Wiseman Willie, Padre Nelson, the potheaded stranger. He’s known by many names, but this country legend and social activist has remained steadfast in his singular devotion to Mary Jane for nearly 60 years. He’s been busted. He’s been badgered. But he’s never backed down. And by God, everyone’s favorite pothead…
Noise music is riddled with freaks.Just like the circus, urban downtowns, and Ultra Music Festival right as the clock strikes fuck-a-tree-o’clock – this envelope pushing, challenging, and potentially full-of-shit genre is a straight up 24/7 weirdo convention. But out of all the beardos, hippies, art crusties, masked perverts, LARPers, Burning…
Last month, we here at Crossfade gave you a heads up about Massive Wednesdays at The Stage and the live electronic music performances they are serving up each week. Well, Massive Ideas, the folks behind the night, show no signs of slowing down their bookings, and not just on Wednesdays…
We’re suckers. For years, retailers have made a fortune off love-stricken individuals who feel obligated to spend copious amounts of money on stuffed bears, heart-shaped boxes of crappy chocolate-covered cherries, sappy holiday cards, and dinner for two at underwhelming (albeit overpriced) restaurants, all in the name of Valentine’s Day. But…
Another beautiful week in Miami. And with all of our sun and fun comes a lot of great traveling and sweet music wafting through the night air. The forecast shows exciting performances from lovelorn chill bands, noise rock, trappy uhntz-uhntz, cool-kid dance beats, and a few flurries of funk. There’s…
Save Rock & Roll … If we here at Crossfade were picking candidates for that task, Fall Out Boy probably wouldn’t land at the top of the list. But that’s the name of Pete Wentz and crew’s newly announced comeback album and tour. “This isn’t a reunion because we never…
Psychedelic percussionist and transgenre, globally informed music enthusiast Ed Wilcox has lived in Florida, Philadelphia, Mississippi, Texas, Scotland, Norway, Iran, Baltimore, and the intergalactic cosmos of the mind. He has kept time for ensembles rooted in comfortably familiar North American idioms, like jazz and blues-based stompin’. And he’s also been…
According to Pepe Billete, “pata sucias” can be found at clubs all over Miami, shaking their drunk asses for the world to see, and stomping their dirty bare feet on club floors without a care in the world. Personally, we think that’s a beautiful thing. But there are a lot…
“Suck my dick, kiss my ass” … Circa ’98, Miss Kittin busted the club wide open with “Frank Sinatra” — a sly, sarcastic electroclash banger that laughed in the face of bottle-poppin’, limousine-fuckin’ club rats. “I saw it coming, the star DJ world, not knowing I would be part of…
What do you get when you combine eight guys from across the Caribbean and Latin America with a passion for creating sazón? Bachaco. Named after the leafcutter ant in Venezuela, an insect that’s used to make salsa picante, the Afro-Caribbean-roots-rock-cumbia-reggae-ska band recently released its first self-titled album and the crew…
Bey is back. After a publicity tour touting her hot post-Blue Ivy bod on the covers of dudely mags like GQ (and despite scandalizing America by lip-syncing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Obama’s inauguration), Beyonce made her big return last night at Super Bowl XLVII. She rocked a supertight, sweaty leather…
Congratulations, you’ve made it through one more hellish week of commute, lunch breaks, anxiety, and that stupid bitch who sits next to you. You deserve a prize for putting up with that place. What’s the prize? All the alcohol your hard-earned money can buy. And hopefully, some dirty-dirty, either with…
The timing? Perfect. Happy hour at the strip club was starting to feel like a XXX version of Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day. It’s the same three songs over and over and over again. We’ve already experienced how every “big booty ho” works the pole to 2 Chainz’s “Birthday Song,” and…
There will be bloodshed in New Orleans this Sunday as brother (San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh) battles brother (Baltimore Ravens skipper John Harbaugh) for football supremacy in Super Bowl XLVII. Two white guys move their soldiers on the field of war, and we eat, drink, argue, do the Heisman…
French EDM icon Miss Kittin (AKA Caroline Hervé) has been rocking the scene since the ’90s. But so far, her discography has consisted exclusively of records written in collaboration with producers like The Hacker, Tobi Neumann, and Golden Boy. In 2013, however, we’ll finally see Miss Kittin come into her…
Who is Rell the Soundbender? Ask the man himself and the answer’s gonna be something like “I’m an NBA junkie, nerd, and part-time superhero.” But homie’s also a DJ-producer with Panamanian roots who was born in Virginia and ran the streets in the FLA. Since 2004, he’s been doin’ work…
Well, it finally happened. Tickets for weekend two of Ultra Music Festival 2013 have officially sold out. That means the possibility of a trip to Miami’s annual dance mecca is quickly slipping out of your slow-grabby reach. Yes, you still have a shot at purchasing weekend one tickets or six-day…
HeRobust The Stage, Miami Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Better Than: Having some sick trap artist in from Atlanta, only to watch him leave. Miami crowds are famous for their love of House music, and moombahton is quickly becoming all the rage, but it wouldn’t be fair to say Miami hasn’t…
Oh! Bingo! Bingo! Bingo! If we take a closer look at your card, we see that in fact, yes, Bingo Players are coming to LIV for one helluva raucous set packed with electro, trap, electro, house, and definitely some more electro. These Dutchmen — Paul Bäumer and Maarten Hoogstraten –…
Corrections House With Shroud Eater and Holly Hunt Presented by Speedfreek Churchill’s Pub, Miami Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Better Than: Not being “destroyed,” “annihilated,” “depressed,” and “confused” on a Wednesday night. In the Internet age, it is pretty much impossible for anyone with a computer to be surprised by a…
Lady Gaga used to have it all. She had the most Twitter followers in the world. She had number-one single after number-one single. And she had a legion of obsessively adoring fans at her every beck and call. Well, she probably still has those Little Monsters. But in a lot…
We’re almost done with the week, and we’re almost done with the first month of 2013. How much have you gotten done so far? Alright, forget that question. How much have you partied so far? Not enough, right? Cool … Well, there’s loads of great music coming ’round the bend…
