Are you still alive? Yes? Good. Because there are still six more days of partying. God help your liver.Today marks the official start of Miami Music Week (AKA Ultra Week), so that means big parties from here on out. Still, if you are looking for something a bit more underground,…
Corrosion of Conformity With Holly Hunt, Consular, and Shroud Eater Grand Central Monday, March 19, 2012 Louder Than: Volcanoes, stampedes, and a skirmish in the valleys of Afghanistan. Can someone please explain how Corrosion of Conformity ended up playing an only-show-in-Florida date at Grand Central on a Monday? We can’t…
Just one week removed from PepsiCo’s announcement that Lil Wayne would become the face of Mountain Dew, the multinational corporation’s love affair with Young Money talent just became a threesome. Forbes is reporting that Nicki Minaj has singed a “massive,” multimillion-dollar deal with Pepsi to become the face of a…
March is total mayhem for the Miami music fan. For a solid week, the world’s greatest DJs descend upon the city to make our clubs, hotels, and poolside bars their bitch. With over 300 parties, it’s nothing to drop hundreds before the workweek even ends. But it doesn’t have to…
When we mentioned SBTRKT (pronounced subtract) in our list of of ten most exciting acts at Ultra Music Festival, we were being dead serious. The British musician is often pigeonholed as post-dubstep. But in reality, he carefully navigates EDM genres, splicing disparate styles and influences like a human supercomputer. That…
With the dawn of Miami’s own late ’80s and early ’90s booty music contingent, hip-hop was evolving to the point of becoming an entirely new sonic construct. Explicated most famously (and crudely) by 2 Live Crew — and integral to Miami’s skimpily clothed beach-and-barbecue culture — the new guard had…
Legend has it that a dollop of peanut butter will turn a wolf into a monster. Similarly, a nominally priced monthly fee will turn you into a monster music collector, like Peanut Butter Wolf and his new digital music subscription. The San Jose, California native, who broke onto the hip-hop…
Is Paul Bearer Irish?”Fuck no. Not at all. Polish, Italian, and Spanish … New York mutt.” But that didn’t stop Sheer Terror’s lead singer and driving force from beating up on Churchill’s Pub like a Catholic does a Protestant on St. Paddy’s Day. The band brought out all the hits…
You were a little flat at the end of your performance of “Happy Birthday” there, Wolf ViolinistThe last few days, Village Voice Media’s indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we’ve been culling another list: the…
What day is it? Has anyone seen our “I’m in Miami, Bitch” tank? We remember taking it off to jump into the Shelborne pool on Friday, but it was gone four hours later after we got out and dried off. Mid-March in Miami feels like a seemingly never-ending bleep-boop bender…
Jazz in the Gardens 2012 With Mary J. Blige, Patti LaBelle, Sensere, Nicole Henry, Kevin Eubanks, and Kenny G Sun Life Stadium Sunday, March 18, 2012 Better Than:Kenny G doing a saxophone solo while writhing around in a bed of roses. Well, Mr. G was there. But a bed of…
Inside a New York state civil courtroom, a musical tale of “irreparable harm” continues to unfold as Lindsay Lohan refuses to drop a seemingly bogus lawsuit against Pitbull, Nee-Yo, and Afrojack, the result of her “Give Me Everything” overreaction. In LiLo’s eyes, “Hustlers move aside, so I’m tiptoein’, to keep…
Nick RalloJustin Townes Earle at Stubb’s BBQSo, we come to it: the end of all things. Four days of madness, Doritos, Skrillex and finally, St. Patrick’s Day. Before we bid SXSW 2012 farewell, allow us to share our favorite moments from SXSW day four. Later, we’ll let you know which…
After spending the past three days getting wasted and shaking ass all over SoBe, uhntz-uhntz-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Tikki Beach, and getting pruney in the Shelborne’s pool, you’re fucking pooped on partying. And like EDM quirkmeister Riva Starr’s mustachioed clubber baby, you’re whining, “Last night, I was drunk…
Marco Torres50 Cent and Eminem at the Austin Music Hall. More photos below.If you’re familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day…
Who is St. Patrick and why does he have his own day? We don’t know. But we’re pretty sure about the reason we can never remember it … All those pints of Guinness, shots of Jameson, and Bushmills on the rocks. If it weren’t for the corned beef and cabbage…
It’s Winter Music Conference. So for the last 24 hours, we here at Crossfade have been raving and raging with a gang of incurable beat freaks, hardcore partiers, Junior Boys, sun junkies, and Miami nightlife legends. But we’ve taken a 45-minute nap on the dance floor, slugged a Red Bull…
During WMC 2010, White Room (currently Eve) was the unofficial DJ VIP room. Except, it wasn’t really VIP. DJ and fans easily hung out side by side. It was the only place were the average partygoer could find him or herself talking with some of the best EDM and DJ…
Though the name Mykki Blanco is already a sort of nom de plume — we’re talking about a performative alter ego, after all — Ms. Blanco has another one, the Cosmic Angel. Think about that for a second: a supernatural creature from space, wielding protective powers and harmonious vocal chords…
It’s finally here! Winter Music Conference starts today. And while the big, splashy parties don’t really get going until next week, there are still plenty good reasons why you should start your electro rendezvous today.Word to wise, if you are heading to South Beach car pool or cab it, we’re…
Nick RalloOh nothing, just a guy in a wolf mask playing “Happy Birthday” on the violinIf you’re familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing…
Miami homeboy Danny Daze (AKA Daniel Gomez) blew up big time in 2011 thanks to a bass-heavy dancefloor bomb called “Your Everything” signed to Jamie Jones and Lee Foss’s Hot Creations label. Needless to say, the record made our cut for Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. And it put Danny’s…
