Last night at Mansion, Italian electro-house DJ Benny Benassi warmed up his turntables — and our town — for his performance at the Ultra Music Festival. The world-renowned musician, maybe still best known for his 2002 hit “Satisfaction,” counts British singer Gary Go and the infamous Chris Brown among his…
Once upon a time, Chicago-bred, L.A.-based DJ/producer Johnny Love was best known on underground dance floors as half of Guns and Bombs. That project, as the name implies, was all about going hard and going big, full of searing chainsaw basslines and “subtlety” turned into a four-letter word. At the…
Let’s be prepared, beat freaks. There is absolutely no reason to wait till we’re trapped at the bottom of a 1000-foot k-hole to start planning our Ultra Music Festival itinerary. So before digging out our dosage, stripping down to our rubber underwear, and temporarily leaving behind these human husks we…
Giacomo Gates is undoubtedly one the most exciting and articulate male jazz vocalists on the scene right now. He is a cool cat who embodies the eternal swagger of jazz. However, for the first forty years of his life, Giacomo Gates couldn’t have been farther from hep life. As a…
Earlier this week, we previewed the upcoming Visionquest label showcase at the Shelborne this Friday. The label/production quartet of illustrious Detroit DJ-masterminds Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss, Shaun Reeves, and Seth Troxler owns the international hot tip right now, having put out Benoit & Sergio’s chart-topping Where The Freaks Have No…
There are several parts to the Duran Duran saga. The first found the Brit New Wave band conquering America, providing fodder for MTV, and turning songs such as “Hungry Like The Wolf,” “Save A Prayer,” “Union of the Snake,” “The Reflex” and “Wild Boys” into rallying cries for a new…
This weekend, Bicentennial Park will be flooded by an international wave of beat-makers and pookie heads for Ultra Music Festival. But just a half-mile west of downtown’s loudest outdoor fiesta, Shit Robot will pop his Miami cherry on Friday at the Vagabond, two days before hitting Ultra’s Heineken Dome. Marcus…
Benoit & Sergio’s rep on the international EDM scene rised slowly and surreptitiously, thanks in part to word-of-mouth praise from inner-circle luminaries like Seth Troxler and Bruno Pronsato. The release in question was a two-track gem of an EP called Full Grown Man which Pronsato put out on his small…
You were lazy. You were broke. You were stupid. And now you’re standing ticketless and bereft outside Bicentennial Park, peering enviously at all those beaded, drooling pookie heads as they bask in the Day Glo wonder of this year’s totally sold-out Ultra Music Festival. Sure, in a desperate, last-ditch stab…
Behind Bayside Marketplace’s Hard Rock Café, the Biscayne Lady enjoys a mid-afternoon hosing under the hot Florida sun. As cold water trickles down her sleek frame, we board the vessel to meet the ship’s captain and Biscayne Bay legend, James Cho. Since joining the Biscayne Lady team, Cho has skippered…
You really, really, really want to spend the night at Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel. But how do you even find the place? Well, you could always try to track the synthy cinematic overload of the club-killing triumvirate’s superhit single “One” to its source. However, here’s another (admittedly fictional) way:…
See the full 30-photo Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings slideshow. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings The Fillmore Miami Beach Sunday, March 20, 2011 Better Than: Anything that’s ever happened to me. Despite the fact I previewed this show with a music feature in last week’s New Times, you’ll find more words…
By the mid 2000s, Simian Mobile Disco was among the leaders of the indie-dance crossover pack. Its in-your-face, heavily vocal pump-ups were largely responsible for getting rock kids out on the floor again, thanks to the infectious sass of monster tracks such as “Hustler,” off 2007 debut Attack Decay Sustain…
See the full 20-photo slideshow of Lauryn Hill’s Moving Target Intimate Playdate at Grand Central. Lauryn Hill’s Moving Target Intimate Playdate Series Grand Central Sunday, March 20 Better Than: Hill’s Saturday set at Jazz in the Gardens. At 1:45 a.m. on Sunday, Crossfade broke the news about Ms. Lauryn Hill’s…
The members of Above & Beyond are no strangers to celebrating in Miami. The British trance trio made up of Jono Grant, Paavo Siljamäki, and Tony McGuinness have been throwing annual parties here for a few years now. And like previous installments, the threesome’s 2010 appearance will focus on Anjunabeats,…
Röyksopp albums, like all good things in life, come to those who wait. The duo of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland first began experimenting with synthesizers together as kids in their small, sub-Arctic hometown of Tromsø, Norway. “I remember seeing this documentary when I was seven, I think, about robots…
See the full 22-photo Jazz in the Gardens slideshow. Jazz in the Gardens With Ms. Lauryn Hill, Charlie Wilson, Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, Al Jarreau, Layla Hathaway, and Others Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens Saturday, March 19, 2011 Better Than: Hanging out with Kenny G in the bushes…
On her single “Youth Blood,” Josefine Jinder confesses to possessing a “late-night thirst.” But gratification has been anything but immediate for the self-described electronica girl who grew up listening to Art of Noise and Aphex Twin. Her early recordings amounted to diffident mimicry, the vocals buried in a morass of…
Gary Richards wants to introduce you to your new favorite party. It’s called Hard, and since 2007 it’s been drawing thousands of electro heads together for messy free-for-alls in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Next city in Richards’s sights? Miami, of course. A DJ and record industry insider…
Nobodys Hero, To Be Hated, Enough!, and M66 Saturday, March 19, 2011 Churchill’s Pub Better Than: Ben Weasel’s punk rock mess at SXSW the night before. According to Nobodys Hero’s Joe Koontz, “Someone stole one of the urinals from the men’s bathroom.” He also politely asked, “If you have that,…
A little more than a year ago, Disco Biscuits shattered the dreams of Miami jamtronica kids when just eight days prior to the group’s Magic City debut, guitarist Jon Gutwillig broke his wrist, forcing the group to make a quick substitution for Ultra Music Festival. Sadly, the result was a…
See Crossfade’s recap, pics, and vids from Lauryn Hill’s Moving Target Intimate Playdate show at Grand Central. Just 30 minutes ago, Ms. Lauryn Hill wrapped her only officially announced Miami set of the weekend at the first night of Jazz in the Gardens music festival. After 15 songs, including deeply…
