Arctic Monkeys Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, January 30, 2014 British post-punk foursome Arctic Monkeys completed its first performance of 2014 last night for a sold-out crowd at the Fillmore Miami Beach. In support of the outfit’s fifth studio album, AM, the current tour has been ping-ponging across the Atlantic since…
Blink … Now open your eyes. Just like that, the first month of 2014 has come to an end. The weekend madness, parties, and wild shenanigans may fly by as quickly as the last 31 days, but the dollar bills in your pocket won’t. Just check out Crossfade’s ten best…
Once you get a taste of that A-1 quality rap, then there’s no going back. No mid-level trash. Nothing but high-grade tracks. It’s be a little over a year since Miami rapper Jigg released the second installment of his on going HighGrade series with DJ Folk, a project followed by…
Remember that bizarro nightmare where the sky was burning, the air smelled like scorched flesh, and a deranged pair of necromancers turned you into a puppet that did a weird seizure dance? Well, that was actually a Skinny Puppy show. And next week, the pioneering industrial band’s cEvin Key and…
The beat is back. For the 12th straight year, the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival will be unleashing a multilingual flourish of edgy international tuneage on our city’s most adventurous music fans. In its last few editions alone, this Miami New Times’ Best Festival winner (sponsored by everyone’s fave Dutch brew and…
Ma Dukes is slang for anybody’s mother. But when you talk to hip-hop heads, only one matters. J Dilla was a hip-hop producer from Detroit whose life was tragically cut short in 2006 by a rare blood disease, but his momma, the Ma Dukes, continues to travel the world in…
It’s officially Ultra season, beat freaks. Just yesterday, the EDM fest announced its Phase Two lineup, adding Chance the Rapper, Miami’s own DJ Craze, as well as the Diplo and Skrillex collab Just U, and 50 other acts to the party plan. But already the Ultra Music Festival peeps have…
For a generation of listeners who grew up with the sounds of the American rock scene in the 2000s, the name Panic! at the Disco is all too familiar. Forming in 2004, this Las Vegas band released its debut album, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, just a year later…
At this moment, Queens of the Stone Age is the best rock ‘n’ roll band on the planet. A bold statement, sure. However, while there exist other artists with similar relevance and artistic integrity, no group so deeply embodies the spirit of the genre’s past while fighting to make fresh…
There were two ways to procure rapper Nipsey Hussle’s recent release Crenshaw: download a digital copy for the cost of nothing or pay $100 for one of 1,000 hard copies. But who the hell would buy a $100 album? Jay Z did. Well, more like Jay Z bought 100. And…
What’s that barely audible uhntz-uhntz, bro? Just Ultra Music Festival oh-so-quietly releasing 2014’s Phase Two lineup, exclusively via its official iPhone and Android apps. Of course, though, we here at Crossfade are never too far from our cellular devices. So we snagged UMF’s adds for you. Just check the cut…
It’s the kid, King James! We here at Crossfade have occasionally shouted out LeBron’s skills as a part-time rapper. ‘Cause whether poppin’ a million mollies like Trinidad or freestylin’ over “Niggas in Paris,” homie’s flow has always been solidly adequate. And now, with a cover of “Back That Azz Up”…
Ever been struck by kinky Cupid’s arrow? If you’re like Fetish Factory’s Danny Martinez, then the answer is yes. “I met my fiancée, who happens to be one of the lead dancers, at a Fetish Factory party and it was love at first sight,” Martinez endearingly recalls. “We’re just the…
Now in its sophomore year, Miami Beach’s Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced its 2014 nominees. In all, this latest class counts 24 singers-songwriters and composers who represent, in LSHOF members’ estimation, “the greatest Latin talents from all over the world in every genre. ” Among the shortlisted: Miami’s…
Stumble down to The Vagabond. It’s almost time to dance. Among the few, true mainland fixtures of Miami’s Winter Music Conference week, this NE 14th Street nightspot perennially provides a WMC lineup loaded with classic house legends like Frankie “The Godfather of House Music” Knuckles, David Morales, Hector Romero, Little…
The least surprising news of the day is that tickets to Deadmau5’s free February 15 show at Ice Palace Studios were gone in about a minute. A source confirms the 60-second sell-out time is right and that people were only allowed to request two tickets per account. Still, there’s bound…
Squeal, noise junkies! The transcendent din of INC 2014 is almost upon us. Soon, there will be sabotaged guitars buzzing in the toilet, a sextet of howling amps getting kicked around the mosh pit, and maybe even obsolete electronics in flames. But as any International Noise Conference vet will gleefully…
“We are not open.” And that’s the bottom line at Bamboo Miami Beach, the sixth best hip-hop club in the 305. Over the last year, the Washington Avenue club’s become a mandatory stopover for rap’s most famous jetsetters, from longtime MIA residents Rick Ross and Lil Wayne to out-of-towners like…
As a ’90s Miami kid, Jesse Perez has bass in his DNA. In a way, his signature bump ‘n’ grind style of house music — designed, as Jesse says, for “grinding chongitas” — is descended directly from the booty bass that ruled Miami airwaves in the ’90s via 2 Live…
III Points is coming back. Yes, 3P Productions had so much fun with this past year’s inaugural three-day celebration of art, music and technology that a 2014 edition’s already in the works — but not without a few changes. Instead of Thursday to Saturday, the fest will span the weekend…
Dom Kennedy can’t sell his Get Home Safely LP exclusively at Best Buy without a major label backing him … If you buy that one, then I would like to discuss an igloo property investment opportunity in Nevada that is sure to be prosperous. It comes with its own polar…
So what if it’s only Tuesday? We can still daydream about the weekend. And since we live in the Magic City, it’s not like we have to wait till Friday to rock our stilettos, pop Dom, and get our dance on anyways. Just check out the six best SoBe bashes…
