Fedde Le Grand Announces Final Tour of 2011 With Miami Show on December 17

When he’s not hanging out with Chris Martin and remixing Coldplay tracks (see “Paradise”), superstar Dutch DJ-producer Fedde Le Grand likes to stay busy plotting the final stages of his total takeover of the North American continent. As if superexplosive 2006 hit “Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit” and non-stop…

Cultura Profética Talk Weed, Love, and Sex in Bayfront Park

Cultura Profética don’t mind if you smoke a spliff, bone your chick, or fight oppression while they beat up the speakers at the Bayside Rocks Festival.They record with Bob Marley’s engineer, tour the world spreading conscious music, sing in Spanish, and rep Puerto Rico to the fullest.We spoke to guitarist…

Bayside Rocks Reggae Festival’s Full Lineup and Set Times

Almost exactly a year ago, local production company and activist organization ROCKAS MVMT summoned the righteousness of reggae and Jah’s blessedness for the inaugural Bayside Rocks music festival, “a full day celebration of cultural awareness and consciousness.” From noon till midnight, soldiers of peace, love, and ganja like Toots and…

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Promises Experience Like Never Before

Ultra Music Fesitval quickly announced (and sold out) early bird tickets. But so far, the fest has given no indication of what else is in store. No acts. No venue. Nothing.However, a reliable source told Crossfade today that a venue announcement is coming very soon. In fact, the festival is…

Roofless Records Talks Ballscarf and Nightmarish Chaos at Cinema Sounds IX

An astute and insightful cultural seer once observed that the movies are actually mankind’s collective dreams. But what about our freaking nightmares? Well, our fave films can be anxiety-soaked, terror-inducing experiences too. Especially when scored by a deeply twisted noise trio like Miami’s Ballscarf. So November 23 when the lights…

Ten Photo Highlights From The Bank’s Grand Opening in Downtown Miami

Normally, we here at Crossfade don’t spend a ton of time hanging out at banks. For one, we don’t have much money, hence our weekly scramble to find the best music-related things to do under $10. For another, we’ve been (sorta) brainwashed by the Occupy Miami movement. Also, there’s usually…

Eleven Best Music-Related Things to Do This Weekend Under $11

Every Friday, Crossfade scrambles to find you cheapskates the ten best music-related things to do over the weekend under $10. But because we’re feeling extra generous this week (plus we’re suckers for numerology), Crossfade is commemorating the once-in-100-years 11/11/11 occurrence by adding an extra event and an extra dollar. That’s…

Five Ways Getting Punched in the Throat by Agnostic Front Will Change Your Life

​While hardcore has long been colonized by pampered yet meatheaded suburbanites, the original purveyors of NYC’s first wave of punker-than-punk rock ‘n’ roll were actually meatheads from the unforgiving freak show that was pre-Giuliani New York. Violent crime was rampant, public services were seriously underfunded, and Times Square sat on…

Immortal Technique Shouts Down the Bankers: “You Took Advantage of America”

​Immortal Technique might have been a little late to yesterday’s promised appearance at the Occupy Miami site. But once there, he was very generous with his time. He offered press, protesters, and superfans individual attention and thoughtful commentary. The outspoken, politically active hip-hop artist is visiting Miami to promote his…

Five Really Old Rock Stars We’d Like to $#*%

TMZ has got us playing a lil’ game called, Who’d You Rather? Of course, the implied last half of that question is: “…do it with?” And by it, we mean da nasty. Yesterday, the gossip site asked us if we’d rather rub private parts with Led Zep shrieker Robert Plant…