Stalley falls somewhere between the consciousness-oriented backpack rap of the late ’90s and the hardcore-hustler-turned-decadent-don narratives of contemporary hip-hop. Though those two approaches may seem to come from completely separate ends of the MC spectrum, the Massilon, Ohio rapper has managed to consistently invoke both the soft-spoken, positive hip-hop of…
What is potentially the absolute last headline we’d gamble on reading just popped into our inbox. “GRAMMY WINNER BON IVER @ THE FILLMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Yes, that’s 47 exclamation points preceded by what may be the best news we’ve heard this month. Granted, we’re only two days deep into April, but a…
Hellish hiss and skull-splitting feedback explodes into a swirlingly atonal shit-cloud of expertly terrible guitar noise, erratic yet superprecise drum strikes, droning bass, garbled shrieks, and totally indecipherable lyrical chatter. That’s the sound of Scraping Teeth. And it’s the fucking worst. No, really. Almost 20 years ago, Spin Magazine launched…
Eyehategod’s first song at Churchill’s opened a portal to hell. The whole club was transported to a world of fire and brimstone, demons and evil. And you thought the bathrooms were bad before. For an hour-and-a-half, the New Orleans sludge combo kept Miami so far underground, we actually saw the…
Is the proof in the proverbial Canadian pudding, the Juno Awards, Canada’s equivalent to the Grammy’s, that Drake is mad soft? Last night, while we watched Taylor Swift walk away with another Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was…
Matthew Weiner’s commitment to authenticity is second to none. His Mad Men series is a televised portal back in time, a weekly peek into 1960s Manhattan, the advertising industry, and all it entails–booze, cigarettes, depression, submissive wives, etc. But the 1960s were also a time of celebrity-endorsed breakfast cereals, and…
The Roots Adrienne Arsht Center Saturday, March 31, 2012 Better Than: Just about anything else that was going on in Miami on Saturday night. It was certainly the finest tuba anywhere in Miami Saturday night. Aside from for Questlove’s drums, Damon “Tuba Gooding Jr.” Bryson’s cheeks expanded to fill the…
Sure, Tiësto and Swedish House Mafia party on private planes, flooding fuselages with champagne on their epic 36,000-mile-high ravers. And yeah, rappers like Lil Wayne and Rick Ross make it rain millions at King of Diamonds, unleashing cash-money thunderstorms on big-booty girls like Tip Drill and Skrawberry. But Andrew Fetterly…
Snow Patrol With Ed Sheeran Friday, March 30, 2011 Fillmore Miami Beach Better Than: Crying alone to that same Snow Patrol song for the billionth time. Slapping the hands of his rapturous audience, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody was nearly pulled from the stage mid-verse. As he stumbled to regain…
Madonna’s now-infamous Ultra appearance continues to weigh heavy on the electronic dance music community, ruffling more feathers than an Ecstasy-induced seizure. The latest EDM heavyweight to weigh-in on Madge’s “How many people in this crowd have seen Molly?” question, Paul van Dyk. “Madonna was so stupid to actually call out…
The whole process of elections (from PTA to POTUS) is savage, cut-throat, and — when we’re lucky — incredibly stupid. They will shake the hands of thousands of strangers. They will gorge themselves on local cuisine. They will kiss the stinkiest baby. If votes depended on it, a politician would…
Remember when we bragged about how our NCAA bracket was a lock? Yeah, we may have jinxed ourselves. Both Michigan State and Florida State are out; we had them playing each other in the finals. Now Kentucky and Kansas need to lose just so we can finish in third place…
What happens when you introduce a Cuban basketball star to weed, percussion, and the Marley family?You get Johnny Dread, a rasta music ambassador since 1987 when he started playing drums in the band Copacetic with lead singer Julian Marley. Their album “Ghetto Rock” hit number-seven spot on Billboard’s reggae charts…
Remember when the Red Hot Chili Peppers would run around with socks precariously covering their penises? That signature on-stage antic resonated so much with the alternative rock audience — and eventually wider popular culture — because it was the closest the Peps had ever come to expressing their true essence…
[jump] Subb-an and Russ Yallop. Friday, March 30. Electric Pickle, 2826 N. Miami Ave., Miami. 10 p.m. Call 305-456-5613 or visit electricpicklemiami.com. With his delectably deep bass-heavy bombs on labels like Crosstown Rebels and his own One Records, UK tech-house sensation Subb-an has been destroying international dancefloors all year. Meanwhile, Russ…
No joke … Miami Heat superstars LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh got together to play a little jazz in honor of Bosh’s 28th birthday. According to TMZ, it all went down at the Adrienne Arsht Center at a high-profile party that included Heat don Pat Riley and producer…
Not always a virtual land of quirky viral videos, blooper reels, cute puppies, and adorable kittens, YouTube is often a forum for hate, a safe haven for bigotry. In the wake of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s unjustifiable death, YouTube has become an outlet for angry folks to spew hatred. Florida City’s…
Gareth Campesinos isn’t stupid. The 26-year-old frontman of Welsh indie outfit Los Campesinos! realizes that you’re illegally downloading music and there’s not a whole lot he can do about it. However, “there comes a time when people have to accept if they’re going to illegally download music,” Campesinos tells Pitchfork,…
The members of New Orleans sludge metal band Eyehategod don’t worship Satan. They don’t kill virgins, hang them upside down over a tub, and wash themselves in blood. They don’t dance inside circles of fire during full moons at midnight. They don’t castrate babies, put hamsters in blenders, or microwave…
A week’s worth of panic attacks, insomnia, depression, and paranoid delusions, no we’re not having showing signs of ecstasy withdrawal. We’re on team Deadmau5 and we’re showing signs of EDM withdrawal. It’s been four days since WMC wrapped, pulling the digital needle off the MP3 record player and silencing indie-electro…
See 305 Fest’s full lineup and set times — plus Crossfade’s interviews with Speedfreak Presents, Merchandise, Torche, Noothgrush, and Dropdead. Local promotion outfit Speedfreek Presents has been on a serious mean streak lately, delivering a steady stream of otherwise unbooked concerts featuring all manner of brutality from the national hardcore,…
Red Hot Chili Peppers at BankAtlantic Center April 2
