Laptop DJing and mixing MP3s with the help of a sync button have become the norm in live electronic music. And it’s tragic, given the next-level sonic possibilities offered by instrumentalist virtuosos like Detroit’s Jeremy Ellis. His live performances are the one-man electronic equivalent to seeing a bebop jazz ensemble…
Odd Future? Snow Patrol? Now Rusko? Holy shit, the Fillmore’s like Miami’s United Nations of live music. Moments ago, Crossfade’s inbox was slapped with a show announcement: Dubstep disc jockey and record producer Rusko is headed to South Beach in May! Following the commercial and critical success of his 2010…
Have y’all gotten a head start on this year’s tax return by filing early? How much money are you getting back? Got enough cash to pop bottles with The Boss and party with “The Big Bad Wolf”? Check out Crossfade’s guide to this weekend’s best parties on South Beach. Whether…
No genre has been more ripped off, watered down, and straight-up bastardized than techno. To the lay person, say, a classic rock aficionado or maybe a jazz head, the mere mention of this Detroit-bred electronic music genre (and really, less a stable conventional “genre” and more an unwieldy collection of…
Back in April 2012, Odd Future honcho Tyler the Creator “woke up with a sweaty dick,” announced an East Coast tour, and snubbed Miami. But that was the last motherfuckin’ time that those little OFWGKTA creeps would tell the 305 to go fuck itself. Or not … Last night, Tyler…
Jimmy Buffett at the American Airlines Arena January 28
Miami rapper and singer Anjuli Stars releases Starvation Vol. 2 January 31
Machine Gun Kelly at Revolution January 26
Armand Van Helden at Arkadia January 27
The Kills at Revolution January 28
Rick Ross’s Birthday Bash at Amnesia Miami January 29
Graham Wood Drout at Tobacco Road January 31
Miami’s 12 up-and-coming bands, producers, and promoters
Hard, the long-running Los Angeles club night and electronic music festival, made its Miami debut during WMC 2010 with a pool party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. We called it out for being a lite version of Hard’s notoriously heavy throwdowns. Now we won’t try take credit for it. (Actually,…
Ever since the internet turned every last drip-drop of intellectual property into the featured item at an ever-extending, all-you-can-download digital buffet, nobody’s even sure if concepts like “underground” or “mainstream” exist anymore. But Chicago electro-hop diva Kid Sister straddles the line like the best of them. After cutting her chops…
No doubt, those ¡Mayday! homies ain’t afraid to hustle. As we here at Crossfade reported last Thursday, the 305’s raddest hip-hop collective is already prepping for Tech N9ne’s Hostile Takeover tour, an insane sked of 90 shows in 99 days with Machine Gun Kelly, Krizz Kaliko, Prozak, and Stevie Stone…
Any given night in Miami, hundreds of bottles of overpriced champagne and vodka are marched out to a perpetually revolving cast of douchebags, rich folks, once-a-year-spenders, depraved attention-starved nightlifers, sparkler fans, and the women who love to be seen with them. But Off The Hookah Miami takes the cake for…
The world’s formal introduction to Clifford Smith — then, now, and forever known as Method Man, the Wu-Tang Clan’s most ruthless and bloodthirsty assassin-slash-MC — came via an intense spoken-word skit on the Clan’s 1993 debut, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Before launching into his signature, eponymous track, “Method Man,”…
Late last week, the Crossfade staff (as well as our siblings over at County Grind) received a truly terrifying press release from Revolution Live reps. The all-caps subject line screamed, “SLEIGH BELLS [AND DIPLO] CONCERT CHANGES LINE-UP!” And like most bad news, this message was accompanied by another 39 exclamation…
Miley Cyrus is proving she’s a gangster, a down-for-whatever type of Disney-princess-gone-wild. Over the weekend, the 19-year-old daughter of country music legend Billy Ray Cyrus went down on a massive cock cake during boyfriend Liam Hemsworth’s birthday party at an L.A. club. Photos obtained by TMZ show Miley seductively posing…
The life of migrant farmers and Mexican immigrants are topical subjects often overlooked by the American music industry. But those issues weigh heavily on Los Tigres del Norte. The norteño group is considered one of the most influential acts of all time. On record, Los Tigres share the plight of…
Exactly 14 days ago, Ultra Music Festival 2012 sold out. And the wailing of sad, ticketless beat freaks could be heard in dark, lonely nightclubs all around the globe. But then the fest offered its oh-so-disappointed children some consolation, announcing a whole series of official Miami Music Week events, including…
