Music

Yesterday, the major U.K. newspaper The Sun ran a music trend piece whose thesis more or less deserves a resounding “Duh” from anyone around here. The headline: “Dubstep making leaps in the U.S.” Well, yeah. Anyone into electronic music in the States — like the thousands and thousands of people who crowded the…

I’m a little late to game on this, but last month ANR released a new music video for its track “The Endless Field of Mercury,” a very bold number that starts out slow but turn into sort of call-to-action after about a minute. Personally, I’ve always been sort of “meh”…

We reported here this past June that Alanis Morisette had semi-secretly married Mario Treadway, who was previously known around South Florida as a vaguely neo-hippie, conscious rapper known as Souleye. The one-time-Whole Foods employee was a favorite on the local circuit in the early ’00s, when he lived in Boca…

Poor Fantasia. The erstwhile American Idol champion won fans and hearts on season three of that show with her squeaky, unusual voice and around-the-way appeal. Still, she was relatively public with her personal struggles, and then commercial breakout success didn’t really follow, either. Recently, she attempted a comeback through realty television, a…

Got to give it to Afrobeta. After performing at this year’s Ultra Music Festival — and nabbing a Best of Miami award for “Best Band” along the way — the PR machine has been working nonstop to keep the forward momentum. The duo just got back from playing several European…

We’ve hyped Jazid and MiamiAlterLatino.com’s collaborative effort to expand your party horizons until our fingers grew tired. In fact, we’ve even told you about Fiesta Argentina previously.So why bring it up again? Because we’d be remiss if we failed to mention the opportunity to catch some noteworthy live performances at…

Louis David, Juan Rojas, and Dsan Powell  Revolutionary EP (petFood)The petFood label was formed in 2008 by native Miamian DJ/producers Lazaro Casanova and Jay-You as a launching pad for their own tropical-flavored brand of late-night club beats. They’ve since continued to expand their artist roster and sonic gamut, thanks to…

We love musical cruise season every winter. It brings such a random assortment of sea-bound voyages, from the by-now-an-institution Jam Cruise to our new favorite, the garage-rock-soul-themed Bruise Cruise. Well, here’s another somewhat unlikely hit trip that’s returning: The New Kids on the Block cruise! Haters be damned. Since reuniting in…

Rick Ross’ annual Be Out Day returned last week to the North Miami Athletic Stadium for its third year, and we just got our mitts on some photos of the star-studded charity event. For all his flossy gangster fantasies, Ross is still a diehard Miami guy who frequently back to…

Erykah Badu caused some controversy a few months ago when she released her video for “Window Seat” and followed in Matt and Kim’s footsteps, taking off all of her clothes, piece by piece. Well now she’s released a remix of “Window Seat” called “Turn Me Away,” featuring our very own…

It is no secret that I am completely giddy with the upcoming reunion show of the legendary Coke this coming Saturday. So in honor of the Miami bands that created and paved the way of the real Miami Sound, here’s a video clip from a jam earlier this year by…

This coming Saturday will bear witness to a reunion gig thirty-plus years in the making. We recently had a chance to catch up with keyboardist Joe “Tito” Rubio to play the Crossfade game of five questions. Crossfade: What have you and other members of Coke been up to these years?…