As that big, burning ball in the sky (you know, the sun, man) completes its crazy circular trip throughout the zodiac along the eliptic (that’s, like, a “year” in square speak), we here at Crossfade are prepping Major Mushroom’s Interstellar Psychedelic Love Bus (our hand-painted 1966 Volkswagen Kombi) for another…
Virtuoso is a word that immediately comes to mind to describe Ben Westbeech. Singer, producer, DJ, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist — he’s even mastered the über-classy cello. And the breadth of Westbeech’s creativity is not limited to his solo work. He’s also a prolific collaborator whose 2011 long player There’s More To…
UPDATE Check out the lineup, date, and location for Ultra Music Festival’s launch of its Ultra Live concert series. Less than two weeks after announcing its Phase One lineup (Avicii! Tiësto! David Guetta! Kraftwerk! New Order! Skrillex! 86 others!), Ultra Music Festival 2012 was already shouting about being “90% Sold…
God is nonexistent. Need proof? Nickelback is headed our way. With great displeasure, Crossfade regrets to announce that Alberta, Canada “rock” band Nickelback will soon embark on their Here and Now arena tour, a 39-city trek across the United States and Canada. On Saturday, May 5, the Chad Kroeger-lead bunch…
Art sucks. Get drunk. Music sucks. Dance harder. The lights are too bright. Turn them all off and let the bass drown your body till your heart rattles in your ribcage. Throw your phone against the ground, quit paying your internet bill, never trust a wireless modem, and check out…
Is 21-year-old Nika Roza Danilova (AKA operatically trained goth-pop diva Zola Jesus) more than just a needle in 2012’s vast haystack of gloomy synth music? Film director, transcendental meditation evangelist, and total pie guy David Lynch certainly thinks so. In fact, Lynch enjoys ZJ’s digital death rock spin on Kate…
It’s the first long weekend of the year, a three-day celebration of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King would’ve been 83 years old if he hadn’t been gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee, by James Earl Ray, an evil son-of-a-bitch who hated social justice and equality. Thankfully, however,…
Granted … Lil Wayne ain’t no Nelson Mandela. He only spent 11 months in prison (not, you know, 27 years) after getting busted on his tour bus for “attempted possession of a weapon” (not, you know, attempting to free the people of South Africa from the horrors of Apartheid), but…
Planning to attend the Metal Cruise of Heaviness Pre-Apocalyptic Party? Well, it has already been anecdotally established that there’s a shit-load of medical dangers associated with habitual headbanging, e.g. massive migraine, unholy whiplash, brutal back spasms, slurred speech, and brain bleeds, not to mention chronic fucking gnarliness. But just to…
On Tuesday, mansionmiami.com read: “MANSION IS CLOSED.” Fans freaked out (“WTF? So pissed”) and South Beach haters rejoiced (“Finally!!! That club was garbage”) while others just shrugged. But we here at Crossfade suspected that the Opium Group nightclub was simply pulling a practical joke on the clubbing public, shuttering temporarily…
Miami, meet tINI. Who is she? Only one of the transtlantic tech-house scene’s most accomplished female DJ-producers. It helps that she’s a card-carrying member of Loco Dice’s beloved Desolat family, which means regular headlining slots at EDM hostpots from her native Berlin to Ibiza. Then there’s the matter of her…
The threat of 50-degree weather this weekend has Miami in a freezing frenzy. Folks are worried Target’s going to run out of space heaters and flannel jammy pants. Winn-Dixie’s low on hot chocolate, Home Depot’s out of fire wood, and PetSmart doggie parkas are on back order. The end is…
How do we here at Crossfade typically spend our Saturday nights? Drunk and half-naked at the club, scamming complimentary booze coupons, shaking our fat asses to neo-freestyle, and shouting stupid stuff like, “No panties on the dance floor!,” while holding our nose and fake puking. The point: Our Broward-Palm Beach…
Just 13 days ago, Ice Cream’s Thomas Kennedy, Justin Anthony Rivers, Roy Neil Hunter, Joel Gutman, and Alex Lashley dumped us like an old girlfriend with herpes, released their new album Good (which is “really good”), and announced plans to flee Miami for New York City. But before Thomas, Justin,…
Last night, Washington D.C. straight-edge stompers Coke Bust ripped open Churchill’s Pub like a moody Norse God leveling some mountains out of ennui. And really, would you have expected any less with a band name like Coke Bust? Straight edge is usually pretty serious business. So while not entirely the…
Afrobeta’s Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio on their upcoming EP
Sebadoh at Grand Central January 18
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band at BankAtlantic Center January 12
Cop City/Chill Pillars at Churchill’s Pub January 13
Workshop Collective’s Pop Up Record Store at Workshop Collective January 14
Black Violin at South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center January 15
Dana Schutz’s Miami Playlist Party at the Standard Spa January 15
