Yves LaRock’s production style is almost immediately recognizable. He creatively blends ethnic instruments with house, hip-hop, reggae, ragga, and electro while breaking all musical boundaries. His cofounding of the innovatively inspiring collective Africanism helped create an exciting new sound for the dance scene. He teamed up with other French superstar…
All the big bands out there have done benefit concerts or performances to help the community, so it seems fitting that Miami’s local talent takes a stab at it. Hit Play!, Arsenal88, and Araka will team up with high school bands Your Favorite Franchise, Audacity, and Not From Concentrate at…
Singer-songwriter Jorge Celedón and accordionist Jimmy Zambrano released their first album in the States in 2008, but they’ve been performing together for years. They’ve put the vallenato culture on the map by playing around the world, including a gig at the White House in front of former President George W…
Soul Clap members Elyte and Cnyce locked themselves in a basement until their mixing was flawless. Then they traveled the globe to observe the most advanced programmers, including Josh Wink, Carl Craig, and François K. But they still weren’t content. To find their groove, they’ve performed at countless venues, such…
When the Swell Season took the stage at the 2008 Oscars, the band’s appearance seemed about as incongruous as that of a songbird in a mineshaft. Hell, for all anyone knew, the Academy, in all its infinite wisdom, had booked the then relatively little-known duo simply to see if the…
Boynton Beach’s sexiest band, electro-punks Kill Miss Pretty, just spent a couple days raunching it up at Exxxotica this past weekend. But this Sunday the band, known for its carnivalesque showcases and sexpot of a lead singer Alicia Olink, will get a bit more conservative (maybe) when it performs on…
Over the coming days, leading up to Sunday, May 30, we’ll be taking a look at all of the main artists performing at the huge Best of the Best concert that day. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, do so soon. General admission right now is $54, and VIP…
It seems another Miami band has gotten its gear stolen. New Times reported yesterday that Torche, currently on tour with Circa Survive and Coheed and Cambria, had a slew of equipment jacked in Chicago on Friday, including a guitar, bass, pedals, iPod, and passports. The incident precludes their continuing on…
Who’s still the baddest bitch? After a few years’ lull of mixtapes and pushed-back albums, Trina is once again riding high on the success of her fifth studio album, Amazin’. The lead single, “Million Dollar Girl,” which features Keri Hilson and Diddy, continues to tear up clubs and the radio…
Time once again to tip you, the dear readers of Crossfade, off to some sweet, sweet cubaneo. You know it, you love it. You know we love it. That Cuban swing is a big part of our fair city’s cultural lifeblood. And on the menu for this week’s recommended sumptuous…
It’s virtually impossible to speak of local nightlife and electronic dance music culture without touching on Space, Miami’s quintessential megaclub. May 22 marks a decade since the downtown venue first opened its doors, putting the MIA on the international clubland map by providing superstars guest DJs the likes of Paul…
If you’ve ever considered the bizarre possibility of drinking and traveling the world and actually getting paid for it, you’ve wanted to be Zane Lamprey. The host of cult-TV favorite Three Sheets, he’s already been to more than 50 countries sampling the best brews, meeting the most interesting people and…
The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn got on the phone with us for a few minutes last week prior to the band’s headlining slot on Friday at the Heineken Inspire Miami event at the Moore Building, and it wasn’t long before we were peeking at Florida’s seedy underbelly. Of course, Finn…
Decapitated goats floating in Biscayne Bay, teens arrested for rapping at the drive-thru, knife-wielding psychos turning berserk because the jukebox isn’t loud enough, teachers crafting geometry lessons based on “hypothetical” Obama assassination plots, daddies trading their babies for beer, robots replacing priests … It’s a weird, weird, weird world indeed…
Control: A Tribute to Ian Curtis With Armada!, Daysleeper, Ian Michael, Xela Zaid, DJ Dracula’s Daughter, and DJ Nayra Churchill’s Pub Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Better than: Watching the movie Control on repeat. The Review: Last night, at the beginning of the evening at Churchill’s, there were a few more people…
Country fans can barely drink a glass of water these days without some image of Brad Paisley coming to mind. Last month he dove into a swimming pool while singing his hit single “Water” during the Academy of Country Music Awards, and more recently, he became a poster boy for…
With Pharrell Williams spending a lot of time in Miami for the past few years, he is basically become a local act. But if you need an even stronger local angle, FriendsWithYou-decorated cars aside, you only have to look at the promos circulating around the interwebs for N.E.R.D’s new single…
I tried to think of snarky lyrical references with which to pepper this blog. After all, irony and perversion (blowjobs in theaters, hands in pockets) could all work their way into a blog about ’90s alternative-rock chanteuse Alanis Morissette carrying a bun in the oven, according to Perez Hilton. But quirky…
Based upon how much Crossfade covers the Bubble and Surfer Blood and, uh, Nonpoint, readers might assume that we’re a bunch of skinny-jeaned, asymmetrically coiffed brats over here, and they’d probably be kind of right. Although our occasional drinking buddy Tara Nieuwesteeg depicts other writers as “trendy hipsters who refer…
While stations like 99 Jamz and Power 96 got all the shine in the urban/rhythmic/party music broadcasting wars, contender 103.5 the Beat quietly cultivated its own devoted following. The station’s slogan for a time was “Grown and Sexy … And Loving It!” and its programming and on-air banter reflected this…
New Times Broward-Palm Beach Calendar Editor Mickie Centrone has the enviable job of knowing about every event that happens within the boundaries of the two counties, and then some. When she attends some of the finest events from a given week, we’ll post the details of her travels here. On…
“Tuesdays at Monterey Club” should not be kept a secret. South Floridians, it would be hard to stumble upon another joint that offers such great tunes every week. Location: The Monterey Club is deserted in the middle of nowhere — AKA South Federal Highway on the way to the Fort…
