Remember Art Basel Miami Beach week in 2010? Our favorite memory: Metric at Art Loves Music. Of course, though, the punky Canadian pop band has been a dear favorite of indie kids for about a decade, ever since releasing show-stopping debut Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?. In fact,…
Cypress Hill With Action Bronson and ¡Mayday! Grand Central, Miami Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Better Than: The “giggle stick.” Grand Central’s main cave was filled with a thick and sticky cloud of party smoke well before beat one was dropped at last night’s Cypress Hill show. But despite the night…
Toronto electronic dance music outfit Azari & III reek so much of style that it’s disgusting. Pure unadulterated chic wafts off flamboyant vocalist-frontmen Fritz Helder and Starving Yet Full. And it oozes from the group’s intoxicating cocktail blend of classic house and electro. Azari & III exploded onto the international…
When Swedish House Mafia’s Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello announced their career-ending One Last Tour, saying goodbye to 26 cities across every continent, we here at Crossfade lamented, “Miami’s not included.” But we also doubted “a group who had a huge hit called ‘Miami to Ibiza’ and makes an…
Stone Temple Pilots are widely considered one of the most prolific rock groups of the 1990s. The band has sold about 40 million records, released over a dozen top ten singles, and even won a Grammy for “Plush,” 1994’s Best Hard Rock Performance. Similarly, Velvet Revolver won Best Hard Rock…
Madonna is a dirty, old lady. And though she wasn’t always old, the Queen of Pop has been a hot and proud taboo-smashing slut from birth. Even before becoming famous, Ms. Madonna Louise Ciccone was making thought-provoking egg porn. She’s also burned through an insanely long line of famous and…
Kitsuné Club Tour With The Twelves and Oliver Grand Central, Miami Friday, November 9. 2012 Celebrating ten years of next-level hipster productions, French electro-indie fusion label Kitsuné launched the Club Tour, throwing happy birthday parties for itself all over the country. On Friday night, we here at Crossfade got the…
A$AP Rocky and the Mob LongLiveA$AP Tour With Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown, and Ab-Soul Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, November 8, 2012 Better Than: A Ziploc bag packed with “Purple Swag.” Shit was thick, homie. Weed smoke wafting around the lobby of the Fillmore Miami Beach like some kinda slightly skunky…
Welcome to SoBe. A strange and beautiful seaside oasis where it’s considered perfectly normal to spend one’s entire life wandering barefoot and half-naked through the streets and across the sands in pursuit of fallen coconuts and horny tourists. Other “normal” South Beach behavior: Auditioning for Internet porn on a street…
“I was there before reggae,” says Monty Alexander, speaking of his native Jamaica, in a way that’s perfectly balanced between humble admission and matter-of-fact declaration. “I was playing in the studios of Kingston Jamaica, with the masters of Jamaican music, The Skatalites, before they were The Skatalites. I played for…
For U.S. citizens, traveling to Cuba can be a tremendo dolor en el culo. Unless you’ve got special permission from the friggin’ Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, your ass is either flying into Havana under the radar through either the Bahamas or Canada. On the bright side, we…
Despite all of the hootin’, hollerin’, and mouth-breathin’ about “Obamacare,” communism is nowhere near making a comeback. Let’s review the facts: It’s been more than 20 years since David Hasselhoff rubbed his gargantuan wienerschnitzel all over the crumbling Berlin Wall. China went so far to the fucking left they ended…
That “Pretty Flaco” is going on tour with that “Good Girl Gone Bad” … So you know there’s fina be hella weed smoke on the tour bus. Tonight, A$AP Rocky will be at the Fillmore Miami Beach with his Mob. But he’s already planning a return trip to South Florida,…
One of the first critiques hurled at electronic music (usually from an individual of the guitar-bass-drums persuasion) is the performers “aren’t doing anything.” This is a valid charge. Are you really trying to tell us in between smashing people in the face with cake and washing it off with a…
Kitsune 10th Anniversary Club Tour at Grand Central November 9
Miami Bass Super Fest at BankUnited Center November 10
Buddy Guy at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek November 11
Waka Flocka Flame at Revolution Live November 14
Primus 3D Tour at the Fillmore Miami Beach November 10
The biggest Bawse in the rap game is taking over the Fillmore Miami Beach. And he’s bringing his best buddies with him. Miami’s phattest hustler, Ricky Rozay, is gonna tear the roof off that bitch and make all the hos scream when his Maybach Music Tour rolls through South Beach…
If you’re ever in Amsterdam, cop a slab of paper-flat hash, palm the sheet, and breathe hot air on it. Once the sheet becomes pliable, load it up with OG Kush, roll it like a blunt, and smoke up till society melts. That’s what Cypress Hill’s B-Real calls “the giggle…
Listen … DJ Khaled has been a prominent member of Miami’s hip-hop community for years, making dope albums, collaborating with the nation’s best artists, laying down fat beats on 99 Jamz, and giving the air horn a reason to exist. So we think it’s time that the MIA gave back…
