Some bands try to snag some buzz with a catchy name. Others become legends with their music alone. But when your band’s name is Kinky and you have been nominated for several Latin Grammys, you’ve definitely made it. We here at Crossfade caught up with guitarist Carlos Chairez just in…
Hey! It’s Thursday! The weekend is (almost) officially here, and it’s time to break out the dancing shoes, hemorrhage that wallet, and get nasty as you want to be. There will be all kinds of EDM in the streets of SoBe this weekend, from deep, soulful house to flashy electro-pop…
The Río de la Plata (or River Plate) is a 140 mile-wide estuary that separates Argentina and Uruguay. It’s also the place of confluence for the diverse folk music styles Latin Grammy Award-winning Argentinian-Uruguayan collective Bajofondo began blending into their idiosyncratic Rioplantense electronic world fusion in the early 2000s. “What…
Genderqueer rapper Mykki Blanco will bite the head off a harpy, steal that bitch’s wings, and work ’em harder than any regular rap dame ever could. That’s because Blanco is no regular rap dame, and she certainly ain’t no regular rap dude. She is hip-hop’s new in-between, the great white…
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What’s the best way to spend a Monday in Miami? Hurling bricks of cold, hard American cash at fistfighting strippers. As a member of Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group and an adopted 305-er, Meek Mill is a big fan of this particularly Floridian recreational activity. So it’s only obvious that…
So Microsoft hasn’t been cool since Windows 95 went obsolete on December 31, 2001, right? All the hip kids have been buying Macs and MacBooks and Mac OS and iPods and iPads for over a decade. Basically, ever since Steve Jobs (RIP) and company started building desktops that looked like…
“For me,” Ricochet mastermind Alan Roth tells Crossfade, “the nightlife business has been an incredible ride. “What I’ve been able to see and do and the life it’s given me, I’m grateful,” he says. “I’ve been able to buy the houses that I own because of nightlife.” But now he’s…
How did the Stage suddenly become the best rap club in downtown Miami? Over the next month, this two-and-a-half-year-old Design District bunker that’s built its rep on roots, rock, and reggae will serve as the staging place for classic-era shows by former LOX member Styles P, booty bass pioneer Uncle…
“Give me a Borgasm!” No doubt, the youth of America are just a bunch of desperate beat freaks begging for the kinda “bass makes bitches cum.” And Israeli dubstepper Borgore is the dude with the deep rumble. After attracting ratchet pussy, doing jumpkicks, and climbing speakers at Ultra Music Festival…
“This Spring is your chance to witness the legend himself.” That’s the official hype for DJ Shadow’s All Basses Covered 2013 tour, a 15-city U.S. trek that’s set to snub Miami (and Mansion Nightclub), where the Cali selektor was kicked off the decks for being “too future.” “As opposed to…
Bars in Miami come and go as quickly as the EDM madness that is Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week. So when a Wynwood hangout celebrates three years of beats and booze, it’s a serious accomplishment. Especially when the fete consists of the grand opening of…
A wise man once said, “Ain’t no party like a New Times party ’cause a New Times party don’t stop.” But why are our parties so awesome? The two-pronged answer is part of a longstanding tradition of histrionic revelry, dating back to the Socratic orgies of Ancient Greece: Dank food…
Traditions are kept alive by constant change. The roots music of the 21st Century is being created as much with electric guitars, sequencers, and laptops as with drums and flutes. That’s one of the ideas behind the Rhythm Foundation’s Heineken TransAtlantic Festival, whose 2013 headliners include Argentine-Uruguayan electro-tango group Bajofondo…
It’s the Boshman’s b-day. Actually, the six-foot, 11-inch NBA superstar (born March 24, 1984) turned 29 last week. “Had a Mariachi Band for my Birthday,” the self-professed “coolest dude alive” tweeted. But he’s a pro baller. And their b-day bashes last a minimum of 11 days. So this Wednesday (after…
Nowhere else in the universe will you be able to yell the words “I want you to want me!” along with Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander, while covered in paint, except at this year’s SunFest. The Saturday lineup features both the band that sung “Surrender” and the world’s largest paint party,…
Sitting in a car with two unidentified men near NW 152nd Street and Sixth Avenue in the parking lot of an apartment complex, Kenneth “Nu Money” Casilla was murdered. According to Miami-Dade Police Department (via NY1), the Brooklyn-bred, Miami-based rapper and Rich Mafia crew member was shot and killed at…
April has just begun, and no doubt you fell for some embarrassing news clip about Daft Punk’s album release being canceled or a zombie apocalypse — wait, never mind. But rest assured that the good music in this post is not a lie, trick, or gimmick. These incoming jazz musicians,…
“It is true,” longtime downtown Miami don Louis Puig admitted last month. “I sold Club Space.” Writing in his semi-annual “tell-it-like-it-is letter regarding EDM,” Puig also confirmed that Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013 would be his last with the NE 11th Street party institution. But the ex-owner…
