There are two main reasons why musician Dino Felipe started making clothing. The first was he didn’t have money to buy new clothes, so he turned his T-shirts inside out and revamped the shit out of them. He likes to squat when he sits, and the position made holes in…
Does Barry Manilow even exist? Or was the Manilow concept brewed by aesthetes in the Laboratory of Cool to give record-store clerks and music snobs a clear enemy to rail against? It might be something like Saddam Hussein circa 2002, only instead of WMDs, we’re dealing with the globally relevant…
The title of singer-songwriter carries with it a certain weight, artistic mystique, and creative clout. It’s a badge of honor for those who pen their own material, an uncommon talent revered with awe by music lovers. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the Latin realm, where superstars over the…
Jorge Rubiera, one of Miami’s most collaborative musicians, has decided to create his own labor of love. For years, he’s performed alongside longtime pals in Pygmy, Down Home Southernaires, and Animal Tropical. But now he’s created Can’t Stop. Only a month ago, the band played its first concert at Churchill’s…
Were you born without an imagination? Then there’s no reason to keep using colorless, stock phrases like synth-pop to describe Little Dragon’s music. With some effort and a few minutes of listening time, you’d probably come up with something as quirky, cute, and strangely apt as singer Yukimi Nagano’s preferred…
Don Omar is a platinum-selling reggaeton artist based out of San Juan, New York City, and Miami. He’s also the guy who trumped Britney Spears for most albums sold during an in-store appearance at Disney World’s Virgin Megastore. And now the Puerto Rican playa and owner of Orfanato Music Group…
For most people, punk rock is a teenage phase. But for San Francisco’s NOFX, it’s a blueprint for living long and growing old. Back in the mid-’90s, when punk was going mainstream, the band refused a move to the majors, stuck with Epitaph, and eventually landed on its own label,…
The story of DJ Bad Boy Bill is like the history of house music itself, a Chicago music subculture that spread across America and the world to become an international mainstream phenomenon. Schooled in DJing during the Chi-town house boom of the mid ’80s, Bill first made a name for…
It’s a typical scenario nowadays: A Canadian band crosses the border to market itself to the masses and becomes a pop sensation before it has even hit its prime. Yet somehow, between the full-lengths, EPs, and fame, Tokyo Police Club has managed to solidify its sound — and its audience…
Hey film lovers, get your cigars and spectacles out ’cause Churchill’s Pub is turning into a fancy movie house tonight. Sorta. The occasion: A screening of self-described film tramp Bill Daniel’s Sonic Orphans: Lost and Found Music Films 1965-87. It’s gonna be an experimental (and mostly silent) film night…
Why choose between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, when you can have both? DJ Mag has decided to do exactly that this year as it once again takes over the Shelborne, and its nightclub Shine, for two weeks worth of parties.Highlights include the return of DJ Mag’s Recession…
If you choose to party with Robbie Rivera and the Juicy Beach freaks, be prepared to wake up drunk and blistered with a fistful of sand in your pants, an uncut Key lime in your mouth, and absolutely no memory of the last 17 hours. Kicking off Thursday, March 24…
The era of the big-budget rock video seems distant indeed. Actually, the era of the big-budget video for any genre seems distant, save for a few megawatt hip-hop and pop productions. Still, the best directors are adapting their style to smaller budgets and even smaller (laptop) screens. And instead of…
The Jacob Jeffries Band has been going strong since its inception some five years ago. And the crew continues to forge ahead, gathering Jacobians (a term for followers the band’s frontman may not have realized he was coining on Facebook just last night) with each and every stop, gigging relentlessly…
We already broke the news that Hard was returning to the Magic City — only this time it’s going to be a proper club event at Grand Central on Thursday, March 24. Now the lineup has popped up. And while Simian Mobile Disco in nowhere in sight (not that we…
Most of your American friends don’t know composer Yann Tiersen by name. But play a couple of ten-second clips from songs like the melancholy accordion-and-piano piece “La Dispute” or the waltz-y whirlwind lament “J’y Suis Jamais Allé” and your test subject will almost immediately identify him as “that guy who…
If you were at Eve a couple Saturdays ago for Jakwob’s U.S. tour kickoff, then you might have caught a set from Miami’s own Caligula. The Overthrow-affiliated dubstep duo reps our city heavy in the Rick Ross “B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast)” remix they produced last year. It sounds like cocaine and…
As conference approaches, if someone is “winning” the battle of the dueling electronic music weeks in March, it’s definitely Ultra Music Festival. That’s not to say Winter Music Conference will be a total dud. In the coming weeks, though, as Crossfade starts to reveal our findings, you’ll see it’s painfully…
One of Miami’s most collaborative musicians, Jorge Rubiera, has decided to create his own personal labor of love. For years, he’s been performing alongside longtime pals in Pygmy, the Down Home Southernaires, and Animal Tropical. But now he’s created Can’t Stop. Only a month ago, the band played its first…
That’s right … Our favorite ukelele-toting songslinger in the whole damn 305, Rachel Goodrich, has another song in a TV commercial. Last time, the Crayola corporation was making use of Ms. Goodrich’s “Light Bulb” to brainwash kiddies into desperately desiring the Color Explosion Glow Dome, “a spinning glowing dome that…
Four weeks and a few days ago, we here at Crossfade notified all party perverts that Made Event’s Sunday School for Degenerates would be expanding its deviant dance marathon from 24 to 36 hours. At the time, there was no official lineup announcement. So we waited … And finally, Made…
2010 marked not only the quartercentennial anniversary of Miami’s Winter Music Conference but also 25 years of Detroit techno, the seminal EDM movement that spawned the worldwide techno phenomenon. And this year is also a significant one for Detroit techno, as it marks the 20th anniversary of Carl Craig’s Planet…
