Attention party animals! Sweden’s Miike Snow will be breaking it down at Ultra Music Festival, and you don’t wanna be caught slippin’. No, Miike Snow is not a man. It’s a group of electro-pop producers — Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, and Andrew Wyatt — that’s created some of the biggest…
What can the South Beach Food and Wine Festival offer inebriated beat freaks? Well, funneling tubs of butter at Paul Deen’s Sunday Brunch may be the best hangover cure after a weekend filled with deep house, tech-shit, and Dutch trance. The Food Network’s invading the sands of South Beach over…
Radiohead at American Airlines Arena February 24
Saw Doctors at Revolution Live February 23
Third World and Inner Circle’s Reggae Jam at the Adrienne Arsht Center February 24
Diana Ross at Hard Rock Live February 23
Moombahton Over Miami V at the Vagabond February 23
Doobie Brothers at Hard Rock Live February 24
Tommy Trash at Amnesia Miami February 24
Lenny Kravitz at the Fillmore Miami Beach February 25
The official start of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is less than a month away, and local venues are starting to reveal all the beat-wrapped goodies. One of the bigger juggernauts of the week, of course, is the Opium Group, which stands to dominate a good portion of…
Big ups to British siren Adele for keeping it seriously real at last night’s Brit Awards. The “Rolling In The Deep” singer was in the process of accepting the award for Album of the Year when, seconds into her speech, actor and Brit presenter James Corden interrupted her to introduce…
David Guetta might have changed the entire sound of commercial pop and Deadmau5 may have gotten legions of clubbers to don faux rodent heads. But there’s no question that over the past year, the hottest name in electronic dance music is Skrillex, born Sonny Moore. The polarizing artist has been…
Happy Ash Wednesday, y’all! Christians are just 46 days away from the celebration of their 1,979th Easter, commemorating the day when Jesus Christ allegedly resurrected from the dead and escaped his post-crucifixion resting place. The countdown begins ceremoniously with the imposition of ashes on the forehead and a vow to…
The United States of America is totally addicted to the white stuff. Strung out, fat, unfocused, cranky, fiending — we are a nation of shrubby slaves to the cane, cube, and spoonful whose bodies (and minds) could never be called beach-ready. But there’s a cure for our sucrose-, lactose-, and…
UPDATE Originally scheduled for February 29, Guns ‘N Roses has changed the date of its Miami concert to March 5. Break out your sweatiest bandana and stankiest pair of ripped jeans … It’s time to get “intimate” with Guns N’ Roses again. Just three and half months ago, the Axl…
Can you handle The Whole Love? ‘Cause Wilco’s ready to give it to you. Earlier today via wilcoworld.net, the Chicago alt-country crew announced its intention to lay the “Art of Almost” and “Standing O” on six cities across the Southeast U.S., including stops in states like Arkansas, Alabama, Mississipi, Florida,…
Rihanna celebrated her 24th birthday yesterday by dropping “Birthday Cake (Remix),” a sadomasochistic collaboration with abusive ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. At just under four minutes long, “Birthday Cake (Remix)” is an uncomfortable trek into the former lovers’ highly volatile and incredibly kinky personal lives. We learn that Chris Brown “wants to…
Read Crossfade’s full feature on this Friday’s Reggae Jam with Third World and Inner Circle. Indeed, those righteous riddims are the cure. As legendary Jamaican reggae crew Third World has been preaching for decades: “It’s time for the world to/Try Jah love/The only love that can bring peace is/Jah, Jah…
Hank III may be satan’s favorite grandson. His daddy was a cactus, his momma was a bear trap, and he was born with his boots on in a river full of moonshine. At age 11, he ripped out his own throat and cooked it over a forest fire. The next…
Jesus loves electronic dance music. The bearded one with the ripped abs totally answered our prayer to have just one more day with Swedish House Mafia at the Masquerade Motel. A second day — Saturday, March 24 — has been announced. At 10 a.m. today, tickets for Day Two of…
Though obviously rooted in the beat matching and live mixing of the disc jockey, the mash-up, as we know it today, is a distinctly 2000s phenomenon that revealed itself at the very beginning of the decade. The modern blueprint for expertly splicing together two songs (often from sources so disparate…
