There was so much rumba y baile going on last night at the Billboard Latin Music Awards that the Bank United Center almost erupted with all that Latin steam. And if you were watching the Miami Heat scorch the Milwaukee Bucks last night, chances are you missed lo caliente del…
Vintage gear enthusiast and reclusive composer, Ramiro Jeancarlo, is renowned the world over as Staccato Du Mal. Under this handle, and in cahoots with post-punk electronica label Wierd Records, Jeancarlo has cemented a position for himself in the pantheon of contemporary coldwave, dark wave, and experimental, mostly-beat-oriented music. Adding to…
Alice in Chains Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, April 25, 2013 Better Than: Well, The Essential Alice in Chains. “C’mon, it’s the first gig …” Alice in Chains axe man Jerry Cantrell deadpanned when he and his band screwed up the opening bars of “Down in a Hole,” a 20-year-old top…
Be a music snob and hate on dubstep all you want — some of us here in the 305 live for that sick bass drop, bro. There’s a reason why Miami has always been the City of Bass. And few locals know that better than Juan BassHead. It’s why he’s…
A tragically pea-brained swath of society doesn’t believe P. Scott Cunningham and the University of Wynwood’s month-long, citywide “O, Miami” poetry festival is worth its weight in heroic couplets. What? Does simultaneously flying in the guy who fucking invented indie rock and the poet Obama had read at his second…
Hip-hop is 40 and a celebration’s in order. So KRS-One is touring the nation, bringing real hip-hop back to where it belongs — the streets. “The revolution will not be televised,” the MC recently told allhiphop.com. “You keep looking for real hip-hop on these bullshit stations. You’re not going to…
Virtuoso is one phrase that comes to mind to describe Recloose, AKA Matthew Chicoine. Also, master turntablist (not a credential you hear much in this era of laptop “DJs”), multi-instrumentalist producer, band leader, and even music academician molding the minds of electronic dance music’s next generation of DJ-producers. Of course,…
The weekend is so close, you can almost smell it. In a few hours, you’ll want to throw your papers in the air, run out of the cubicle, and make your way to the nearest bar for happy hour. The possibilities will seem endless, but that doesn’t mean you have…
Paint your claws. Dye your hair. Eat a dove alive. Because (formerly?) beastly heavy metal monolith Black Sabbath just announced its full 2013 North American tour. And the (formerly?) gut-rumbling triumvirate is coming to South Florida for a midsummer doomfest. As the Sabbath says (via Twitter), “Satan’s coming round the…
The hot weather is here. And South Beach summers are all about naked shoulders, bare backs and sweet, sweet music. So go get your epic party on at one, two, or all six of these steamy SoBe soirees. Some big names are coming to the beach, raining down trance, electro,…
For decades, Dade County has been caught up in a tide of grime and blood that rolls across across the concrete wastelands of the city and its suburbs. But this toxic waste is also the cesspool from which punk rock bands are born. Like Die Trying, a Miami crew whose…
“I’ve been living on such sweet nothing,” you lament. “But I’m trying to hope with nothing to hold.” Oh, it’s true … Tickets are all sold out for Calvin Harris at Story on South Beach tomorrow night. And yet you needn’t despair. Because Story Nightclub and Crossfade have got two…
Of Montreal just finished its new album. Frontman and creative nerve-center Kevin Barnes tells Crossfade that he wrote the whole thing in about three weeks on his first-ever, self-imposed “writer’s retreat” in San Francisco. After that, he returned to his Athens, Georgia, home and recorded it with his band in…
Alice in Chains at the Fillmore April 25
Poet e.e. cummings said, “To destroy is always the first step in any creation.” For Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, destruction and creation are a way of life. “A good artist is willing to die many times over,” Corgan says. “What’s funny is, I’ve died so many times.” The lead…
Peter Murphy Performs the Music of Bauhaus at Grand Central April 30
The Electric Pickle lives. After a whole month of Pickle parties were moved to other downtown clubs in the wake of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week (and some code compliance issues), regulars and casual clubbers alike started speculating about the Midtown party spot’s closure or relocation. But when…
Oh, what have we done to deserve this? In just two short months, iconoclastic synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys (otherwise known as Mr. Neil Tennant and Mr. Chris Lowe) will be unveiling their 12th studio album, Electric. And then they’ll be venturing across our continent for the “Pet Shop Boys’…
Back in December, we here at Crossfade had a chat with Ben UFO about his Hessle Audio label’s roots in the U.K.’s early underground dubstep scene. Well, David Kennedy (AKA Pearson Sound and Ramadanman) is another Hessle cofounder, not to mention the label’s foremost producer. And he boasts a forward-thinking…
If all y’all follow Bad Girl RiRi on Instagram, you already know she loves the weed, the green, and the big booties. So it’s no surprise that Rihanna got down with the Magic City’s finest smoke, cash money, and fat asses after her 4/20 show in SoFla. Just check the…
The panic alarm had sounded. It was time to save the Fillmore Miami Beach. “In case you haven’t heard, here’s the situation,” Sweat Records’ Lauren “Lolo” Reskin warned local music fans in a call to action earlier this month. “Two companies have proposals on the table to completely renovate the…
Tuesday morning around 9:35 a.m., Wilbrent Bain Jr., the brother of local rap legend Trina (born Katrina Laverne Taylor), was shot and killed in Northwest Miami-Dade near 91st Street after a dispute with a friend devolved into gunshots. His street name was “Goonkie.” He’d survived another shooting in 2008. And…
