The time has come to take a trip with local Latinotronica crew Elastic Bond. But you can’t show up without supplies. You’ve gotta pack a bag. You will need (1) a stash of premium psilocybin; (2) a sturdy pair of sunglasses with sparkly starbursts embedded into the lenses; (3) a…
Christmas. To some, it represents the birth of Jesus Christ, the immaculately conceived love child of a Galilean woman named Mary and a theistic being referred to as God. But for 18 Jewish gals aged 17 to 26 from the South Florida metropolitan area, December 25 will be a day…
Meet Steve Lawler at Wall Lounge for a pre-NYE party on December 28. Check out Crossfade’s full New Year’s Eve 2012 guide. Dance music sucks. House music rules. Just ask British rave legend and Viva Music label boss Steve Lawler. “Dance music is not the same as house music,” Lawler…
Is Wynwood, Miami’s arts district and hipster mecca, ready for a full-fledged nightclub? Mark Lowe thinks so. Lowe, the man behind Fort Lauderdale’s Living Room, is poised to open a 9,000-square-foot party spot called House, which scheduled to open February 2012. “It’s definitely not a lounge, but I wouldn’t describe…
Totally contradicting Western civilization’s standard calendar, New Year’s Eve now lasts a lot longer than just one night. Especially on Miami Beach. In this land of endless neon and fake boobs, NYE has become a seven-day holiday weekend packed with stupid hats, stupider behavior, and absolutely insane admission fees. You…
The Herd just got a little thicker. Two weeks ago, the Virginia Key Grassroots Festival — a SoFla spinoff of Ithaca, New York’s Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival, organized by mountain music crew Donna the Buffalo — released its initial 25-act lineup, starring socially conscious hip-hop collective Arrested Development, Del McCoury’s…
Nestled on 500 feet of prime, ocean-front real estate, the Blue and Green Diamond Condominiums are two of the most exclusive residential towers in Miami Beach. And back when the market was stable, only the über-rich — like Beyoncé Knowles — could afford to shit and sleep in one of…
If, like Crossfade, you are a serious drinker who loves to let loose, glug a couple of cocktails, and get responsibly wasted, we say: “Raise that Henny, son!” Now believe it or not, there is an international community of cognac connoisseurs called the Hennessy DJ Collective and our own DJ…
The corridors of William McKinley High are a long fucking way from Calle Ocho, chico. But today, Entertainment Weekly reported that Pitbull is “being courted” by the producers of Fox’s Glee to play the older brother of Santana (Naya Rivera), a newly out and proud lesbian cheerleader. And all we’ve…
No local band could better encapsulate Neil Young’s doom-y axiom that “It’s better to burn out/than to fade away” than defunct trio Beings, who took the SoFla scene by storm, toured with Torche, released one of Crossfade’s favorite records of 2010, and then announced their final show seemingly out of…
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, contemporary music’s Cleveland equivalent to Major League Baseball’s Cooperstown, has announced its class of 2012. As we here at Crossfade expected, Guns N’ Roses made the cut. But the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, and “Hurdy Gurdy Man” singer Donovan will also…
Once upon a time, a little wooden liar named Pinocchio took a trip to Pleasure Island with a pig-nosed, red-headed punk. “They say it’s a swell joint. No school. No cops,” the punk told Pinocchio. “You can tear the joint apart. And nobody says a word.” Sounds a little like…
When false rumors about the closure of Mamushka’s Midtown spread throughout the Miami scene like some kinda nasty, textually transmitted disease, Sirens and Sealions singer-songwriter and Mute Miami booking boss Johanna Viscaino got a little skittish, shifting Au Revoir Simone’s Miami gig to another venue. “I moved the show because…
Less than 20 days from now, Jesus Christ will turn the big 2-0-1-2, though he doesn’t look a day over 33. Around the world, Christians will celebrate his birth with an appalling display of hyper-consumerism and overconsumption. And of course, crappy Christmas music. However, one track that isn’t likely making…
It’s been approximately 32 months since self-described Brooklyn “keyboard band” Au Revoir Simone released the dark and dreamy 2009 album, Still Night, Still Light, and its sparklingly spooky single “Shadows.” Understandably, plenty of music geeks with a fetish for moody twee melodies (e.g. Crossfade, our current makeout partners, and you)…
About a month or so after Arcade Fire rocked the music industry by walking away with the Grammy for Album of the Year, the Montreal-based group celebrated with some friends in Haiti. Some 250 people packed into the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince — many of whom were “expat aid workers…
Artist Ron English is no stranger to iconic imagery. Creating paintings from a mishmash of familiar faces and images like Marilyn Monroe and Mickey Mouse is part of what he does. So it was no surprise that English joined forces with mega-superstar Chris Brown to create the cover of his…
Invented in the late ’80s by electronics wizard Roger Linn, the Music Production Center is a pimped-out drum machine on steroids, usually equipped with eight to 16 pressure- and velocity-sensitive pads, multiple MIDI inputs and outputs, a superpowered sequencer, advanced sampling systems, and an entire universe of highly evolved effects…
It’s been five full years since Time Magazine named Daddy Yankee to its list of the 100 most influential people on the planet. And using the mag’s metaphor, the recording industry’s registers were ringing like mad over reggaeton in 2006. “Yankee has sold 2 million copies of his album Barrio…
UPDATE Au Revoir Simone’s Miami show will now be totally free! Even though shocked status updates, email blasts, and half-drunk texts might’ve pushed the rumors of Mamushka’s demise into overdrive for a period of about 12 hours, there hasn’t been any major fallout in the wake of that premature closing…
Ever since Sean Michael Anderson snatched up a mike and spit some rhymes, this 23-year-old rapper from Detroit has seemed to be dropping hints about the enormity of his future plans. He began by adopting the not-so-humble stage name Big Sean. He coaxed notorious egomaniac Kanye West into giving him…
About a month and a half before Twin Sister packs its dreamy indie-pop into a van and treks across the United States for a 22-city tour, the Long Island quintet figured a stop at Midtown Miami’s Bardot would be a fitting warmup. Scheduled for December 15, this show is part…
