Label this as the least surprising booking for Ultra Music Festival 2011, but our sources have confirmed Carl Cox will be returning for the next edition of the annual event. His return will mark the seventh installment of the Carl Cox & Friends Arena at the festival.Festival Outlook also points…
If you’ve never attended one of Roofless Records’ Cinema Sounds soirees, then the whole concept can seem a little arty or highbrow or out there. And, duh, it’s all of those things. But at the same time, no one’s wandering around in a vintage tuxedo and monocle, reciting lines from…
In the run-up to November 2009’s release of his debut disc Attention Deficit, D.C. rapper Wale floated into pop consciousness on a thick, fast-moving cloud of accumulated hype. After hooking up with master trend-caller Mark Ronson in 2006 and then signing a million-dollar deal with Interscope Records in 2008, the…
Eminem was the name on everyone’s lips during last night’s Grammy nominations special. The Detroit rapper stole the show with ten nominations. They included nods for Record of the Year (for “Love the Way You Lie”), Album of the Year (for Recovery), Best Rap Solo Performance (for “Not Afraid”), Pop…
While certain parts of the Beach, Design District, and downtown get an exclusive, private, and totally off-camera Basel cash injection tonight, the Electric Pickle will be hosting a cheaper, open-to-the-public art party alternative — Champion Sound. Reupping in a big way, this weekly Wednesday throwdown has brought in Detroit bro,…
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for Nicki Minaj. The Sunday before Nicki dropped her highly anticipated debut album, Pink Friday, MTV aired a documentary titled My Time Now that gave us a 24/7 eye into her life. Then Team Barbie took over Time Square on Black Friday for the…
It’s not like Perry Farrell needs a hobby. He’s already got several part-time jobs: rock hero, Lollapalooza boss, social activist, E! reality star, and expert wearer of very glam gear. Somehow, though, Farrell’s cleared a corner of his schedule for yet another gig. Launching this Thursday at Bardot with an…
The Boss Ricky Rozay’s already got multimillion admirers all up in his nuts. And yet, The Source just confessed its undying love. Yesterday, the hip-hop bible crowned Miami’s big-bearded son its Man of the Year. But even the airiest of accolades can’t keep the Carol City King from his million…
Even though Art Basel Miami Beach doesn’t officially begin for another three days, the peripheral non-art happenings (read: booze and music) are already raging. And Bardot’s wasting zero time. Tonight, the semi-secret Midtown spot will kick off a full week’s worth of Basel bashes that include performances and DJ sets…
Miami punk rock mainstay Christian Salmon (also known as Chris Critic from the Basicks, the Critics, Boy Prostitute, UFC, and the Repromen) runs a tight ship at Critical Recordings. When you visit the studio, he’s guaranteed to be taking out the trash or balancing his QuickBooks while talking on the…
Radio Sucks. And generally, you can thank corporate rock-dance-pop-rap-adult-contempo format formulas for the non-stop deluge of total crap. We salute Cox Radio, Clear Channel, and all the other stiff suits. Even so, we here at Crossfade were taken aback by the loathing listeners seemed to have for the recently deceased…
Yeah, we like rad retro 3-D movies. But we totally love French robots engineered explicitly for the purpose of producing outsized symphonic sountracks, i.e. Daft Punk duo Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. For months, we’ve been hearing about all those amazing Tron: Legacy promo parties taking place around the…
It feels like we are beating a dead horse when it comes to Winter Music Conference vs. Ultra Music Festival news — even Louis Puig got in on the action by accusing Ultra of forcing booked acts to sign exclusivity contracts (something the festival’s been doing for years) and greed.On…
Tough-to-label Venezuelan band Los Amigos Invisibles have just announced plans to release a new album in Febuary 2011. The album, titled Not So Commercial, will serve as the follow-up to wildly successful 2009 release Commercial, which earned Amigos a Latin Grammy win, and also made New Times’ own year-end list…
Who loves free vodka and British accents? Say “I” ’cause you’re in for a treat with Smirnoff’s “Nightlife Exchange Project” — a one-night affair involving 14 different countries who signed up for an “experiment in global nightlife culture.” The idea: showcase the best music, food, fashion, drinks, and party like…
A few local venues get it right. Their nights of live music, even when there are DJs interspersed throughout, are crafted to create a specific vibe. Genre-appropriate music is played between sets to keep the momentum going, and if there’s dancing before or after, it all seems to work in…
Take Crossfade’s 93 Rock “Radio Sucks” poll. After discovering late Saturday night that 93.1 FM made the switch (or, as many commenters claim, “improvement”) from crappy alt-rock to 24/7 holiday music, Crossfade sent mega-broadcaster Cox Radio a few questions. And today, since regular office hours have resumed, the suits finally…
We kind of wish we weren’t so young in the ’80s. Sure, we got to watch the amazing cartoons and play with those kick-ass toys (Teddy Ruxpin and Kid Sister), but that’s all we actually remember. We missed the fashion. We weren’t old enough to really enjoy the music. And…
Still reeling from the success of August’s Super Open House, Stone Promotions did it again this past Saturday with a varied bill that rocked the house, brought back memories,and emphasized the spirit of community in time for the holiday season. Keeping in the tradition of the Open Houses from back…
The suits at Cox Radio finally replied! Read what they had to say about killing 93 Rock for Christmas. (Then take Crossfade’s 93 Rock “Radio Sucks” poll.) Whenever Crossfade wants to flood the interior of our automobiles with a non-stop stream of mediocre alt-rock, we listen to 93 Rock. So…
Slip-N-Slide founder Ted Lucas says: “I remember when we had breakdancing. We used to go to the youth fair and go have a real breakdancing contest.” So he used to be a breakdancer? “I did a little something, man. I ain’t saying I was a professional.” Today, Ted wants to…
On Tuesday, counterculture queen Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Taking part in the finalist readings, she described it, saying: “My book is the story of my friendship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe, which has never ceased even with his death in 1989.” (See…
