In its recent music issue, Entertainment Weekly declared Baltimore-based dream pop duo Beach House to be one of the 30 greatest bands working today. Though the duo was number 30, the list also included the legendary Bruce Springsteen and pop sensation Adele. “I saw that thing, and it kinda freaked…
The best things in life are free, and the good folks at Bacardi want to show off their new line of pre-mixed cocktails in a way that you won’t find obnoxious. So they’ve announced the Bacardi Plus Fest, a nationwide booze-and-tuneage event. On May 4, there will be a free…
Moombah what? Moombahton! We here at Crossfade have been geeking over this quirky style of tropical bass music all year. And locals like DJ-producer SomeJerk and the good folks at (((SHAKE))) are giving us plenty of reason to with their monthly Moombahton Over Miami party at the Vagabond. Plus, the…
Win free meet-and-greet tickets for Mayer Hawthorne’s Miami show at Grand Central. Unlike the rest of the stops on his current tour, Mayer Hawthorne’s May 8 visit to Grand Central comes with a money-back guarantee. Not that anyone has ever asked for a refund. But Hawthorne stresses, “We put on…
John Dahlback at Mansion Miami April 28
Rise Against at Sunset Cove Amphitheater April 28
Sam Sparro at Bardot April 28
The Weeknd at Revolution Live May 1
Calvin Harris, Maroon 5, Flo Rida, Gym Class Heroes, Enrique Iglesias … It reads like the soundtrack listing of a PG-13 rom-com. But that’s just the lineup for the iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. In fact, the two-day musical extravaganza is a strict 21-and-older pachanga. The…
Steve Aoki is the DJ equivalent of Shamu. If you’re in the first ten rows, you’re gonna get splashed. It used to be that you only had to worry about some sweat and a champagne shower. Of course, though, Aoki’s gotta keep raising the ante. So there’s a good chance…
See Crossfade’s interview: “J. Nics on Miami Rap, The Tribute, and The Product: ‘Southern Niggas Ain’t Slow.'” It’s always great to see a hard-working local artist’s hustle blossom into much-deserved national attention, and that’s definitely what’s happening right now with rapper J. Nics. The Miami Gardens-raised MC adds another notch…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. Simply put, Deaf Poets won Sweatstock 2012. There was crowd chatter before the show about how well the band’s two-person brand of rough, throat-shredding garage rock would translate to an outdoor stage. And it took a couple of songs for Deaf Poets…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. Just before Haochi Waves began their set, drummer and vocalist Juan Fernando Oña popped his head into the Churchill’s Pub patio bar to announce that his band was about to start playing. This crew is a modified version of its three members’…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. If there’s a Miami musician who’s best suited to accompany early afternoon drinking on a rainy day, it’s Jesse Jackson. Driven inside Churchill’s Pub by the rain, Miami’s favorite melancholy scruffster played a set pulled from his approximately nine billion songs, accompanied…
Skrillex is on a speedboat flying through the Biscayne Bay. He’s on his way to commit mass murder at Ultra Music Festival where he will kill beats and cause a massive dubstep bloodbath. For now, he’s just another cracker tourist on the water in Miami. But soon, his massive legion…
Marley documentary April 20-29 at O Cinema
Read “Marley Film Review: A Fascinating Look at the Reggae Legend.”
Gipsy Kings at the James L. Knight Center April 20
Mr. Haka at Jazid April 21
Elvis Costello at Hard Rock Live April 25
Nope, you didn’t misread that headline. DJ and electronic music producer The Polish Ambassador (AKA David Sugalski) is giving away the greatest gift in the world … Free music. And not just one song. But all of them. That’s over seven hours of music…
On Magrudergrind’s Crusher EP, there’s a track called “Heaviest Bombing” about writing graffiti. It fades from grindcore brutality into a hip-hop breakdown, ends in a squall of screeching feedback, and then jumps back into violent chord changes for the next song. That shit’s pretty cool. And the Washington D.C. band…
Win free tickets to Afrojack’s Jacked Summer Tour at Mansion Miami on June 15 and 16. Dutch DJ-producer Afrojack just announced his Jacked summer tour with a stop at Miami’s Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park on Saturday, June 16, and it’s being billed as his most ambitious roadtrip to date…
