Halloween may be next week, but in Miami, we like to get the drunken shenanigans and celebratory bashes started early. So bring out your skimpy French maid outfits and Trojan Magnum costumes and hit up the streets of SoBe for some boozy treats and beats. Here are the six best…
Prez P’s room at the W Hotel in Buckhead, Atlanta, is a complete mess. Pillows, blankets, clothing, and bags are tossed on the floor. A pair of jeans is hung over a misplaced microwave. Magazines, water bottles, ketchup and mustard, an empty bag of Skittles, a Perry Ellis Aqua and…
“Dress up and come party with us!” That’s an excited invitation from Win Butler, Arcade Fire, and a weird bunny rabbit to this week’s Reflektor concerts in Miami. Of course, you (probably) don’t have tickets. And that means you’re screwed harder than a cottontail at the peak of mating season…
As a certain world-class party boy might ask: “Where U Been?” For the last two weeks, Life in Color, AKA “The World’s Biggest Paint Party!,” has been teasing beat freaks and goop junkies with a sloooooow reveal of the 15-act lineup for its first-ever festival at Sun Life Stadium in…
Basslights 2.0, Day One With Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, Panty Raid, and SuperVision Kliptsch Ampitheater at Bayfront Park Friday, October 18, 2013 Better Than: Pretty Lights without full live percussion, a horn section, and keys, duh. Walking south on Biscayne Boulevard toward thumping bass and flashing lights at Bayfront Park was…
Mondays always get in the way of the weekend, but if you live in the Magic City, the first day of the work week always brings a new set of concerts to check out. And if you were one of the lucky ones who snagged a pair of tickets to…
Want to raise hell for Halloween? Negative Approach and the Casualties are coming to Churchill’s Pub with their Destruction Campaign Tour: Coming to Ruin Your Town. These are two bands that have inspired more wild, reckless rockin’ than Johnny Cash shooting crank with Elvis at a Motörhead show. We here…
R. Kelly James L. Knight Center, Miami Thursday, October 17, 2013 Hotter Than: “Sex in the Kitchen” … Uh huh. A night with Robert Sylvester Kelly is just as sexy as we’d always fantasized. But it was also weird, hilarious, filthy, absurd, and heartfelt. As Kells told Crossfade when he…
Beat freaks and goop junkies! Last week, Life in Color, “the World’s Biggest Paint Party,” revealed that Calvin Harris will be the star of its self-described “first-ever festival” at Sun Life Stadium on December 27. Obviously, though, if it’s gonna be a full-on fest, we’re gonna need more than one…
Pretty Lights is launching his new live show in Miami, as part of this weekend’s two-night Basslights stand, featuring the kind of set that has never before been attempted in the history of live music production. The Colorado buddha head will be bringing, along with his five-piece band, an analog…
Have you ever been to a party that went so HAM, the hosts got effing evicted? We have, but it wasn’t just any damn Wynwood loft party. It was a beat-freaking Boiler Room, the locals-only III Points edition that went down after James Murphy’s Point Blank set. After a week…
Spanish producer Henry Saiz first came to international prominence at the tail-end of the 2000s via releases on John Digweed’s Bedrock Records, the global touchstone for progressive house. And Saiz would also go on to mix the 2011 installment of Balance, the prestigious mix series known for its prog house…
Stop what you’re doing and throw your papers in the air: It’s Friday, and you’re gonna party! Before you start making plans on weekend shenanigans that’ll leave you scavenging for food till your next paycheck, take a moment to realize that you can immerse yourself in local music and boozy…
For all the jerks who scoffed: “Why the fuck would Arcade Fire choose Miami of all places for semi-secret, ultra-exclusive shows to promote its awesome new record, Reflektor?” … We here at Crossfade offer a three-part answer. 1. Our city is home to almost a quarter-million Ayitiens. And Arcade Fire’s…
Laidback Luke is an international EDM superstar. And yes, he’s also a world champion kung-fu fighter. But even famous DJs and (almost) master martial artists can’t avoid from the same kind of worries that plague average folk like us. Just check the cut for Luke’s take on learning your electronic…
As we at New Times often gush: “Austin Mahone is a teenage dreamboat.” But even teen idols get sick. And sadly for millions of Mahomies, the 17-year-old Cash Money-signed cutie has come down with a bug that’s forced him to cancel both his Miami and Orlando concerts his entire 2013…
The Basslights minifestival is a two-night downtown throwdown by EDM speaker-knockers Bassnectar and Pretty Lights. These Friday and Saturday shows at Klipsch Amphitheater will also feature Koan Sound from Australia and the Fools Gold electronic dance rap of Run the Jewels’ El-P and Killer Mike. Bassnectar is currently rushing down…
After four years, it’s time for Basel Castle to expand its kingdom. So in a battle worthy of Games of Thrones, Miami-Los Angeles collective the Overthrow has annexed the lands southern lands known as Grand Central Park for its fourth annual Basel Castle. Since it’s inception, it was held in…
Draco Rosa is sitting in a cafe, just a few blocks down the road from his L.A. studio, Phantom Vox. “I’m sorry I’m being so rude, but I’m eating this delicious gluten-free cookie. It’s so good. I wish I could give you half,” the ex-Menudo heartthrob laughs. Having been in…
Austin Mahone is a teenage dreamboat. The perfectly adorable 17-year-old pop sensation went from YouTube cutie to VMA winner in almost record time. Signed to Cash Money Records, he was voted 2013’s Artist to Watch by MTV and named the new Justin Bieber by everyone else. Mahone and his mom…
Your great-grandma thinks DJs work at radio stations. The rest of the world believes that disc jockeys have replaced rock stars, living to rule the pop charts, make multi-millions, and play the biggest festival stages on Earth. Oddly enough, neither great-grams, nor the rest of the world is entirely wrong…
When alligators want to fuck or fight, they roar. Females initiate the call, males follow, and they sometimes gang up by the thousands to throw tones so deep that the entire Everglades shakes. Some of these extreme rumbles occur at the level of infrasound, low-frequency oscillations that you feel more…
