As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Fucked Up September 14, 2010 Churchill’s Pub In addition to regularly leading manic mosh circuses and helping to mete out serious sonic punishment, Fucked…
Stupid traditions … Like assholes and opinions, everyone has one. You’ve groaned when your mom forced you to follow hers. Or you’ve nervously complied when trapped at some boring New Year’s Eve party with your brand-new girlfriend and her extended family.But no matter how much you hate these ridiculous little…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2010 here.Axe and the Oak Record Store Day EP (Self-Released) We’ve all seen, heard and loved bands that were total disasters. The bass is too low…
The swamps and warehouse squats, Carol City and Coco’s Nightclub, South Beach and the megaclubs — our city’s music scene is the product of so many split-up, spliced, and remixed sources that any attempted overview of its output will inevitably seem insufficient and incomplete. But here at Crossfade, we don’t…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation October 26, 2010 Bayfront Park Amphitheater Even before the actual music started, the Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation double bill at…
It’s unlikely Jamie Foxx will come anywhere close to matching the absurd spectacle that Lady Gaga brought to the Fontainebleau last year with her overloaded smoke machines and one-thousand pounds of glitter. So expect the Oscar and Grammy winner to keep things a little more dignified. Think an upscale, mature-and-sexy…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. LCD Soundsystem October 6, 2010 The Fillmore Miami Beach Imagine going to the best dance party of your life with the best band playing,…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2010 here.Beings Beings (Amnesian Records) Miami’s reigning power trio, Beings, doesn’t waste a single second on its eponymous mini-album. While the official stats (8 tracks in…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Air March 13, 2010 The Fillmore Miami Beach It had been 12 whole years and a couple of months since the release of Air’s…
There have been rumors that Playboy is going out business, and Hugh Hefner’s empire of fake tits and airbrushed cellulite would wither away like the editor’s wrinkly wiener after the Viagra’s worn off. There was also a rumor that Lil Jon suffered a mild heart attack after drinking a pimp…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2010 here.Locos Por Juana Evolucion EP (La Juana Productions) If you look up evolution in the dictionary, it’s defined as any process of growth or development…
The entire world’s tapped its foot to a Teena Marie tune. Some know it, like all those fans with feathered bangs who own a complete audiocassette collection of the Ivory Queen of Soul’s thirteen studio releases. But others are clueless, like the legions of 16-year-old stoners who got curiously caught…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Metric December 1, 2010 Oceanfront Pavilion at Collins Park It’s not often that you get to hang out with a band like Metric on…
In a recent episode of NBC’s 30 Rock, Jenna was sad ’cause she was going to miss out on going to Elton John and Tom Ford’s New Queer’s Eve. She had broken up with her cross-dressing boyfriend Paul, just as they were planning to go together as a couple in costume…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2010 here.Space Between Words And We All Follow the Sun(Space Between Words, Magnetron Publishing LLC, SESAC)Space Between Words like to play with celestial themes. And that…
Currently living what sounds like the premise of a television legal drama, Adam Gersten is a dude from Miami Beach who’s found himself with the seriously serious job of being a Key West lawyer. Though Matlock and Sam Waterston do inspire his life choices, it is Gersten’s label, Needless Records,…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Crystal Castles September 21, 2010 Grand Central Is it possible? Has Crystal Castles’ glitchy goth dance noise really gone mainstream? Will frontwoman Alice Glass’s…
We’ve forgiven Drake for just about every hip-hop faux-pas that he’s committed … We forgave him for starting off as an actor in the teen drama, Degrassi: The Next Generation. We forgave him for growing up in Toronto’s wealthy Forest Hill neighborhood. And we continue to forgive him for puckering…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2010 here.John HancockAntenna Death (St. Ives/10K Islands)The end of 2010 again belonged to Awesome New Republic. On the strength of its latest full-length, Stay Kids, the duo…
Happy New Year! Or, more appropriately … Feliz Año Nuevo! I love this time of year. There are lots and lots of parties over the holiday season. And who doesn’t like to party? No one. That’s who. Especially not Latinos. We absolutely love to party. It’s right up there with eating…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2010 here.Rick RossTeflon Don (Island Def Jam)Over the last half-decade, Rick Ross has continued to hustle until he placed himself as one of hip hop’s brightest…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Phoenix October 27, 2010 Fillmore Miami Beach Thanks to last January’s merger between music industry monoliths Ticketmaster and Live Nation (not to mention a…
