Marc Vedo sweetly schooled those at Mansion in dance music this past Saturday night. And he handed them their sonic diplomas right before his tourmate Boy George took over the decks. Vedo’s been DJing since he was a teenager and seems to have played in every corner of the earth,…
Tegan & Sara VH1 and Scope’s Art + Music + Beach Party SCOPE Pavilion, Miami Beach Friday, December 6, 2013 At 8 p.m., the massive oceanfront tent that houses one of the largest auxiliary fairs during Art Basel Miami Beach week, Scope, closed its doors for the night. Nearby, a…
Less than 48 hours left to get your arty party fix, friends. That’s right … It is the next-to-last day of Art Basel Miami Beach 2013. And you’ve done four straight afternoons at the fairs. But if you’re not already laid up in a SoBe hotel bed (or crumpled on…
Ghostface Killah With secret guest Raekwon Plus Tha Lox’s Sheek Louch DJs Heron, Self Born, Klassik, and Exes The Stage Miami Friday, December 6, 2013 There were patdowns at the door. And a bouncer forewarned “tonight’s a different crowd.” On Thursday, De La Soul’s Maseo, Dave, and Pos did Art…
Basel is bonkers. Day after day after day after day after day, we all get to arty party with the famous, infamous, and unfamous. Some of the fun you’re not invited to. And some of it’s totally free. Tonight’s just as awesomely all over the place. Check the cut for…
De La Soul With DJs Heron, Self Born, and Ynot Opening set by Problem Kids The Stage Miami Thursday, December 5, 2013 “We are De La Soul! And we been doin’ this a long fuckin’ time,” MC Dave, AKA Trugoy the Dove, hollered, smiling and bouncing around the stage at…
Black Lips Shore Club, Miami Beach Thursday, December 5, 2013 It’s fair to say that Art Basel Miami Beach has come under critical siege at times for its supposed devolution from world-class art festival to glorified party. However, while plenty of people critiquing Basel are, in fact, too cool for…
Have you crashed enough exclusive celebrity-studded, liquor-fueled, art-driven Basel bashes yet? We didn’t think so. However, if you’ve already blown all your cash getting in on that VIP list to see Pompeya at Soho Beach House or Kendrick Lamar at Mana Wynwood, here are ten free Art Basel Miami Beach…
At 22 years old, Ben Wash is hoping to become a music mogul and electronic music heavyweight. He’s so committed to his craft, he moved from his native Greenville, South Carolina, to Miami in order to gain wider exposure. And with his label King Head Records, he’s well on his…
Photo by Morgan ColemanCheck out Crossfade’s full 30-photo slideshow of Kendrick Lamar at Mana Production Village. Last night, I tweeted at Kanye West for the first time ever. Did I think he’d read the tweet? No, duh. But I did want to document that my feet hurt a lot, and…
Colombian native and former South Florida resident Rafael Martinez has been involved with some of the most electrifying bands in metal since leaving Miami in the mid ’90s to pursue further training and education at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Few will remember his recorded local music ventures…
Alabama Shakes Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, December 4, 2013 Better Than: An abbreviated Kendrick Lamar set, a weird party not thrown by Lady Gaga on North Beach, drinking warm beer in Wynwood. As the rest of South Beach clamored about to secret parties, cramped galleries, and other Basel diversions, the…
Welcome to the weekend, friends. Oh yeah, it’s Thursday. (Don’t worry. You did not fall into an art- and booze-induced coma. Yet.) We here at Crossfade simply prefer to get the party started approximately 24 hours earlier than usual during Art Basel Miami Beach. Why? Partly because we’re still drunk…
“There’s this sense of very lonely sensuality. And, of course, the obvious paradox of being so connected but so alone,” French DJ-producer Joakim says of his latest full-length project, an as-yet untitled followup to this past June’s pair of down-tempo electro-pop tracks — “Heartbeats” and “Another Light” — and his…
To paraphase Yeezus: “They said because I’m known for music that no one would believe in me if I put on some weird masks and called it performance art.” These days, especially during Art Basel Miami Beach week, musicians aren’t satisfied with Billboard number ones and platinum records and a…
Wolf Eyes is one of the most iconic bands from the early- to mid-2000s explosion of noise music that reverberated (deafeningly) across North America. While the genre is the cumulative product of often disparate scenes, this Michigan unit — consisting of Nate Young, longtime collaborator John Olson, and a shape-shifting…
Via mocanomi.org The day after Thanksgiving, we spoke with SZA, the Top Dawg Entertainment-signed songstress with an ethereal voice. She’s intelligent, cool, but not pretentious, easy with a giggle, and told us that all she’d eaten the day before at her mom’s was collard greens –since she’s a non-grain-eating vegetarian…
Whoa, guys. Basel hasn’t even officially begun. And we here at Crossfade are already hungover. Even though the actual art fair opens tomorrow, the cruising and boozing and schmoozing’s been in full effect since Monday afternoon, when the early-bird, invite-only charity fundraisers starting serving free drinks and finger foods to…
Hey, Arcade Fire! So, uh, like, you guys wouldn’t lie to us, right? ‘Cause we really believed Win (perhaps naively and too eagerly) when he teased us with yet another Miami show during October’s special two-night stand as the Reflektors at downtown’s Mekka Nightclub and the Little Haiti Cultural Center…
The art community loves exclusivity, and the rest of the world loves drooling over things they will never experience. Well, we here at Crossfade are bringing these worlds together in this totally tantalizing list of Art Basel Miami Beach week parties that you’re not invited to. We know, it seems…
What’s that boom-bap? Just the thump of golden-era rap legends De La Soul, Wu-Tang mic mangler Ghostface Killah, and fiddle-wielding hip-hop duo Black Violin rolling up to The Stage Miami for three straight days of real beats and even realer rhymes, all in honor of Art Basel Miami Beach week…
Back in 2011, we here at Crossfade included Terre Thaemlitz, AKA DJ Sprinkles, on our list of the World’s Least Douchey DJs. It was a nod to her longstanding work as an educator and activist promoting awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. Like many others, we’d first gotten…
