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…
Wiz Khalifa 2050 Tour With Juicy J, Chevy Woods, Lola Monroe, Tuki Carter, and Berner BankUnited Center, Miami Saturday, December 1, 2012 Better Than: Ridin’ slow through your hood puffin’ on endo, bumpin’ Wiz in the trunk. Rap game Steven Tyler. That’s the first thing that came to mind as…
Lee Fields and The Expressions With Ketchy Shuby Presented by Sweat Records and M.O. The Stage Miami Saturday, December 1, 2012 Better Than:Ray starring Jamie Foxx; Watching re-runs of Soul Train on YouTube; and Barack Obama singing Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” at the Apollo Theater. This past Saturday night,…
Story Nightclub, the newest premiere party destination on South Beach, hasn’t even opened its doors. And yet this joint has already announced an absolutely epic end-of-year lineup. The new hot spot, formerly Amnesia, is going in on 2013 mad hard, pushing a full week of non-stop superstar DJ action. Seriously,…
CANCELED Psychic TV will no longer be playing at The Vagabond Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach week. However, Merchandise is still currently slated for the show. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson) is a trailblazing freak. Since the late ’60s (following the founding of COUM Transmissions, the performance…
Oh. My. God. The Orange Bowl Committee just announced via press release that Luke Bryan is going to headline the Bud Light Championship Game Day Fan Zone outside of Sun Life Stadium before the BCS National Championship Game! We did it, Miami. The 348-member non-profit organization heard our cry for…
Tiësto is larger than life, an EDM demi-god of epic proportions. You’ll almost never get the chance to meet a DJ as big as Tiëstbro Well, unless you head on over to Lincoln Road Mall’s Guess store on Saturday, December 8. That’s where the house giant will be hanging out…
Of Montreal Presented by Mute Miami The Stage Miami Wednesday, November 29, 2012 Better Than: A 3D Muppet Babies musical remixed by Diplo and Wavy Gravy. Of Montreal is one of the most photogenic bands around today. The wild color schemes and patterns empolyed as a visual supplement to their…
He’s considered one of the most prominent creative forces behind independent, D.I.Y filmmaking, and an inspiration to aspiring filmmakers everywhere. But Robert Rodriguez also plays a mean “Malagueña Salerosa.” “For years, I wanted to record it,” Rodriguez said before performing his version of the Mexican folk song with his band,…
