Music

​It took a week to make it onto the web, but you can finally read Bruce Springsteen’s eulogy for saxophonist Clarence Clemons in which he called Clemons “the man with a Ph.D. in saxual healing … the next black president of the United States even though he’s dead.” Clemons died…

Turn on any Top 40 or urban radio station these days and it’s clear there’s been a massive sonic sea change. Gone from the biggest hits are the old trunk-rattling, snare-heavy, often Middle Eastern-inspired beats that dominated the mid 2000s. In their place is unabashed, anthemic, synth-heavy dance music propelled…

Did you know that 64-year-old NBA legend and leukemia survivor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar can still jam? Well, neither did Crossfade till we saw this new vid of the Jabman slam dunking a pumpkin! At first, we wondered if the old man had lost his prescription goggles and mistaken the giant orange…

Ashley Jones, known as ​Treasure Fingers, is a man, not a lady. Like the Ashley in Gone With The Wind, Jones is also from Atlanta. But unlike the guy in the book with Scarlett O’Hara, he’s a highly coveted disco house DJ and producer who spends much of his life…

Remember progressive house? With its trippy hippie whimsy, these days it’s considered the punchline to a joke by many an EDM snob. But prog reigned supreme during the ’90s, when artists like Sasha, John Digweed and Way Out West ruled the international scene. Maybe folks were less utilitarian about their…

Ever gotten so drunk you shared a big bag of sticky cotton candy with your best bud? Well, Saturday night at Grand Central, all kinds of weird, silly, uncomfortable, fun, and kooky stuff was going down. There was partial female nudity and dudes in chains sucking back syrupy drinks and…

I love and miss GG Allin. He died exactly 18 years ago today at age 36. This one is for you GG! There has never been a self-appointed Rock ‘n’ Roll Messiah like him, and there never will be. But I digress … Last night, after spending about ten minutes…

Once upon a time in America, the British Empire thought they could tell us what to do, and make us pay them for the privilege. Then we kicked their ass in front of everybody, made Britain our royal bitch, and threw a big-ass party to celebrate. Ever since, we have…

Since you obviously have good taste, you must be looking forward to Disney’s soon-to-be-classic The Muppets coming out this Thanksgiving. You won’t have to wait till November, though, to conjure up memories of these furry little guys. Pitchfork reported that on August 23, Weezer, Andrew Bird, My Morning Jacket, and Sondre…

Over the past decade, MTV has attempted to murder the art of the music video by giving reality shows incessant airtime and even removing the phrase Music Television from the network logo. But bands and solo acts are still constantly churning out quality videos. From simple performance pieces to narrative…

​Last week, the New York Post reported that Lady Gaga’s been hanging out with Slovenian Marxist critic Slavoj Zizek. Even though the pairing — an American pop megastar and a commie philosopher — seemed a little strange at first, it made sense the more we thought about it. Gaga tries…

Catch phrases are awesome. Just imagine life without that burger-loving old lady’s “Where’s the beef?” or Tom Cruise’s “Show me the money!” You drop those quotes anywhere in the world and there’s a good chance people will get the reference. But here’s our personal favorite: “What? Okay!” Yep, we’re talking…

If you were to mix the arena-style hard rock riffage of AC/DC with the drumming of Rush’s Neil Peart, throw in some Man Is the Bastard-style crusty sludge, a teaspoon of Black Sabbath, and garnish it with a cup of minced Thin Lizzy, the music would sound like Big Business,…