It’s officially Ultra season, beat freaks. Just yesterday, the EDM fest announced its Phase Two lineup, adding Chance the Rapper, Miami’s own DJ Craze, as well as the Diplo and Skrillex collab Just U, and 50 other acts to the party plan. But already the Ultra Music Festival peeps have…
For a generation of listeners who grew up with the sounds of the American rock scene in the 2000s, the name Panic! at the Disco is all too familiar. Forming in 2004, this Las Vegas band released its debut album, A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, just a year later…
What’s that barely audible uhntz-uhntz, bro? Just Ultra Music Festival oh-so-quietly releasing 2014’s Phase Two lineup, exclusively via its official iPhone and Android apps. Of course, though, we here at Crossfade are never too far from our cellular devices. So we snagged UMF’s adds for you. Just check the cut…
Stumble down to The Vagabond. It’s almost time to dance. Among the few, true mainland fixtures of Miami’s Winter Music Conference week, this NE 14th Street nightspot perennially provides a WMC lineup loaded with classic house legends like Frankie “The Godfather of House Music” Knuckles, David Morales, Hector Romero, Little…
III Points is coming back. Yes, 3P Productions had so much fun with this past year’s inaugural three-day celebration of art, music and technology that a 2014 edition’s already in the works — but not without a few changes. Instead of Thursday to Saturday, the fest will span the weekend…
Dom Kennedy can’t sell his Get Home Safely LP exclusively at Best Buy without a major label backing him … If you buy that one, then I would like to discuss an igloo property investment opportunity in Nevada that is sure to be prosperous. It comes with its own polar…
Disclosure Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday, January 25, 2014 Better Than: Hearing dance music at a South Beach megaclub. “What do you think they will start with?” I wondered before Disclosure took the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach. “Probably, ‘F For You’ or ‘When a Fire Starts to Burn.’ My…
Without music, those eight hours spent in a cubicle, the bumper-to-bumper traffic on your commute home, and life alone would be an unbearable nuisance. Good thing we never lack any good vibes in the Magic City. Just check the five best concerts going down this week from indie rock with…
Brace yourselves, a hurricane of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week posts are coming. We’re kicking off the season with an announcement from one of the newest yet most critically acclaimed events of March’s musical madness. The Red Bull Guest House premiered last year in a big way when…
Relationships are tough. So are ticket giveaways. But as the ladies of Haim might say: We know, we know, we know, we know that you’re gonna be OK anyway. After all, you are a strong, independent, and financially responsible person who’s perfectly capable of purchasing your own $25-to-$35 pass to…
At this current moment, Queens of the Stone Age is the best rock ‘n’ roll band on the planet. A bold statement, to be sure. However, while there exist other artists with similar relevance and artistic integrity, no group so deeply embodies the spirit of the genre’s past while fighting…
It takes cojones to lyrically smack down Jay Z. But Problem Kids don’t fear the Jigga Man. And they’re not afraid of Fidel Castro either. The six dudes of this Miami-based live hip-hop band insist that if they met that bearded despotic madman in the flesh, they would say nothing…
Miami pool parties. A dime a dozen, huh? Then so are all the DJ bros playing them. As in the greater male-dominated dance music scene, female talent is vastly unrepresented. But the folks behind Lost in Paradise aim to change that with a kickass new pool party series bringing the…
Even though, as Carcass bassist, singer, and lyrical mastermind Jeff Walker cheerfully notes, “Life? It’s just food for the maggots and fertilizer for the plants” … That doesn’t mean you can’t take pleasure in the simple (and ultimately meaningless) things, like free tickets to an extreme metal concert in downtown…
Feeling refreshed this breezy morning? Well you should be ’cause it’s a short work week! And what’s better than having to wake up at an ungodly hour just to sit through bumper-to-bumper traffic, as you head to your dark cubicle to respond to countless emails and deal with pesky co-workers…
If there’s a more appreciative, team-playing, music-loving producer than Kill the Noise, we’ve never talked to them. Dude shout-out at least 10 guys he’s been working with in the past few years with nothing but praise and admiration – and we only talked for about 30 minutes. He’s got a…
Dan Ghenacia, Dyed Soundorom, and Shonky are each celebrated DJ-producers in their own right. But as Apollonia, this Parisian trio is even greater than the sum of its individual members. It is a collective dance music powerhouse that, in many ways, encapsulates the global house music zeitgeist of 2014. Of…
“Pace yourself.” That’s party veteran and Groove Cruise founder Jason Beukema’s advice to all who board the Norwegian Pearl for the 10th anniversary edition of his floating uhntz-uhntz bash. “It’s so high energy, people go raging from the moment they walk in,” claims Beukema. “They go too hard, too fast.”…
There were two ways to procure Nipsey Hussle’s recent release Crenshaw: either download a digital copy for the cost of nothing or pay $100 for one of 1,000 hard copies. But who the hell would buy a $100 album? Jay Z did. Well, more like Jay Z bought 100. And…
Carcass’ Jeff Walker forges ahead, continuing to craft innovatively searing sounds and poetically grim lyrics.
The cover of Mr. Feathers’ new album, Cold Horses, depicts the artist carrying a naked blonde girl with her throat slit toward an altar. He is dressed in what looks like Beethoven’s old clothes. The room is dark. And there are candles. A mysterious arm and black gloved hand jut…
At present, South Florida’s hardcore scene is strong. And that really should not be taken for granted. We have benevolent promoters who continue to toil away, convincing bands to make the journey down the length of a seemingly endless state to perform in Dade, Broward, or Palm Beach. The area…
