How are your nerves, beat freaks? No doubt, you’re feeling frazzled and fried … Especially after watching Ultra Music Festival’s early-bird tickets go up in a puff of uhntz-uhntz, i.e. totally sell out. Just 48 hours ago, you were sooo epically stoked when UMF organizers managed to generate unprecedented hype…
DJ-production outfit Visionquest and its eponymous label are pretty much the biggest thing in underground EDM right now. But as the foursome told Crossfade ahead of WMC 2011, it all started with four friends from Michigan who shared a penchant for psychedelic mind expansion, esoterica, and Berlin techno. Now Lee…
Even though the high point of both the Lemonheads and the Psychedelic Furs’ careers is a song from a movie, these bands are as decade-defining as the films that their hits soundtracked. The Lemonheads’ cover of “Mrs. Robinson” was invented to coincide with the ’90s VHS release of the ’60s…
He’s an R&B genius. He’s also a filthy freak. Lately, though, this oh-so-nasty man — known to the authorities as Robert Sylvester Kelly — has been tryin’ hard to behave himself, donning formalwear, smoking fancy cigars, talking about true romance, penning a thoughtful personal memoir titled Soulacoaster, and just generally…
That adorable Midtown girl named Ricochet is celebrating her very first birthday. And Daddy — business guy and nightlife impresario Alan Roth — is so proud to see his baby turn 1 year old that he’s letting the little lady spend three whole, mostly unsupervised, and certainly wild nights with…
If you’re a true house head, then Lisa Shaw needs no introduction. Since the mid ’90s, this beloved Canadian-born singer has put her soulful golden touch on records by deep house luminaries like King Britt, Q-Burns Abstract Message, Fred Everything, and Andy Caldwell. Of course, Shaw is also a prolific…
UPDATE Oppa! Jingle style! Y100 Jingle Ball lineup has been confirmed! Thanks to the Internet, nothing is a secret. Were you drunk leaving a club this weekend? That little gem is probably on some bouncer’s Instagram as we speak. Are you sexting your nanny? A screenshot of that will be…
Even in Florida, you gotta be an adult to get a lapdance. (Well, unless you’re that teenage kid who was banging a 26-year-old Baby Dolls stripper for two weeks.) So … What exactly will be goin’ down when 2 Chainz brings “Dem Strippers” to an all-ages show at the Fillmore…
Hardcore is a truly North American phenomenon. Sure, Scandinavia, Japan, and Latin America have all left serious imprints on the genre. But guess where the punk rock subgenre was invented? California. And straight edge? Washington D.C. And then there’s Boston, arguably the United States’ capital for old-school tough-guy HC. Yeah,…
Crazy glue that uhntz-uhntz-ing ass to your computer chair, beat freaks! ‘Cause in exactly an hour, Ultra Music Festival plans to “announce something so big, so crazy, so intense that it will knock you off your seats and leave you thinking ‘WTF.'” UPDATE Ultra Music Festival 2013 is expanding to…
Punk rock is a big tent. What other genre manages to link seemingly disparate entities like British rude boy skinheads with screamo-haircuit mall goth in Nebraska? And the best part: All these highly segregated factions bicker, sometimes to the point of physical violence, over whose interpretation of punk ethos is…
Matt & Kim work so hard … They got too sick to play Miami. Last night, the perpetually psyched indie duo canceled their show at the Fillmore Miami Beach because Matt lost his voice. But opening act Oberhofer’s still ready to rock, playing a last minute booking at The Stage…
Sorry, Admiral Ackbar. It’s too late for your warnings. The kids cannot escape. America’s youth is addicted to the drug-dealing music. And they ain’t fina stop twerkin’ till they dead. Or in jail. OK, it’s not that serious. But Friday’s performance by Flosstradamus at Grand Central proved that trappin’ is…
French producer Wax Tailor (AKA Jean-Christophe Le Saoût) usually gets pigeonholed into the the trip-hop and downtempo music categories. But the epic proportions of his work more often than not put him in a category all his own. This is a guy who writes lofty concept albums and music for…
Cat Power Grand Central, Miami Thursday, October 11, 2012 Better Than: Manhattan after a nuclear war. For Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, the weight of her gifts has proven a heavy burden to shoulder over the years. And as such, most fans understand that purchasing a ticket to…
When Band of Horses tapped legendary British music producer Glyn Johns (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who) to engineer, mix, and produce Mirage Rock, frontman Ben Bridwell knew full well that he needed to go into the studio less prepared than he’d been on previous albums. “[Johns] really wanted…
Iconoclast, philosopher, auteur — these are words that come to mind to describe Francis Harris. Iconoclast because he came into the electronic dance music game through the back door as a former hardcore punk rocker hell-bent on defying EDM’s musical conventions. Philosopher because he was literally a university philosophy student,…
Cat Power at Grand Central October 11
Flosstradamus at Grand Central October 12
Borgore at Revolution Live October 12
Journey at Cruzan Amphitheatre October 13
Matt and Kim at Fillmore Miami Beach October 14
