Gregg Allman at Hard Rock Live January 18
Gregg Allman at Hard Rock Live January 18
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Showing 11551 - 11572 of 26081Givers to Receive Crossfade Miami’s Coveted Makeshift Award at Bardot on January 19
It lingered in the background at nearly every one of our backyard barbecues last year — Givers’ up-tempo debut record, In Light. Nestled alongside the Black Keys’ El Camino, Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues, and Cults’ self-titled effort, the record even earned a spot on our arbitrary Best Of 2011 list,…
Smooth Benny Latimore Talks Ladies Choice: “You Never Get Too Old to F#$%”
“You never get too old to fuck,” says 72-year-old R&B singer Benny Latimore. “In case they take me for granted, I may be an old dog, but I still know how to bury the bone.” You may or may not know his name. But Latimore’s been in showbiz for half…
Fashion Freakouts Aboard the Holy Ship! Electronic Music Cruise
Check out Crossfade’s fifteen photo highlights from Holy Ship! “Modern neon hippy,” “kooky candy raver,” and “almost naked” seemed to be the looks du jour aboard HARD’s Holy Ship! electronic music cruise. On Monday, the three-day rager landed ashore in South Florida, a ship of fools with sea-legs and hangovers…
Red Hot Chili Peppers Postpone 2012 US Tour, Reschedule South Florida Gig
Being the frontman of one of the biggest bands on the planet can be a real pain in the sesamoid bone and flexor tendon. Just ask Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis. The porn ‘stachioed rocker recently underwent surgery to treat a bum foot, the result of “multiple” injuries. And…
Ultra Music Festival 2012’s Ten Most Exciting Acts
Coachella’s lineup got announced on Monday. And personally, we were underwhelmed. But it got us thinking how excited we are for Ultra Music Festival 2012. Sure, Deadmau5 may think the number of headliner acts on the bill is horrible. But we have to disagree with you, Zimmerman. We haven’t been…
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Top Ten Reasons Coachella Music Festival Totally Sucks
Festivals are sort of the Costco of live music. Take, for example, the upcoming 2012 edition of Coachella. If you purchased individual concert tickets for every artist on the lineup, the cost would far exceed the festival’s more-or-less $400 fee. But when you visit Costco to buy a swimming pool’s…
Bruise Cruise 2012 Announces Full Festival Schedule
Even before buying tix for Bruise Cruise 2012’s two-day kickoff bash at The Stage Miami, booking a tricked-out cabin adjacent to the 24-hour self-serve ice cream bar, or stuffing an inflatable tote bag with emergency hipster-at-sea supplies, each and every Bruiser’s gotta put together a perfectly waterproof cruisin’ plan. So…
Ultra Music Festival 2012 Sold Out With 73 Days Until Start
That’s it, folks! According to its website, Ultra Music Festival 2012 is officially sold out with 73 days remaining until the first day of the festival. This breaks last year’s record, when tix sold out on February 18 with a full 34 days left before the fest.Of course, Ultra’s 2012…
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Get Faded With Spaceghostpurrp at Eve on January 15
In 1967, The Beatles released their sprawling Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band concept album, a dense wallop of cutting-edge experimental production techniques, schizophrenic survey of genres, and, most importantly, the psychedelic youth movement’s most prominent statement. Really, the whole record, from start to finish, was about getting faded. And…
South Beach’s Mansion Nightclub Closed “For Forseeable Future”
UPDATE Mansion and Deadmau5 have just announced a two-night reopening party for January 20 and 21. Log onto mansionmiami.com and the nightlub’s site has been scrubbed clean, except for a shocking three-word statement in big, bold red letters: “MANSION IS CLOSED.” That same mysterious message also went out over Mansion’s…
Photos: Skrillex, Steve Aoki, and 2000 Beat Freaks Aboard Holy Ship! Music Cruise
