Concerts

Sumsun at Speakeasy Lounge February 11

Sleigh Bells and Diplo at Grand Central February 14

The Virginia Key Grassroots Music Fest is almost here, and that means a stellar music lineup, camping in the cool winter beauty of the subtropics, and more hippies, rastas, and traveling kids than you can shake a beach at. Meanwhile at Jimbo’s, $2 beers, Southern rock and roll, and topless…

Brenton Brown knows how to hustle. Having come back to his native Miami after graduating from the University of Florida, he doesn’t let the haters throw him off his quest to be the next big rapper. Signed with new management, he just made a video for his song, “Lemme Know,”…

Tool is just one of those bands that inspires crazy cult-like fandom. Or a totally indifferent shrug of the shoulders. But according to our sister blog County Grind, last night’s show at the BankAtlantic Center was crawling with rabid devotees to the Temple of Tool. So what if most of…

For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn’t even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna’s 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who’d be totally willing to blow their entire…

​You may have noticed a recent wave of electronic music producers with “spoonerisms” for monikers — silly twists on famous musicians’ names, like Joy Orbison, Jichael Mackson and Wevie Stonder. Well, New Jersey-based producer Seth Haley didn’t choose to toy with the name of an influential pop star. Instead, he’s…

Known to fanatics and followers as the High Duke of Dance or simply PVD, professional party starter Paul Van Dyk (born Matthias Paul) is a total beat-freaking legend. Over the last two decades, he’s uhntz-uhtnz-ed all across the globe, unleashing five stellar slabs of electronic tuneage, Rock-ing the Vote with…

Kid Sister With Riff Raff Grand Central, Miami Saturday, February 4, 2012 Better Than: Babysitting a real infant. The spunky, enigmatic, and clearly grown-up Kid Sister is still trying to break out of the underground. The real little sis of Flosstradamus’s Joey Young, she got her start working the mic…

​We don’t know what the hell Sweden’s putting in its drinking water. But the quiet Scandinavian country appears to be spawning a superior race of DJ megastars intent on world domination! The Swedish House Mafia dudes have already positioned themselves as the prime EDM ambassadors to this decade’s mainstream masses…

Steve Angello at LIV February 3

Method Man at Cameo February 4

Scott H. Biram at Propaganda February 6

Tool at BankAtlantic Center February 6

Kid Sister at Grand Central February 4

The concept of shredding — that is, achieving an enlightened and evolved state of being via guitar — is almost exclusively discussed in the context of metal. You have the righteously soloing heavy metal axeman, the frenetic yet intricate tech-grind guitar nerd, the lumbering stoner behemoth. In their own way…

Theophilus London With Steven A. Clark Grand Central Miami Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Better Than: The entertainment at Fashion Week parties. During the last New York City Fashion Week in September, Theophilus London was unavoidable. The dapper rapper/singer, who’d just released his full-length debut, Timez Are Weird These Days, for…

​Miami’s not exactly behind the curve when it comes to bass music. After all, we invented booty bass. But we’re no strangers to the UK’s bass exports either. Local crews like BassHead were playing dubstep in Miami when Skrillex was still squeezing his pimples. And now that dubstep has become…

​Miami’s So Sound Recordings was among Crossfade’s Five Best Electronic Music Labels in 2011. But what we didn’t point out about DJ-producer Jazzy Eyewear’s beloved imprint was the eclecticism of its catalog. Sure, the label focuses on house and electronica. But there’s also plenty of traditional dance songcraft, from disco…

The rap game is all about grind. Just ask local six-dude rap crew ¡Mayday! After scoring a deal with Kansas City spitter Tech N9ne’s Strange Music label last year, Bernz, Wrekonize, Plex Luthor, Gianni Ca$h, L.T. Hopkins, and Nonymous took off with their new boss on the All 6’s and…

Odd Future? Snow Patrol? Now Rusko? Holy shit, the Fillmore’s like Miami’s United Nations of live music. Moments ago, Crossfade’s inbox was slapped with a show announcement: Dubstep disc jockey and record producer Rusko is headed to South Beach in May! Following the commercial and critical success of his 2010…

Back in April 2012, Odd Future honcho Tyler the Creator “woke up with a sweaty dick,” announced an East Coast tour, and snubbed Miami. But that was the last motherfuckin’ time that those little OFWGKTA creeps would tell the 305 to go fuck itself. Or not … Last night, Tyler…