Not again! First, it was Cudi and the so-called “miscommunication” between his old and new management that led to the cancelation of his May 20 show. Now it’s hip-hop’s newest savior, Big Sean, who told Crossfade earlier today that this Sunday’s show at Eve is a fraud. Say wahhh?! We’ve…
Some of the material on Astari Nite’s new forthcoming EP, Requiem Mass, may sound familiar. Songs like “Astrid” and “True Romance” have become staples in the four-piece’s repertoire over the past couple of years as the band has honed its reverb-laden, English-influenced sound. What’s new here, though, is the band’s…
Early yesterday afternoon, Crossfade received word via mass text that punk rock trio Beings would be performing their final show tonight at Bardot. When we contacted drummer Beatriz Monteavaro, she couldn’t offer any insight into the situation beyond that the gig was an engagement booked prior to the breakup and…
Anger Lives! Miami Cuban hardcore represent. These musical thugs have been beating up the pit for so many years that the first 13-year-old kid who moshed to their music now has grandkids. We’re not saying the band is old, we’re saying they’re a classic. There’s a difference. A classic Miami…
Don’t know local outlaw Americana crew Los Bastardos Magnificos? Well, there were about 100 years between the Civil War and the Mariel Boatlift when Miami was more characterized by its Southern heritage than any worldliness. Those were the days when a cheek full of chewing tobacco, a banjo, and a…
Calling all would-be actors, happy extras, or just plain lovers of your local music scene. If you’re not camera shy, you’ve got an opportunity to immerse yourself in the Miami music scene this Thursday … Literally. Local singer-songwriter Vito has recorded a track called “The Wave,” and will be preserving…
It goes without saying that Miami is a happy hour town. But you’d be hard pressed to find anything that transcends the boozy meat market format. A happy hour shouldn’t just be cheap drinks at a watering hole for white-collar zombies. It should focus on the music, the people, and…
Quick reminder: Tickets for Miami’s stop on the Identity Festival are currently on sale via idfestival.com. Passes range from $40 general admission to $400 on-stage VIP, which includes food and drinks.And in an interesting turn of events, we received a press release stating that Ultra Music Festival is now co-sponsoring…
For all those Golden Era hip-hop heads who spent the entire summer of 1995 running the streets, wasting money, killing time, making mischief, and listening to Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx on repeat, the first few bars of click-clack like “Ice Cream,” “Guillotine,” “Verbal Intercouse,” “Criminology,” or “Incarcerated Scarfaces”…
Put your paws up, little monster. Lady Gaga is coming to town. Er, well, sort of. Not really. But her Born This Way album listening party will be hitting SoBe. And thanks to Gaga’s latest commercial partnership with Gilt City, the e-coupon site is offering you a chance to celebrate…
Back in the day, circa 1996, the hip-hop world was all about the gangsta rap and busting caps, not the boom-bap and phat flips. Nevertheless, a couple of local b-boys named Richard “Speedy Legs” Fernandez and Steven “Zulu Gremlin” Roybal decided it was time to bring breakdancing back. So they…
The Italian popular music tradition of the last several decades has been an idiosyncratic one. When rock ‘n’ roll was paramount, Italians were considered the least likely to rock your world. Their sole contributions during the classic rock era being mainly sappy, straight-laced pop stars like Lucio Battisti. But their…
Just two months after Miami Chum Bucket hosted its grand opening, the punk venue and multipurpose space is under fire. This past weekend, the collective was ratched up to full throttle as hundreds flocked to the warehouse in Allapattah for the fifth annual 305 Fest, a punk/hardcore festival featuring three…
Porn and Miami go way, way, way back. All the way to January 1972, in fact, when writer-director Jerry Gerard (AKA Gerard Damiano) and producer Lou Perry (AKA Louis “Butchie” Peraino, son of mob guy Anthony Peraino) brought a young, fat, and very talented little 23-year-old lady named Linda Lovelace…
More news on the upcoming Identity Festival happening August 25 at the Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park: There is now a Miami-specific lineup for the event. And while it unfortunately excludes some of our favorites (Modeselektor and Pete Tong), there are still plenty of reasons to get excited.Acts coming to…
It was almost exactly seven weeks ago during Miami Music Week when glossy flyers advertising a gig by Kid Cudi at La Covacha started showing up all over the city, tacked to telephone polls, tossed in the gutter, and being used at the Vagabond as coasters for Colt 45s. The…
Pitbull’s T-Pain-featuring pop-club banger “Hey Baby (Drop it to the Floor)” continues to burn up the airwaves, playing on Power 96 approximately every third song, it seems. But while that track continues to linger in the top 100 of various Billboard song charts, its successor has already arrived. The recently…
Spam Allstars are celebrating the tenth anniversary of ¡Fuacata! this Thursday, a monumental accomplishment to say the least. Week after week for the last decade, the Spam Allstars have taken to the tight Little Havana stage in Hoy Como Ayer to lay down their one-of-a-kind descargas. And week after week, they’ve…
As Crossfade has chronicled the career of twentysomething, Miami-based songwriter Rico Love, his star has continued to rise. Last year saw major Billboard Hot 100 success for three songs he penned for Usher’s “There Goes My Baby,” Nelly’s “Just a Dream,” and Diddy Dirty Money’s “Hello Good Morning.” More importantly, 2010…
UPDATE: Via Tumblr, Kid Cudi has stated that the show La Covacha is fake. Read the response from promoters Major Event Marketing and Uprise. Kid Cudi loves Miami so much. In 2009, he threw a free party on South Beach with Santigold. And then he came back on New Years…
Out of the Anonymous is a long-running local outfit that’s spent years making beautiful soundtracks for dreamers and paranoiacs. And while we’ve already had the opportunity to interview bassist Henry Rajan and guitarist Buffalo Brown, we come full circle today with the man who started it all back in the…
No, we’re not fucking with you. We know, we know. We just reported not a month ago the terribly sad news that after ten years of providing SoFla’s local music scene with one of its most beloved stages, and Miami’s drinking crowd with one of its favorite boozing spots, Transit…
