Conformity is overrated. The desire to fit the mold is so 2006. For video directors, the age of applying their vision with full creative control has already been upon us for several years, thanks to YouTube, Vimeo, and cheap but effective filming equipment. In just a little over a year,…
Matias Aguayo is not your garden variety EDM artist. Not by a long stretch. In many ways, the Chilean-born producer is Latin America’s answer to UK sonic mad scientist Matthew Herbert, approaching the formulaic house and techno genres with an irreverent spirit of experimentation and unconventional studio techniques. Mirroring Herbert’s…
Hundreds of live-music fans packed Churchill’s Pub on Saturday night for hours of non-stop entertainment from Die Trying, Low Visibility, The Ruins, Hardware Youth, SSK, Bottom Shelf Warriors, and FWA. The bar ran through liquor like a freight train. The circle pit was a hurricane of flying limbs. And between…
Music must be magic. What else (besides maybe booze) can unite hipsters with large, thick-framed glasses and red lipstick, rockers with fishnet stalkings and leather jackets, models with little black dresses, and everyone else in between for the sole purpose of jammin’? Whatever it is, music’s got it. So let’s…
California-born, Tijuana-raised Julieta Venegas is a multifaceted singer-songwriter whose sound has clearly matured over the years. And that is especially noticeable on her 2012 release Los Momentos, which she is currently promoting with an extended U.S. tour that makes a Miami stop this week. We here at Crossfade recently caught…
As the world waits with bated breath to see what America’s favorite twerk monster will do next, we can say with near-absolute certainty that it will be something to do with weed smoking — not that there’s anything wrong with that. In the past, lil’-no-more Miley Cyrus has been shifty…
Two months ago, Miami Beach cops tasered a kid to death over graffiti. And today, Miami and his family are still seeking Justice for Reefa. From October 3 to 5 at LMNT, local skaters, dancers, artists, and DJs will come together to celebrate Israel Hernandez’s life, raise money for his…
Ketchy Shuby might be a lot of things, but a flash in the pan is definitely not one of them. Even in an arid Miami indie music scene that doesn’t offer its artists a hell of a lot of opportunity, the band has stuck it out together for over six…
“Bitch dont look at me…i ain hear to start trends.” That’s the word from Robb Bank$, a 19-year-old, born-in-Brooklyn, bred-in-Coral-Springs rapper who’s all about not giving “fuks,” writing lines on “dat lean,” and hollering “out wit tha old in wit tha new i guess…but wut next?” And this is what’s…
Put on your party pants and dancing shoes… It’s the weekend! And as a fellow member of society, it is your duty to spend the next three days the way weekends are meant to be spent: with cheap booze, celebratory tunes, and enough money left in your wallet to satisfy…
Who is Andrea Herrera? The hip-hop community knows her better by her street name, Kat Stacks. Y’know, the loud-mouthed Venezuela-born former prostitute who helped boost World Star Hip Hop’s Internet ratings by bragging on video about having slept with basically every famous rapper on the scene. Stacks was kind of…
If electronic music can be called music’s final frontier — the veritable cutting edge of sonic innovation — then it’s artists like Move D (AKA David Moufang) who are its true trailblazers. If the German production veteran is still relatively obscure (as far as mainstream EDM hype goes), it’s only…
Born in the wake of a Toots and the Maytals performance that didn’t happen, the Miami Reggae Festival will celebrate its fourth edition on Saturday, November 23, at Coconut Grove’s Peacock Park. The daylong event, as reggae fest founder Alfonso D’Niscio Brooks tells it, was launched after the police shut…
When listening to Julieta Venegas’ 2013 disc Los Momentos, longtime fans might have noticed a clear shift in her style — something that might have been informed by recently becoming a mother. “Time-wise, my days have changed,” Venegas says. “I have to accommodate my time differently, and also, I think…
Imagine being so successful that you could buy a house and have no idea what it looks like. Sounds awesome, right? Wrong! It’s fucking terrible! A life of travel and excess is nothing but drug abuse, greedy lovers, lies, false friends, and emptiness. At least, this is what we’ve deduced…
When lil’ rappers like Drizzy Drake go to sleep at night, of what do they dream? A Miami Vice-slash-Scarface world in which they are outlaw heroes with a mansion, an armory stocked with illegal machine guns, a closet full of suits and t-shirts, and an ethnically ambiguous girlfriend who needs…
In commercial hip-hop, your money game is even more important than your ability to rhyme. If you’ve got money, you’ve got rhymes, and if you don’t have money, you fake it till you make it. For these top earners, the faking days are over. Making Forbes’ list of biggest rap…
STRFKR With Chrome Sparks and Feelings Grand Central, Miami Tuesday, September 24, 2013 Better Than: It was a Tuesday night. How did you spend yours? At one point during last night’s triumphant set by Starfucker (STRFKR), the bright lights that danced and coalesced behind band members cooled, and the stage…
Despite being a sly sarcastic joke, the band name Miami Horror nonetheless evokes our city’s essential duality — a glitzy, neon-soaked tropical paradise on the surface, with a dark, seedy criminal underbelly, as mythologized by Miami Vice and Scarface. “I liked the contrast of the two words — colorful and…
Gucci Mane has been going berserk lately. He spewed a bunch of hate speech about Brick Squad and how he banged Nicki Minaj via Twitter, and then his own friend called the cops and had him arrested for erratic behavior (getting an ice-cream cone tatted on his face wasn’t a…
It’s No Sleep Tuesday. So drink a Red Stripe well cold and get ready to touch di road for some dancehall, reggae, soca, and all things Caribbean. Guaranteed to keep you up all night, this weekly bashment, hosted by Eccentrix Sound (the same crew responsible for the Riddim Series), launches…
True. There’s no such thing as a free party on South Beach. You’ve always gotta anticipate certain expenses. Like valet parking. And drinks for you. And tips for the guy who dries your hands in the restroom. And drinks for the babe by the bar. And cigarettes for that babe…
