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…
The Black Keys released El Camino today, their seventh studio album (or eighth if you include Blakroc) in ten years. And like every record before it, El Camino is a 60-minute, all-you-can-eat aural buffet of blues-driven garage rock. But we’re not going to waste your time reviewing the album; run…
When false rumors about the closure of Mamushka’s Midtown spread throughout the Miami scene like some kinda nasty, textually transmitted disease, Sirens and Sealions singer-songwriter and Mute Miami booking boss Johanna Viscaino got a little skittish, shifting Au Revoir Simone’s Miami gig to another venue. “I moved the show because…
Less than 20 days from now, Jesus Christ will turn the big 2-0-1-2, though he doesn’t look a day over 33. Around the world, Christians will celebrate his birth with an appalling display of hyper-consumerism and overconsumption. And of course, crappy Christmas music. However, one track that isn’t likely making…
See the full 20-photo Janet Jackson at the Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow. Janet Jackson Number Ones: Up Close and Personal Tour Fillmore Miami Beach December 5, 2011 Better Than: You could imagine. All throughout Art Basel Miami Beach week, musicians of varying talent levels strummed, sang, banged, and twiddled with…
UPDATE Red Hot Chili Peppers have postponed their 2012 US Tour and rescheduled the South Florida show. There was a time, circa 1991, when being a funky white boy meant doing whacked-out jumping jacks to the beat of “Suck My Kiss” while wearing a sock on your cock. But these…
It’s been approximately 32 months since self-described Brooklyn “keyboard band” Au Revoir Simone released the dark and dreamy 2009 album, Still Night, Still Light, and its sparklingly spooky single “Shadows.” Understandably, plenty of music geeks with a fetish for moody twee melodies (e.g. Crossfade, our current makeout partners, and you)…
About a month or so after Arcade Fire rocked the music industry by walking away with the Grammy for Album of the Year, the Montreal-based group celebrated with some friends in Haiti. Some 250 people packed into the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince — many of whom were “expat aid workers…
We survived this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach by complaining and drinking, crawling out at the other end of the grinding, art-stuffed week-long nightmare, barely clinging to life. But The Overthrow crew didn’t care that we’re tired. They kept the party going at Goldrush Miami last night. And their Hard…
GZA The Stage Miami Saturday, December 3, 2011 Better Than: Waiting for anyone who wasn’t GZA. He arrived about two and a half hours late. We should have known — Wu-Tang is notorious for being tardy to shows. In any case, GZA, the Genius, one of the founding members of…
When we here at Crossfade got word that chi-chi Parisian nightclub Le Baron would be popping up at the Delano Hotel’s Florida Room during Art Basel Miami Beach for a fourth consecutive year, three quick questions flashed through our art-addled minds: (1) Avez vous déjà vu?; (2) Where’s our mustache?;…
The crowd at Churchill’s Pub for Tom Tom Magazine’s Basel showcase wasn’t all chicks with drumsticks. But there certainly were many of both. The night opened with an all-female percussion group, Gainesville’s Cave Rave. A cave rave is apparently the opposite of a sausage fest. The place was pleasantly packed…
See the full 38-photo Basel Castle 2011 at Overthrow Castle slideshow. Basel Castle With Pharrell Williams, Yelawolf, Penguin Prison, Caligula, Heroes x Villains, Tamara Sky, and a million others The Castle Saturday, December 3, 2011 Better Than: Getting stuck outside. Somewhere around 2 a.m. on Saturday night/Sunday morning, in a…
DFA’s 10th Anniversary Party With Holy Ghost! DJ Sets by Nancy Whang and Juan MacLean BardotSaturday, December 3, 2011 Better Than: Spending midnight in Paris. DFA Records, the label masterminded by LCD frontman James Murphy, Jonathan Galkin, and Tim Goldsworthy, celebrated its 10th anniversary on Saturday night with an Art…
Artist Ron English is no stranger to iconic imagery. Creating paintings from a mishmash of familiar faces and images like Marilyn Monroe and Mickey Mouse is part of what he does. So it was no surprise that English joined forces with mega-superstar Chris Brown to create the cover of his…
TV on the Radio Spotify’s Music Loves Art Ricochet Bar & Lounge Thursday, December 1, 2011 Better Than: A Big Mac. Last night, eating a double cheeseburger, drinking a Perrier, and considering trying Spotify’s Kool-Aid, about two hundred people took iPhone pictures of TV on the Radio at Ricochet…
See the full 26-photo Yelle at Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow. Yelle With Housse de Racket Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, December 2, 2011 Better Than: Joining an actual safari. We were a little worried before heading to the Fillmore Miami Beach on Friday night. With all of the free shows, pop-up…
YACHTElectric PickleThursday, December 1, 2011Better Than: Yachting on Biscayne Bay.”Anybody have any questions?” asked frontwoman Claire Evans three songs into YACHT’s set at the Electric Pickle last night.”I love you!” someone shouted back.”That’s not a question,” she answered.True, but we really do love you, YACHT. And last night’s show might…
See the full 38-photo slideshow from Toyota Antics with Special Disco Version and Black Lips at Grand Central. James Murphy and Black Lips Grand Central Thursday, December 1, 2011 Better Than: 28 MPGs in the city, 35 on the highway. New York City hipsters, Pitchfork-approved band, hand-rolled cigarettes, ironic facial…
With all the world-class concerts and dance parties complementing the art fair and gallery action, Art Basel Miami Beach is becoming the perfect marriage of art and music. And none of the myriad international luminaries visiting Miami this week embody that more than Deniz Kurtel. She might be best known…
Invented in the late ’80s by electronics wizard Roger Linn, the Music Production Center is a pimped-out drum machine on steroids, usually equipped with eight to 16 pressure- and velocity-sensitive pads, multiple MIDI inputs and outputs, a superpowered sequencer, advanced sampling systems, and an entire universe of highly evolved effects…
Nas With Theophilus London Spotify’s Music Loves Art Ricochet Bar & Lounge Thursday, December 1, 2011 Better Than: Seeing Nas perform from a distance greater than ten feet. It was only $14,000. No big deal. Nas slapped a bit of watercolor and scribbled some washable marker onto an oversized sketchpad,…
