This time of year, hipsterdom’s virtual playground — i.e. the blogosphere — is littered with arbitrary “best of” indie music lists. Everyone from NPR to Pitchfork, our sister blogs around the Village Voice, and yes, even Crossfade, have declared this year’s alt world favorites. While the lists vary from music…
Wanna know the truth about New Year’s Eve? Well, it ain’t the kickoff to a fresh, 365-day fiesta full of fun and promise. Quite the opposite — this end-of-year holiday is your absolute last chance to overspend and overindulge before suppressing your natural urge to party, quitting the bottle, stopping…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Afrobeta Under the Streets (Do It Entertainment) This album was five years in the making. In 2006, Tony Smurphio and Cuci Amador joined forces as…
Will the world end in 2012? Probably not. Historically, apocalypse predictors are kooks. But there’s always an infinitesimally tiny chance that they’re actually right this time. So when the Doomsday Clock clicks to midnight on December 30, beginning a frenzied 24-hour countdown to the New Year (and possibly the end…
Read Crossfade’s recap of Skrillex at the Fillmore Miami Beach. On Saturday night, the Mothership made its final official stop, setting down in the middle of South Beach like some sorta interstellar party bus. But after filling the Fillmore and fucking with everyone’s auditory systems for a few hours, Skrillex…
While it’s true that hype makes the electronic dance music industry go ’round, so does hard work. Just ask Inxec (AKA Christopher Sylvester), one of the most in-demand DJ-producers on the transtlantic house and techno scene. With releases on some of 2011’s most hotly tipped labels, including Leftroom, Culprit and…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Maybach Music Group Self-Made, Vol. 1 (Maybach) Don’t no one got grind like The Boss. When it comes to the post-gangsta rap game, Rick Ross…
Check out the photos from 12th Planet’s afterparty with a surprise set by Skrillex at Grand Central. Skrillex With 12th Planet Fillmore Miami Beach December 17, 2011 Better Than: All other dubstep productions. Yeah, that’s a pretty big statement to make. But, well, we just made it. “Holy shit. WTF?”…
Welcome to Miami. Here, you can’t be the kind of music snob who only listens to The Velvet Underground & Nico, Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and Pitchfork’s current playlist on repeat. Sure, all that stuff is awesome. But when you’re running wild in the streets of the 305, the…
Cults were one of indie music’s biggest breakout acts of 2011, landing on several Best of 2011 lists and cementing their spot among the blogosphere’s buzz-worthiest bands. But what’s an indie-pop group to do between albums? Sing holiday songs on children’s television. Our internet friends over at Stereogum posted a…
According to doomsday fearmonger Zecharia Sitchin, the “12th Planet” (or Nibiru) is a hypothetical planet hidden in the outskirts of the solar system that will collide with Earth and destroy all life as soon as 2012. In a way, Nibiru is like dubstep. It came flying out of obscurity like…
At the height of her late-’90s and early-2000s exile from the weird world of popular music, there were rumors (and even media reports) about ex-Fugees frontwoman and queen diva Ms. Lauryn Hill living out of a massive Miami hotel room with her hubby, Rowan Marley (yes, a son of Bob),…
While we’re stuck blogging about Miss Jewish South Florida and Beyonce Knowles’s real estate blunders, thousands of college students around Miami are spending the next three weeks freeloading off their parents and living the dream that is Winter Break. Unfortunately for many of them, the Bright Futures scholarship money has…
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. Our sources at Ultra Music Festival have leaked some big news, telling us that an appearance by New Wave icons New Order at this year’s festival…
Earlier this week, Crossfade met up with Kim, Nat, and Skylar of local band Beach Day on the set of their promotional photo shoot. The three-piece’s sound is mellow ’60s surf rock, and these girls and their guy have been spreading laid-back tunes all over town with multiple shows at…
Break out your biggest bag of OG kush. Burn a bunch of superdoobies. And board your private Gulfstream for the MIA. Earlier today, NOLA rapper and marijuana connoisseur Curren$y announced (in tandem with his own Jets International and local event-slash-video production company Dope Ent) that he’ll be spending New Year’s…
The time has come to take a trip with local Latinotronica crew Elastic Bond. But you can’t show up without supplies. You’ve gotta pack a bag. You will need (1) a stash of premium psilocybin; (2) a sturdy pair of sunglasses with sparkly starbursts embedded into the lenses; (3) a…
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. We’ve been snooping around the last few weeks, hoping someone would slip up and announce they are scheduled to perform at Ultra Music Festival 2012, scheduled…
Christmas. To some, it represents the birth of Jesus Christ, the immaculately conceived love child of a Galilean woman named Mary and a theistic being referred to as God. But for 18 Jewish gals aged 17 to 26 from the South Florida metropolitan area, December 25 will be a day…
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Miami’s underground EDM scene is on fire! This week alone, there are five world-class bookings. And there’s a little something for everyone, from the dark minimal techno heads to the leftfield live electronica connoisseurs. We’ve got the usual local crews –…
Skrillex, 12th Planet, Two Fresh, and Nadastrom at the Fillmore Miami Beach December 17
Alice Cooper’s No More Mr. Nice Guy Tour at Hard Rock Live December 15
