Basel Castle With Twin Shadow, Trinidad James, Purity Ring, and many more The Overthrow Castle, Miami Saturday, December 8, 2012 Better Than: Getting stuck on the wrong side of the entrance ropes. While most of Art Basel Miami Beach week involves outsiders swooping in with dollars and largesse, trying to…
Rakim The Stage Miami Friday, December 7 Better Than: Getting Paid in Increments. It had been a long time since Rakim rolled through our hood prior to last night’s performance at The Stage. See also: -Basel Castle 2012: Twin Shadow, Trinidad James, and Purity Ring -Danny Brown and Shepard Fairey…
Most art is silent. Even during Basel week. That’s why we here at Crossfade — an admittedly hopeless gaggle of noise junkies — just can’t get through the week without offsetting our 12-hour days at the art fairs with 12-hour nights at Miami’s hipster bars, rock dives, and downtown concert…
DJ Shadow says, “Listen.” From ’90s sample-heavy hip-hop to millenial hyphy experiments, he has been predicting the next phase of rap music for 20 years. But now the 40-year-old experimental hip-hop DJ-producer (born Joshua Paul Davis in San Jose, California) has just released a multi-disc, career-spanning, glow-in-the-dark retrospective boxset entitled…
No one wrote “Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit” on the wall. Still, the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts reeked, ever-so-slightly and not-so-literally, of sweaty punk armpits, greasy faded flannel, and the sweet stink of grunge. Last night, KURT, “a multi-discipline exhibition and study of the…
Cannibal Corpse Grand Central, Miami Thursday, December 6, 2012 Better Than: Cardboard gun shop. Stuck precariously in the middle of Miami’s yearly ascension to the international spotlight of artistic and cultural relevance (AKA Art Basel Miami Beach week) was a Cannibal Corpse tour date…
“Stank pussy smellin’ like Cool Ranch Doritos!” That’s what all the hip cats were screaming at Bardot last night, ’cause Danny Brown was in the spot tearin’ it up on the carpet, among the people. The weed was in the air and the streets were representing for an intimate set…
Rick Ross With Meek Mill and Wale Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Better Than: A Wednesday night devoted to making nonstop prank calls in which you pretend to be DJ Khaled. See also: -Becoming the Bawse: Eight-Part History of Rick Ross -Rick Ross Officially Recognized as “Bawse of…
MOCA L.A. Beach Party With Lykke Li, Miike Snow, and Peter Björn and John Raleigh Hotel, Miami Beach Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Better Than: A trip to Ikea. There is something to be said about MOCA Los Angeles’ annual Basel bash. Once again, it seemed like everyone in town for…
Art Basel Miami Beach just seemed to work out magically this Wednesday night. Parking was shockingly easy to find. Thank you, dude-looking ladies who left early. You rule! Then I ran into a friend at the Bass Museum who was on the list for the A$AP Rocky party at the…
Y100’s Jingle Ball at the BB&T Center December 8
J Alvarez at La Covacha December 8
Sum 41 at Culture Room December 9
Krewella at LIV December 12
Will you be there when the “Eagle Meets Condor”? That is the question. And hopefully, you’re already answering in the affirmative, clutching a pair of tickets while giddily blurting, “Dude, I totally haven’t missed a Moksha Art Fair since, like, ever.” See also -Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami…
Circa 2007, an obscure underground UK sound called dubstep erupted like a volcano. And it left behind a crater flooded with the molten elements of bass music that have since solidified into post-dubstep or future bass. These aren’t so much distinct genres of music, as a generation of producers with…
Drake still loves Miami. Sure, he no longer got a condo up on Biscayne. But he’s still gettin’ brain from some thang. Although, he’s going to let her take a break on New Year’s Eve. Of course, Drake isn’t just going to party on NYE like everyone else. So he’s…
What band suffers an illness, cancels a show, promises a make-up date, but never follows through? Most all of them. But not Matt & Kim. After having to nix a Fillmore Miami Beach gig a few months ago because singer-keyboardist Matt lost his voice while on tour, this perky Brooklyn-based…
Puerto Rico is not necessarily known as an electronic dance music hotbed, but the island did spawn one Jonny Cruz, a DJ-producer who has started making waves on the international tech-house scene these last couple years. It helps that Cruz is a card-carrying member of the artist collective behind hotly-tipped…
Bad news, Baselites. If you were stoked about seeing tripped-out experimental pop-hop producer Flying Lotus during Art Basel Miami Beach … It ain’t gonna happen. After the hugely anticipated UR1 Fest got postponed, we here at Crossfade — just like you, FlyLo, Zola Jesus, and Dan Deacon — made plans…
Cancel whatever plans you’ve already made for Saturday, June 8, 2013, because Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks are getting the band back together. Fleetwood Mac announced a 34-city North American reunion tour yesterday, curbing any and all Rumors that “The Chain” had been broken. “This band…
Life and death. Mortality. Pretty heavy subject matter for dance music, right? But then, it’s not really conventional dance music that’s being put out by the Life and Death label. This is heady, brooding, emotional stuff. It might be carried by that uhntz-uhntz beat, but it will bend your mind…
