¡Ay, ay ay! Rise and shine for Cinco de Mayo! Even if you’re not Mexican, tonight you’re gonna rock your sombrero, pound shots of tequila, and pretend you are. Sure, you’ll wake up hungover, but at least you’ll have sweet music from indie rockers the Head and the Heart, rock…
What is “an ordinary day”? Sleep, eat a bowl of cereal, sit at a desk, sip some cheap white wine, sleep. And if St. Vincent’s new-ish song “Birth in Reverse” can be considered a fairly factual account of 24 hours in the life of Ms. Annie Clark … Well, she…
Tel Aviv, Israel, is a tourist-heavy beach and party town on the Mediterranean Sea whose concrete roadways are littered with hooker flyers. It’s a place full of Russian and Armenian gangsters, shadowy clubs, some of the purest MDMA in the world, and more guns than a fleet of U.S. war…
“Let me get Tamar on the phone for you. Don’t hang up,” says a man’s voice on the other end of the line. After a five second pause of silence, a call comes through. “This is Tamar right now!” laughs the singer, calling in just before soundcheck at the Times…
Floor’s Oblation Album Release Show Churchill’s Pub, Miami Wednesday, April 20, 2014 Reunions are so often stuck in the mire of underlying tension and unresolved drama, clouded by financial motivations, or just plain incapable of living up to the band’s own myth that they tend to do disservice to an…
Vampire Weekend With Jacuzzi Boys Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Better Than: All of those other vampiric pop-culture creatures feasting on the blood of the millennial generation. A fat, crooked queue of teens and post-teens stretched from the Fillmore Miami Beach’s doorstep to 17th Street before veering around…
Don’t try to pin a tidy label on Of Montreal, baby. In fact, when we here at Crossfade chatted with crew leader Kevin Barnes as he prepared to unveil the band’s latest album, Lousy With Sylvianbriar, the puckish indie type toyed with us, insisting he “might call [it] Americana maybe”…
Haim With Shy Girls Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, April 29, 2014 Better Than: The musical skills of any other teeny bopper groups. Haim (pronounced unlike late-1980s teen dreamboat Cory and more like the last four letters of Hebrew toast l’chaim or the first four letters of Spanish name Jaime) have…
“Get back to your seatssssss.” That’s just St. Vincent, snarling so glamorously for your attention and “all of your mind.” Because the art-rock artiste, otherwise known as Annie Clark, has just expanded her 2014 U.S. tour. After helping to close out the current season of Saturday Night Live, Ms. Clark…
“Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery.” He spent his teens break-dancing on the streets of Dallas and busting moves in Miami malls. He snagged a string of motocross championships. He learned to beatbox and rhyme. And then he became the most famous rapping white boy in the world. See also: Review…
The key to a quality concert experience … As Mogwai guitarist John Cummings might say: “General respect of other lives of other people, I suppose, is more important than a lot of other stuff.” But Crossfade would also like to toss off some shout outs to comfortable shoes, mind-expanding substances,…
Lana Del Rey Fillmore Miami Beach Sunday, April 27, 2014 Better Than: Staying at home, sobbing over the “West Coast” music vid. Lana Del Rey, despite producing a steady output of mostly excellent recordings over the past few years, still somehow elicits a fairly polarizing response from people (read: Internet…
#OnTheRun This summer, Jay Z and Beyoncé will be taking their whole “boy meets girl, girl perfect woman/Girl get the bustin’ before the cops come running” act across these Unites States of America for a 16-city crime spree stadium tour. Previously rumored to be called the Mr. and Mrs. Carter…
Close your eyes, now open them. Just like that, the weekend has come to an end, and now, it’s back to the Monday morning grind. But with gigs from Bruce Springsteen AKA the Boss, indie rockers Vampire Weekend, and pop queen Lady Gaga to look forward to, Friday will get…
Peanut Butter Wolf, founder of the legendary Stones Throw Records, has presided over some of the most important releases and moments in modern hip-hop history. Recently, a Kickstarter-funded documentary, Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, was released about his iconic mecca of underground hip-hop beats. It has received rave reviews. PBW,…
Young overhyped producers are a dime a dozen in the electronic dance music capital of Berlin, not to speak of the wider global dance music scene. Far more rare are seasoned production veterans like Alex Krüger, who has stood the test of time and stayed ahead of the curve for…
Cris Cab was a 15-year-old troubadour who liked to chill on the beach, fish with friends, and do the general Miami teenager thing. But then Pharrell was passed his music by a mutual family friend and took note of the kid’s talent. Fast-forward six years and Cris is a 21-one-year…
Goblin are out for blood. They’re gonna gut you, and string your entrails from the rafters. Guts will explode, heads will crack, leg bones will snap under the weight of their monstrous sound. They started in Italy in 1975, scored some of the scariest horror movies of all time, and…
The Scottish post-rock outfit Mogwai’s been releasing albums for the past 20 years. The band is now on its eighth full-length, Rave Tapes, if you do not count its two noteworthy soundtracks. In 2013, the group released the score for acclaimed French television mini-series Les Revenants, about zombies who want…
There will always be a place for the brand of vulnerable indie folk that Seattle’s Head and the Heart have been perfecting since 2009. At the moment, the band is still riding high on critically lauded sophomore album, Let’s Be Still, playing through dust storms at Coachella, and slowly putting…
As a two-time Grammy-winning artist and ganador of 20 Latin Grammy Awards, Colombian rockero Juanes knows a thing or two about the music biz. That’s why he was the talk of the Billboard Latin Music Conference’s Digital Superstar Q&A session this week, and why he’s headlining tomorrow’s Billboard Latin Music…
Miami has gotten that much spicier as Latin acts from around the globe convene to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Billboard Latin Music Conference and Awards. Perhaps the only man in the world who can pull off a head of bouncy curls, David Bisbal, will be in town to…
