“Summer all the time” is Viceroy’s motto. It’s also everyday life in Miami. So it stands to reason that homeboy’s party tuneage should appeal to every Miamian’s innate love of the sunny, sweaty, and sexy. The San Francisco-based dance music producer loves Hawaiian shirts. And he’s all about that beachy…
After spending years honing your craft and climbing the ladder to success, would you have the strength to leave it all behind? Anna Lunoe did. The DJ, producer, and songwriter worked her ass off to take over the scene in Australia. And just when she’d hit her peak, Lunoe packed…
Take Skrillex’s advice. And say, “Imma try it out.” The EDM superstar with the world-famous haircut is gonna be bringing the boom and unloading the drop on South Beach’s Mansion this weekend. But that’s not even the awesomest news … Because he, the party pros at Mansion, and we here…
“So expensive, bro.” That’s been among ravers’ most epic complaints about Ultra Music Festival for the past few years. Especially as electronic dance music became “EDM.” And the popularity of festivals like UMF boomed. And the cost of tix ballooned. But now “for the first time in its history, and…
Forty years after its heyday, disco has become one of music’s most mythologized subcultures — especially among dance lovers who weren’t old enough to experience its ’70s golden era, when New York City’s monolithic temples of nightlife worship, like The Loft and Paradise Garage, were home to Olympian DJ gods…
Jack White’s Lazaretto Tour With Olivia Jean Fillmore Miami Beach Sunday, September 21, 2014 Better Than: An evening without feedback and hearing damage. Is rock ‘n’ roll dead? Fuck no. Just over a decade ago, the White Stripes’ Jack and Meg came screaming, shredding, and pounding out of Detroit to…
Music is an escape for many things … Mondays aren’t one of them. Even though you can’t make the most dreaded day of the work week vanish, at least you can look forward to the pretty good shows that’ll follow. Here are the five best concerts to check out this…
Modern Love: A Live Audio-Visual Experience With Andy Stott, Demdike Stare, and Millie & Andrea Presented by SAFE, Klangbox.FM, Wynwood Arts District Association, Miami Light Project, and Beck’s Access Light Box at Goldman Warehouse Saturday, September 20, 2014 It’s easy to scoff at dance music for being nothing more than…
Banks’ Goddess Tour With Movement Grand Central, Miami Sunday, September 21, 2014 Better Than: Hiring an elf to tell your ex to “go fuck yourself.” Did you know bitches loooooove Banks? Like … We knew she is an extremely talented, passionate singer and songwriter. And we knew she is softspoken…
One does not simply like Phish. Phish Heads are some of the most dedicated fans in the world. There’s just something about this jam band that works white people into a frothy, goofy-dance mess. Even those who aren’t that familiar with Trey Anastasio and crew have tales of losing themselves…
The last time we here at Crossfade spoke with Nick Monaco, the San Francisco DJ-producer was still a relative newcomer to the international dance music scene. He had just released his first panty-dropper of an EP on Soul Clap Records, and the buzz was definitely beginning to grow around his…
The dashing Scots of Belle and Sebastian are nothing if not prolific. Even these days, when they seem to prefer releasing proper albums only every four years or so, the charming and hard-working Glaswegians insist on staying forever busy with collections of B-sides, world tours, and the occasional feature-length film…
No one in the Magic City understands the magic of music on cassette like Patrick Garcia and Michelle Grand of Cheap Miami, the first audiotape-only record label in the 305 since the CD and MP3 takeover. “I think I just wanted a really cool, affordable way to start releasing music,”…
When one contemplates about all that’s great in heavy metal, High on Fire should be one of the first bands that comes to mind. The group initially emerged from the ashes of post-Sabbath stoner metal luminaries Sleep. But faster, louder, and meaner than its forebear, High on Fire’s always managed…
Miami’s electronic music scene has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade. But some of its local movers and shakers feel our city has yet to embrace the music’s artistic potential outside the context of nightlife. “It’s important for the music to be separated from the club,” SAFE’s…
In just a year, singer-songwriter Banks has gone from relative unknown, producing music behind closed doors, to underground favorite and rising star. Her first live performances ever were opening a national tour with the Weeknd. Now she’s about to hit the road for her first headlining tour, in support of…
Brrr-duhhh-brrr-duhhh-ba-dada-ba-dada-ba-dada-brrr-duhhhhhh. In 126 hours, the streets of downtown Miami will be quaking with the apocalyptic axe thunder of Bay Area thrash destroyers Death Angel and Oakland metalheads High on Fire. Lots of people pay good money to have their guts rumbled (and possibly emptied) by this kind of fast, furious,…
Erasure’s Violet Flame Tour With Nina Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, September 12, 2014 Much respect to Erasure for this past Friday night. The British duo of singer-songwriter Andy Bell and songwriter-keyboardist Vince Clarke know that their bread and butter lies in the early part of their career, and they are…
Monday, you’re so unfair to us. We’re all just here, partying it up like we do every weekend and then you come around and make us put on our work clothes and be adults again … Rude. While we wish you would disappear forever, at least we’ve got some pretty…
Ty Segall’s Manipulator Tour With Wand and Plastic Pinks Presented by Sweat Records The Stage, Miami Thursday, September 11, 2014 You forget how many varieties of white people there are until you go to a real rock show. There’s the dirty, hairy skinny dude; the twee, soft-spoken sarcastic; the black-clad…
There’s a great scene from Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese’s documentary about the Rolling Stones’ 2006 performance at New York’s Beacon Theatre, in which Jack White joins the band to sing and play guitar on “Loving Cup,” a bluesy track off 1972’s Exile on Main St. Midway through the song,…
Thrash will never die, and the crushing force of Death Angel will make sure of it. These Bay Area masters of heavy riffing, speed, and power will arrive in Miami to unleash the beast at Grand Central for a Motörhead’s MotörBoat Cruise pre-party. Before Ted Aguilar joined Death Angel as…