Fist-pumping for four straight days inside a 12,000-square-foot spa! Dancing to 169 BPMs in the sushi bar’s zen garden! Slamming tropical cocktails in the mojito bar at 2 a.m. with Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Fatboy Slim, Diplo, A-Trak, and 2000 beat freaks! Over the weekend, the inaugural edition of HARD’s Holy…
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Spam Allstars Spending Friday The 13th at The Green Parrot in Key West
Spend Friday the 13th in Key West. But don’t go to sleep. Machete clawed janitors in Bermuda shorts could creepsurf your dreaming brainwaves. You might wake up next to a she-crab full of hot, musky soup. You will miss out on the party at a musiholic paradise called The Green…
Jello Biafra Added to Bruise Cruise 2012
Named after America’s favorite fruit-flavored gelatin dessert and a short-lived secessionist African state afflicted by war and starvation, Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher, aliases Occupant, Count Ringworm, Osama McDonald, J Lo) is a punk icon, radical activist, and general shit-starter who fronted San Fran hardcore band Dead Kennedys, founded…
Winter Music Conference 2012 Cruise Guide: Cadenza, Hot Creations, and Tytanium Sessions
Near-tragedy and heroism have become synonymous with EDM-theme cruises, both around Biscayne Bay and abroad. On Saturday morning, the MSC Poesia ran aground in the Bahamas and sent beat freaks aboard the Holy Ship! cruise into panic mode as death seemingly knocked on their portholes. In 2010, Biscayne Lady captain…
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Watch Surfer Blood on NBC’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (Video)
We here at Crossfade provided plenty of advance warning that West Palm fuzz rockers Surfer Blood would be jamming out to “Miranda,” a single off last year’s Tarot Classics EP, during last night’s episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. But maybe you came down with a real nasty case…
Q-Tip Drops That Beat at Miami Beach’s LIV on January 25
It was in a 1974 Dodge Dart that Q-Tip and his Tribe Called Quest brethren took a four-minute cross-country trek with “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo,” the second single off the group’s 1990 debut, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. Now 22 years later, both car…
Marley Fest 2012 in Miami: Lineup Includes Three Marleys, Burning Spear, Capleton
See Crossfade’s righteous, nine-part guide to Marley Fest 2012, AKA Nine Mile Music Festival. Get dreaded. Grow some ganja. Climb that mountain. Now known as the Nine Mile Music Festival, this year’s edition of the Bob Marley Movement of Jah People’s righteous reggae fest will be going down — “rain…
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Chalk Drops Slow-Mo Electronic Soul With New Dirt EP
Chalk Dirt EP (Dubporn Records) You need look no further than Crossfade’s picks for Miami’s Ten Best Local Albums, EPs, and Mixtapes of 2011 to see that the 305 is rife with diverse homegrown sounds. But it’s not often that we hear the kind of eclectic electronic fusion offered by…
Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow Talks Weezer Cruise, Dinosaur Jr., and Being an Indie Rock Dad
In 1984, Lou Barlow started an indie rock crew called Dinosaur Jr. with J. Mascis and a drummer nicknamed Murph. Four years later, after endless tension, a trio of amazing albums, and a ton of alt-guy fights, Lou got kicked out of his own band. That’s when Barlow became almost…
Amanda Green’s Freeform Freakout on Squelch TV, January 6
Though the source (Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra, prolific producer, musician, and, yes, sole proprietor of Squelch TV) is arguably biased, the assertion is, nevertheless, pretty convincing. Over the weekend, Falestra hosted the latest edition of the series, which has featured Miami-based rock ‘n roll (Snakehole, Holly Hunt) and avant-weirdo shit…
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Santigold Announces Concert at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach on January 19
When Santigold called to tell Crossfade that she’d be in town for Art Basel Miami Beach, we squealed with delight like the Disney-fied version of those piglets penned outside Primary Flight. But after about 15 minutes, we got sad, thinking, “Well, she hasn’t hit the Beach since … November 2009…