Chris Isaak is enjoying some rare down time at home in San Francisco. Not that he’s taking it easy. With an album to promote — a collection of rock ‘n’ roll standards dubbed Beyond the Sun — Isaak’s engaged in a string of telephone interviews with music journalists. At the…
Remember when Miami New Times columnist, booty bass pioneer, and free speech enthusiast Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell lambasted Pittsburgh weed rapper Wiz Khalifa (AKA “the boy behind the popular hit ‘Black & Yellow'”) for breaking the hip-hop code and hooking up with another rapper’s ex-boo? Well, Luke probably didn’t think…
See Crossfade’s review from Of Montreal’s last Miami show in 2010 — plus the 35-photo slideshow. It’s been 29 long lonely months since we here at Crossfade last basked in the warm, “whimsical and musically captivating” glow of Kevin Barnes and band. And for the last little while, we’ve been…
Calvin Harris at LIV Nightclub September 7
Owl City at Revolution Live September 8
Crazy P Soundsystem at Electric Pickle September 8
Sir Michael Rocks at Green Room September 12
See also “Lady Gaga Stinks Like FAME” and “World’s Most Powerful Women in Pop: From Gaga to J.Lo.” Lady Gaga has been straight pissing people off with her latest tour, the Born This Way Ball. She canceled her trip to Indonesia, landed amid some serious protesters in the Philippines and…
See also “R. Kelly Cancels Love Letter Cruise.” Desperate to slow jam at sea with R. Kelly? Sadly, your wettest dreams won’t be coming true. Because Kells’ ocean-bound R&B adventure, The Love Letter Cruise, was recently canceled. But if you’re down to dry hump on dry land, go meet Mr…
“This isn’t rock n’ roll,” the frontman yells into his mike, despite the young men standing behind him on the stage, fully equipped with guitar, bass, and drums. “This is hardcore.” Orange County Hardcore Scenester is a documentary exploring that crucial distinction between commercial rock and something more, specifically within…
“Honey, I’m just going to pop out to catch some stand-up comedy, live funk music, and spoken-word poetry.” “Are you sure you’re not going to the strip club again?” “Does that sound like the sort of thing that would happen in a strip club?” “So you’re not going to be…
The French horn doesn’t get enough love, man. It’s really a beautiful instrument. But it’s been all but forgotten in our modern uhntz-uhntz-ing age. And it almost never gets you laid in band class. Damn, trumpets get all the ass. Two brothers from Brooklyn learned this the hard way. They…
See the full 30-photo slideshow of Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias at the American Airlines Arena. Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias American Airlines Arena, Miami Friday, August 31, 2012 Last night, J.Lo and Enrique revealed a bunch of bizarre and fascinating things about themselves at American Airlines Arena. Enrique puts…
Let me see you dutty wine to the bassline, girl. Bitches all over the world are going to drop it low when Italy’s massive electro monster Congorock drops his new track with dancehall superstar Sean Paul at the end of September. The track called “Bless Di Nation” will coincide with…
Turns out the Canadian city of Montreal is a real hotbed of forward-thinking electronic dance music. A few natives we’ve chatted with just this past year are Akufen, Footprintz and Blond:ish. And another luminary of that Northern city is producer and multi-intrumentalist Guillaume Coutu Dumont. In an age of bedroom…
Calvin Harris has been a busy little boy. His massive hit “Feel So Close” landed him his first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 12, and he penned a lucrative endorsement deal with Pepsi Max to feature his smash “Let’s Go” with Ne-Yo. Riding that wave, he just…
Mayday at Grand Central August 31
Churchill’s Pub 33rd Anniversary Party With Jacuzzi Boys September 1
Cat Power’s Sun Playback Party at Sweat Records September 4
Ultimate Thriller: The Michael Jackson Tribute at Hard Rock Live September 1
UPDATE Eats Everything has canceled his debut U.S. tour because of a slipped disc in his back. Its recent commercial explosion notwithstanding, electronic dance music culture in the U.S. has been mostly marginal. But in the UK, EDM has been a continuously growing massive mainstream movement since the late ’80s…
In the heady early ’70s, it was common for new fans to mistakenly believe that Jethro Tull, the band, was named after the flautist who balanced precipitously on one leg. But the real Jethro Tull was an 18th-century English agricultural engineer and inventor while the wild-eyed, flute-wielding prog rock frontman…
