Rihanna at the American Airlines Arena, July 31

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.RihannaJuly 31, 2011American Airlines ArenaA pop-tastic show that was full of theatrics and a stepping-into-Rihanna’s-dreams storyline. The concert’s timing couldn’t have been better either. After…

Torche’s Songs For Singles Makes Good Holiday Jingle

Torche Songs For Singles (Hydra Head Records) hydrahead.com Admittedly, this eight-song EP came out in September. But I’m boiling down the tardiness of this review as follows: I just bought a copy, it hadn’t been properly reviewed, and my colleague Erica K. Landau over at County Grind just named it…

Suénalo’s Live at Transit

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.Suénalo Live at Transit (Suenalo Music)Though made up of relatively young cats, Suénalo has established itself as one of our local scene’s granddaddies with a…

Rachel Goodrich Performs at Churchill’s Open Mic

So, Monday night was amazingly cold. There was a lunar eclipse. I needed to get out of my cave. And I got a ride to Churchill’s from my Nigerian female friend because I had heard that Rachel Goodrich was going to be performing at the open mic. Soon, I was…

Art Department’s Jonny White Talks Debut Albums and World Domination

For awhile now, Toronto DJ-producers Jonny White and Kenny Glasgow have been established scene veterans. But nothing could have prepared them (or the world) for the tsunami wave of their 2010 debut release as Art Department, “Without You.” A monstrous bass-driven banger oozing with raw sex and haunting Quaalude-hazed vocals, it dominated…

Swedish House Mafia Throws Masquerade Motel Party Opposite Ultra Fest UPDATE

​What’s next on Swedish House Mafia’s to-do list? Total global takeover? Almost. This evening, word has arrived that Mafia members Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, and Axwell will challenge Ultra Music Festival’s exclusive claim to the last weekend of March by throwing one of their Masquerade Motel parties on Saturday, March…

Lazaro Casanova’s Soul Food EP

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.Lazaro Casanova Soul Food EP (petFood) Miami’s not really a house music town. Sure, we host WMC each year and we’ve grown a pretty banging…

Afrobeta’s Do You Party EP

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.AfrobetaDo You Party? EP (Do IT Entertainment)Since 2006, Afrobeta has been peddling its sugary electropop to Miami’s small music scene. But the pair’s marketing machine…

Lil Daggers’ King Corpse 7″

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.Lil DaggersKing Corpse Limited Edition 7″ (Livid Records)There’s just something about a limited-edition record that makes you wanna go out, get it, and add it…

Justin Bieber Causes a Rabid Frenzy at the American Airlines Arena

See the full Justin Bieber slideshow. Whenever Justin Bieber invokes that magic couplet, “Baby, baby, baby, oh/Like baby, baby, baby,” people get crazy cracked!  Maybe it’s the pitch of Bieber’s voice at this particular stage of his hormonal development that drives human beings into a rabid frenzy, like high-strung German…

Lil Wayne’s I Am Not a Human Being

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.Lil WayneI Am Not a Human Being (Young Money/Cash Money)Lil Wayne will never stop repping his hometown of New Orleans — just count the references…

Bieber Fever! The Dangerous Breakout of an Androgynous Boy Wonder

You can joke about Justin Bieber’s lesbianism all day. But the Biebz reigns supreme. Powered by asexual androgyny and cotton-candy songcraft, he has brainwashed tween girls, their mothers, and even, in the most extreme cases, their fathers. You could be next. Seriously, if JB didn’t look (and sound) like an…

Top Ten Christmas Gifts for the Broke-Ass Musician

Is there a broke-ass musician in your life? Well, if not, just look to your left and you’ll find a guy named Danny in a band called Dirty Cherry who can’t even afford a simple bar of soap. Now look to your right and meet Jake, a bass player with…

Fatboy Slim Brings His Rockafeller Skank to Arkadia December 31

Around the turn of the century, it seemed at one point that Fatboy Slim (AKA Norman Cook) would be the first superstar DJ. While he reached an incredible level of success Stateside, it paled in comparison to his European achievements. Hey, a dance sequence to the tune of “The Rockafeller…

Introducing the New Disqus Commenting System

We know how much you love the Captcha commenting system now in use on Crossfade. Who doesn’t enjoy struggling to read nonsensical phrases to prove they aren’t evil robots. We hate to break it to you, but Captcha is going away. Crossfade and the other Miami New Times blogs are…