When the average 21st-century music fan wakes up in the morning, he or she often turns on the smartphone and taps away into the digital life that we all now share, like, 18 hours a day. Free download after free download glides past our eyes as we swipe at touch…
In this city of sun, sand, and fast money, the average life expectancy of most megaclubs is, like, a year, two months, and 56 seconds. So Space Miami reaching its 14th anniversary is about as close to nightlife immortality as it gets in the 305. And quite appropriately, the legendary…
Is nightclubbing awesome? Or awful? As former LCD Soundsystem frontman and DFA Records founder James Murphy once quipped: “It depends on your idea of fun. Champagne, music — it could be a nightmare.” But when Mr. Murphy’s handling the disc-jockeying, any trip to the club is just dreamy. Even if…
Like the polar ice caps, the rainforests, and the Yangtze finless porpoise, the record store remains in peril. However, there is hope. Over the last seven years, Record Store Day has become an increasingly visible global phenomenon, encouraging fans, artists, and proprietors to unite and breathe life into this once-thriving…
So here we go again. My band, Juke, was asked to play the Wanee Festival for the third year in a row. We made the seven-hour trek to the 580-acre Spirit of Suwannee Music Park, and I was stoked. This year was to be the Allman Brothers last show. Also…
It took long enough, but Mogwai will finally be playing a gig in Miami. The post-rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, has been around for nearly 20 years, but as its upcoming debut show in our town proves, there are still many firsts for the quintet to experience. Speaking via phone…
When the average 21st-century music fan wakes up in the morning, he or she often turns on the smartphone and taps away into the digital life that we all now share, like, 18 hours a day. Free download after free download glides past our eyes as we swipe at touch…
Before Cash Money Records, there were the Cash Money Brothers, a group of fictional New York City drug dealers whose criminal ascension during the ’80s crack epidemic was masterminded by their leader, Nino Brown. The New Jack City character, played by Wesley Snipes, has become an iconic rags-to-riches story in…
Timothy Norris Round one of Coachella is over. And damn, was it a good one! We’re all sore, sunburned, and smiling. Here’s the best of another memorable weekend in Indio. Finding 20 bucks on the ground. We spent it on a slice of Hot Lips Spicy Pie pizza and a…
Timothy NorrisCoachella’s first weekend was amazing this year! Except when it wasn’t. Here are the parts of the festival that rubbed us the wrong way. Saturday Night dust storm Conditions may not have been as bad as they were during last year’s Red Hot Chili Peppers set, but Saturday night’s…
Oh, free tickets … As The Sounds’ Maja Ivarsson once sang: “I think about you all the time.” In about 48 hours, that Swedish songstress and her pals will saunter into downtown Miami’s Grand Central for an evening of shimmering New Wave pop. So we here at Crossfade, along with…
Photo by Colin Young-Wolff So many Coachella-goers spend months before the festival working on their tans, their outfits, their figures, and their breezy poses. There’s a real glut of fabulousness, we have to say, both among those in attendance at the Polo Grounds and the parties surrounding the festival. Here…
There was a time when the cynics believed that record stores were doomed to go the way of Blockbuster video rental joints: abandoned and forgotten by the masses who once flocked to their doors. But the resurging popularity of vinyl has created a new niche market in which local music…
Dead Milkmen With Humbert and Sandratz Grand Central, Miami Friday, April 11, 2014 While it can be difficult to watch certain punk outfits age (and settle into the awkward complacency that has plagued so many legendary bands in recent years), the brand of punk peddled by Philadelphia’s Dead Milkmen –…
Photo by Colin Young-Wolff There are certainly plenty of single people wandering around the Coachella grounds; the volume of Craiglist “casual encounters” can attest to that. But there are also tons of couples, the vast majority of whom are completely adorable. Here are the cutest we saw. See also: Coachella…
Legend has it that bizarre things happen come a full moon. If that’s true, then there must always be an invisible luna plena over Miami because here, the weird never ends. Then again, maybe this lunar phase is what’s bringing Australian EDM sensation Flume, Swedish rockers the Sound, and postglam…
Nanette Gonzales/LA WeeklyLooking for love There’s something undeniably erotic about Coachella. Perhaps it’s the triple-digit heat that gets you hot and heavy, or maybe seeing some of your favorite bands all in one weekend gets your juices flowing. Or, most likely, you’re in your twenties so you’re perpetually horny by…
Since 2007, every third Saturday in April has been set aside for the observance of Record Store Day, when vinyl lovers and music fans show love and appreciation to the their local shops. In Miami, though brick-and-mortar music retailers like Spec’s, Virgin Megastore, and F.Y.E. are certainly a thing of…
Ron Morelli’s music is not for everyone. But that’s how it usually goes with artists that make few compromises in their work. Ostensibly a techno producer, his records can be arrhythmic, atonal, and murkily atmospheric — caustic machine noise experiments more akin to the power electronics subgenre of industrial music…
Ultra is safe … For now. During yesterday’s Miami City Commission meeting, Mayor Tomás Regalado and Commissioner Marc Sarnoff backed off on their most recent blitz to ban the EDM Festival from Miami. At about 12:45 p.m., the mayor and commissioner announced a surprise withdrawal of their resolution “prohibiting the…
Yeah, being broke sucks, but that’s no excuse for you to spend Friday night eating Doritos and watching reruns of The Golden Girls from your sofa all weekend long. You live in Miami. That means that you don’t need wads of cash to party like an animal. All you need…
Who’s ready for rumba y baile from some of the biggest estrellas en música Latina? It’s the Billboard Latin Music Conference. Going on its 25th cumpleaños, the four day fiesta kicks off April 21 at the JW Marriott Marquis in Downtown. Hundreds of músicos from across the globe, including Enrique…
