The last time that we spoke with Denzel Curry, his album Nostalgic 64 had just been released and he was enjoying praise for its intense, dark, and terrifyingly real stories of life in Carol City. Undoubtedly, it was one of the best rap projects to come out of Miami in…
Indie garage rockers Deaf Poets may have been born in Miami Beach, but the noise this sonic duo creates is anything but tropical. Featuring bombastic guitar strums and blaring snare-drum smashes, this powerful, bluesy two-piece emits sounds more fitting for a grimy hole in the wall in Memphis. Lots of…
You might know Joel Meinholz as a skateboarder, the guy behind Miami’s longest-running party Chocolate Sundays, the mastermind of IamYourVillain, putting together park jams like Bum Rush the Spot, or perhaps just a friend that you see around town. The list goes on. About a month ago, Joel suffered a…
A disc-jockeying virtuoso, a veritable scholar of the selector’s craft, Daniel Avery doesn’t subscribe much to dance-floor formulas as a producer. “I grew up listening to guitar music,” Avery tells Crossfade. “I loved anything with a psychedelic edge, whether that was My Bloody Valentine, Black Sabbath, Mogwai, Neu!, Death In…
What exactly lured Juggalos, happy drunks, and hot Miami mamis to a rager at the zoo? Well, all-you-can-drink beer. (Unfortunately, no spiked Faygo Red Pop.) But also, as New Times’ Brew at the Zoo master of ceremonies Notorious Nastie excitedly croaked: “You’ve seen him on TV! And you’ve seen him…
“Body to body,” as J.Lo coos, “working it out,” in the deeeeeep end. For the third straight year, Clear Channel’s digital streaming service, iHeartRadio, will be gettin’ wet ‘n’ wild at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach with its Ultimate Pool Party. In 2012, Flo Rida stripped down to take a dip…
Pints, football, and friends. That’s how the Irish and the English fete the birth of their favorite sons. So come Sunday, Miami’s Guinness- and soccer-loving masses will descend upon 5501 NE Second Avenue to honor the anniversary of Churchill’s Pub enforcer Nicky Bowe and his doorman buddy Mr. C’s emergence…
¡Ay, ay ay! Rise and shine for Cinco de Mayo! Even if you’re not Mexican, tonight you’re gonna rock your sombrero, pound shots of tequila, and pretend you are. Sure, you’ll wake up hungover, but at least you’ll have sweet music from indie rockers the Head and the Heart, rock…
What is “an ordinary day”? Sleep, eat a bowl of cereal, sit at a desk, sip some cheap white wine, sleep. And if St. Vincent’s new-ish song “Birth in Reverse” can be considered a fairly factual account of 24 hours in the life of Ms. Annie Clark … Well, she…
Tel Aviv, Israel, is a tourist-heavy beach and party town on the Mediterranean Sea whose concrete roadways are littered with hooker flyers. It’s a place full of Russian and Armenian gangsters, shadowy clubs, some of the purest MDMA in the world, and more guns than a fleet of U.S. war…
Sit back, relax, and take a trago of tequila. It’s Cinco de Mayo weekend. And since the holiday is more of an American celebration than Mexican fiesta, we’re gonna throw it down like the Mexicans did 152 years ago at the Battle of Puebla. But if you just wanna party…
“Let me get Tamar on the phone for you. Don’t hang up,” says a man’s voice on the other end of the line. After a five second pause of silence, a call comes through. “This is Tamar right now!” laughs the singer, calling in just before soundcheck at the Times…
The 305 did not invent punk rock, nor was it instrumental in the development of its subculture. As a matter of fact, South Florida was plagued by so-called “album-oriented rock” clubs, insufferable cover bands with Eagles aspirations, and misguided disco heads who were ignoring the better stuff put out by…
Floor’s Oblation Album Release Show Churchill’s Pub, Miami Wednesday, April 20, 2014 Reunions are so often stuck in the mire of underlying tension and unresolved drama, clouded by financial motivations, or just plain incapable of living up to the band’s own myth that they tend to do disservice to an…
Rejoice, kids. Just days after the new owners of Churchill’s Pub announced a 21-and-over policy, they’ve already abandoned those plans. Yesterday, following the pub’s weekly staff get-together, an announcement of the reversal was made on Churchill’s official Facebook page. “After a meeting today with the new owners, the age policy…
Vampire Weekend With Jacuzzi Boys Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Better Than: All of those other vampiric pop-culture creatures feasting on the blood of the millennial generation. A fat, crooked queue of teens and post-teens stretched from the Fillmore Miami Beach’s doorstep to 17th Street before veering around…
“Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery.” He spent his teens break-dancing on the streets of Dallas and busting moves in Miami malls. He snagged a string of motocross championships. He learned to beatbox and rhyme. And then he became the most famous rapping white boy in the world. He immortalized the…
Vampire Weekend is an anomaly. As popular among the hipsters as the straights, it’s one of the only bands that might be heard at both American Apparel and American Eagle. Very early on, the New York City-bred, Columbia-educated foursome earned its “cool” cred thanks to 2008’s self-titled debut, which was…
Don’t try to pin a tidy label on Of Montreal, baby. In fact, when we here at Crossfade chatted with crew leader Kevin Barnes as he prepared to unveil the band’s latest album, Lousy With Sylvianbriar, the puckish indie type toyed with us, insisting he “might call [it] Americana maybe”…
¡Órale, güey! It’s Cinco de Mayo! While la gente de México are going about their day, we’re all just here, eating tacos and pounding tequila till we drop. So put on your somberos and lucha libre masks, unleash your inner Mexican, and celebrate the 152nd anniversary of the defeat of…
Congrats to our favorite Cubanita. Miami Beach’s Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame has revealed its second annual list of inductees. And our own Gloria Estefan es la más fabulosa of the 2014 class. Set to be enshrined in the LSHOF during October’s La Musa Awards ceremony, the pop queen and…
Courtesy of Flickr user Casey Hugelfink We all know it, but it’s time to show it. Urban Outfitters is a shortsighted cul-de-sac of trends bent for capital gain — one large, unthinking slab of cultural masturbation. But like creepers to a drug deal, we lurch in, grab what we want,…
