To call Lapalux’s music simply lo-fi is just lazy. There are far better ways to describe the British musician’s work — warm, full-bodied, and richly textured. And now with a proper full-length, Nostalchic, released via Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, Lapalux (AKA Stuart Howard) has shown that his sound may only…
DJ-producer M A N I K (AKA Chris Manik) might be best known as an uhntz-uhntz purveyor on the global party circuit. But from the beginning, he also set himself apart as a serious musician — a classically trained production wunderkind with a knack for arrangement and melodic hooks, not…
Being the electronic music geeks that we are here at Crossfade, we’ve been following the “post-dubstep” confluence of house and bass music in the UK with major interest for some time now. Influences from jungle, drum ‘n’ bass, UK garage, and other styles are seeping into house’s four-on-the-floor mold, injecting…
Andrés Cepeda is one seriously hopeless romantic. Who else would moan something like, “When there is no one left in this world to love you, I will be here to tell you I will wait for you until I die”? That kind of over-the-top passion is what the Colombian crooner’s…
Bass, the final frontier. For a venue that’s made its name giving house heads and the trance family a place to party into the wee morning hours, Space is just beginning to open its doors to the newer, rawer rhythms of the trap movement. For the last couple of months,…
Being a music journalist in Miami is what one might call a “sick deal.” For starters, you get press passes to Ultra Music Festival with the opportunity to cover almost every artist on the forefront of electronic music. Some might say it’s enviable, but it’s honestly more of a headache…
The first five days of the week are the hardest… Well, at least you only have to endure four days of cubicle dust, paper cuts, and nosy coworkers this week! And if that isn’t enough to put an encouraging smile on your face, maybe some of the shows going down…
Robin Thicke and Pharrell As part of the BleauLive concert series Fontainebleau Miami Beach Sunday, September 1, 2013 Better Than: Any typical Sunday funday that includes a concert and cocktails. Is there anything better than a long weekend spent at the iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach? It hasn’t been voted one…
Bruno Mars Moonshine Jungle Tour With Fritz & the Tantrums American Airlines Arena, Miami Friday, August 30, 2013 It all started with the steady, pounding bass and jungle-like beat of the drums. As ladies in tribal-printed leggings, floral blouses, and tight royal blue dresses, and dudes in black blazers, blue…
For ten years, Gainesville indie-rock outfit Holopaw has been putting out music, first through the perennial indie label Sub Pop and more recently via Misra Records. The band dropped Academy Songs, Volume I earlier this year, which is an oddity in the era of the single track. It follows a…
“Hey, hey, hey, you don’t need no papers.” Just some free tix, baby. This Labor Day weekend, debonair pop dudes Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams will be bringing those “Blurred Lines” to the Fontainebleau Miami Beach for a mid-afternoon Bleau Live concert bash. And yes, we’ve got some gratis passes…
Wale’s third full-length release, The Gifted, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 when it dropped in July. But the DC rapper still hasn’t scored a platinum single, and he’s cool with that fact. Because in an era dominated by quick hits, he’s into making albums. And eventually, he…
It’s been almost ten years since Goodie Mob’s Cee Lo, Big Gipp, Khujo, and T-Mo last released an album together. And a lot has changed. Their funky, forward-thinking approach helped put Southern hip-hop on the map in the ’90s and early 2000s. And in their absence, the South has continued…
The Black Madonna (AKA Marea Vierge-Noire) has a bone to pick with the current state of dance music, particularly online digital distribution and the decline of analog audio formats like vinyl and tape. After all, she came up during the golden age of rave, before corporate “EDM” co-opted electronic dance…
Which way to III Points? Just buy a ticket, follow the noise, and take a sharp turn toward Wynwood in exactly 36 days. Yesterday, the III Points crew revealed its plans for a sprawling music, art, and technology festival that’ll swarm Miami’s hippest hood for a full three days during…
Sound = a change in air pressure traveling on waves that tickle the hairs inside your ears. Music = a series of sounds delivered rhythmically to make a song; and World music = sounds that defy American radio format classification. Clear channel sucks, music rules, and the Miami World Music…
We all spend our days slaving away, flipping burgers, serving slop, pouring drinks, hauling trash, driving big rigs, selling cars, cuffing creeps, dancing on poles, counting other people’s cash, or tapping data into crappy old desktop computers. But our nights (and paychecks) are gloriously wasted on cab rides, vodka shots,…
Have you ever walked through Wynwood and thought, There should totally be a SXSW-style festival up in here? Even if you haven’t, we’re sure you now realize that’s the best idea ever. Thankfully, the people who make Bardot one of the dopest spots in town had that idea months ago…
You work hard and you know it! That’s why the entire nation celebrates its hard-working citizens by dedicating an entire day in September to not working. But while much of America will celebrate Labor Day by sitting on the couch and watching a Lifetime movie marathon, the 305 will be…
Even with the sweeping sonic palette of synthesizers, mainstream electronic music has hit a certain threshold. It has to do with so many producers these days using the same store-bought music production software, virtual instruments, and sample packs. One producer who is certainly not guilty of adding to the derivative…
Parahoy, mateys! That’s right … Hayley Williams, Taylor York, Jeremy Davis, and the rest of the Paramore crew will be throwing a megabash aboard a four-day cruise, just for you, Parawhores. Departing from Port Miami aboard the Norwegian Pearl in March 2014, Paramore, Tegan and Sara, and other rockers will…
If someone were ever to sit down and draw out the family tree of local Miami bands, there would be a disturbing amount of inbreeding. Almost every band shares each member with at least three other bands. And just as one in two hundred men is a direct descendent of…
