“I’ve been living on such sweet nothing,” you lament. “But I’m trying to hope with nothing to hold.” Oh, it’s true … Tickets are all sold out for Calvin Harris at Story on South Beach tomorrow night. And yet you needn’t despair. Because Story Nightclub and Crossfade have got two…
Of Montreal just finished its new album. Frontman and creative nerve-center Kevin Barnes tells Crossfade that he wrote the whole thing in about three weeks on his first-ever, self-imposed “writer’s retreat” in San Francisco. After that, he returned to his Athens, Georgia, home and recorded it with his band in…
Alice in Chains at the Fillmore April 25
Poet e.e. cummings said, “To destroy is always the first step in any creation.” For Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, destruction and creation are a way of life. “A good artist is willing to die many times over,” Corgan says. “What’s funny is, I’ve died so many times.” The lead…
Peter Murphy Performs the Music of Bauhaus at Grand Central April 30
The Electric Pickle lives. After a whole month of Pickle parties were moved to other downtown clubs in the wake of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week (and some code compliance issues), regulars and casual clubbers alike started speculating about the Midtown party spot’s closure or relocation. But when…
Oh, what have we done to deserve this? In just two short months, iconoclastic synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys (otherwise known as Mr. Neil Tennant and Mr. Chris Lowe) will be unveiling their 12th studio album, Electric. And then they’ll be venturing across our continent for the “Pet Shop Boys’…
Back in December, we here at Crossfade had a chat with Ben UFO about his Hessle Audio label’s roots in the U.K.’s early underground dubstep scene. Well, David Kennedy (AKA Pearson Sound and Ramadanman) is another Hessle cofounder, not to mention the label’s foremost producer. And he boasts a forward-thinking…
If all y’all follow Bad Girl RiRi on Instagram, you already know she loves the weed, the green, and the big booties. So it’s no surprise that Rihanna got down with the Magic City’s finest smoke, cash money, and fat asses after her 4/20 show in SoFla. Just check the…
The panic alarm had sounded. It was time to save the Fillmore Miami Beach. “In case you haven’t heard, here’s the situation,” Sweat Records’ Lauren “Lolo” Reskin warned local music fans in a call to action earlier this month. “Two companies have proposals on the table to completely renovate the…
Tuesday morning around 9:35 a.m., Wilbrent Bain Jr., the brother of local rap legend Trina (born Katrina Laverne Taylor), was shot and killed in Northwest Miami-Dade near 91st Street after a dispute with a friend devolved into gunshots. His street name was “Goonkie.” He’d survived another shooting in 2008. And…
Oh, Radio broke your heart. Today, everyone’s favorite “bi-polar pop band from Hialeah” announced that “the time is right to end our beloved project.” After four years and two albums, this New Times reader’s pick for Best Band of 2009 is calling it quits. And the only consolation: “We do…
My band, Juke, was invited to play our first Wanee Festival last year, up at the Spirit of Swanee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. We played the opening night’s festivities, rocked out, and suffered from a bit of culture shock. This 500-plus-acre park just outside Georgia is in the…
South Floridians owe beat freaks and frat boys a drink. Fueled almost entirely by Red Bull, Molly, and (presumably) a little bit of cocaine, sunburned college students from the Midwest, foreign ravers, and Ultra Music Festival organizers rallied to resurrect South Florida’s economy in March. See also: -Ten Richest DJs:…
Monday has just come and gone. But there are plenty of great ways to pretend it’s the weekend, starting as soon as tonight! Tons of great musical acts are laying down the grooves Tuesday through Saturday. A lot of great local talent will be showing off their stuff, and a…
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. But did you know it was Satan who buried “67-million-year-old giant fossilized lizard bones” all over this spinning rock, just to trick gullible humans into believing that our planet isn’t 6,000 years old and Our Father is a sham? Yes,…
He’s one of only a handful of men who can casually ask a woman to “suck a nigga’s dick or something” without sounding like much of a chauvinist. “Bad bitches… [give] him head like lice” on a regular basis, and he’s “been rich since the ’90s.” But Juicy J’s success…
How did Dick Dale (AKA the Grandaddy of Shred) finally stop setting speakers on fire? “With the output transformers that Leo Fender and I built together,” the 75-year-old King of Surf Guitar explained to Crossfade, “and the 15-inch D130 speakers. “Back then, the transformers were 10, 12, and 15 watts…
It wouldn’t be Sweatstock without some good old-fashioned Miami freakiness. Maybe in Canada the music festivals end with handshakes and strangers gently complimenting each other on their felt hats. But this is Miami, where nothing’s over until it has weird, probably videotaped sex with you. And Sweatstock 2013 was no…
Native American Headdresses These have still not gone away. In fact, one particularly irritating woman (not pictured) wore a towering feather mohawk weave, a sartorial statement that combined racism with rave gaudiness. On Friday, she pushed her way in front of us, obstructing our and everyone else’s view of the…
Sweatstock is for lovers. Lovers of independent music and record stores, yes. But also lovers of drunken groping before the sun has fully gone down. A good chunk of the attendees of Sweatstock 2030 were conceived indoors (and out) this weekend, spurred on by a hurricane season clothing-optional dress code,…
The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella’s art installations — the ones designed to impress you while you’re high, aka all of them — were particularly impressive this year. There was the tesla coil, the crane that was formerly a flower but now a praying mantis, the giant…
