We sent out a million invites to come party with Crossfade last night. (OK, as accounted by Facebook, the actual number was 1223.) And 124 of you said, “No,” about 60 answered, “Eh, maybe,” and a whopping 938 didn’t even acknowledge the question! What the fuck’s wrong? Don’t you like…
This morning, we got the nasty news that the doors to Bar at 28 NE 14th Street will never reopen again. It sounds dramatic, because it is dramatic. It’s all sad over there, and closed. Saying goodbye is hard! There are plenty of 305 folks who will now never step…
No Latin band has tugged as many heartstrings, quite as hard as the Mexican rock band Maná. In a 20-year reign, the Grammy Award-winning group has traveled all over the world, flooding arenas and selling out shows from Guadalajara to Berlin. Currently kicking off its latest international tour, Maná will…
Yesterday afternoon, we reported on the looming protests over the announcement that swag-style rap group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All would be performing at the Pitchfork Music Festival. The controversy greatly recalls the Eminem Dialogue of the early 2000s in which the platinum certified rapper came under fire…
Read Crossfade’s full review of U2’s 360° Tour at Sun Life Stadium. Did you think the only things keeping Bono and The Edge busy these days were the careful monotoring of their Metamucil doses and the writing of mediocre music for Broadway adaptations of comic books? Well, you’re way wrong…
Before you start anything in life, you will more than likely hear the phrase, “There have been many that have come before you.” And we have to wonder if that’s how NBC’s The Voice felt coming onto the TV scene. There have been many singing competition shows. And some have…
See the full 32-photo U2 at Sun Life Stadium slideshow. U2’s 360° Tour With Florence and the Machine Sun Life Stadium Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Better Than: The Black Eyed Peas at the 45th battle for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. On February 3, 2002, U2 played the Super Bowl XXXVI…
That’s it. NE 14th Street’s Bar has closed up shop for good. That means Sunday’s Jacuzzi Boys performance and Monday’s Locals Only party, the de facto closing bash, aren’t happening. Bar tweeted last night, “As of this afternoon, BAR on 14th Street has permanently shut down.”At this point, it’s unclear…
If you’ve been following our blog, you know that Bulletproof Tiger does it for the titties, Furious Dudes just wanna party, and Secret Arms is using satanism to piss you off. So what’s your motivation to joining us for the kickoff of the Crossfade Music Series tonight at the Stage?…
Adam Huss is no stranger to the local music scene, having tenured in the wildly popular Dreams You Die In. He’s also known to hardcore kids across the US as a solid booker from The Alley days. After a lengthy absence from local music, he’s back with a new outfit,…
You may have noticed quite a bit of coverage for this LAMC thing on Crossfade lately. Like this, this and this. But we’ve got a good reason. Going strong for over a decade now, the Latin Alternative Music Conference is the biggest of its kind, a sort of mecca for the indie…
Read Crossfade’s full review of U2’s 360° Tour at Sun Life Stadium. A week and a half ago, Bruce Springsteen’s buddy and E Street Band sax player Clarence Clemons died in a Palm Beach hospital from complications following a massive stroke. He was 69 years old. Yesterday, the Boss honored…
The guys of Miami-based Arboles Libres have become darlings of a wide swath of the South Florida scene thanks to their geographically inclusive musical approach. The rock en español crowd loves the group for its frequent foray into Spanish lyrics. That’s only a little piece of Arboles’ musical mosaic, though…
In the early ’80s, U2 and the Psychedelic Furs played the German TV show Rockpalast. Thirty years later, Bono is filling Sun Life Stadium while the Furs play Culture Room. What happened? Both acts were influenced by the Jam, the Clash, the Buzzcocks, and the Sex Pistols. But as Bono’s…
If there’s one thing Miamians really love, it’s a good show. So even if you’re not crazy about Steve Aoki’s mixes, at least you can expect a night of instantly recognizable party tracks, crowd-surfing, stage-diving, The Lion King theme music, and free vodka shots poured straight into your mouth by…
The annual Flashback Night has revived classic Caribbean sounds in South Florida for the past five years. After a packed edition last year at Café Iguana Pines, the event returns this year even bigger and better at Revolution in downtown Fort Lauderdale. A true coup for the night’s promoters is…
It might strike you as odd that an artist who plays multistringed instruments — such as the tres, a six-stringed Cuban guitar; and the cuatro, a four-stringed Venezuelan guitar — goes by the name Nil. But that doesn’t mean Mr. Lara is synonymous with nada. His heyday was back in…
Jose Castello, the brainy, loquacious vocalist, keyboardist, and chief songwriter of Miami-based indie fusion act Animal Tropical, knows the ins and outs of prolific obscurity. “This is our tenth release — that nobody will hear — in nine years,” he quips, referring to his band’s new Just Between Us Girls…
Maybe you know him only as cofounder and bassist of Mötley Crüe, a metal god, a man of magically spiky hair, someone who once frequented “Dr. Feelgood.” But Sixx is also a father of four, a photographer since 1998, an internationally syndicated radio personality, and a clear-thinking, superbusy dude. This…
It’s been 235 years since the Founding Fathers won us our freedom from all those evil, red-clad limeys. The war is so over. Yet Brit club-killer Fatboy Slim (AKA Norman Cook) seems to be plotting a counterattack for this Fourth of July. Admittedly, New Times is frazzled. And you should…
We are less than a week away from the inaugural Crossfade-sponsored The Local at the Stage concert series, and New Times HQ is buzzing with preparation. To prepare, we figured it would be a good idea to give you, faithful Crossfade readers and The Local attendees, a preview of the…
Rick Ross is the Boss. And he’s got a personal stockpile of greenbacks almost as huge as the U.S. Treasury’s cash stacks. So needless to say, Mr. Ricky can afford to celebrate American independence and excess in a bling-bang way that’d make even the fattest capitalist shine bright and star-spangled…
