Back in April, we here at Crossfade waxed enthusiastic about a growing breed of live acts redefining electronic dance music. Well, one local who sees eye to eye with us on the virtues of live EDM is promoter Anders Scherberger. And that’s exactly why he launched Massive Wednesdays at The…
He’s gotten “head on the unmade bed” in the Chelsea Hotel. He’s smoked a million cigarettes. And he’s written dozens of perversely profound songs about love, sex, religion, and other dangerous habits. But over a period of several years leading into 2004, Leonard Cohen was also robbed of approximately $9…
The narrow gaps between letters on our keyboard are vile graveyards for curly black whiskers with hints of gray and even red. But all of this lost facial fuzz tells a story, one of stressful days at work spent anxiously twirling the hairs on our chinny-chin-chins in an effort to…
Crunk, where’d it come from? You’d be a fool to believe that it’s a modern phenomenon. In fact, scripture says that God herself was so tired of building an entire planet in just six days that she spent the seventh “Smokin’ Out” with Project Pat and learning ’bout crunk music…
Better Than: Karaoke night with your co-workers. Retribution is a beautiful thing. And after nearly 28 years of pumping out tough riffs and churning circle pits, punk legends Slapshot finally brought Boston hardcore to Miami. The show (which many in the scene considered a gift after so many years of…
He’s a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. But in the restaurant business, Sir Eric Clapton is Hard Rock Café. Throughout the 1970s, Clapton was a regular patron at the first Hard Rock in London. But by 1979, the…
Last week, Story Nightclub kicked its doors open with a massive New Year’s Eve 2013 lineup. But just because the year has been rung and we’re all getting used to dating things “’13,” doesn’t mean the Story crew’s gonna let the mood lighten up. The rest of January is filling…
Femi Kuti is a world-music master, a deep political thinker, and a true Nigerian patriot. Just like his famous late father, Fela, the fearsome legend who pioneered an entirely fresh fusion of complex African rhythms and electrified Western sounds, invented the term Afrobeat, embodied Black Power, defied government oppression, and…
Ellie Goulding is the sweet-voiced crooner cooking up hits from the other side of the Atlantic. And she’s hitting the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach on Wednesday, January 16. But what do you really know about her anyway? Sure, you know all the lyrics to her hit song “Lights.”…
Do you ever miss Burdines? Us too. Especially shopping for husky jeans with our abuelita while her sweet, reassuring Cuban voice reminds us que husky no significa gordo, just healthy. But like grandma, Burdines passed away in the mid-’00s. Once the gold standard of Florida ready-to-wear clothes, fine linens, miscellaneous…
Slapshot at Churchill’s Pub January 5
Jam Cruise 11 Pre-Party at Revolution Live January 6
Melvin Seals and Jerry Garcia Band at Revolution Live January 9
Luke Bryan, as Part of the Bud Light Championship Game Day Fan Zone, at Sun Life Stadium January 7
Dirtybird NYE 2013 With Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin, J. Phlip, Kill Frenzy, and Mark Starr Grand Central, Miami Monday, December 31, 2012 Better Than: Any party that doesn’t let you load up on free drinks for the first four hours. San Francisco’s Dirtybird Records isn’t the fanciest label around. But…
Miami never sleeps. Sure, the $700 bottles stop poppin’ at dawn. But then it’s just time to drag our sexy uhntz-uhntz-ing asses to the supersecret afterparty, followed by some beat-freaking brunch with DJ Mimosa! To be honest, though, we here at Crossfade are kinda exhausted of being so expensive and…
Future With T.I. and B.o.B. Cameo, Miami Beach Monday, December 31, 2012 Future was slated to go on at midnight. But Cameo is a long way from Pluto so his landing got delayed. In the meantime, Baltimore club legend DJ Class’s “I’m the Shit” remix dropped over the club speakers,…
If Gramps had announced this party a bit earlier, it would have surely make Crossfade’s list of best free New Year’s Eve events. And in a city where the average general admission ticket for tonight’s festivities ranges in the hundreds, it’s great to see a solid New Year’s Eve celebration…
Wanna get the adrenaline pumping for this week’s BCS National Championship game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Alabama Crimson Tide? Well, all you’ve gotta do is follow these three simple steps to achieve superfan status: (1) Shotgun six ice-cold beers and an equal number of sugar-loaded sodas, (2)…
Life In Color With Diplo, Benny Benassi, R3hab, David Solano and more Miami Convention Center, Miami Friday, December 28, 2012 Better Than: Rollin’ through the Sherwin-Williams store geeked up on mollies. “Does Miami go hard in the motherfucking paint?” Yeah, we do. We let it drip from our chin and…
Leftöver Crack exists at an intersection of punk rock just barely less bewildering than Hare Krsna hardcore. While dishing out a manically mode-shifting blend of pop-punk, third-wave ska, and death metal, the lyrical content is equal parts gutter punk and Food Not Bombs. The Crizack mashes radical, left-wing anarchism with…
Bass, bass and more fucking bass. If your main erogenous zone is that spot in your solar plexus that gets pummeled by low-end sonic frequencies, inciting your gluteus maximus muscles to start gyrating of their own accord, then look no further than Dirtybird’s label showcase at Grand Central for New…
