Whether you’re dropping mad bills on contemporary art at such-and-such satellite festival or stalking celebrity art collectors at the Miami Beach Convention Center, there’s one thing about Basel week that everyone can agree on: It’s all about the afterparty. Case in point: The Electric Pickle. Next week, the N. Miami…
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. Just like the rest of the beat-freaking world, we here at Crossfade are rabidly anticipating Ultra Music Festival’s imminent lineup announcement. Two weeks ago, we received…
Last night, (((SHAKE))) at the Vagabond’s Rockers vs. Bros party featured live punk rock from The Getback, Otto Von Schirach’s journeys into bass, and Aholsniffsglue painting the outside of the club, roof to floor, before Art Basel hits town. The band had a clean live mix. There was tremendo subwoofing…
We here at Crossfade were so stoked about “summon[ing] the righteousness of reggae and Jah’s blessedness” (and, uh, toking on that ganja) at tomorrow’s second annual Bayside Rocks Festival. But sadly, Bayfront Park’s front offices have just contacted us to confirm that the 2011 editon of Bayside Rocks is officially…
On the night of Thursday, December 1, 2011, a waxing crescent moon will be hanging, dead and icy, in a jet-black winter sky as the souls of a thousand damned witches scream for mercy while being burned at the stake inside an abandoned house totally consumed by fire. And it’s…
Straight from the horse’s mouth: MTV2 is bringing back beloved old-school MTV hip-hop showcase Yo! MTV Raps for a special thirty-minute retrospective to be aired after the first-ever Sucker Free Awards. We’re a little disappointed that after almost two decades of no Yo! and an ever-shriveling focus on, uh, music…
UK DJ-producer Laura Jones will be making her Miami debut this Saturday. But in a way, it’s actually a homecoming. That’s because DJs like Matt Tolfrey (who would later sign her to his hotly tipped Leftroom imprint) introduced Jones to the world by dropping her tracks all over town during…
Did y’all realize it’s mid November already? We were so caught up in Basel music news and Justin Bieber paternity gossip that we damn near forgot it’s the weekend before Thanksgiving. And you know what that means, right? Historically, the weekend leading up to Thanksgiving marks the unofficial start of…
For the last 68 days, local rock messiahs Jacuzzi Boys have been Glazin’ across nation, delivering the good word to 35 bastions of unfettered heathenism from New Orleans to Austin, Detroit, Brooklyn, Nashville, and beyond. But now, having converted a sufficient number of America’s children to the gospel of surfy…
Maybe you didn’t know, but master Miami beatmaker Otto Von Schirach is a great friend of gallerist Brook Dorsch. “I remember meeting Brook. It was love at first sight!” Otto beams. Dorsch is a lover of fantastic art, experimental music, and fun. So when one of Wynwood’s awesomest art spots,…
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. Our sources have confirmed that next year’s three-day Ultra Music Festival will be taking place at Bayfront Park, the home of the festival before it moved…
As we pointed out yesterday, 210 people on Facebook absolutely abhor DJ Khaled. But that’s only a fraction of the haters who think Kanye West is a “complete wanker” and that Jay-Z “is a disgrace to the music business.” Facebook is littered with groups dedicated to bashing all kind of…
Two months ago, erudite Englishman, ex-punk, and eyewear enthusiast Elvis Costello was forced to postpone his globe-spanning Spectacular Spinning Songbook tour, including a South Florida show, “due to matters pertaining to the very serious illness of a close family member.” At the time, Costello’s camp was secretive about the identity…
The Black Eyed Peas’ final concert of 2011 next week at Sun Life Stadium promises to be a full-blown pop spectacle. Promoters are hyping it as “the biggest party in South Florida” and promise “an all-star cast of friends,” including Sean Kington and Flo Rida. But perhaps the gnarliest guest…
Fuck the bullshit, punk ain’t dead. We might be broke, but Miami goes harder on a weekday than any other city in the world. “The cost of living is goin’ up and the money comin’ in is goin’ down. The bills comin’ in are more than the money comin’ in,”…
Rock ‘n’ roll makes ordinary men and women immortal. Almost. They’re regular people who were born unfamous and will someday die, just like us. But because they’re awesome at playing the guitar or howling into a mike (you know, rocking), they become the center of attention for millions of idolatrous…
On October 14, the Bawse boarded a plane for Memphis where he was scheduled to spit some hits for college b-ball fans and then go bless a brand-new Wing Stop chicken spot. Shortly after takeoff, though, Mr. Rozay suffered a seizure that caused the aircraft to make an emergency landing…
Almost exactly one year ago, Ultra Music Festival and Winter Music Conference suffered a “deeply complicated and very public breakup” after 13 years of peaceful, symbiotic coexistence. A few months later, just before Ultra 2011, we asked the fest’s cofounder and CEO Russell Faibisch whether “there [is] a possibility we…
Black Eyed Peas at Sun Life Stadium November 23
Bayside Rocks reggae festival at Bayfront Park November 19
The festival has been canceled. Check our music blog, Crossfade, for the update.
Roofless Records’ Cinema Sounds IX at O Cinema November 23
Compact discs and four other favorite obsolete music formats
