At a time when most 19-year-old pop stars are wagging their tongues and twerking on anything that moves, being arrested for DUIs, or getting caught in a sex tape scandal, bachata sensation Leslie Grace is focused on writing music, topping the charts, and hanging with music legends at the Billboard…
The Sounds With Blondfire and Ghost Beach Grand Central Wednesday, April 16, 2014 Bringing the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll to the stage is easier said than done. For a band like Sweden’s The Sounds, however, it’s an art that seems to come naturally, as they circle the globe, making…
Reverend Peyton is a fishin’, huntin’, hootin’, hollerin’ hillbilly from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. He can cut a tree down faster than a forest fire. He can build a cabin in his sleep. He’s got more beard than a black bear. His overalls stay covered in other people’s…
Oh, James Murphy. The former LCD Soundsystem frontman, DFA Records founder, entrepreneur, and generally amazing human will soon be gracing our city once again. He’ll return to Bardot Miami (where last year’s Red Bull Music Academy Couch Session was held during the inaugural III Points Festival) to spin some wax…
Is nightclubbing awesome? Or awful? As former LCD Soundsystem frontman and DFA Records founder James Murphy once quipped: “It depends on your idea of fun. Champagne, music — it could be a nightmare.” But when Mr. Murphy’s handling the disc-jockeying, any trip to the club is just dreamy. Even if…
Like the polar ice caps, the rainforests, and the Yangtze finless porpoise, the record store remains in peril. However, there is hope. Over the last seven years, Record Store Day has become an increasingly visible global phenomenon, encouraging fans, artists, and proprietors to unite and breathe life into this once-thriving…
It took long enough, but Mogwai will finally be playing a gig in Miami. The post-rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, has been around for nearly 20 years, but as its upcoming debut show in our town proves, there are still many firsts for the quintet to experience. Speaking via phone…
When the average 21st-century music fan wakes up in the morning, he or she often turns on the smartphone and taps away into the digital life that we all now share, like, 18 hours a day. Free download after free download glides past our eyes as we swipe at touch…
Oh, free tickets … As The Sounds’ Maja Ivarsson once sang: “I think about you all the time.” In about 48 hours, that Swedish songstress and her pals will saunter into downtown Miami’s Grand Central for an evening of shimmering New Wave pop. So we here at Crossfade, along with…
Dead Milkmen With Humbert and Sandratz Grand Central, Miami Friday, April 11, 2014 While it can be difficult to watch certain punk outfits age (and settle into the awkward complacency that has plagued so many legendary bands in recent years), the brand of punk peddled by Philadelphia’s Dead Milkmen –…
Legend has it that bizarre things happen come a full moon. If that’s true, then there must always be an invisible luna plena over Miami because here, the weird never ends. Then again, maybe this lunar phase is what’s bringing Australian EDM sensation Flume, Swedish rockers the Sound, and postglam…
Ron Morelli’s music is not for everyone. But that’s how it usually goes with artists that make few compromises in their work. Ostensibly a techno producer, his records can be arrhythmic, atonal, and murkily atmospheric — caustic machine noise experiments more akin to the power electronics subgenre of industrial music…
Who’s ready for rumba y baile from some of the biggest estrellas en música Latina? It’s the Billboard Latin Music Conference. Going on its 25th cumpleaños, the four day fiesta kicks off April 21 at the JW Marriott Marquis in Downtown. Hundreds of músicos from across the globe, including Enrique…
To hear Dead Milkmen guitarist/vocalist Joe Genaro tell the story about the rise, breakup, and reunion of his Philly-based pop-punk crew, the basis of a successful band is not an interest for fame and fortune, but friendship. It was friendship that drove Joe and the Dead Milkmen’s creativity, including their…
Now in its 45th year, the Allman Brothers Band is gearing up for its final performance at Wanee — a three-day annual music festival that the group’s so proudly organized for the fans over the past decade. The band’s current roster includes founding members Gregg Allman on the organ, piano,…
Winning over American crowds can sometimes be tough for foreign rock bands. But Swedish group The Sounds has always enjoyed an easy, reciprocal relationship with U.S. fans. “In Sweden, we have a little bit of a different crowd,” lead singer Maja Ivarsson explains. “Over here in America, though, we’ve also…
If ever there was a poster child for the humble bedroom producer, it’s Harley Streten. Better known as Flume, he is the Austrialian wunderkind whose hypnotic blend of soulful pop and electronic dance music recently spread to all corners of the world, almost faster than you could’ve snidely said, “EDM.”…
As Ms. Tamar Braxton says: “Oh-oh-oh-whoa-ooh-oh-oh.” In exactly 38 days, the R&B diva and Braxton Family Values star (who also happens to be Toni’s baby sister) will be setting out on the Love & War Tour, bringing “Marvin Gaye and lingerie” and serious relationship drama to 17 U.S. cities this…
When the Dead Milkmen decided to break up in 1994, it was a different era. Gimmicks like farewell tours were not a thing that bands like the Milkmen did. Those guys were as sardonic a group of punk rockers as you could expect. They adopted ever-changing pseudonyms from album to…
Murder, blood, naked girls, weed, food, and beer … These are the staples of life on the road for Bloodshot Bill. The greasy-haired, foot-stomping, guitar-strangling Canadian wailer has been banned from the United States. He’s rock ‘n’ rolled a naked dance party. He’s even taken a bath in a tub…
“Yes! It’s Monday!” said no one ever. But when you live in the Magic City and have concerts from punk parody band, the Dead Milkmen, el reggaetonero Yandel, and musical genius Todd Rundgren to look forward to, you’ll start to realize the start of the week isn’t so bad after…
One day, you’re part of the most successful pair of Extraterrestres in reggaeton, taking home a collection of Billboard Latin Awards, selling 500,000 albums, and getting millions of hits on Youtube. The next day, you wake up, realize you’re one hot papi, and think to yourself, “Why don’t I make…
