When Detroit native DJ Justin Ryan moved to Miami last year he didn’t know anyone involved in the local EDM scene, so he got proactive. Seeking to connect with other local artist while establishing a structured outlet for his own productions, Ryan launched Miami Dance Party, a website featuring regular…
As we already mentioned, Record Store Day, which falls on Saturday, April 17, is gonna be epic. Via the Guest Lab, we discovered that Dean Spunt and Randy Randall, better known as the rugged punks No Age, are gonna rock Sweat Records’ five-year birthday bash that day, dubbed Sweatstock. Also…
Oops! We just checked Ticketmaster and $249 seats, which better be good ones, are still available for Paul McCartney’s visit to South Florida April 3 at SunLife Stadium. Seats went on sale this morning, and aren’t likely to last well into the afternoon if the appliance repairman I spoke to…
This week, we’ll highlight the biggest South Florida acts making the trip to Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest Music Conference March 17-21. First, Fort Lauderdale’s Every You.Every You is a band that makes each track count. With only a handful of recorded songs by way of an EP…
With Ultra Music Festival only a few weeks away, things are coming into the home stretch, and that means time for the Phase 3 announcement for the lineup. This by far has been the most underwhelming revelation of the bunch.Somewhere Ultra has forgotten its an electronic music festival. While we…
The streets, squats, garages, and clubs of unincorporated Miami-Dade are flooded with unsigned indie bands, punk crews, rap collectives, and solo singer-songwriter types. And they’re all calculating their imminent signing bonus. Even you, dear New Times reader, must fantasize from time to time about becoming famous for your skills on…
In our sister print publications this week:Ex-Pedro the Lion David Bazan tells the OC Weekly: “I don’t ever see myself pandering.”LA Weekly profiles movie soundtrack badass Lalo Schifrin, who indirectly made Portishead’s “Sour Times” a possibility.In Houston Press, Ben Westhoff gets Geto Boy Big Mike to spill about his criminal…
A few Miami acts are playing official (and semi-official) showcases at SXSW in Austin in a couple weeks. If you’re lucky enough to make it over to Texas for this, here’s who they are and where you can catch them.DJ CrazeNicaragua-born, Miami-rased DJ Craze has had as many lives as…
–At press time, DJ Khaled is projected to sell about 25,000 copies of his Victory album during its first week of sales, which released this past Tuesday. And as he does with every album that he releases, Khaled holds a star-studded signing event at the Best Buy in Pembroke Pines…
We’ve said some not-so-nice things about Dim Mak, but when you have a lineup that features Fischerspooner, Shinichi Osawa, DJ Funk, Joachim Garraud, Pase Rock, Uffie, Autoerotique, Destructo, Rob Roy, SonicC, and more, well you are going to have to barricade the doors of Louis (2325 Collins Ave., Miami Beach)…
There’s no better way to battle Friday morning’s demons than with some searing Portuguese prog-metal courtesy of Moonspell, the freshest addition to the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise. If any of the hairs on the back of your neck aren’t awake after a run-through of “First Light,” it’s time to…
Sad news kids, José El Rey is gone for good. Finished. Dead. José Flores, AKA El Rey, announced via Twitter that his exaggerated Cuban persona has officially retired.This has us asking: ¿Pero porque? El Rey was hands down one of the most imaginative characters to come out of Miami’s local…
The Miami International Film Festival starts this weekend, and if you missed Miami New Times’ guide to the event, click here. Of more immediate interest to Crossfade readers, though, is the fest’s selection of music movies. Here they are. For complete screening and ticket details, visit miamifilmfestival.com. No One Knows About…
Dig out those tents, because Record Store Day is April 17, and it’s gonna be an early morning for vinyl junkies. Radio-Active Records again is offering a bounty of limited-edition albums for those of us who like good sound, as Lou Reed would say.The store’s blog lists 30 special releases,…
We are only a few weeks away from Winter Music Conference mayhem and new events are still being announced.If you are excited to see Passion Pit live at Ultra Music Festival, but can’t make it, don’t worry there will be consolation prize when band members Ayad Al Adhamy and Jeff…
Ooh! What a treat for the kids, Johnny-come-latelys, scenesters, middle-aged fogies and record collector nerds! Anybody into South Florida punk andgarage would be wise to not let this one slip, because on the Monterey’s stage this Friday will be three bands who pretty much sum up the last 30-odd years…
The CichildsBe True To Your School (Bold/TK Records)The Cichlids’ story is one of your typical musical stories rife with intrigue, pleasure, strife, and the passing of time. The act was widely considered one of the first alternative Florida acts who could have (should have) made it, and 1980’s Be True…
Just a few items we enjoyed reading from this week’s expertly designed print edition.In Music: Taylor Swift poised to make all of South Florida stop and listen, get hit with some Steel Pulse, stomp the floor with the Dropkick Murphys, News: Heath Miller, ugh, In Film: Tim Burton’s Alice in…
It’s already painfully obvious that Lil Wayne, a South Florida resident soon to take a sabbatical at Riker’s Island, gets a lot of attention on this blog. Thanks to his Twitter developments and the unveiling of the rapper’s dentist Dr. Victor Mongalo, Crossfade can stay flowing with fresh content and…
In a recent Head Spins column here on Crossfade, we marveled at the rise of South Forida dubstep as far out of Miami’s epicenter as West Palm Beach. (Props to the Reazin for holding things down at Respectable Street and Propaganda). Here’s more proof the low-end sound is sweeping the…
Thanks to the influential meme-crowning fashion and culture blog HIPSTER RUNOFF for pointing out a SXSW flyer featuring Surfer Blood and the rest of the Pitchfork/Windish Agency’s showcase set for March 19 in Austin.Writer Carles or whomever makes the unattributed claim that Pitchfork “comes under fire” for this flyer, which…
CalahoneySlow Stride (True Records)calahoney.com Calahoney features top-notch bluesy vocals from frontwoman Laura, accompanied all the while by guitarist Josue, who may or may not be a pair of bohemians trapped in number – crunching nine – to – fives. The overall vibe is reminiscent of the ’90s alt-rock scene, and while…
