Tommy Stinson is a good bassist and a tremendous fella who’s best known for being in both the Replacements and Guns N’ Roses. As he told us, dealing with the outsize egos of Paul Westerberg and Axl Rose hasn’t been easy. But it’s certainly had its rewards. Stinson has now…
At the climax of his glory, Davy Jones left millions of teenage pillows soaking hot and wet with culture-lust. The “Daydream Believer,” popular member of The Monkees, singer, actor, and icon got back all that karmic heartache in the form of massive coronary failure that left him dead at home…
We probably don’t need to tell you that the Brits rule electronic dance music. London, specifically, has been an EDM capital for decades, and the scene doesn’t ever seem to stop flourishing there. Artist collective and label Air London, for example, has become synonymous with top-notch underground tech-house. And its…
When French musician Anthony Gonzalez started recording as M83, his deeply dreamy signature sound was a total anomaly. The year was 2001, and the electronic music world was still deep in the throes of proggy four-four beats. Meanwhile, the cool-kid rock scene was about to get warmed up by a…
In one of the last week’s less predictable music developments, Lil Wayne announced that Cash Money Records had signed Fred Durst-led late ’90s relics Limp Bizkit. Does this mean we could be in store for a late ’90s nu-metal revival? The four year period right before the end of the…
The Allman Brothers are legends of Southern rock. And they rep Georgia hard. But their Florida roots are stronger than a Daytona chrome pipe. Michael Allman, son of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and guitar god Gregg Allman, tours all over America spreading his family’s blend of roots, rock,…
You don’t need a passport, green card, or visa to experience some of the best music in the world. You just need to hit the North Beach Bandshell on April 13 and 14 for the tenth annual Heineken Transatlantic Festival. Seun Kuti, the prince of Afrobeat, and his band the…
Led by the adorably lazy-eyed Thom Yorke, Radiohead kicked off its first U.S. tour in four years last night at the American Airlines Arena. Backed by an “earnestly excited and giddy” AAA crowd, the Oxfordshire group dropped a 23-song set on Miami that spanned the band’s 20-plus-year history. Sandwiched between…
Wanna lead a blessed existence full of irie vibes? Simply abide these nine Rasta-approved rules of conduct and you shall bask in the radiant glory of the Zion Lion: (1) Grow that ganja; (2) Get dreaded; (3) Praise Jah; (4) Start an Ital diet; (5) Smoke that ganja; (6) Listen…
Flying Lotus isn’t like most acts you’ll encounter at Ultra Music Festival. The Los Angeles native, born Steven Ellison and known as “FlyLo” to his fans, doesn’t make dance music — at least not in the traditional sense. The acclaimed knob fiddler (Pitchfork named his Cosmogramma the 14th best album…
See the full 28-photo Radiohead at the American Airlines Arena slideshow.Radiohead American Airlines Arena Monday, February 27, 2012 Better Than: Doing whatever one does on Spotify, with Radiohead. Leading up to Radiohead’s kickoff concert for their first U.S. tour in four years, we explored a theory that Thom Yorke and…
Who’s got the funk? On Thursday, March 8, you’ll get a chance to find out as Poplife, Super Music Group, and Gotta Dance Dirty bring a two-room, eight-act electronic extravaganza to Grand Central in search of the perfect beat. Think of it as a little Winter Music Conference warm-up party…
Now that NBC’s decided to keep Community on the air, we’re encouraging Donald Glover to spend that network money on Drake’s 3,800-square-foot, $1.9 million “fuck pad” at “Downtown Miami’s newest, most elevated address,” Marquis Residences at 1100 Biscayne Boulevard. After all, homeboy spends a lot of time in the 305…
For a few years there, Made Event’s Sunday School made up a big slice of the underground house and techno pie during WMC week, especially with heavyweights like Richie Hawtin, Luciano and Seth Troxler aboard their whopping 36-hour marathon lineup. But alas, Sunday School is no more. The party went…
See Crossfade’s righteous, nine-part guide to Marley Fest 2012, AKA Nine Mile Music Festival. About 13 spliffs after writing about Stephen, Damian, and Julian Marley dropping out of the Nine Mile Music Festival, we here at Crossfade decided that this alleged cancellation wasn’t true. We became convinced it was all…
Since bursting onto the scene with “O Let’s Do It,” the Billboard Hot 100’s 62nd best song on April 3, 2010, Waka Flocka Flame has been going “hard in da muhfuckin'” record industry. At 25 years old, the Atlanta rapper has established himself as one of the hardest working artists…
Maritime travel has been uncharacteristically sketchy in 2012. First, the inaugural Holy Ship electro-cruise ran aground in the Bahamas on January 7. It took five tugboats nearly 15 hours to dislodge the MSC Poesia from land, putting a serious damper on Steve Aoki’s poker tournament. Less than a week after…
The cries and calls for a thriving local music scene in Miami are inescapable. Form a band, become a promoter, train as a sound engineer, and eventually the city’s natural roadblocks will squash your hopes of entertainment industry success like a cat making its way across I-95’s Express Lane. Last…
A few years ago, David Guetta was just another house music DJ who was huge in Europe and not nearly as well known here in the United States. Then came 2009, the year that the Parisian (one of France’s top DJs since at least the late ’80s) released his fourth…
Back in the summer of 2011, we here at Crossfade gave you a heads up about this pretty cool little weekly show on WDNA 88.9 FM radio and five major reasons you should tune in for it. Well, we sure hope you took our advice then, because the Sunday Coolout has…
See Crossfade’s righteous, nine-part guide to Marley Fest 2012, AKA Nine Mile Music Festival. Before you roll up and roll out to Virginia Key Beach Park next weekend for the Nine Mile Music Festival (which Miami has known as Marley Fest for as long as anyone can remember), be aware…
When speaking of French electronic dance music, the first name that comes to mind is David Guetta, right? Yeah, that’s if you get your EDM spoonfed by Top 40 radio, you square. Because the underground house and techno cognoscenti of the world have been moving to the beats from a…
