Wanna lead a blessed existence full of irie vibes? Simply abide these nine Rasta-approved rules of conduct and you shall bask in the radiant glory of the Zion Lion: (1) Grow that ganja; (2) Get dreaded; (3) Praise Jah; (4) Start an Ital diet; (5) Smoke that ganja; (6) Listen…
Flying Lotus isn’t like most acts you’ll encounter at Ultra Music Festival. The Los Angeles native, born Steven Ellison and known as “FlyLo” to his fans, doesn’t make dance music — at least not in the traditional sense. The acclaimed knob fiddler (Pitchfork named his Cosmogramma the 14th best album…
See the full 28-photo Radiohead at the American Airlines Arena slideshow.Radiohead American Airlines Arena Monday, February 27, 2012 Better Than: Doing whatever one does on Spotify, with Radiohead. Leading up to Radiohead’s kickoff concert for their first U.S. tour in four years, we explored a theory that Thom Yorke and…
Who’s got the funk? On Thursday, March 8, you’ll get a chance to find out as Poplife, Super Music Group, and Gotta Dance Dirty bring a two-room, eight-act electronic extravaganza to Grand Central in search of the perfect beat. Think of it as a little Winter Music Conference warm-up party…
Now that NBC’s decided to keep Community on the air, we’re encouraging Donald Glover to spend that network money on Drake’s 3,800-square-foot, $1.9 million “fuck pad” at “Downtown Miami’s newest, most elevated address,” Marquis Residences at 1100 Biscayne Boulevard. After all, homeboy spends a lot of time in the 305…
For a few years there, Made Event’s Sunday School made up a big slice of the underground house and techno pie during WMC week, especially with heavyweights like Richie Hawtin, Luciano and Seth Troxler aboard their whopping 36-hour marathon lineup. But alas, Sunday School is no more. The party went…
See Crossfade’s righteous, nine-part guide to Marley Fest 2012, AKA Nine Mile Music Festival. About 13 spliffs after writing about Stephen, Damian, and Julian Marley dropping out of the Nine Mile Music Festival, we here at Crossfade decided that this alleged cancellation wasn’t true. We became convinced it was all…
Since bursting onto the scene with “O Let’s Do It,” the Billboard Hot 100’s 62nd best song on April 3, 2010, Waka Flocka Flame has been going “hard in da muhfuckin'” record industry. At 25 years old, the Atlanta rapper has established himself as one of the hardest working artists…
Maritime travel has been uncharacteristically sketchy in 2012. First, the inaugural Holy Ship electro-cruise ran aground in the Bahamas on January 7. It took five tugboats nearly 15 hours to dislodge the MSC Poesia from land, putting a serious damper on Steve Aoki’s poker tournament. Less than a week after…
The cries and calls for a thriving local music scene in Miami are inescapable. Form a band, become a promoter, train as a sound engineer, and eventually the city’s natural roadblocks will squash your hopes of entertainment industry success like a cat making its way across I-95’s Express Lane. Last…
A few years ago, David Guetta was just another house music DJ who was huge in Europe and not nearly as well known here in the United States. Then came 2009, the year that the Parisian (one of France’s top DJs since at least the late ’80s) released his fourth…
Back in the summer of 2011, we here at Crossfade gave you a heads up about this pretty cool little weekly show on WDNA 88.9 FM radio and five major reasons you should tune in for it. Well, we sure hope you took our advice then, because the Sunday Coolout has…
See Crossfade’s righteous, nine-part guide to Marley Fest 2012, AKA Nine Mile Music Festival. Before you roll up and roll out to Virginia Key Beach Park next weekend for the Nine Mile Music Festival (which Miami has known as Marley Fest for as long as anyone can remember), be aware…
When speaking of French electronic dance music, the first name that comes to mind is David Guetta, right? Yeah, that’s if you get your EDM spoonfed by Top 40 radio, you square. Because the underground house and techno cognoscenti of the world have been moving to the beats from a…
Goddamn we’ve missed Seth Bogart. The flamboyantly forthcoming Hunx and His Punk frontman left us shirtless and begging for a trip to “Lover’s Lane” when he visited us in September 2011, feeling like extras in a John Waters flick and questioning the respective sizes of Jacuzzi Boys’ dicks following the…
Shit, man, it’s that in-between-paychecks-type Friday. Aside from the loose change scattered ’round the parking lot of your rental community, falling into a fat stack of cash this weekend is highly unlikely. Additionally, your dog needs corrective eye surgery and you’re three weeks late on a payment to your bookie…
Ultra Music Festival band Neon Indian just released an Adult Swim-directed video for new-ish single “Fallout” and it’s just as cartoonishly trippy as you’d imagine. Coming from the minds of the best primetime stoner entertainment on the market, this clip features an animated hottie with pink hair, giant boobs, and…
While popular electronic music has become synonymous with hugely inflated ticket prices, tables full of empty bottles, and mindlessly overproduced big-room bangers, Miami’s own Jonathan Cowan keeps the fire burning for the South Beach’s long-lost underground. For Winter Music Conference 2012, The Shelborne Hotel and Shine, alongside DJ Mag, will…
The last time Jacobs Ladder’s Sammy Gonzalez chatted with Crossfade, he was preaching the gospel of classical guitar. But these days, Gonzalez is grooving on his band’s ever-evolving “Miami Reggae Rock.” He and bandmates Oren Maisner and Brian Hernandez “are really into the sound and are gearing up to start…
When legendary Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti toured the US in the ’70s, he was blown away by the funk, soul, disco and other African-American music forms he heard here. So he took them with him back to Nigeria, threw them in the blender with some African dance highlife and traditional…
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll uhntz-uhntz uncontrollably. That’s right … We’re talking about Ultra Music Festival’s 45-minute concert documentary, Can U Feel It: The UMF Experience. With a cast of 200 uber-mega-superstar DJs, lazer-wielding robots, tattooed mice men, half-naked electro groupies, and 150,000 soother-sucking beat freaks, it’s guaranteed to induce…
Almost without question, Ultra Music Festival now dominates the American dance festival scene. But Los Angeles’ Hard may be the next big event brand to rise to the top. What started as a bunch of one-off West Coast events has become a traveling series of mini-fests for young and wild…
