To succeed in a world where you’d need a calculator to count all the haters, you gotta have non-stop hustle. Start yourself on the path From the Bottom to the Top by downloading a free copy of the new mixtape-slash-street-guide by hustle consultant and Little Haiti rapper Ball Greezy. Alongside…
On March 29, Arcade Fire lit up the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince with covers from Cyndi Lauper (“Girls Just Want to Have Fun”), the Rolling Stones (“The Last Time”) and Creedence Clearwater Revival (“Who’ll Stop the Rain”), plus songs off each of their own albums, including last year’s Grammy-winning The…
Lay where you’re laying, don’t make a sound. The Kings of Leon movie may be coming to your town. Before KOL was a popular rock quartet, they were just three brothers and a cousin from the small Nashville suburb of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. They were raised by a Pentecostal preacher…
Back in January, we reported that recurring Crossfade character Black Bobby was going to take a break from hip-hop. Yeah, we didn’t think that would last either. Cutting an MC from a mic is like, well, cutting the average human being off from oxygen. Luckily, you can find much better…
It’d be so effing awesome to be Hugh Hefner, right? Well, maybe … We here at Crossfade can’t decide. On the one hand, he’s 168 years old. His spousal support bills have gotta be astronomical. And he just got married again! Plus, Grandpa Playboy is probably only popping 16 little…
Doing it yourself may be all the rage on the DIY Network. But it hasn’t quite made it mainstream in the music world. Still, that hasn’t stopped certain ingenious musicians from applying a little know how and a hell of a lot of creativity to overcoming problems like the lack…
We love Miami-inspired music and videos. So it’s hard for us not to get behind Mobroder, the Italo-disco side project from Spank Rock, Blu Jemz, and DJ Hoff that seems hell-bent on creating the perfect Magic City soundtrack. (Mobroder’s Twitter lists its location as “Miami 1983.”)And for the “Rush” music…
Jim Wurster is a musician of serious intent. His earliest efforts with Black Janet bolstered the perception, given that the band’s dark designs weren’t simply a by-product of their name. Still, Wurster really came into his own when he went solo and subsequently formed the Atomic Cowboys, taking a 180-degree…
Brooklyn producer Francis Harris is a philosophy PhD drop-out and former political activist/hardcore punk rocker who confessed to having originally hated dance music. At one point or another, he had a major change of heart and his shadowy electronic alter ego Adultnapper has emerged as one of the most acclaimed…
Forget paying your dues as a music blogger, or even majoring in a relevant art like creative writing, breaking into the entertainment industry has never been easier. MTV Tr3s and Subway are looking for “unique personalities to join Wisin y Yandel on tour” as “guest correspondents” for Lo Que Te…
If you haven’t heard ANR’s latest record, Stay Kids, you are perhaps missing the Miami duo’s finest hour. It features tighter production, catchier hooks, and a bit of the unfamiliar to create something that sounds Pitchfork-ready without falling into the chillwave trap. (Thank the indie gods!)One of the album’s highlights,…
Who’s ready for a few lukewarm pints of fine Dutch pilsner and three straight, solid weeks of worldly party music? Indeed, it’s that time of the year again. It’s the sweaty season. We’re thirsty. And the fine folks over at the Rhythm Foundation have hooked us up with another edition…
How awesome would it be if the Jacuzzi Boys met Frank Zappa in a sonic cage match and they all emerged after three minutes, hugging each other, laughing at little private jokes, and humming beautiful music? Well, even if it’s impossible, that’s a battle (or love-in) I’d like to see…
The Lee Boys is a world-famous family band of six Perrine natives who all went to Miami Killian Senior High School. It’s three brothers — rhythm guitar man Alvin, and singers Derrick and Keith — alongside three nephews — pedal steel guitar player Roosevelt Collier, bassist Alvin Cordy Jr., and…
Kool KeithWith Otto von Schirach, Juan Basshead, and othersEveSaturday, April 2, 2011Better Than: Staying home and crying over the demise of LCD SoundsystemThe downtown/midtown Miami corridor found itself in a pleasant hip-hop time-warp last night, with Too $hort playing an unexpected set at Bardot while Kool Keith headlined Eve downtown…
RadioboxerApril 01, 2011The StageBetter Than: Any of the many other times I’ve caught Radioboxer live. Radioboxer’s come a long way. Who’d have thought some three years ago that this ragtag pack of scamps out of Hialeah would grow and evolve like it has? Two albums under their belt now, a…
Even 207 years after Lewis and Clark dared to make that first incredibly dangerous cross-continental trip, millions of Americans — like local prog-punk trio Jacobs Ladder –continue to head West, looking for fame, inspiration, intoxicants, babes of both sexes, and giant bags of cash. Needless to say, most of these…
By all measures, David Brieske is a quiet and gentle man. It should be no shock that a lot of South Florida’s visual artists also create music. And Brieske’s solo work, under the virtually unpronounceable banner of Fsik Huvnx, has been gaining momentum lately. His instrumentation is simple. But the…
A celebrity is born every 60 seconds. At least these days, that’s the case. And the proverbial fifteen minutes of fame have been stretched to an eternity. Yet despite contentions to the contrary, few are real stars. And even among those who could be called natural-born entertainers, there aren’t many…
What’s up, party peeps? Holla, if you’ve been waiting all the damned work week for Friday to roll around, and now find yourself watching the clock, counting the minutes until the whistle blows, so you can blow off some steam of your own. Yep, we’re right there with you. And…
You don’t want to let former teen idol and current rage monster Chris Brown get too close to your abuelita. All it takes is one question about C. Breezy’s personal life and that 78-year-old bitch is getting smashed like the windows at Good Morning America. But you can trust local…
Local label Drugged Conscience hosts a super sparse (yet super tight) three-band showcase at Miami Chum Bucket next Saturday. And the guests of honor are Olympia, Washington’s Broken Water, a new-ish trio founded in 2008 that’s risen to the top of the Pacific Northwest’s most recent wave of post-punk. Despite…
