Local artist Carlos Rigau wanted to show us a house around the corner from his art space and residence General Practice. What’s so interesting about this place down the street? It’s situated next to an empty lot, under a sexy billboard and the freeway. Unlike General Practice, which is protected by…
The story of Jason Handelsman, AKA The President, is already interesting enough when summarized by writer and video-maker Jacob Katel: “There’s something funny about a native Dade County cracker who calls himself The President and lives in a foreclosed house in Cutler Ridge, trying to make it in the rap…
If Shakespeare got it right and brevity is indeed the soul of wit, then Assholeparade’s Student Ghetto Violence is some Poor Richard’s Almanack-level shit. Issued back in 2000, Student is the closest thing the Gainesville five-piece has to a definitive release, cobbling together pieces from singles, tapes, and other ephemera…
The American interstate system is a dangerous maze, riddled with death traps and dead ends. Of course, there’s the always-imminent threat of being maimed (or worse) in a fiery, 27-car pileup disaster. But you’re also prime prey for recreational road-ragers, random rest stop ambushes, and catastrophic heart failure due to…
We’ve talked non-stop about Sweatstock 2011 and all the bands playing tomorrow. But let’s not forget, the reason Sweat Records is throwing this whole shindig is in celebration of Record Store Day — and the store’s anniversary.What’s Record Store Day? In 2007, it started as a way to get people…
When considering the misfortune (a communist dictatorship that rules with an iron fist, poverty pedaled as “socialist equality,” a lack of basic comforts like Tylenol and, oh, light after 8 p.m., and freedom of speech) that’s befallen the once sweet island paradise known as Cuba, it’s easy to forget that…
See the full Afro Roots World Music Festival event schedule. You may be damn well excited for the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival kicking off today. And well, why not? But you should also know that it’s not the only music fest in town this week. Whether you just can’t get enough…
Tony Kapel is a sun-bathed and tropical version of the Renaissance man. He is a visual artist, writer, musician, scuba diver, and part-time animal wrangler for local cable access television. And he’s also one half of the husband and wife band Pocket of Lollipops who’ll be going on tour this…
Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah! Excuse us for all the Lagy Gaga coverage, but you know how it is … Big popstar comes into town and the whole city comes to a standstill.Our sources have told us Gaga’s actually been hanging out in Miami since Sunday, with she and her crew staying at a…
Maybe he was having “threesomes with a fuckin’ triceratops, Reptar” or “fuckin’ Goldilocks up in the forest/in the three bear house eatin’ their muthafuckin’ porridge.” But for some strange reason, Tyler the Creator, the leader of 10-member L.A. rap crew Odd Future, “woke up with a sweaty dick” today. Or…
See Sweatstock 2011’s full lineup and set times. Thanks to Napster, Steve Jobs, and the overlords of the Internet, we all live in an increasingly immaterial world where the only acceptable way to package, market, and consume music is the ubiquitous MP3 or some comparable digital audio encoding format. Needless…
You know the current crop of noisy electronic acts like Crystal Castles and Sleigh Bells? Well, they owe a lot to a certain Berlin hardcore outfit spearheaded by Alec Empire, Hanin Elias, Carl Crack, and Nic Endo. They were better known as Atari Teenage Riot and throughout the ’90s they…
We don’t need to remind you of the terrible ordeals currently facing the nation of Japan. The March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed large sections of the island’s northeastern coast, leaving tens of thousands dead or missing. And as if that wasn’t catastrophic enough, workers are still desperately attempting…
Jesus H. Christ! Perhaps it’s about time that Sweat Records owner Lauren Reskin called upon a santero to do a limpieza (washing) at the store. It has been stricken with bad luck since its inception. From hurricanes to AC failures to robberies, Sweat has seen it all.So is it any…
Are you ready to go psycho with Sweat Records, Panic Bomber, and the other 35 local noise fiends set to invade the Little Haiti record shop, its parking lot, and the entirety of the Churchill’s Pub complex in t-minus five days? Well, we here at Crossfade have already started stashing…
The time for subterfuge and obfuscation has come to an end. I will no longer employ cloak-and-dagger tricks in order to make a Cavity reunion happen. No. It is time for action! I have already covered a hefty span of their catalogue via my Blast From the Past column, e-mails…
There are certain things that are quintessentially Miami, like cafecitos at a board meeting and a doctor sporting a guayabera. Now add Rakontur Media Studio’s rapidly expanding library of South Florida-focused documentaries to that running list. For over a decade, director Billy Corben and producer Alfred Spellman have built their…
What? Are you serious? Iggy Pop on American Fucking Idol? I thought the apocalypse wasn’t scheduled to swallow us all till 2012. Yet according to Crossfade’s own personal bible, the end of the world would be heralded by five terrifying occurrences: (1) Steven Tyler would fall off a stage in…
Check out Crossfade’s previous post for a free download of A Totally Non-Ironic TBD Party Mix. When you’re drunk off your ass on rubyfruit jungle juice and dancing like a fly girl (or guy) in a too-tight thong, the world is a better place. And that’s one reason you should…
If, like Crossfade, you’ve actually attended the annual Exxxotica Expo at the Miami Beach Convention Center (or some comparably antiseptic megavenue in Chicago, Los Angeles, or New Jersey) and not just feverishly daydreamed about it while rubbing your sweaty palms together in the parking lot, you already know that the…
Back in the early ’90s, almost no one — except Pablo Escobar, his fellow kings of cocaine, and their constantly warring cartels — would’ve ever willingly taken a trip to Colombia’s 473-year-old subtropical capital, Bogotá. These days, though, the city is a dense urban hub that’s home to seven million…
Ah, college. It’s a hell of a time. Beer flowing freely from kegs, homecoming, Spring Break, and walks of shame across campus as morning light casts its accusing glare upon you. But some students actually choose to do something constructive with the time they spend at institutions of higher learning…
