do…
Miami’s Grammy-winning DJ Cedric Gervais is turning 35. And for this milestone birthday, he’s celebrating in straight-up 305 celeb style — by throwing a mega bash under the bright, flashing lights of the Fontainebleau’s fanciest nightclub, LIV. “It’s a family,” the birthday boy says about the club. “They’ve been supporting…
Sorry, Roger Sanchez fans, your boy has been possessed by S-Man. “There’s a season for everything,” Sanchez suggests. “Just like there’s a day, there’s a night. You need to have the darkness to appreciate the light.” It’s been 20 years since the iconic spinner first had the idea for S-Man,…
Bizerk was a 13-year-old kid when he started fetching water for rappers at Circle House, the North Miami studio where artists from Pitbull to Rick Ross have laid down some of their first major verses. At the time, Trick Daddy was smashing the world with hit after hit, iTunes didn’t…
EDM’s biological clock must be ticking. All the big DJs are having babies. It appears the next big trend is child stars. They may be young, but they’ve got moves enough to get the attention of heavy hitters. Famous jocks like Steve Aoki, A-Trak (once a 15-year-old child star himself),…
It’s been said that Churchill’s Pub just might hold the world’s record for having the most live acts in a single venue. But while the massive mission (and accompanying pint-drinking campaign) to complete that count rages on, we here at Crossfade can say it’s no doubt been the home to…
The beer is cheap. The noise is glorious. The ladies’ room is disgusting. The men’s room is worse. For 35 years, Churchill’s Pub has stood at 5501 NE Second Ave. in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood. That 73-year-old guy with the thick white hair and beard sitting in the shadows, sipping…
Oh, Morrissey. On record, he is often compared to a lyrical Oscar Wilde, but his day-to-day outbursts occasionally make him seem like a particularly grouchy Truman Capote. From slagging off the British Royal Family and bitching about carnivores to addressing his sexual identity, the Moz has never been shy about…
It’s Hump Day, errbody! Almost time to slip on your little black dresses, royal blue stilettos, and hit up the flashy streets of the Magic City for some partying, ever-flowing liquor, and non-stop ass-shaking with Sander Kleinenberg, Diplo, Baauer, and so many other sweaty party freaks. Here are the six…
It is Miami’s embassy of punk, rock, metal, noise, and pints. After 35 years under the ownership of beloved founder Dave Daniels, the cultural landmark otherwise known as Churchill’s Pub has been sold. Some are worried about drastic changes. Others expect the place to see another million mosh pits. In…
