Even though it came out in 2008, Estelle’s “American Boy” featuring Kanye West sounds like the best of the dance ’90s, deliciously Moloko-like. It’s mature, melodic, and completely enjoyable. That’s what the classy Brit seems to be about. And the chanteuse is coming to South Florida thanks to 99 Jamz,…
Hot Graves is a Gainesville-based D-beat/black metal combo making its way to Beelzebub’s Cave this Saturday for a punk-and-metal meeting of the minds. Earlier today, Crossfade contributor Liz Tracy reported on Slashpine — also performing at the Cave — and its Florida-centric black metal ideology. Hot Graves has a similarly…
Say what you will about ’80s TV shows — the one-dimensional characters and ludicrous plot devices — but they just don’t make theme songs like they used to. If you were alive and watching television in the ’80s, then you’ve most likely got the intro music to classic shows like…
Usually, the middle of summer sucks. But this time around, wandering event space the end/SPRING BREAK has saved us from July by inviting crazy people with all sorts of audio agendas into its current squatting spot (155 NE 38 St., Miami) for some Summer Ear Conditioning. Of course, no Miami…
All summer, Jay-Z’s protege and Roc Nation signee J. Cole has been roadtripping across America with Rihanna. And last night, J. hit the BankAtlantic Center with RiRi and her LOUD Tour. But after the concert, Mr. Cole wanted to party. So he headed out to Miami Beach for booties and…
We all know hip-hop was better back in the day (namely the mid ’90s) before MCs and beatmakers-for-hire became obsessed with their cellphones and started writing ringtones instead of blratt-blratt rap tracks. Thankfully, the Rock the Bells Festival Series is hustling hard to preserve the days — otherwise known as…
Yesterday, hip-hop pioneer Tone Loc plead not guilty to dual charges of domestic violence and unlicensed possession of an assault rifle. The rapper and cartoon voice actor was arrested after a dispute with the mother of his children turned physical. Police found the Colt AR-15 Sporter when responding to that…
Tomorrow marks dubstep ambassador 12th Planet’s much-anticipated return to Miami, when he’ll headline an evening at Grand Central rounded out by Juan Basshead, MC Jumanji, Animal Krackerz, and Mike Deuce. We reached him recently to chat about the past and current state of heavy bass. But there was too much…
Do you hear that high-pitched wail? This morning, America’s peroxide blonde, bubble-bodied, wannabe hair metal vixens have locked themselves in public washroom across the country and they’re weeping uncontrollably while squealing out the chorus to Bret Michaels’s “Wasted Time.” No, unfortunately, the former Poison frontman and eyeliner enthusiast’s incredibly annoying…
If you sense low rumblings, heavy crowd enthusiasm, and dark growls from behind the doors of music venues and art shows all over town, betcha it’s Slashpine. This three-man band has the raddest, most organic name for a metal group based in Florida, ever. These young dudes are all experienced…
Nightdrive Miami is a nightlife entity proving it can stand the test of time. First it was a party – then just “Nightdrive” – at the once-popular, now-forsaken Harvey’s By The Bay at the American Legion. Then, the promotion and blogging consortium – now comprised of founder Patrich Walsh, WVUM music…
Last month, we here at Crossfade noticed that downtown Miami was starting to look a hell of a lot like L.A.’s Sunset Strip. And we took some pictures to prove it. For a very brief moment, we panicked, thinking the Big Money was trying to push all the hipsters off…
At precisely 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, local groove crew Space Between Words, power pop dynamos Radioboxer, rockers the Deadly Blank, ACE (the Artist Collective Extravaganza), and approximately 600 friends will mob the Design District, descending upon the Stage for a megaevent that’s being modestly called the Awesome Show…
Have you met Holly Hunt, the fairly new skull-crushing doom metal atmospheric sludge band that’s taking Miami by storm? The band’s two members — Gavin Perry and Beatriz Monteavaro — are both visual artists who live and work in Miami. They create objects for our viewing pleasure and they also…
Last week, we previewed tonight’s performance by Dâm-Funk at the Electric Pickle where he’ll be joined by veteran funk virtuoso Steve Arrington of Slave fame, his latest studio partner with a collaborative album to be released later this year on Stones Throw. With the duo representing funk’s old-school and new-school,…
Last month, your favorite Miami music blog (i.e. us) hooked up a drunken, debaucherous night of black-out rock ‘n’ roll at the Stage. Tall boys were guzzled and crushed. Speakers were scorched by Furious Dudes, Bulletproof Tiger, and Secret Arms. And as we noted the next morning, “about 100 of…
If you haven’t noticed yet, a Tower Records has popped up on North Miami Avenue and 14th Street. But before you head over hoping to by the new Britney Spears album, we have some bad news. It’s a fake. A little bit of movie magic has transformed the 14th Street…
Jenny Lewis’s indie-pop band, Rilo Kiley, has broken up. And girl, it’s nasty. Guitarist and singer Blake Sennett told Spinner.com that he initiated the bands dissolution after “a lot of deception, disloyalty, greed” and assorted other grievances. He also talked shit about the band’s last record, Under The Blacklight. Crossfade’s…
If Crossfade had a time machine available, the first thing we’d do is travel back to the late 1950s when everyone was up in arms over Elvis and his gyrating pelvis. We’d turn off The Milton Berle Show, plug in the turntable, and give them a crash course in powerviolence and fastcore…
Earlier this week, Crossfade reported on Coheed and Cambria bassist, Mic Todd, being arrested in Massachussetts for stealing oxycontin from a Walgreens hours before his band’s opening gig for Soundgarden. Well, it’s a good/weird week for rock star arrests as Nick Oliveri, ex-bassist for the Dwarves, Kyuss, and Queens of…
Sade at BankAtlantic Center July 15 and American Airlines Arena July 16
Caramelos de Cianuro at Grand Central July 15
