Another Art Basel Miami Beach week has come and gone. But while we definitely got our art on and loved every awesome musical act, we couldn’t stop staring at what all those fancy motherfuckers were wearing! What can we say, we here at Crossfade are somewhat shallow. So we headed…
After a few months spent dabbling in bottom-heavy sludge and tension-and-release death metal, South Florida extreme music promotion powerhouse Speedfreek is living up to its name like never before. Six days before the alleged Mayan Apocalypse ends the world as we know it, Richmond, Virginia grind freaks Pig Destroyer will…
Once Miami succumbs to the polar icecaps and the city is well under water, only the 305’s ass-clapping, booty bass legacy will float on. Well, maybe DJ Laz too. He’s got a boat. And if he’s lucky, Mr. Nice Guy Records himself, Jesse Perez, will be on that boat too…
Cult musician and visual artist Daniel Johnston might just suffer from an excess of mythology. For some two decades, the Austin-based performer has found champions for his work in big names like Tom Waits and Beck. But it’s in the past decade or so, particularly after the release of the…
Wynwood got wilder than a thousand hungry lions at a zebra convention. And SPIN magazine’s Art Basel Miami Beach week party at new club Gramps offered plenty of great music for the soundtrack. We got drunk and took pictures of it all between repeated food truck visits, and trips around…
It’s 3:30 on Saturday afternoon in Miami’s Design District. A live rendition of “Canción del Mariachi” drowns out the beep, beep, beep of delivery trucks backing into alleyways behind contemporary furniture stores and restaurants that Crossfade can only afford when someone else is paying. “Soy un hombre muy honrado, que…
Dressed in two t-shirts, gray sweatpants, and flanked by a sheet music stand, Daniel Johnston delivered a short, sweet early-evening Art Basel Miami Beach week set at Grand Central. He gulped four bottles of water. He sang those happy-sad, love- and death-obsessed songs. And he even showed off some sketches…
If you mix alcohol, dancing and a queer pop collective with a fancy hotel and a pool, you’re probably going to end up pissing off security. Over the weekend, the Ssion crew set up at the Shore Club for the Pulse Miami Art Fair afterparty, delivering a set that included…
On Sunday morning at approximately 3 a.m., latin pop star Jenni Rivera boarded a private Learjet in Mexico, along with two pilots and four other passengers including her publicist, lawyer, and makeup artist. Ten minutes later, they were all dead. The victims of a tragic plane crash in the desert…
“Where’s Thurston Moore?” That is the question we’ve been asking each other since the Sonic Youth frontman and South Florida native was first spotted at nontraditional art spaces around town during Art Basel Miami Beach week. He was in Miami to perform in honor of his late friend Kurt Cobain…
Basel Castle With Twin Shadow, Trinidad James, Purity Ring, and many more The Overthrow Castle, Miami Saturday, December 8, 2012 Better Than: Getting stuck on the wrong side of the entrance ropes. While most of Art Basel Miami Beach week involves outsiders swooping in with dollars and largesse, trying to…
Rakim The Stage Miami Friday, December 7 Better Than: Getting Paid in Increments. It had been a long time since Rakim rolled through our hood prior to last night’s performance at The Stage. See also: -Basel Castle 2012: Twin Shadow, Trinidad James, and Purity Ring -Danny Brown and Shepard Fairey…
Two years ago, indie-pop ice queen Emily Haines and Metric unleashed a free ocean-side show on Miami’s artiest rockers with Art Basel Miami Beach’s Art Loves Music beach bash. For 2012, billed as the “You Oughta Know Artist,” this New Wave-y dance rock foursome returned to Miami Art Week week,…
The Bawse just canceled the last six shows of his MMG Tour. Earlier today, we here at Crossfade mentioned that two dates in North Carolina got nixed after Ross received death threats from Gangster Disciple members. But now representatives of Maybach Music Group tell us that all concerts till December…
Most art is silent. Even during Basel week. That’s why we here at Crossfade — an admittedly hopeless gaggle of noise junkies — just can’t get through the week without offsetting our 12-hour days at the art fairs with 12-hour nights at Miami’s hipster bars, rock dives, and downtown concert…
The Bawse is wanted. Just two days after a triumphant hometown throwdown at the Fillmore Miami Beach with his Maybach Music crew, Rick Ross has received death threats from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples, a street gang founded on Chicago’s South Side in the ’60s by David…
DJ Shadow says, “Listen.” From ’90s sample-heavy hip-hop to millenial hyphy experiments, he has been predicting the next phase of rap music for 20 years. But now the 40-year-old experimental hip-hop DJ-producer (born Joshua Paul Davis in San Jose, California) has just released a multi-disc, career-spanning, glow-in-the-dark retrospective boxset entitled…
No one wrote “Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit” on the wall. Still, the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts reeked, ever-so-slightly and not-so-literally, of sweaty punk armpits, greasy faded flannel, and the sweet stink of grunge. Last night, KURT, “a multi-discipline exhibition and study of the…
From the mid ’90s to the mid noughties, there were few electronic dance music acts as big as Deep Dish. The Washington D.C. power duo of Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi helped lift house music from the underground to the mainstream via glossy pop production value and infectious vocal…
Cannibal Corpse Grand Central, Miami Thursday, December 6, 2012 Better Than: Cardboard gun shop. Stuck precariously in the middle of Miami’s yearly ascension to the international spotlight of artistic and cultural relevance (AKA Art Basel Miami Beach week) was a Cannibal Corpse tour date…
“Stank pussy smellin’ like Cool Ranch Doritos!” That’s what all the hip cats were screaming at Bardot last night, ’cause Danny Brown was in the spot tearin’ it up on the carpet, among the people. The weed was in the air and the streets were representing for an intimate set…
There have been grumblings about the festival’s unwillingness to refund ticketholders’ cash.
