If you haven’t noticed yet, a Tower Records has popped up on North Miami Avenue and 14th Street. But before you head over hoping to by the new Britney Spears album, we have some bad news. It’s a fake. A little bit of movie magic has transformed the 14th Street…
Jenny Lewis’s indie-pop band, Rilo Kiley, has broken up. And girl, it’s nasty. Guitarist and singer Blake Sennett told Spinner.com that he initiated the bands dissolution after “a lot of deception, disloyalty, greed” and assorted other grievances. He also talked shit about the band’s last record, Under The Blacklight. Crossfade’s…
If Crossfade had a time machine available, the first thing we’d do is travel back to the late 1950s when everyone was up in arms over Elvis and his gyrating pelvis. We’d turn off The Milton Berle Show, plug in the turntable, and give them a crash course in powerviolence and fastcore…
Earlier this week, Crossfade reported on Coheed and Cambria bassist, Mic Todd, being arrested in Massachussetts for stealing oxycontin from a Walgreens hours before his band’s opening gig for Soundgarden. Well, it’s a good/weird week for rock star arrests as Nick Oliveri, ex-bassist for the Dwarves, Kyuss, and Queens of…
After awhile, reggaeton groups can start to seem the like the same old thang. But whether it’s because they’re clever or just lucky, Jowell y Randy have got some weird shit going on that grabs our attention. Here are three things about J&R that really make us cock our heads…
Leonardo Valencia used to cook brunch for his broke friends in Brooklyn with his ex-wife Didi. She’s a pastry chef and he’s a former culinary school attendee whose favorite thing to make is breakfast. And one day, these two cooks realized that the most delicious garnish for eggs is Motown…
Who would’ve pegged Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo for a cruise enthusiast? But in a YouTube commercial posted today, the emo icon appears ocean-ready (no Buddy Holly glasses) and dressed in a totally Carnival-appropriate outfit (crappy baseball cap and striped, navy-blue polo) to announce that he’s gone crazy for the cruising life…
She is a 52-year-old British singer who hadn’t put out an album in ten years. And yet we all instantly recognize the name Sade. No doubt, her enduring popularity is fueled by a few iconic 1980s hits. But over the years, she’s cultivated a legion of loyal followers that follows…
Oh, you irresponsible little raver … The Identity Festival is still one month, two weeks, and a couple of hours away. And yet you’ve already blown 90 percent of your loose change on bad drugs and bottled water, party paraphernalia (gas masks, top hat, Caution tape, etc.), and an entire…
Gucci Mane’s got a way with the ladies. On January 28, the rapper wanted a lil’ breakfast. But before hitting the IHOP, he decided to cruise around in his Hummer and pick up a 36-year-old Atlanta resident at the South DeKalb Mall. He offered to take the woman for some…
On Friday morning, Forward Motion Records CEO and Dreaming in Stereo frontman Fernando Perdomo got all hyped up about the supposedly undue attention that weirdo tuneage has been given lately by local music journos. So he published a somewhat misguided, misspelled, and erratically punctuated Facebook outburst, which he titled: “What…
Last night, TMZ reported that Coheed and Cambria bassist Mic Todd was arrested for robbing a Walgreen’s pharmacy in Attleboro, Massachussetts. Apparently, Todd wrote out a note on his cell phone demanding oxycontin and threatening the store employee with an alleged bomb. The best-slash-worst detail is that Todd was not…
When I woke up at 7:30 a.m. this morning, I crawled out of bed, sucked down some coffee, plopped down in front of my laptop, started digging through my my email inbox, and noticed that Forward Motion Records CEO and Dreaming in Stereo frontman Fernando Perdomo had tagged me (Sean…
These days, being a rock star isn’t about mystery, aloofness, and fuck-the-world attitude. Thanks to the inescapable ever-presence of the internet and the slow death of the music industry, the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle has become a sterile, never-ending cycle of virtual fan friendship, high-speed schmoozing, and $9.99 album sales…
In those hot and heavy post-disco years, otherwise known as the early ’80s, the party people of the world were dying for sexy music that didn’t suck. They desperately needed to shake some ass. But platform boots, full-body jumpsuits, and lite ‘n’ cheesy fluff just wasn’t gonna cut it. So…
Try, if you can, to imagine a grosser Burning Man. Not that the annual, drug-fueled New Age neverland orgy isn’t gross. It is. But in addition to the week-long, middle-of-nowhere mass discharge of bodily fluids onto crystals, Burning Man also has mind-boggling works of art and provides a unique, thoroughly…
Is anything truly weird anymore? In 2011, headlines read like a Best of The Onion calendar and everyone is fucking through their cell phone. So what’s got the power to grab you by the nose hairs, wipe your brain, and make your eyes turn into bloodshot question marks? When Crossfade contacted…
The Sunday Coolout is a weekly radio show hosted by local DJs Sire Esq. and Maneuvers, who you may know from their Champion Sound party.Ostensibly a jazz show, the Coolout actually offers a rich variety of contemporary music and special guest DJs.Personally, we can’t think of a better way to…
You gotta hand it to the internet … It is a consistently — no, dependably — weird place. The internet is society’s Id. It’s the only place where the minutia of our droll everydays — what we ate, where we’re going, what we’re thinking — are filed right next to secret…
Another big show announcement: Vocoder-obsessed duo Chromeo announced they’ll be performing at the Fillmore Miami Beach on September 20 as part of the LG Ones to Watch Tour.Oddly enough, they’ve been “ones to watch” basically since their first release, 2004’s She’s In Control. Their latest album, Business Casual, featured club…
While Australian electro-rockers Cut Copy technically “kicked off” the tour for their latest album, Zonoscope, at this year’s Ultra Music Festival, rest assured they are coming back to give Miami a proper show in a non-festival setting. On September 30, the band returns to South Florida to rock Grand Central…
There’s only six months until the next round of apocalyptic hysteria, when the clock will strike midnight on January 1, 2012, and everyone will piss their pantaloons in transcendental excitement. Nothing will happen, another 11 months and 21 days will pass, and then it’ll be time for the serious 2012…
