Estelle’s Coming to Town! But 99 Jamz Isn’t Saying Where

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 Talks Erotic Corpses and the Heat Index

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…

Ten Most Badass TV Theme Songs of the ’80s

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…

Rat Bastard Performance and Lecture at the end/SPRING BREAK Tomorrow

​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…

12th Planet Talks Dubstep, Brostep, and Why Skrillex is the Future

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…

Canceled! Bret Michaels’s Super Cruise Gets Sunk

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…

Slashpine Talks Black Metal, Forsaken Florida, and Death Art

​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…

Space Between Words Wanna Fill You With Warm Feelings at the Stage July 23

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…

Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, and Blake Sennet Have a Nasty Breakup

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…