Can you hear that slow-building beat rumbling through the streets? It doesn’t matter whether you’re downtown, over in the Design District, or holed up in the Grove. There’s no avoiding it … You can feel it in your feet, your knees, and your gut. For the 13th year in a…
Last week, we previewed Maya Jane Coles’ American debut performance at the Electric Pickle with SAFE this Thursday. Her breakthrough hit “What They Say” was easily the most charted track of 2010 and she shows no signs of slowing down. This highly versatile and prolific young producer is dead set…
Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah! Excuse us for all the Lagy Gaga coverage, but you know how it is … Big popstar comes into town and the whole city comes to a standstill.Our sources have told us Gaga’s actually been hanging out in Miami since Sunday, with she and her crew staying at a…
Dubstep was impossible to avoid during last month’s Miami Music Week. Even electro-house megaproducers like Fedde Le Grand and Benny Bennassi threw some dubby stuff down in the middle of their Ultra Music Festival sets. So it’s safe to say that the womp-womp has hit its saturation point. And even…
Maybe he was having “threesomes with a fuckin’ triceratops, Reptar” or “fuckin’ Goldilocks up in the forest/in the three bear house eatin’ their muthafuckin’ porridge.” But for some strange reason, Tyler the Creator, the leader of 10-member L.A. rap crew Odd Future, “woke up with a sweaty dick” today. Or…
Everybody’s favorite glam guidette isn’t Snooki, it’s Lady Gaga. The Italian-American princess continues to force parents into explaining things like disco sticks to their five year olds. Sure, Gaga’s always less than boring. But sometimes, she’s just so ridiculous that we don’t even have the energy to “get it.”Still, Mother…
Eletric PiqueteS/Tmyspace.com/ElectricPiqueteThe seven-piece band known as Electric Piquete only formed about four years ago. But from the group’s inception (the product of founders Michael Mut and Ed Rosado’s desire to perform at Churchill’s annual Hialeahfest back in 2007), it’s been drawing local attention and steadily gaining ground. Quickly recognized as…
This past weekend, Miami had so much going on. It went by without a minute of sleep. On Saturday, I got a ride to my Transit Antenna gig in the backseat of one of Flo Rida’s limos. And I was sitting next to Poe Boy recording artist Billy Blue. We…
After a brutal recession, Miami’s corpse has reanimated itself into something that’s hungry for BRAAAAAIIIINNNNSSS!, er, a comeback. Sure, this zombie smells a little rotten and moves a bit slowly, but soon enough there will be an army taking over. No government-enforced quarantine will keep it down.Every good zombie takeover…
See Sweatstock 2011’s full lineup and set times. Thanks to Napster, Steve Jobs, and the overlords of the Internet, we all live in an increasingly immaterial world where the only acceptable way to package, market, and consume music is the ubiquitous MP3 or some comparable digital audio encoding format. Needless…
Who’s the greatest fictional group of all time? Is it Erie, Pennsylvania’s The Wonders or Doug Funnie’s favorite band The Beets? What about The California Raisins, the claymation cover band originally molded to advertise the California Raisin Advisory Board? They were pretty sweet in their heyday, even landed an animated…
You know the current crop of noisy electronic acts like Crystal Castles and Sleigh Bells? Well, they owe a lot to a certain Berlin hardcore outfit spearheaded by Alec Empire, Hanin Elias, Carl Crack, and Nic Endo. They were better known as Atari Teenage Riot and throughout the ’90s they…
We don’t need to remind you of the terrible ordeals currently facing the nation of Japan. The March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed large sections of the island’s northeastern coast, leaving tens of thousands dead or missing. And as if that wasn’t catastrophic enough, workers are still desperately attempting…
A month and a half ago, hyperkinetic copyright prankster and Illegal Art label boss Girl Talk (AKA Greg Gillis) revealed that he was “extending his pheremone-soaked North American spree by scheduling another 38 sweaty encounters, including a gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 19.” Immediately, all the little hipsters…
Jesus H. Christ! Perhaps it’s about time that Sweat Records owner Lauren Reskin called upon a santero to do a limpieza (washing) at the store. It has been stricken with bad luck since its inception. From hurricanes to AC failures to robberies, Sweat has seen it all.So is it any…
Are you ready to go psycho with Sweat Records, Panic Bomber, and the other 35 local noise fiends set to invade the Little Haiti record shop, its parking lot, and the entirety of the Churchill’s Pub complex in t-minus five days? Well, we here at Crossfade have already started stashing…
The time for subterfuge and obfuscation has come to an end. I will no longer employ cloak-and-dagger tricks in order to make a Cavity reunion happen. No. It is time for action! I have already covered a hefty span of their catalogue via my Blast From the Past column, e-mails…
There are certain things that are quintessentially Miami, like cafecitos at a board meeting and a doctor sporting a guayabera. Now add Rakontur Media Studio’s rapidly expanding library of South Florida-focused documentaries to that running list. For over a decade, director Billy Corben and producer Alfred Spellman have built their…
It’s kinda embarrassing. But lately, we here at Crossfade have been crushing on Mr. Ricky Martin (or as we like to call him, Señor Bon Bon) in a hot, gooey, and very public way. This infatuation started ten days ago when we suddenly noticed a throbbing in our pelvic region…
Jacuzzi Boys, Psychic Mirrors, Teepee, and Feathers Churchill’s Pub April 9, 2011 Better Than: A show with twice as many bands and half as many people. As far as shows at Churchill’s go, last night’s show was a near perfect one. Save for some unnecessary bromantic tension in the mosh…
It almost seems superfluous to tell you that we’re fans of Ricky Martin. Almost. Because we can’t seem to get enough of Ricky. And we know you can’t either. Because sometimes long articles might be hard to digest. And because these quick and easy lists let us have a bit…
Last October, I had the pleasure of recording in Ryan Haft’s new home studio. And when I wanted some cool organ sounds, Haft called his friend and keyboard expert, Ryan De Grandy. In less than 30 minutes, a charming fellow with a laid back smile was hooking me up with…
