You say you’re not familiar with Brazilian chanteuse Céu? We cry bullshit. You may have stumbled across the sultry, sexy songstress while picking up a frap at your local Strabucks. Or jamming out at Coachella a few weeks back. But the fact is, her recent buzz has been big. And…
The last Friday of the month is just a little less than 34 hours away. So go put on your most blazingly bright red dress shirt and whitest tie, polish your lucky set of fichas, and suck back a half-gallon of guarapo spiked with Havana Club … It’s almost time…
See the cut to download King Bee’s Howl EP. Back in January, local blues rock crew King Bee was partway through recording its fourth album and set to hit the road for a full national tour. But then founding member and lead singer Angel Suarez suddenly quit. “Angel felt like…
Read Crossfade’s print feature on Taking Back Sunday at SunFest 2011. Throughout history, humans have worshipped the sun in strange ways, often involving mass orgy and human sacrifice. Our ancestors really knew how to party, huh? Well, yes … But it’s now the 21st century and we are reasonable, civilized…
Sleigh Bells at Grand Central Miami April 30
Interpol at the Fillmore Miami Beach April 29
Taking Back Sunday at SunFest April 29
Ceu at North Beach Bandshell April 29
Deniz Kurtel at Electric Pickle April 29
Antibalas at North Beach Bandshell April 30
Carnivores at Propaganda April 29
Miami Reggae Festival at Peacock Park April 30
Miami is totally obsessed with Steve Angello. And obviously, the Swedish House Mafia member and Size Records label boss loves us back. How can we tell? Well, Stevie dropped the first hint when he and his fellow Mafia men — Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso — co-dedicated a song to us…
The Billboard Latin Music Awards are here once again — and along with it, all the glitz, glamor, and celebrities you can stomach. There will be singers and rappers, songbirds and crooners, hip-hoppers and rockers, actors and starlets, and all manner of Latin entertainment superstars. And you want into the…
Think you’re down with Afrobeat? Well, if you’re not familiar with Antibalas, then you haven’t sampled the real deal. But the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival is going to change all that next weekend. Based out of Brooklyn, the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra has straight-up hijacked the boogie from the Bronx. And while…
Humanity has come a long way since the Stone Age when we were dancing around fires like deranged sex-crazed monkeys. Or has it?It seems like every new decade’s dance styles become more and more bizarre and less and less inhibited. In fact, these emergent ass-shaking techniques are often nothing more…
Are you one of Tyler’s “new f****t ass followers” on Twitter? We suggest you take his advice and download Bastard if you don’t already have a copy. In addition to being one of last year’s best mixtapes, the album should also help you make sense of the fuck-you-this-is-art approach to…
You’re jolted awake at 7 a.m. by the infuriating screech of your dollar-store alarm clock, too tired, too sober, and too pissed off for another work day, just sick of minimum-wage paychecks, thinking, “Fuck my life.” But after you’ve had your wake-and-bake and sipped some coffee, you start to feel…
Amaury Gutiérrez, like so many of Miami’s own citizens, is a Cuban immigrant, an exile who was forced to choose between his homeland and his dream, between the life he knew and the life he sought, between his roots and his freedom. The singer-songwriter from Santa Clara studied music in…
Early last year, former X-Ray Spex singer and ’70s punk icon Poly Styrene (born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) started work on Generation Indigo, her first solo disc in 31 years. And over the next several months, she worked in the studio with ex-Killing Joke bassist and producer Martin “Youth” Glover, finishing…
Remember your cousin’s Quinces? Aside from the choreographed salsa rueda, what was the entertainment like? Chances are if your prima turned 15 in Miami, it was a Yellow Pages DJ-for-hire that mixed a blend booty bass, merengue, and a few slow jams after sprinkling The Very Best of Kenny G…
Karaoke … Miami fuckin’ loves that shit. And right now, it’s time to celebrate. This is National Karaoke Week, people. Yes, the art of performance over pre-recorded instrumentals has its own holiday. People get on a mic, belt out their favorite tunes, and live the rock star fantasy in front…
