Even though Art Basel Miami Beach doesn’t officially begin for another three days, the peripheral non-art happenings (read: booze and music) are already raging. And Bardot’s wasting zero time. Tonight, the semi-secret Midtown spot will kick off a full week’s worth of Basel bashes that include performances and DJ sets…
Miami punk rock mainstay Christian Salmon (also known as Chris Critic from the Basicks, the Critics, Boy Prostitute, UFC, and the Repromen) runs a tight ship at Critical Recordings. When you visit the studio, he’s guaranteed to be taking out the trash or balancing his QuickBooks while talking on the…
Radio Sucks. And generally, you can thank corporate rock-dance-pop-rap-adult-contempo format formulas for the non-stop deluge of total crap. We salute Cox Radio, Clear Channel, and all the other stiff suits. Even so, we here at Crossfade were taken aback by the loathing listeners seemed to have for the recently deceased…
Yeah, we like rad retro 3-D movies. But we totally love French robots engineered explicitly for the purpose of producing outsized symphonic sountracks, i.e. Daft Punk duo Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. For months, we’ve been hearing about all those amazing Tron: Legacy promo parties taking place around the…
It feels like we are beating a dead horse when it comes to Winter Music Conference vs. Ultra Music Festival news — even Louis Puig got in on the action by accusing Ultra of forcing booked acts to sign exclusivity contracts (something the festival’s been doing for years) and greed.On…
Tough-to-label Venezuelan band Los Amigos Invisibles have just announced plans to release a new album in Febuary 2011. The album, titled Not So Commercial, will serve as the follow-up to wildly successful 2009 release Commercial, which earned Amigos a Latin Grammy win, and also made New Times’ own year-end list…
Who loves free vodka and British accents? Say “I” ’cause you’re in for a treat with Smirnoff’s “Nightlife Exchange Project” — a one-night affair involving 14 different countries who signed up for an “experiment in global nightlife culture.” The idea: showcase the best music, food, fashion, drinks, and party like…
A few local venues get it right. Their nights of live music, even when there are DJs interspersed throughout, are crafted to create a specific vibe. Genre-appropriate music is played between sets to keep the momentum going, and if there’s dancing before or after, it all seems to work in…
Take Crossfade’s 93 Rock “Radio Sucks” poll. After discovering late Saturday night that 93.1 FM made the switch (or, as many commenters claim, “improvement”) from crappy alt-rock to 24/7 holiday music, Crossfade sent mega-broadcaster Cox Radio a few questions. And today, since regular office hours have resumed, the suits finally…
We kind of wish we weren’t so young in the ’80s. Sure, we got to watch the amazing cartoons and play with those kick-ass toys (Teddy Ruxpin and Kid Sister), but that’s all we actually remember. We missed the fashion. We weren’t old enough to really enjoy the music. And…
Still reeling from the success of August’s Super Open House, Stone Promotions did it again this past Saturday with a varied bill that rocked the house, brought back memories,and emphasized the spirit of community in time for the holiday season. Keeping in the tradition of the Open Houses from back…
The suits at Cox Radio finally replied! Read what they had to say about killing 93 Rock for Christmas. (Then take Crossfade’s 93 Rock “Radio Sucks” poll.) Whenever Crossfade wants to flood the interior of our automobiles with a non-stop stream of mediocre alt-rock, we listen to 93 Rock. So…
Slip-N-Slide founder Ted Lucas says: “I remember when we had breakdancing. We used to go to the youth fair and go have a real breakdancing contest.” So he used to be a breakdancer? “I did a little something, man. I ain’t saying I was a professional.” Today, Ted wants to…
On Tuesday, counterculture queen Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Taking part in the finalist readings, she described it, saying: “My book is the story of my friendship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe, which has never ceased even with his death in 1989.” (See…
This is quickly turning into a he-said, she-said. In a statement released by Ultra Music Festival organizers, they claimed to have given Winter Music Conference notice that the dates of March 8 to 12 would not work for them. The problem? Calle Ocho would fall on the same weekend as…
In an interview with MTV News today, Club Space owner Louis Puig claimed, “The [City of Miami Beach] will not give out weekly permits for pool or beach parties outside of WMC [week], which means that there will not be Pool Parties the week of Ultra. What is Miami without…
There’s been a lot of talk about what’s going to happen now that Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival are taking place on two different weekends in March. When will all the good DJs be here? When will all of the amazing after parties happen? Well, you don’t need…
You might recognize the surname Ronson thanks to the three famous siblings attached to it. Charlotte Ronson is a well-known designer, while Samantha Ronson is a semi-talented DJ better known for bedding damaged starlettes.Then there is Mark Ronson, the producer and musician. The Brit was responsible for Amy Winehouse’s massive…
Now that the lines have been drawn between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, we are interested in finding out what you, our readers, think about this whole debacle. Will you be attending WMC or Ultra? We’ve set up a nifty poll to gauge your response…
Winter Music Conference organizers have finally responded to all the commotion happening around Ultra Music Festival’s decision to hold its event outside of the week of the conference. In a press release WMC says, “We were blindsided by Ultra’s last minute announcement this morning.”…
Uh-oh. The whole Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival separation has suddenly taken a ugly turn. While there have been whispers and rumors as to why next year’s conference is occurring separate from Ultra, nobody has really come out and said anything publicly. But leave it to Club Space…
If you weren’t aware, producer-DJ A-Trak and Chromeo frontman Dave 1 are brothers. We don’t mean, like, pals … actual blood-related brothers. Both were born in Montreal, but A-Trak went on to become Kanye West’s touring DJ and later a well-known producer. Dave 1, on the other hand, took a…
