NOTE Matt Tolfrey and a number of other shows have been moved from the Electric Pickle to Villa 221, because of a temporary club closure. In an Internet-era dance music market oversaturated with labels and releases, London’s Leftroom Records has emerged as a veritable touchstone for quality tech-house. With international…
Sorry, Eminem. There’s a new Mr. Just Don’t Give A Fuck. And he ain’t passin’ out no shits neither. Who is famous enough to have the scene on fire? But not famous enough for anyone to know who he is? Who has the balls to pretend to be the richest…
Who is the funk-nastiest Kentucky gentleman you’ve ever met? Doesn’t matter ’cause Caleb Cornett takes the cake. Better known as Amtrac, you may have seen Mr. Cornett around Miami, because he splits his time between the rolling hills of Louisville and our own city of skin and sin. He just…
Toby Keith at Cruzan Amphitheatre September 15
Conquer the Mic: Freestyle Battle at Green Room September 19
French Horn Rebellion at Grand Central September 14
Reel and Restless Fest at Churchill’s Pub September 15
See also “Kreayshawn Talks Debut Album, Smokin’ Weed and Keepin’ It Craccin’ With Snoop Dogg.” Calling all sexy, bad bitches to the dance floor … It’s time to twerk it. Oakland’s dirtiest designer hater, Kreayshawn, is coming back to Miami to tear up the stage at LIV on Wednesday, November…
See also “OFF! and Negative Approach Hitting the Pit at Grand Central Miami on September 26.” Keith Morris has not a single fuck to give. He was the original vocalist for Black Flag. The immortal scream on the Nervous Breakdown EP belonged to him. And then after becoming the first…
NOTE PillowTalk and a number of other shows have been moved from the Electric Pickle to Villa 221, because of a temporary club closure. Electronic dance music nerds love to label their uhntz-uhntz ad nauseam: tech-house, deep house, electro-house, disco-house, micro-house, and on and on. But San Francisco production threesome…
Old-time samba and bossa nova might come to mind when thinking of Brazil. But it’s also the country that spawned one of electronic music’s most forward-thinking artists. Since the late ’90s, Rio de Janeiro-born composer, producer, and sonic mad scientist Amon Tobin has honed his own ever-evolving brand of electronica…
He’s synonymous with women’s underpants, bleached blonde hair, and early 2000s strip club soundtracks. But before Sisqó went solo and opened up about his thong fetish, he was a founding member of Dru Hill. While many feared that “Thong Song” would ultimately crush the possibility of a Dru Hill reunion,…
See also “Today Is the Day’s Steve Austin on Living in the F#$%ed-Up South and Being 100-Percent Real.” Today Is the Day With Maruta, Shitstorm, Orbweaver, Ironside, Cardiel Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, September 8 Better Than: Not seeing Today Is the Day because South Florida is long and faraway from…
Rihanna is a boss chick. She makes $53 million a year. She smokes pot with mom to celebrate Mother’s Day. She openly professes her “looove” for Brazilian smut on PornHub. She makes it rain on skrippers like Jay-Z before Bey. And she even shares skinny-dipping pics with her 60,197,117 Facebook…
Chris Isaak is enjoying some rare down time at home in San Francisco. Not that he’s taking it easy. With an album to promote — a collection of rock ‘n’ roll standards dubbed Beyond the Sun — Isaak’s engaged in a string of telephone interviews with music journalists. At the…
Remember when Miami New Times columnist, booty bass pioneer, and free speech enthusiast Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell lambasted Pittsburgh weed rapper Wiz Khalifa (AKA “the boy behind the popular hit ‘Black & Yellow'”) for breaking the hip-hop code and hooking up with another rapper’s ex-boo? Well, Luke probably didn’t think…
See Crossfade’s review from Of Montreal’s last Miami show in 2010 — plus the 35-photo slideshow. It’s been 29 long lonely months since we here at Crossfade last basked in the warm, “whimsical and musically captivating” glow of Kevin Barnes and band. And for the last little while, we’ve been…
Calvin Harris at LIV Nightclub September 7
Owl City at Revolution Live September 8
Crazy P Soundsystem at Electric Pickle September 8
Sir Michael Rocks at Green Room September 12
See also “Lady Gaga Stinks Like FAME” and “World’s Most Powerful Women in Pop: From Gaga to J.Lo.” Lady Gaga has been straight pissing people off with her latest tour, the Born This Way Ball. She canceled her trip to Indonesia, landed amid some serious protesters in the Philippines and…
