God is nonexistent. Need proof? Nickelback is headed our way. With great displeasure, Crossfade regrets to announce that Alberta, Canada “rock” band Nickelback will soon embark on their Here and Now arena tour, a 39-city trek across the United States and Canada. On Saturday, May 5, the Chad Kroeger-lead bunch…
Is 21-year-old Nika Roza Danilova (AKA operatically trained goth-pop diva Zola Jesus) more than just a needle in 2012’s vast haystack of gloomy synth music? Film director, transcendental meditation evangelist, and total pie guy David Lynch certainly thinks so. In fact, Lynch enjoys ZJ’s digital death rock spin on Kate…
On Tuesday, mansionmiami.com read: “MANSION IS CLOSED.” Fans freaked out (“WTF? So pissed”) and South Beach haters rejoiced (“Finally!!! That club was garbage”) while others just shrugged. But we here at Crossfade suspected that the Opium Group nightclub was simply pulling a practical joke on the clubbing public, shuttering temporarily…
Cop City/Chill Pillars at Churchill’s Pub January 13
Workshop Collective’s Pop Up Record Store at Workshop Collective January 14
Black Violin at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center January 15
Dana Schutz’s Miami Playlist Party at the Standard Spa January 15
Gregg Allman at Hard Rock Live January 18
“You never get too old to fuck,” says 72-year-old R&B singer Benny Latimore. “In case they take me for granted, I may be an old dog, but I still know how to bury the bone.” You may or may not know his name. But Latimore’s been in showbiz for half…
Coachella’s lineup got announced on Monday. And personally, we were underwhelmed. But it got us thinking how excited we are for Ultra Music Festival 2012. Sure, Deadmau5 may think the number of headliner acts on the bill is horrible. But we have to disagree with you, Zimmerman. We haven’t been…
That’s it, folks! According to its website, Ultra Music Festival 2012 is officially sold out with 73 days remaining until the first day of the festival. This breaks last year’s record, when tix sold out on February 18 with a full 34 days left before the fest.Of course, Ultra’s 2012…
Spend Friday the 13th in Key West. But don’t go to sleep. Machete clawed janitors in Bermuda shorts could creepsurf your dreaming brainwaves. You might wake up next to a she-crab full of hot, musky soup. You will miss out on the party at a musiholic paradise called The Green…
Though the source (Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra, prolific producer, musician, and, yes, sole proprietor of Squelch TV) is arguably biased, the assertion is, nevertheless, pretty convincing. Over the weekend, Falestra hosted the latest edition of the series, which has featured Miami-based rock ‘n roll (Snakehole, Holly Hunt) and avant-weirdo shit…
When Santigold called to tell Crossfade that she’d be in town for Art Basel Miami Beach, we squealed with delight like the Disney-fied version of those piglets penned outside Primary Flight. But after about 15 minutes, we got sad, thinking, “Well, she hasn’t hit the Beach since … November 2009…
There was a time when Elton John dressed (and acted) like the teenage lovechild of Liberace and Vegas-era Elvis on a helium bender. Bedazzled in silver jumpsuits with his face behind massive sunglasses and his feet stuffed into patent-leather platform moon boots, the fabulously balding Captain Fantastic would screech and…
B.B. King Knight Concert Hall Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami Wednesday, January 4, 2011 Better Than: A nice, big bottle of chilled Arbor Mist. A half-century ago, Riley “Blues Boy” King and his fine, fat-bodied guitar, Lucille, would make regular wintertime trips to Miami for some rockin’, rollin’, dancin’, drinkin’, and…
The Crystal Ark at Bardot January 5
The Taxpayers at Sweat Records January 5
Peachfuzz at Grand Central January 6
Donna the Buffalo at Revolution January 6
LA Riots at Arkadia January 6
Code red! Trip the alarm! Now dance! We here at Crossfade have just received a superurgent email with a subject line that shouts, “Ultra Music Festival 90% Sold Out! Last Chance To Purchase Tickets!” Now, for all of us who’ve been victimized by corporate marketing scare tactics in the past,…
