Vintage gear enthusiast and reclusive composer, Ramiro Jeancarlo, is renowned the world over as Staccato Du Mal. Under this handle, and in cahoots with post-punk electronica label Wierd Records, Jeancarlo has cemented a position for himself in the pantheon of contemporary coldwave, dark wave, and experimental, mostly-beat-oriented music. Adding to…
Alice in Chains Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, April 25, 2013 Better Than: Well, The Essential Alice in Chains. “C’mon, it’s the first gig …” Alice in Chains axe man Jerry Cantrell deadpanned when he and his band screwed up the opening bars of “Down in a Hole,” a 20-year-old top…
Be a music snob and hate on dubstep all you want — some of us here in the 305 live for that sick bass drop, bro. There’s a reason why Miami has always been the City of Bass. And few locals know that better than Juan BassHead. It’s why he’s…
A tragically pea-brained swath of society doesn’t believe P. Scott Cunningham and the University of Wynwood’s month-long, citywide “O, Miami” poetry festival is worth its weight in heroic couplets. What? Does simultaneously flying in the guy who fucking invented indie rock and the poet Obama had read at his second…
Hip-hop is 40 and a celebration’s in order. So KRS-One is touring the nation, bringing real hip-hop back to where it belongs — the streets. “The revolution will not be televised,” the MC recently told allhiphop.com. “You keep looking for real hip-hop on these bullshit stations. You’re not going to…
Virtuoso is one phrase that comes to mind to describe Recloose, AKA Matthew Chicoine. Also, master turntablist (not a credential you hear much in this era of laptop “DJs”), multi-instrumentalist producer, band leader, and even music academician molding the minds of electronic dance music’s next generation of DJ-producers. Of course,…
The weekend is so close, you can almost smell it. In a few hours, you’ll want to throw your papers in the air, run out of the cubicle, and make your way to the nearest bar for happy hour. The possibilities will seem endless, but that doesn’t mean you have…
Paint your claws. Dye your hair. Eat a dove alive. Because (formerly?) beastly heavy metal monolith Black Sabbath just announced its full 2013 North American tour. And the (formerly?) gut-rumbling triumvirate is coming to South Florida for a midsummer doomfest. As the Sabbath says (via Twitter), “Satan’s coming round the…
The hot weather is here. And South Beach summers are all about naked shoulders, bare backs and sweet, sweet music. So go get your epic party on at one, two, or all six of these steamy SoBe soirees. Some big names are coming to the beach, raining down trance, electro,…
For decades, Dade County has been caught up in a tide of grime and blood that rolls across across the concrete wastelands of the city and its suburbs. But this toxic waste is also the cesspool from which punk rock bands are born. Like Die Trying, a Miami crew whose…
“I’ve been living on such sweet nothing,” you lament. “But I’m trying to hope with nothing to hold.” Oh, it’s true … Tickets are all sold out for Calvin Harris at Story on South Beach tomorrow night. And yet you needn’t despair. Because Story Nightclub and Crossfade have got two…
Of Montreal just finished its new album. Frontman and creative nerve-center Kevin Barnes tells Crossfade that he wrote the whole thing in about three weeks on his first-ever, self-imposed “writer’s retreat” in San Francisco. After that, he returned to his Athens, Georgia, home and recorded it with his band in…
Oh, what have we done to deserve this? In just two short months, iconoclastic synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys (otherwise known as Mr. Neil Tennant and Mr. Chris Lowe) will be unveiling their 12th studio album, Electric. And then they’ll be venturing across our continent for the “Pet Shop Boys’…
Back in December, we here at Crossfade had a chat with Ben UFO about his Hessle Audio label’s roots in the U.K.’s early underground dubstep scene. Well, David Kennedy (AKA Pearson Sound and Ramadanman) is another Hessle cofounder, not to mention the label’s foremost producer. And he boasts a forward-thinking…
South Floridians owe beat freaks and frat boys a drink. Fueled almost entirely by Red Bull, Molly, and (presumably) a little bit of cocaine, sunburned college students from the Midwest, foreign ravers, and Ultra Music Festival organizers rallied to resurrect South Florida’s economy in March. See also: -Ten Richest DJs:…
Monday has just come and gone. But there are plenty of great ways to pretend it’s the weekend, starting as soon as tonight! Tons of great musical acts are laying down the grooves Tuesday through Saturday. A lot of great local talent will be showing off their stuff, and a…
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. But did you know it was Satan who buried “67-million-year-old giant fossilized lizard bones” all over this spinning rock, just to trick gullible humans into believing that our planet isn’t 6,000 years old and Our Father is a sham? Yes,…
He’s one of only a handful of men who can casually ask a woman to “suck a nigga’s dick or something” without sounding like much of a chauvinist. “Bad bitches… [give] him head like lice” on a regular basis, and he’s “been rich since the ’90s.” But Juicy J’s success…
How did Dick Dale (AKA the Grandaddy of Shred) finally stop setting speakers on fire? “With the output transformers that Leo Fender and I built together,” the 75-year-old King of Surf Guitar explained to Crossfade, “and the 15-inch D130 speakers. “Back then, the transformers were 10, 12, and 15 watts…
It wouldn’t be Sweatstock without some good old-fashioned Miami freakiness. Maybe in Canada the music festivals end with handshakes and strangers gently complimenting each other on their felt hats. But this is Miami, where nothing’s over until it has weird, probably videotaped sex with you. And Sweatstock 2013 was no…
Native American Headdresses These have still not gone away. In fact, one particularly irritating woman (not pictured) wore a towering feather mohawk weave, a sartorial statement that combined racism with rave gaudiness. On Friday, she pushed her way in front of us, obstructing our and everyone else’s view of the…
Sweatstock is for lovers. Lovers of independent music and record stores, yes. But also lovers of drunken groping before the sun has fully gone down. A good chunk of the attendees of Sweatstock 2030 were conceived indoors (and out) this weekend, spurred on by a hurricane season clothing-optional dress code,…
