Sweatstock 2013 at Sweat Records and Churchill’s Pub April 20
Sweatstock 2013 at Sweat Records and Churchill’s Pub April 20
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Rihanna’s Diamonds Tour, With A$AP Rocky, at BB&T Center April 20
Coachella 2013: Top Five EDM Moments
Amid the crazy sea of hipsters, hippies, old folks, pre-teens, and babies(!), Coachella’s weekend one was also packed with EDM revelers ready to get their fist-pumping music fix. In fact, it seems that dance music lovers are growing in numbers so much that every other car in line at the…
Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week
It’s finally here! Record Store Day (and cough, 4/20) is right around the corner. And that means tons of great acts are ready to get down and dirty with all y’all Miami music lovers. Whether you’re looking for rock, punk, hip-hop, jazz, synth-pop, booty bass, or Latin, there’s the perfect…
Obama on Jay-Z, Beyonce, Cuba: “White House Not Involved, We’ve Got Better Things to Do”
The Prez and Hova “got a little bond there.” But Obama insists he didn’t help his pals, Jay-Z and Beyonce (AKA The Carters), secure clearance from the Treasury Department for their fifth anniversary vacay to Cuba. “This is not something the White House was involved with,” POTUS tells the Today…
SpaceGhostPurrp and Nardwuar Rate Miami’s Strip Clubs, From Coco’s to KOD
“Holy fucking shit … Is this Meshuggah?” That’s how Carol City creep rapper SpaceGhostPurrp reacts when Canadian weirdo interviewer Nardwuar bestows a fine slab of Swedish metal upon him. Why? Because SGP is the rare hip-hopper with a deep and abiding fanaticism for dark and heavy death-obsessed rock. “This shit…
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Cog Nomen on the Survival of Record Stores: “Community Will Never Go Extinct”
Oh yeah, naked mind, whack frack attack … Enter the world of Cog Nomen’s Ulysses Perez and Buffalo Brown, where everyone’s shimmying to that “Indietronic Psychedelic” sound. “Kind of Pink Floydish,” Mr. Brown explains, “with some songs without words that are just about transporting you.” We here at Crossfade recently…
Fonseca, Latin Grammy Winner, Bringing Colombian Tropipop to Fillmore Miami Beach
Latin Grammy-winning songwriter and international advocate of peace Juan Fernando Fonseca, known to fans simply as Fonseca, will be bringing Colombian tropipop to the house Jackie Gleason built. Named after Ilusión, the singer’s fourth record, Fonseca’s latest tour will make the second of three Florida stops at the Fillmore Miami…
Selena Gomez Announces World Tour 2013, Coming to South Florida on October 29
Bieber-free and de-Disneyfied, post-teen pop star Selena Gomez is begging all y’all to “Come and Get It.” She just broke up with the Biebz. She just starred in Harmony Korine’s weirdo art blockbuster Spring Breakers. And she just performed her new sexed-up single at the MTV Movie Awards. Now Selena’s…
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Coachella 2013: An Insane Campsite Tour
The Coachella campgrounds are the Wild West of the festival. They are the sort of place you can imagine Hunter S. Thompson running around with his pants around his ankles. Drugs are more plentiful than food. And going to bed before 4 a.m. is considered an early night. Here are…
Sweat Records, Kenny Millions, and Holly Hunt Talk Sweatstock 2013 and Saving Record Stores
Skeptics predict the local music shop is going extinct like the penny arcade. But for the last six years, so-called “independently owned, stand-alone brick-and-mortar retailers” around the U.S. (and the world) have been banding together under the Record Store Day banner to, paraphrasing the immortal Beastie Boys, fight for their…
Six Tips for Doing Drugs at Music Festivals and Not Getting Screwed by the Police
Timothy NorrisThis dude is actually drug-free. But he still knows his rights. Hate to say it, but some of you at Coachella will be approached by police officers assuming you have drugs. Well, you just may, but guess what? You still have rights, man. Cameron Bowman is here to help!…
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Problem Kids’ “Useful Idiot” About Jay-Z: “The Real Cuba Is Not What He Portrayed”
Problem Kids are Miami Cubans with a message for Jay-Z about his trip to Cuba. Their response to his “Open Letter” is a new track called “Useful Idiot.” “He looks like he’s praising the Castro regime, and we wanna give him a history lesson,” say MCs Mario Obregon and Christian…
Coachella 2013: Eight Best Moments of Weekend One
Karen O’s Outfit Karen O’s wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over a suit that looked like it was made of mercury. The vibrant collage was topped with a headpiece that Liberace might…
Coachella 2013: Five Worst Moments of Weekend One
Daft Punk Fake-Out Friday and Saturday, all anyone could talk about was if Daft Punk was going to show up during Phoenix’s set. Why? Because we were fucking teased. On the main stage before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a long commercial for their new album played, and then we found…
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Pac Div Smoked Out EVE Miami, April 13
Pac Div Featuring Johnny Polygon Eve, Downtown Miami Saturday, April 13, 2013 Better Than: Watching Three Musketeers, Three Stooges, and Three Amigos. Descending from atop of the stairs, the three California dudes (Mibbs, Like, and BeYoung), who make up Pac Div, headed toward the EVE stage as they gave daps…
Pitbull Drops Rap Response to Jay-Z, Beyonce’s Cuba Visit, Offers to Pay for Trip
Senator Marco Rubio suggested that Jay-Z and Beyoncé have “no interest in Cuban People’s freedom.” And U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart said that the pair’s recent visit “funds the machinery of oppression.” Pero, their constituent, Miami native, and Cuban-American rapper Pitbull thinks that the Carters’ Treasury-approved “educational exchange…
Coachella 2013’s Five Worst Fashion Statements by Famous People
We all know Coachella is a textbook study on the desire to wear things that no human should. That typically applies to the crowd who come decked out in ill-fitting, barely-there costumes, spirit hoodies and every piece of tight neon attire imaginable. But artists on stage can commit some cringe-worthy…
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Pac Div on Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller: “Why Don’t We Just Have Them on Our Shit?”
It’s been a couple of years since Los Angeles has seen Phil Jackson’s triangle offense dominate not only the West Coast, but the country. In that same period of time, California hip-hop trio Pac Div has delivered two albums, The Div, and most recently, GMB. An acronym for the Pac…
New Order’s Nostalgic Set at Coachella 2013
While over at the main stage the bulk of the Coachella crowd was enduring Phoenix with the hope that Daft Punk would come out — they instead got R. Kelly — a smaller but perhaps- more-enthusiastic crowd got a first-rate greatest hits set from New Order. See also: -Coachella 2013:…
Brochella! Seven Best T-Shirts the Dudes Are Wearing at Coachella 2013
The bros at Coachella 2013 are freaking bringing it! Sure, we all know about the women who wear just about nothing, but the guys are getting exceedingly creative, particularly when it comes to their funny t-shirts. So it’s time to give the men some props for combining humor with style…
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Ten Best 4/20 Parties in Miami
Praise the pot gods. We have all survived to see another 4/20, the highest, holiest, and happiest of weed holidays. The crop has been harvested. It is lush and green and good. Now if only there were someplace to celebrate with a nice, ceremonial, musical smoke out … Here are…