Concerts

Rock of Ages Tour at BankAtlantic Center August 9

Neon Trees at Revolution Live August 10

Buraka Som Sistema at Grand Central August 9

The Drive Tour at Grand Central August 14

See the full 45-photo slideshow from Summer of Weirds 2012 at Churchill’s Pub. Summer of Weirds III With Xela Zaid, Sharlyn Evertsz, Ed Wilcox, The Jellyfish Brothers, Rose Quartz, Mr. Feathers, Crucial Taunt, Luma Junger, and This Heart Electric Churchill’s Pub, Miami Tuesday, August 7, 2012 Better Than: Taco Tuesday…

Yo, beat freaks. It’s almost time to slow it down and heat things up at Grand Central, because another edition of Miami Moombahton Massive is coming this way. D.C. moombah founders Nadastrom will be topping the bill on Thursday, August 16, alongside local boys Craze and JWLZ. Surely, this is…

House music is currently embroiled in a hot steamy love affair with its own past. Look no further than the lush slow-mo vintage grooves of Scotland’s The Revenge, AKA Graeme Clark. As a master of the disco edit, Clark is keeping the old-school tradition of garage legends like Larry Levan…

“XTC” … The only way to start your beat-freaking day. Of course, we here at Crossfade aren’t advocating early-morning methylenedioxy-methylamphetamine. Just the new entactogenically exhilirating single by professional Berlin-based party starter and label boss Boys Noize, AKA Alexander Ridha. It’s kinda like porn music for Kraftwerkian supercomputers. Also, if you’re…

What exactly does Waka Flocka Flame mean when he claims to go “Hard in Da Paint?” Let’s start with what we know … The ATL rapper and Gucci Mane protégé advocates a lifestyle built upon clear, consistent thematics: trappin’, cookin’, slangin.’ And of course, keepin’ the chickens in line. But…

President Obama didn’t mention Band of Horses when he was asked about the music on his iPod during an interview with Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner, but British Prime Minister David Cameron did. In a chat with the Daily Telegraph, Cameron admitted that Band of Horses and Lana Del Rey are…

See also “Meek Mill’s Announces Dreamchasers Tour, Show at Fillmore Miami Beach on August 13.” “Whenever somebody got a dream,” Meek Mill muses, “they want it to be reality.” Coming up in North Philly during the late ’90s, Mill was still a wiry 12-year-old kid named Robert Williams, hanging out…

See also the full 32-photo slideshow from Rick Ross’s God Forgives, I Don’t Release Party at King of Diamonds. Question: On a scale from Rick to Ross, just how ridiculously baller was the God Forgives, I Don’t album release party at King of Diamonds last night? Answer: Rick Ross…

Gigantes Tour Marc Anthony, Marco Antonio Solis, and Chayanne American Airlines Arena, Miami Saturday, August 4 Better Than: Reality television for relationship drama. The three Gigantes who sold out two of three shows at the American Airlines Arena this weekend delivered a whopping 36 songs in three and a half…

See the 55-photo slideshow from Identity Festival 2012 at Klipsch Amphitheater as well as The Fashion at Identity Festival Miami. Identity Festival 2012 With Eric Prydz, Excision, Doctor P, Porter Robinson, Le Castle Vania, Audrey Napoleon, and others Klipsch Ampitheater at Bayfront Park, Miami Saturday, August 4, 2012 Better Than:…

You already know Rick Ross is having his official album release party for God Forgives, I Don’t at King Of Diamonds tomorrow night. But you probably don’t know that two formerly felonious armed-robbing cocaine jackboys from North Miami are the promoters. Tru Story Ent’s Dave and LT took the time…

Los Enanitos Verdes’ next album won’t be out until early next year, but that hasn’t stopped the Argentine rock group from promoting it. “We’re recording the new album, that’s why we’re celebrating,” lead singer Marciano Cantero recently told Mexico’s Diario de Yucatán. “The album’s so good, I’m so proud of…

See also “Bear in Heaven’s Mustache Speaks! Anticipates ‘Mustache Afro’ in Miami” Adorably tragic or tragically adorable? The legacy of Knut the Polar Bear is still being debated by experts everywhere. Rejected by his mother and raised by zookeepers, Knut captured the heart of anyone who, like some New Times staffers,…

Remember your first computer? Ours was a rather unflattering, bulky Packard Bell Legend with horrid speakers hanging off the monitor. There was also a flimsy microphone that we could use on the integrated “telephone answering system with full-duplex speakerphone.” But a digital phone system was only the beginning of our…

See also “Who Wants Tickets for Identity Festival in Miami?” and “ID 2012 in Miami: Full Lineup and Set Times.” Identity Festival 2012 in Miami is 52 hours away! And no doubt the city’s epic partiers are gearing up to get down with Eric Prydz, Wolfgang Gartner, Madeon, and all…

Ted Nugent at Revolution Live August 7

Rev Run at LIV Nightclub August 3

Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart’s Heart and Soul Tour at BankAtlantic Center August 4