Earl Sweatshirt, Hip-Hop’s Most Interesting Rapper

Meet Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt. Only 20 years old, he has a life story that already unfolds like an historical drama, and his skills as a wordsmith go arguably unmatched. He’ll perform at Revolution Live this weekend, so we listed just a few reasons Earl might be the most interesting…

Confession: The Head and the Heart (Literally) Gave Us Chills

The Head and the Heart With Lost in the Trees Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, May 6, 2014 Better Than: Worrying all night about whether we should’ve worn our Lil Bub tee. The whole folkie Americana indie fad of the moment (e.g. Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, Edward Sharpe and the…

Second Saturday Art Walk: Five Best Parties

Bring out your peacock-feathered dresses and panda costumes, and get ready for Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk. After you’ve unleashed your inner art snob with work from some of the most creative minds in the city and scored free booze alongside Miami’s fashionable hipsters, party it up at the five…

Daniel Avery on Techno: “The Unknown Should Be Embraced”

A disc-jockeying virtuoso, a veritable scholar of the selector’s craft, Daniel Avery doesn’t subscribe much to dance-floor formulas as a producer. “I grew up listening to guitar music,” Avery tells Crossfade. “I loved anything with a psychedelic edge, whether that was My Bloody Valentine, Black Sabbath, Mogwai, Neu!, Death In…

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

¡Ay, ay ay! Rise and shine for Cinco de Mayo! Even if you’re not Mexican, tonight you’re gonna rock your sombrero, pound shots of tequila, and pretend you are. Sure, you’ll wake up hungover, but at least you’ll have sweet music from indie rockers the Head and the Heart, rock…

Win Free Tickets for St. Vincent at Fillmore Miami Beach

What is “an ordinary day”? Sleep, eat a bowl of cereal, sit at a desk, sip some cheap white wine, sleep. And if St. Vincent’s new-ish song “Birth in Reverse” can be considered a fairly factual account of 24 hours in the life of Ms. Annie Clark … Well, she…

Miami’s Ten Best Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend

Sit back, relax, and take a trago of tequila. It’s Cinco de Mayo weekend. And since the holiday is more of an American celebration than Mexican fiesta, we’re gonna throw it down like the Mexicans did 152 years ago at the Battle of Puebla. But if you just wanna party…

Miami’s 20 Best Punk Bands of All Time

The 305 did not invent punk rock, nor was it instrumental in the development of its subculture. As a matter of fact, South Florida was plagued by so-called “album-oriented rock” clubs, insufferable cover bands with Eagles aspirations, and misguided disco heads who were ignoring the better stuff put out by…

Churchill’s New Owners Abandoning Plans for 21-and-Over Policy

Rejoice, kids. Just days after the new owners of Churchill’s Pub announced a 21-and-over policy, they’ve already abandoned those plans. Yesterday, following the pub’s weekly staff get-together, an announcement of the reversal was made on Churchill’s official Facebook page. “After a meeting today with the new owners, the age policy…

Vampire Weekend and Jacuzzi Boys – Fillmore Miami Beach

Vampire Weekend With Jacuzzi Boys Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Better Than: All of those other vampiric pop-culture creatures feasting on the blood of the millennial generation. A fat, crooked queue of teens and post-teens stretched from the Fillmore Miami Beach’s doorstep to 17th Street before veering around…

Vanilla Ice at New Times‘ Brew at the Zoo 2014

“Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery.” He spent his teens break-dancing on the streets of Dallas and busting moves in Miami malls. He snagged a string of motocross championships. He learned to beatbox and rhyme. And then he became the most famous rapping white boy in the world. He immortalized the…

Win Free Tickets for Of Montreal at Grand Central Miami

Don’t try to pin a tidy label on Of Montreal, baby. In fact, when we here at Crossfade chatted with crew leader Kevin Barnes as he prepared to unveil the band’s latest album, Lousy With Sylvianbriar, the puckish indie type toyed with us, insisting he “might call [it] Americana maybe”…