Mokaï is back, y’all! This time, under the auspicious control of the Opium Group — which for the time being we aren’t sure is a good or bad thing. Wednesday night was the opening of the club, and what better way to get things going than having Overthrow throw a…
Hearing Damage: The Rat Opera is one of those little artistic things that pop up that are so uniquely weird and South Floridian. Yes, it’s an actual opera about longtime local producer and noise god Frank Falestra, a.k.a. Rat Bastard. It debuted last year at Tobacco Road and Churchill’s, but…
Always looking to balance my rock and roll with a little culture, I’m happy to report that Miami Beach’s Bass Museum of Art kicks off its much-lauded winter/spring season of biweekly jazz concerts tonight, February 19. Getting the festivities going will be the Mike Orta Quartet. FIU students will recognize…
Vocally, Detroit-born, Brooklyn-based neo-pop folk songstress Holly Miranda might bring to mind Chann Marshall. But mood-wise she’s got much more in common with, say, American dream pop duo Azure Ray. Both find solace in sleep, and the things that go bump in the night. And each has a way with…
First thing’s first, it’s important you all know one thing about the information contained within the following post. Today is my birthday! How does this relate to Los Amigos Invisibles? Well it doesn’t. Unless, due to the residual effects of last night’s celebration combined with the anxiousness over the upcoming…
First it was silkscreening his face on panties, now Roman Jones is allowing people to wipe their asses with his face. Yes sir, the newly reopen Mokaï seems to be stocked with toilet paper printed with Jones’ mug. We’ve got to admit we are finding all of this a bit…
Here in Crossfade we may always hype up the new or up and coming, but plenty of people come to Winter Music Conference to listen to the old standbys, and we don’t blame ’em. It’s perhaps the only week in the United States you can catch them all back to…
Honeyboy Edwards is playing Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre this Saturday fresh off winning the lifetime achievement award at this year’s Grammy’.Tigertail Productions booked the gig well in advance. Tickets are still available for $35 to $50.Honeyboy told us, “I don’t know nothing else to do but play the blues and…
Ike ReillyHard Luck Stories (Rock Ridge Music)If you took the Pogues and multiplied them by the Clash, then divided by Dylan the result would be Ike Reilly. Over the past decade, he’s quietly amassed one of the most raucous and literate catalogues in rock and roll. His peculiar genius is…
If you’re a native of the 305, Spam probably means a good deal more to you than processed and canned ham byproduct. For one, you no doubt associate it with the ass-shakinest, groove-makinest, bad-ass mamajammas in the city (yeah, I went there. I said mamajamma). But instead of just correlating…
It’s not surprising that Miami, “the city of Bass,” would so fondly embrace a form such as dubstep. A heavy mash of UK garage and grime, with roots tracing back to Jamaican dub, the genre is deep and low and perfect for the kinda nights where the action takes place…
Head Spins: Dubstep ambassador the Reazin plays the Vagabond
Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile plays Culture Room and Cayamo Cruise
Richard Vission is the perfect musical complement to Jersey Shore. And it’s not just that he looks like a cast member. His party-time take on house is the perfect soundtrack to which to fist-pump, fist-bump, and Jäger-bomb. Hell, the guy even used to have a sweet nickname (Humpty) like everyone…
Mark Knight is on an upward trajectory in the DJ world. Last year, he broke the top half of the DJ Magazine Top 100. As head of the Toolroom label, he’s put plenty of records in DJs’ boxes from artists such as David Guetta, Deadmau5, and Audiofly. His own hits…
In the dance music world, Deadmau5 has a Midas touch that works even indirectly. Two years ago, his remix of L.A. producer Morgan Page’s track “The Longest Road” scored a Grammy nomination, and of course that pointed the spotlight back to the track’s creator. Page was ready to bask in…
For every phrase that results in someone gasping, “That would make a great band name,” there’s an equally lazy epiphany that happens when bands wind up with names such as the Devil Wears Prada, !!!, and Gringo Star. Luckily, the last, a group of Atlanta-based rising indie stars, boasts more…
Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 tour with Young Jeezy and Trey Songz hits BankAtlantic Center
Local Motion: The State Of, Frightdoll, and Andrew Bayuk
International techno giant Mathew Jonson is back in Miami on Saturday to play at the Space Techno Loft, and be advised that this will be a party of epic proportions. Canadian-born/Berlin-based producer Jonson heads the esteemed Wagon Repair label and is one of the more virtuosic and boldly innovative figures…
If you haven’t checked out the newest lounge over at the Gansevoort South Hotel (which actually might lose a few cool points after the loss of its original owners), you probably fall into one of two categories: You either didn’t know it was open or you weren’t able to get…
Look, we’ve never liked having to say this, but basically the Red Cross fucking sucks. They do a lot of shit, but certainly not as much as people believe, definitely not as much as they portray, and beyond a shadow of a doubt with the heavy burden of “administrative costs”…
