J. Nics’s SNAS: The Product Free Download, Plus Release Party at Bardot Tonight

See Crossfade’s interview: “J. Nics on Miami Rap, The Tribute, and The Product: ‘Southern Niggas Ain’t Slow.'” It’s always great to see a hard-working local artist’s hustle blossom into much-deserved national attention, and that’s definitely what’s happening right now with rapper J. Nics. The Miami Gardens-raised MC adds another notch…

The Worst of Coachella 2012

See LA Weekly’s complete Coachella coverage — the top moments from Friday, April 20, four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips’ Biggie Smalls “hologram, and the five best things from Sunday, April 22. It couldn’t all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasant weather at Coachella 2012…

Sweatstock 2012: Deaf Poets, Pool Party, Krisp, and Afrobeta

See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. Simply put, Deaf Poets won Sweatstock 2012. There was crowd chatter before the show about how well the band’s two-person brand of rough, throat-shredding garage rock would translate to an outdoor stage. And it took a couple of songs for Deaf Poets…

Glee‘s Five Worst Covers … So Far

Glee has managed to piss off yet another singer. After the show’s recent cover of “Somebody That I Used to Know,” breakout artist Gotye expressed his frustration with the cast’s rendition of his song. “They did such a faithful arrangement of the instrumentals, but the vocals were that pop Glee…

Sweatstock 2012: Haochi Waves, Kazoots, and Plains

See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. Just before Haochi Waves began their set, drummer and vocalist Juan Fernando Oña popped his head into the Churchill’s Pub patio bar to announce that his band was about to start playing. This crew is a modified version of its three members’…

Sweatstock 2012: Jesse Jackson, Arboles Libres, and The State Of

See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. If there’s a Miami musician who’s best suited to accompany early afternoon drinking on a rainy day, it’s Jesse Jackson. Driven inside Churchill’s Pub by the rain, Miami’s favorite melancholy scruffster played a set pulled from his approximately nine billion songs, accompanied…