Despite forecasts of economic and music industry gloom and doom, for the talented and lucky the good times still roll. So it went that last night’s launch for songwriter/producer Rico Love’s new label, Division 1, was a relaxed but still definitely upscale affair. Industry luminaries and wheelers-and-dealers hit South Beach…
It’s not like you needed an announcement. But still … Weezy F. Baby is free! After his eight-month stint on the big island, Mr. Dwayne Carter is now on another island — a better, much prettier island called Miami Beach, where he claims residence and rules over the entire Cash…
Roger Waters has always seemed an irascible kind of guy. With his steely scowl and chiseled features, he radiates intimidation. And certainly, his contentious pronouncements about Middle East politics and his relationship with ex-bandmate David Gilmour often serve to reinforce that reputation. More to the point, his classic contribution to…
Like any 31-year-old punk crew that’s spent a good chunk of its life in the gutter, rocking recklessly, shooting heroin, looking for love, and breaking the law, Social Distortion has a pretty messed-up face. Obviously, we don’t mean that literally; Social D’s middle-aged frontman Mike Ness is surprisingly well-preserved, despite…
Belaxis Supreme Get It While It’s Hott. Brash is Beethoven. Belaxis is Buil. (Self-released) belaxisbuil.com This disc is another exciting incursion by visual artists into the arena of audio art. Now, while it might seem a little heavy-handed to refer to this as a genre (“audio art”), I only do…
Behind every good chart-topping song is a good producer, usually — but behind all that, and often sticking longer-term with the artist him- or herself, is a good engineer. In honor of today, the Biggest Day In Hip-Hop History of 2010, the day Lil Wayne finally goes free, Crossfade brings…
All you old-school heads, it’s finally safe to creep out from your trenches and return to the club. If only for one night, the non-stop digital assault on classic wax has been called to a halt. And tonight at the Electric Pickle’s Champion Sound, the 45 rules! Leading the retro…
Kris Huseby is a local musician, chef, syndicated sports columnist, and thong-sandal model. But he’s probably better known for having pounded the drums with Fireside Social and currently fronting Bulletproof Tiger. The latter band recently got back to South Florida from a small tour in support of its The Starving…
When middle-aged rock stars start breaking their backs like Bono, it’s hard not to wonder whether fans should request a mandatory retirement cutoff for all arena-level entertainers. But following emergency surgery in May and the cancellation of a bunch of tour dates including this summer’s original Miami stop, U2 actually…
Exactly 40 days ago, Crossfade broke the news about Plastikman’s Richie Hawtin’s scheduled invasion of Miami. (UPDATE Due to some press release confusion we made the mistake of assuming the DJ would be performing Plastikman material. Sorry.) And we also talked some shit about the fact that “buying a Richie Hawtin release…
Big news out of Ricky Martin’s camp: The Puerto Rican superstar has been locked away in the studio, hard at work on his latest record since the beginning of the year, as Crossfade reported here. It seems that fans won’t have to wait much longer to hear the first of…
It’s confirmed: Rachel Goodrich’s follow-up to her 2008 debut, Tinker Toys, will be released February 21. The Greg Wells-produced album, features 10 new tracks along with “Light Bulb.” (It’s unclear whether it’s a reworked or remastered version different from the one that appeared on her debut.)Unfortunately, it seems Rachel Goodrich…
What the hell is Burnie anyway? He looks like a rejected Muppet that’s been sleeping in a dumpster, a 7’6″ bag of ratty orange fur with a swollen green mini-basketball for a nose. And his official Miami Heat bio doesn’t help at all. It just totally dodges the question. Anyway,…
I’ve known Joe (or Joey as he was then) since the salad days of Cheers. Those were fun days that got even funner when we found out he frequented my friend’s mother’s liquor store in Kendall. For many years, there was a running joke that he owed me twenty bucks,…
Over the last few years, Fox’s Sherron Inn has become a bastion for the neglected hipsterati and outside culturists who live way too far from the trendy downtown and South Beach strips. Clad in his signature black slacks and black button-down, Randy Franco was a good friend and always-smiling fixture…
Only this morning, Crossfade hyped the upcoming Crocodiles concert at downtown cool kid club Grand Central with a hyperactive blurb about the San Diego band’s recent single “Kill Joe Arpaio” and the Arizona sheriff’s angry, Twitter-driven counterattack. This evening, though, we received an unfortunate piece of news via email that…
If there’s one dude who fully deserves to be an honorary citizen of our hot, clubby, coked-up little paradise, it’s booty bass and bathroom sex enthusiast Naeem Juwan Hanks, otherwise known as Spank Rock. Even though he was bred in B-More, the kid’s like Uncle Luke’s lost son, if the…
“Less is more,” proclaimed German-American modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, describing the aesthetics of minimalism. A post-WWII movement rooted in the European avant-garde, minimalism reduces form down to its bare elements, fusing aesthetics and functionality with elegant simplicity. You can see it in the stark formalism of Bauhaus…
In order to officially achieve the rank of grown motherfucker, one must scratch three very specific things off the eternal To-Do list: (1) Make out with Nicki Minaj; (2) Earn an awesome nickname ending in -zy (e.g., Jeezy, Weezy, Kanyeezy); and (3) Celebrate a landmark b-day in the company of…
The Axe and the Oak is rapidly becoming a musical entitiy of interest in South Florida with its excellent blend of American roots music, danceable gothic rockabilly, and indie rock knowhow. And after checking out the band’s latest offering, the Record Store Day 2010 EP, we recently had a chance…
Is the great Raekwon, an 11th degree Wu-Tang ninja of the 36 Chambers, not enough for all you limited-edition running shoe obsessives? Apparently not. I guess that’s why Sneaker Pimps just today announced that the Boss Ricky Ross will join the lyrically legendary Chef at the top of tomorrow night’s…
Carol City’s boy wonder, Rick Ross, has just announced plans to tour. The Blowin Money Fast tour will take Ross across the United States before heading abroad to England, Trinidad, Haiti, South Africa, Nigeria, and other far-flung places. The preliminary tour schedule was released earlier this week and many Miamians…
