Everyone loves Wynwood, it’s not even a secret. Whether you’re looking to brush up on your culture, enjoy a few brews, gather with locals, hit the shops, whatever. It’s the home of a rad art scene, but it’s getting a party rep too. Some of the arty folks and business…
“Open up your thighs, and look inside for a deep surprise.” On any given night, hearing those words broadcast over the loud speaker of a club might be the cue to either get the fuck out or grab up your lose dollars and make it thunderstorm. But Sunday, November 10,…
Stephen Marley is a man of few words. When asked what it’s like to follow in the footsteps of his famous father, Bob Marley, a man who comes as close to deification as our popular culture will allow, Stephen replies with only a sentence fragment: “Rastaman vibration positive.” See also:…
Your job may get in the way of your social life from time to time, but sometimes you gotta be a rebel without a cause and fight for your right to party. So slip on your party pants, put on your dancing shoes, and get your celebratory gear in tact…
Tom Anderson Productions is a Miami record label that’s dredged the depths of South Florida’s dive-bar freeform music scene, digging up tuneage that would have otherwise remained completely obscured. Miami-based visual artist and Renaissance man Domingo Castillo founded the label in 2009 as a digital-only publishing house that used separate…
Who’s down for some jazzin’, slow jammin’, bumpin’ ‘n’ grindin’ in the Gardens? From March 14 to 16, the parking lot at Sun Life Stadium will be swarmed by 60,000 mature ‘n’ sexy folks for two whole nights of R&B, pop-dance, soul, and other kinds of suave, seductive stuff. That’s…
Still wondering, “What is 11?” Well … Exactly 11 days ago, we here at Crossfade noted that a new nightclub named E11even Miami would be taking over the old Goldrush strip club spot in downtown Miami. At that point, the address and the January 2014 opening date were the only…
On Saturday, Mother Nature was no friend to the inaugural Friends of Nature Music & Arts Festival as an almost Biblical downpour forced the cancelation of all acts — including headliner Matisyahu — scheduled to go on stage after 7 p.m., by order of the fire department. On Sunday, though,…
The first five days of the work week are the hardest. Good thing we have music from Bonobo’s downtempo beats to Alejandro Fernández’s Latin hits to some good ‘ol jazz to help us get through the misery. Just check out the five best concerts going down in Miami this week…
In 1966, brothers Sérgio Dias Baptista and Arnaldo Baptista formed Os Mutantes, a Brazilian rock band that played the role of confident court jester within the folk-rock Tropicália movement. While the group’s forerunners and mentors, like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, preferred sentimentality and left-leaning ideals, the Mutants zeroed in…
Krewella With Seven Lions and Candyland Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, November 8, 2013 Better Than: A generation of fully clothed young women and their boyfriends getting drunk and starting fights at rock ‘n’ roll shows. Or a Krewella show without dad. EDM is getting old. For years now, dance music…
Ah, little Justin Bieber. He’s little no more. Our heart Biebz with joy every time he makes a headline, and these days, every headline is dirtier than the last. Because he’s a man, he can’t twerk his way into adulthood. He could probably get Terry Richardson to take his nudie…
The birds are chirping. The sun is shining. The shrooms are sprouting. The palms are swaying. The breeze is blowing. The butterflies are fluttering. The whales are reearrr-ing. The waves are crashing onto the shores of Virginia Key Beach Park. And some roadie who works for the Friends of Nature…
Israel is by no means lagging behind the electronic dance music capitals of the world. In particular, the coastal city of Tel Aviv — known as the “city that never sleeps” — boasts a world-class nightlife and voracious appetite for electronic beats. It’s no surprise then that Israel would spawn…
The average white-collar American spends 200 hours a week typing away on their keyboard, tirelessly filing paperwork, dealing with pesky coworkers, and answering countless emails and phone calls. That leaves us with only 48 hours to let loose and relive those college frat days. And since we spend a huge…
Fernando Perdomo was once one of South Florida’s own, an omnipresent musician, local entrepreneur, and singer-songwriter who made an indelible mark on the local scene. He relocated to L.A. in June 2012, following the death of his mother and the sale of his family home, which also housed his recording…
Every Monday, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Miami’s airwaves — historically reserved for the musical accompaniment to bumpin’, shakin’, grindin’, twerkin’, tweakin’, and getting stuck in traffic on the 836 — are regularly seized by sounds and scores typically reserved for marines fighting aliens, plumbers fighting dragons, and wizards…
Classifying any musicians’s sound as simply downtempo is unfair. The term says nothing about the idiosyncrasies and stylistic nuances of the individual artist’s work. In fact, it’s merely a description of the music’s rate of speed, a suggestion that these tracks are meant for afterhours home listening instead of the…
We can never get enough of the dudes in skeleton tees, ladies in leopard-print body suits, sculptures of perfectly-chiseled naked men, and unicorns made out of red and white buttons that overrun the streets, bars, and galleries of Wynwood during Second Saturday Art Walk. That’s why hundreds of us crowd…
Free expensive shit for doing next to nothing? That’s Brisk, baby! The good people of Brisk want to brainwash you develop your economic loyalty by giving away nice swag like the DNA headphones pictured above. They come with two cords, a drawstring bag, and a pack of silica to keep…
When we here at Crossfade rang up Jon Anderson, the founding member and iconic voice of the pioneering English prog rock band Yes, we thought that we’d reached his secretary. “It’s me,” he responds, swinging the words heavenward and high. He confesses that he is grocery shopping near his home…
There is no effing way you haven’t heard of Krewella by now. The EDM trio’s song “Alive” is inescapable. And even in March, the group’s Jahan Yousaf, her sister Yasmine, and their homie Rain Man had Ultra Music Festival’s beat freaks begging to “get wet!” New Times caught up with…
