Chan Marshall, AKA Cat Power, has been rather unstable lately. When she came through town on her most recent tour, Cat had a full-on meltdown and it just made us feel really awkward watching her. Then she did that all over the country, releasing letters to us about how mean…
As the music industry’s collective heart weighs heavy with news that legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar passed away yesterday, some comfort can be found in tonight’s Hurricane Sandy benefit show at Madison Square Garden. When the likes of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, and Bruce Springsteen gather this evening for…
Ultra Music Festival is the best. We here in Miami are super spoiled to have it every year. But don’t you wish you could pick up and take that experience overseas? OMG, you totes can now! Experience the joy of UMF at a greater cost! It’s going to be just…
Y2K didn’t screw us. And that kooky Christian group was wrong about May 21, 2011, which came and went sans apocalyptic incident. The third time, however, is always a charm. And the world is almost certainly going to end on December 21 — the date the Mayans predicted would be…
A dark juggernaut of destruction is about to be unleashed upon the city of Miami. And we don’t mean the Mayan apocalypse. No, we’re referring to the unforgiving hard-hitting beats of Punisher, one of the Detroit underground techno’s enduring talents. Now we almost hate to kill the myth that Punisher…
“I’m a certified man. I am a real boss.” That’s the official Rick Ross response to all the suckas who think that death threats from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples could keep the Bawse from doin’ work. Last week, GDs from NC warned Rozay about exploiting the…
Rock is dead. Just ask Tenacious D. “Started with blues, Belly of lead/Then there was Elvis, Nicky some red/Beatles arrive, started a trend/Axl Rose, give me some head/It’s all over, rock ‘n’ roll is dead.” And that’s exactly why Jabels & KG (otherwise known as Jack Black and Kyle Gass)…
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…
