[jump] Subb-an and Russ Yallop. Friday, March 30. Electric Pickle, 2826 N. Miami Ave., Miami. 10 p.m. Call 305-456-5613 or visit electricpicklemiami.com. With his delectably deep bass-heavy bombs on labels like Crosstown Rebels and his own One Records, UK tech-house sensation Subb-an has been destroying international dancefloors all year. Meanwhile, Russ…
No joke … Miami Heat superstars LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh got together to play a little jazz in honor of Bosh’s 28th birthday. According to TMZ, it all went down at the Adrienne Arsht Center at a high-profile party that included Heat don Pat Riley and producer…
Not always a virtual land of quirky viral videos, blooper reels, cute puppies, and adorable kittens, YouTube is often a forum for hate, a safe haven for bigotry. In the wake of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s unjustifiable death, YouTube has become an outlet for angry folks to spew hatred. Florida City’s…
Gareth Campesinos isn’t stupid. The 26-year-old frontman of Welsh indie outfit Los Campesinos! realizes that you’re illegally downloading music and there’s not a whole lot he can do about it. However, “there comes a time when people have to accept if they’re going to illegally download music,” Campesinos tells Pitchfork,…
The members of New Orleans sludge metal band Eyehategod don’t worship Satan. They don’t kill virgins, hang them upside down over a tub, and wash themselves in blood. They don’t dance inside circles of fire during full moons at midnight. They don’t castrate babies, put hamsters in blenders, or microwave…
A week’s worth of panic attacks, insomnia, depression, and paranoid delusions, no we’re not having showing signs of ecstasy withdrawal. We’re on team Deadmau5 and we’re showing signs of EDM withdrawal. It’s been four days since WMC wrapped, pulling the digital needle off the MP3 record player and silencing indie-electro…
See 305 Fest’s full lineup and set times — plus Crossfade’s interviews with Speedfreak Presents, Merchandise, Torche, Noothgrush, and Dropdead. Local promotion outfit Speedfreek Presents has been on a serious mean streak lately, delivering a steady stream of otherwise unbooked concerts featuring all manner of brutality from the national hardcore,…
Red Hot Chili Peppers at BankAtlantic Center April 2
Johnny Dread at Tobacco Road March 30
Peanut Butter Wolf at Bardot March 29
Mike Dece’s 1996 Album Release Party at Sweat Records March 30
I Am the Avalanche at Speakeasy Lounge March 31
The Roots at the Adrienne Arsht Center March 31
Astrea Corporation at Dada March 31
Eyehategod at Churchill’s Pub in Miami March 31
People often bitch about how commercial and superficial hip-hop has become over the last couple decades. Yeah, most rap might be cookie-cutter beats and vapid rhymes about Gucci and Crystal. But some artists haven’t lost sight of its underground ethos. Case in point: Los Angeles-based DJ, producer, and Stones Throw…
Wanna perspire till you pass out? Try squeezing into a rubber suit, guzzling 32 ounces of java, and running some treadmill in the sauna. Or … Test the limits of dehydration and heat exhaustion at the 2012 edition of Sweatstock. Just a couple of weeks ago, this annual indie music…
From the Los Angeles set of his “Back in Time” video shoot, Pitbull drops a big-screen bomb. Having already conquered the international pop charts with hits like “Rain Over Me” and “Give Me Everything,” Miami rapper and last week’s subject of VH1’s Behind the Music, Pitbull tells MTV News that…
The air was thick with love (or at least lust) at Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week’s pool parties. Apparently, scantily-clad people deep into intoxicating substances tend to attract each other like horny human magnets. Nowhere else on Earth is there such a shit-ton of popular music, spectacular pools,…
After enduring hordes of beat freaks who plundered its dollar bins, Sweat Records continues to live up to its namesake, working hard to keep the party going through the rest of the month and well through April. Little Haiti’s favorite indie music store, vegan coffee shop, and all-ages event space…
After Ultra Music Festival weekend (and the preceding, uh, seven days of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week), we envision 90 percent of Crossfade’s readership to be curled under their bedsheets in the fetal position. Every now and then you get up to sip some kombucha, pack a bowl,…
Appearing with electro-house meatball Avicii at Ultra Music Festival may be providing Madonna with a buzz boost on par with Betty White’s reinvention as a party-rockin’ hornball grams. First, the entire world seemed to shit its collective pants at the mere sight of Lady MDNA onstage at Ultra. We even…
