As Brand New once mused: “Gave up my body and bed/All for an empty hotel free concert tickets.” This Long Island indie pop-punk crew, known for 2000s emo anthems like “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows,” has recently reconvened after several years of being unsigned and inactive. Now…
As 21st-century culture and technology continue to evolve, so too must our language. Whether you like it or not, all these hashtag buzzwords are part of the greater lexicon. Literally, “hashtag” was added to the dictionary. But it’s not just words like “selfie,” “noob,” or “friend zone.” The musical terms…
The Vagabond is gone forever. But the memories of legendary nights at the downtown Miami club will live on. There was a refreshing lack of pretense; it was all about the music, the people, the night. Everyone from the indie crowd to house thrill-seekers got their rocks off at 30…
Porter Robinson says: “I literally fucking love you.” Actually … He says it a lot. Especially when he’s feeling “so caffeinated” and “over-earnest.” The 21-year-old producer was set to be the next epic thing in EDM. But then he decided to reject “the boring, functional music for DJs,” as he…
Everyone loves Miami. Our food, our people, our beaches. But we here at Crossfade would argue that it’s our music that puts us above the competition. We’ve never tried to steal anyone else’s sound. We keep it 100 with grooves and style of our own. We are leaders in the…
Time to grind in the 305. It’s Memorial Day weekend, AKA Urban Beach Week. As usual, South Beach and the mainland will be offering a great variety of new and old, ratchet and refined, as well as some straight gangsta lineups. So start practicing your twerk, get your 26-inch chrome…
Tamar Braxton Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, May 16, 2014 Better Than: Watching an episode of Tamar & Vince. “People don’t know I can get turnt up and drop it like it’s hot.” That’s the kind of performance the youngest of the Braxton sisters promised to put on for her Tamartians…
It’s been less than a year since Bizzy Crook made the move from Miami to New York. The plan was to expand his exposure in the Mecca of hip-hop littered with talent that departs as fast has it arrived. A few months after the releases of ’84 and ’84: Off…
Memorial Day weekend is among us … For us 305 peeps, that means we’re either gonna run for our lives and avoid SoBe at all costs, or start our summer vacay early with Kid Ink, Sunghosts, Beenie Man, and the rest of the artists putting on kick ass shows for…
We could hardly belieb our eyes. Could it be true? Has the world’s most popular singer-dancer-badboy been approved to attend the prom festivities at Miami Senior High School? Is some lucky girl (and teen model) from Little Havana named Yovanna Ventura actually dating the Biebz? Are they so super-cereal that…
In the early ’80s, Pepsi had begun seriously encroaching on sales of Coca-Cola, even outselling the latter in supermarkets. In an effort to rejuvenate sales, Coke outright replaced its formula with what would be known as “New Coke” — an “improved” version of the formula that would replace the original…
When the dance music world heard bass monster Kill the Noise and melodic house kid Mat Zo were teaming up for a tour, the reaction was a collective wut? “We weren’t really too sure ourselves,” says KTN’s Jake Stanczak. “Mat comes from a different world, I come from a different…
Bastille With Wolf Gang Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, May 15, 2014 Better Than: Standing out in the heavy rain. If you ever wondered what the long term effects of Coldplay might be, you need look no further than Bastille. The chart topping synth heavy four piece are led by singer/songwriter…
Just because your wallet may be a little on the slim side doesn’t mean you have to spend the entire weekend getting your fingers orange from eating too many cheese puffs and watching reruns of ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? on repeat. When you live in the Magic City, being broke is…
Modest Mouse Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Better Than: Getting caught in an actual pit of rats. Scurrying like buzz-hungry rodents to the sugar nozzle, Modest Mouse fans cheerily clawed and crawled through the Fillmore Miami Beach, searching for the perfect spot in which to nest while waiting…
One hit is all it takes for an established musician to become an international star. For Bob Marley, it was “Judge Not.” For Shaggy, it was “Oh, Carolina.” For Trinidadian ragga soca artist Bunji “The Fireman” Garlin, that song is “Differentology.” “The purpose was to transcend beyond the season of…
It’s amazing how much the 305 has had its hands in the perpetuation of established underground genres.
“Nomen,” says Kompakt Records cofounder and DJ-producer Michael Mayer, “est omen.” Or in other, non-Latin words, one’s moniker is a sign of destiny. So while “Kompakt started out,” Mayer recently told us, “as a record store in 1993” by the name of Delirium, it was soon relaunched, relabeled, and began…
It is difficult to believe that when Cher first topped the charts, LBJ was in the White House and America was taking its first steps into the quagmire of Vietnam. She is one of an elite few in the annals of pop history who aptly deserves to be called a…
Two years isn’t forever. But in clubland, it might as well be a lifetime. Most weekly nightlife ventures are lucky to last six months. A full 24 means that you’ve built something special. Miami’s Slap & Tickle is the Tuesday party with a reputation for wild nights and unique sets…
“Nooooooo! We party! We party! We party!” Those shrieks are just the desperate pleadings of Miami music fans collectively panicking at the news that Afrobeta’s Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio might be splitting, like so many promising 305ers, for friendlier (and possibly more profitable) West Coast climes. Don’t worry, though…
The Lube’s for sale. Smoothing late-night interaction for just over a year at 167 NW 23rd Street, Wynwood’s The Social Lubricant Lounge is already being peddled to entrepreneurial bidders looking to slip into the ‘Wood hood. But for anybody wanting to purchase this particular location in “the most exciting and…
