Try, if you can, to imagine a grosser Burning Man. Not that the annual, drug-fueled New Age neverland orgy isn’t gross. It is. But in addition to the week-long, middle-of-nowhere mass discharge of bodily fluids onto crystals, Burning Man also has mind-boggling works of art and provides a unique, thoroughly…
Read the first part of Crossfade’s interview with Maná drummer Alex González about Drama y Luz, politics, and Latino pride. Last week, Crossfade spoke with Maná drummer Alex about turning personal tragedy into art, Latin-on-Latin discrimination, and his band’s support for the Dream Act. Today, the conversation continues with González…
John Dadzie, better known as 12th Planet, is one of the reigning kings of American dubstep. He vividly remembers the first time he was smacked upside the head with heavy bass. It was the ’90s. He was a teenager in Los Angeles. And after years of deep house domination, the…
Is anything truly weird anymore? In 2011, headlines read like a Best of The Onion calendar and everyone is fucking through their cell phone. So what’s got the power to grab you by the nose hairs, wipe your brain, and make your eyes turn into bloodshot question marks? When Crossfade contacted…
Nancy Whang at Electric Pickle July 9
Xperimento at Jazid July 9
Big Business and Torche at Churchill’s Pub July 12
The Glitch Mob at Revolution Live July 12
Mana at American Airlines Arena July 7
Rx Bandits at Culture Room July 7
Nero at Revolution Live July 8
Everymen at Propaganda July 8
The Sunday Coolout is a weekly radio show hosted by local DJs Sire Esq. and Maneuvers, who you may know from their Champion Sound party.Ostensibly a jazz show, the Coolout actually offers a rich variety of contemporary music and special guest DJs.Personally, we can’t think of a better way to…
You gotta hand it to the internet … It is a consistently — no, dependably — weird place. The internet is society’s Id. It’s the only place where the minutia of our droll everydays — what we ate, where we’re going, what we’re thinking — are filed right next to secret…
Another big show announcement: Vocoder-obsessed duo Chromeo announced they’ll be performing at the Fillmore Miami Beach on September 20 as part of the LG Ones to Watch Tour.Oddly enough, they’ve been “ones to watch” basically since their first release, 2004’s She’s In Control. Their latest album, Business Casual, featured club…
Longevity is far more often the antithesis of punk rock than an adjective used to describe it. But Venezuelan rockers Caramelos de Cianuro don’t subscribe to the usual rules. This band has been doing its thing for a very long time now, and it’s been doing it well. The group…
When we set out to put this list together, we thought Great, we’re going to have a wide variety of songs! That dream was shattered when we quickly realized white people don’t know shit about bone jams. If the number of Wayans children is any indication, black people know what’s…
While Australian electro-rockers Cut Copy technically “kicked off” the tour for their latest album, Zonoscope, at this year’s Ultra Music Festival, rest assured they are coming back to give Miami a proper show in a non-festival setting. On September 30, the band returns to South Florida to rock Grand Central…
The morning after some serious partying, you wake up totally confused because your lips are pasted shut and you’ve literally been dreaming about the sweat on a glass of cold water. Yours eardrums are KO-ed from last night’s bass, and it sounds like your guitar tuner got stuck on E…
Miami MC Parable is in fight mode. His new mixtape, VS, sees him trading hooks with artists like Llamabeats, throwing jabs at producers like the Miami Beat Wave, and stepping razors against DJ Guilletine. Soon, Parable will be crisscrossing the nation on a promo tour that’ll take him from the Bring…
There’s only six months until the next round of apocalyptic hysteria, when the clock will strike midnight on January 1, 2012, and everyone will piss their pantaloons in transcendental excitement. Nothing will happen, another 11 months and 21 days will pass, and then it’ll be time for the serious 2012…
For year-round residents of Miami, the difference between yuletide in December and Christmas in July is really just a matter of degrees. Say 76°F versus 86°F. Wintertime is the eating season and Summertime is the mating season. The former means jeans and an ironic t-shirt while the latter means cutoffs…
