The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella’s art installations — the ones designed to impress you while you’re high, aka all of them — were particularly impressive this year. There was the tesla coil, the crane that was formerly a flower but now a praying mantis, the giant…
Put another Sweatstock in the wrinkly, rain-faded books. The fourth installment of Sweat Records’ anniversary party and Record Store Day celebration played out on three stages in Little Haiti. But it’s not just good times and dancing in the intermittent sun. It is also bleak, stomach-turning angst inside Churchill’s, Miami’s…
There are few locals that Miami electro-pop darlings Afrobeta haven’t converted into undying fans during their years on the scene. Of course, though, chanteuse Cuci Amador’s sweet Latin freestyle vocals are decidedly feminine and dance-y. So any bro looking for a more aggro masculine sound should definitely check out the…
Go ahead. Ask Roofless Records honcho Matt Preira “about the future of the record store” … Oh yeah, that’s a dare. Because even though Mr. P isn’t as pessimistic as Kenny Fucking Millions (who doesn’t give “a shit about the future of anything”), he will share some pretty terrifying nightmares…
It’s the weekend y’all! If the thought alone of these next two days doesn’t want to make you get up, shred your papers, and do a victory dance, then maybe we should remind you of a few things. The Miami Heat made it to the playoffs (no shocker there), the…
Holly Hunt is two people. And collectively, they’ve been hanging ’round the Miami music scene, like, forever. Drummer Beatriz Monteavaro has done duty in rock crews including Human Oddities, Methadone Actors, Funyuns, Basils, Cavity, and Beings. She’s also an artiste who does paintings, installation art, and other stuff. Ditto guitarist…
“Drink lots of water.” That’s just a lil’ piece of practical Twitter advice from EDM meme megastar Baauer for any of y’all beat freaks planning to spend a whole night raving, raging, and “Harlem Shake”-ing. Especially when he arrives to “ey, ey, ey, ey, shake, ta, ta” at Grand Central…
Via facebook.com/anrmiami Immaterial music formats will take over. Vinyl will disappear. (Or become contraband in some dystopian future.) And still, the world will survive. “But,” says Michael-John Hancock of ANR (otherwise known as Awesome New Republic), “there are physical artifacts that have history to them, that keep you connected to…
“Like we say in Jamaica,” Inner Circle founding guitarist Roger Lewis tells Crossfade, “it’s a gladdy good thing for some smoke.” This Saturday (AKA 4/20), Roger and his bruddas will be bringing the “Mary Mary” and “Boom Shaka Laka” to Sunset Cove Amphitheater with Steel Pulse. And it’ll be a…
Hey Lolo, why bother rescuing music shops? 1. “Service you’ll never, ever get at a Best Buy.” 2. “We’re one of the only all-ages event spaces in town, we’re a vegan-friendly coffee bar, a meeting place.” 3. “Anyone who cares about culture in general should support record shops.” OK. Sweat…
Sure, Record Store Day is usually a day when indie rock enthusiasts take the spotlight. But maybe you prefer BPMs to bands. That’s alright. There are still plenty of bottle-poppin’ moments to look forward to this week. And the underground’s in for a treat too. Get ready for some trap,…
Openly not gay Puerto Rican reggaetonero Daddy Yankee and two male friends, fellow countryman J Alvarez and “Cubatón” pioneer Osmani Garcia, recently announced their upcoming three-way at Miami’s Fuchs Pavilion at the Dade County Youth Fair and Expo grounds. And they’re encouraging others to come watch! Billed as “El Concierto…
Amid the crazy sea of hipsters, hippies, old folks, pre-teens, and babies(!), Coachella’s weekend one was also packed with EDM revelers ready to get their fist-pumping music fix. In fact, it seems that dance music lovers are growing in numbers so much that every other car in line at the…
Oh yeah, naked mind, whack frack attack … Enter the world of Cog Nomen’s Ulysses Perez and Buffalo Brown, where everyone’s shimmying to that “Indietronic Psychedelic” sound. “Kind of Pink Floydish,” Mr. Brown explains, “with some songs without words that are just about transporting you.” We here at Crossfade recently…
Latin Grammy-winning songwriter and international advocate of peace Juan Fernando Fonseca, known to fans simply as Fonseca, will be bringing Colombian tropipop to the house Jackie Gleason built. Named after Ilusión, the singer’s fourth record, Fonseca’s latest tour will make the second of three Florida stops at the Fillmore Miami…
Bieber-free and de-Disneyfied, post-teen pop star Selena Gomez is begging all y’all to “Come and Get It.” She just broke up with the Biebz. She just starred in Harmony Korine’s weirdo art blockbuster Spring Breakers. And she just performed her new sexed-up single at the MTV Movie Awards. Now Selena’s…
Karen O’s Outfit Karen O’s wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over a suit that looked like it was made of mercury. The vibrant collage was topped with a headpiece that Liberace might…
Daft Punk Fake-Out Friday and Saturday, all anyone could talk about was if Daft Punk was going to show up during Phoenix’s set. Why? Because we were fucking teased. On the main stage before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a long commercial for their new album played, and then we found…
Pac Div Featuring Johnny Polygon Eve, Downtown Miami Saturday, April 13, 2013 Better Than: Watching Three Musketeers, Three Stooges, and Three Amigos. Descending from atop of the stairs, the three California dudes (Mibbs, Like, and BeYoung), who make up Pac Div, headed toward the EVE stage as they gave daps…
While over at the main stage the bulk of the Coachella crowd was enduring Phoenix with the hope that Daft Punk would come out — they instead got R. Kelly — a smaller but perhaps- more-enthusiastic crowd got a first-rate greatest hits set from New Order. See also: -Coachella 2013:…
Praise the pot gods. We have all survived to see another 4/20, the highest, holiest, and happiest of weed holidays. The crop has been harvested. It is lush and green and good. Now if only there were someplace to celebrate with a nice, ceremonial, musical smoke out … Here are…
Last night, an Illuminati princess in a bra, shorts and fishing hat initiated Miami into some kind of dark, new world hip-hop order. In this new order, there are no genders and no lames, just cold beats that bang and verses that sting. It was a strange and enchanting initiation…
