Are you kidding? Kenny effing G! Wow, we here at Crossfade can’t wait for the 2012 edition of Jazz in the Gardens. The hair will be long, luxurious, and kinky. “The Moment” will be sweeter than a soprano on a sugar high. And there’s gonna be so much smooth sax…
We’re really starting to regret that “Warhol original” that we bought off some dude in a Ford Pinto last week during Art Basel Miami Beach. He swore it was real. And at $490, we couldn’t pass on it. The bad thing, however, we’ve only got $10 bucks to hold us…
The Boss lives extra big, son. In fact, according to a recent profile in GQ, Rick Ross smokes ten big, fat blunts per day. He scarfs “fried cheese bread, artichoke dip, roasted chicken with sides, and three pieces of key lime pie” for fucking dinner. He records a dozen hits…
The corridors of William McKinley High are a long fucking way from Calle Ocho, chico. But today, Entertainment Weekly reported that Pitbull is “being courted” by the producers of Fox’s Glee to play the older brother of Santana (Naya Rivera), a newly out and proud lesbian cheerleader. And all we’ve…
Maybe we were born too late. Or in the wrong part of the country. But quintessential ’80s hair-metal extravaganza rockers KISS have always come off as kinda goofy. Alice Cooper, The Stooges, Black Sabbath … Now there’s some blues-derived din that knew how to get down with underground darkness. By…
Earlier this week, the Black Keys dropped one of the best albums of 2011, El Camino. The record quickly skyrocketed to the top of the iTunes chart, slapping Michael Buble’s Christmas record out of the top spot and triggering a Miami-based remix from one of New Times’ favorite hip-hop acts…
Perhaps it was the uncertainty looming around the 2011-2012 NBA season. Or maybe he just needed some extra cash for designer dress shirts. Whatever the case, the Miami Heat’s resident disc jockey, DJ Irie, figured that becoming BankAtlantic’s Brand Ambassador was a good career move. Little did he know he’d…
Even though cranky American music snobs like Crossfade might dismiss Chris Martin and Coldplay as foreign providers of “safe and sentimental sonic wallpaper,” there’s no denying that this Brit pop-rock crew stands to inherit the proverbial arena whenever U2 and Radiohead finally shuffle off the scene. With seven Grammys and…
No local band could better encapsulate Neil Young’s doom-y axiom that “It’s better to burn out/than to fade away” than defunct trio Beings, who took the SoFla scene by storm, toured with Torche, released one of Crossfade’s favorite records of 2010, and then announced their final show seemingly out of…
Au Revoir Simone with Class Actress, The Blow, Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, and Run Sevim Run at Grand Central December 10
Kelly Clarkson and Y100’s Jingle Ball at BankAtlantic Center December 10
Roofless Records wins $20,000 Knight Arts Challenge Grant
Cedric Gervais at LIV December 8
Big Sean’s I Am Finally Famous World Tour at Grand Central December 9
My Morning Jacket at Sunset Cove Amphitheater December 10
Daddy Yankee at 90 Degree December 10
Araabmuzik at Eve December 14
Über-producer Diplo and noisy electro-rockers Sleigh Bells have a Valentine’s Day present for Miami. It comes in the form of their joint Paradise Lost tour, hitting the Magic City on February 14 at Grand Central. The local date is part of an eight-city Florida sprint that’ll take them to Tampa,…
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, contemporary music’s Cleveland equivalent to Major League Baseball’s Cooperstown, has announced its class of 2012. As we here at Crossfade expected, Guns N’ Roses made the cut. But the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, and “Hurdy Gurdy Man” singer Donovan will also…
Once upon a time, a little wooden liar named Pinocchio took a trip to Pleasure Island with a pig-nosed, red-headed punk. “They say it’s a swell joint. No school. No cops,” the punk told Pinocchio. “You can tear the joint apart. And nobody says a word.” Sounds a little like…
Where will you be when the Mau5head drops on 2012? Well, if you happen to be a club rat worth his or her weight in gourmet cheese and all-you-can-drink champagne, then you’re gonna be holed up at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach ordering entire wheels of Roquefort and endless bottle service…
Last month, Agnostic Front punched us in the throat and it changed our life. The New York hardcore crew and Churchill’s Pub shook Little Haiti harder on a Tuesday night than anywhere else in America any night of the week. Now, it’s Madball’s turn to take a whack at Wednesday…
