Listen to all 10 tracks off Glazin’, out August 30, at spin.com. Want three really good reasons you shouldn’t miss Jacuzzi Boys’s Glazin’ album release bash at Churchill’s Pub this Saturday? OK, (1) There will be wine and whiskey; (2) You’ll get to party with a band Crossfade likes to…
Update: Identity’s organizers have release another statement saying tickets for Miami’s canceled/postponed Identity stop will be honored at tomorrow’s show in Tampa. Road trip! (Full statement after the jump.)Dammit, Hurricane Irene!Despite NOAA’s prediction that the storm will skirt the state and stay well to the east, Identity Festival’s organizers aren’t…
There are plenty of foolish admirers — still under the spell of 2009’s hypnotic art-pop album Lungs — who wouldn’t mind sacrificing themselves to the sea for Florence Welch. The red-headed siren has got that ethereal yet dangerous thing going on. And her new track “What the Water Gave Me”…
Just days after brilliant and troubled singer Amy Winehouse tragically joined the Dead at 27 Club on July 23, Fox News reported, “Amy Winehouse spent the last week of her short and troubled life in an alcoholic, drug-fueled fog.” Then, classy as always, called her a train wreck. Well, Fox,…
Wanna get ripped like a juggalo? Meet the Ice Man at Seminole Casino’s free Labor Day concert September 3. Vanilla Ice is one chill dude. He not only sang “Ice, Ice Baby.” He also found a way to adapt it to nu-metal! Just imagine the stoner youth of America never…
It is officially time to Check Yo’ Ponytail. Yesterday, the L.A. party collective — Iheartcomix’s Franki Chan, Media Contender’s Danny Johnson, and Zane Landreth — announced that it’ll be dragging its monthly Echoplex open-genre explosion across the country on a 10-city road trip up the West Coast, over to Chi-Town…
Proper rock band etiquette dictates: Thou must rock hard, do drugs, and have crazy tour stories. After Crossfade last spoke with Joshua Xmas, lead singer and guitarist of Dyslexic Postcards, he and his band embarked on the Might As Well Get It On Tour in support of their first EP,…
After the good boys and girls sang hymns on Sunday mornings, the rest of us gathered at Groove Jet Sunday nights for a more entertaining musical experience at The Church. You might have heard the words, “Your pain is my pleasure,” whispered into your ear as you floated through the…
After the news of Lindsay Lohan’s lame-ass lawsuit against Pitbull leaked across the interweb late last week, it didn’t take too long for Mr. Worldwide to respond. No, he didn’t talk shit via Twitter. He didn’t toss off an expletive-filled Facebook rant. And he didn’t organize a mass album burning…
For the last five months, the local 305 division of the Trece army has been stuck on high alert, awaiting the arrival of its commander-in-chief René Pérez Joglar, AKA Residente, and sergeant-at-arms Eduardo José Cabra Martínez, AKA Visitante. It all started on April 7 when Crossfade relayed a Calle 13…
If you’re a drum ‘n’ bass head, then we probably don’t need to tell you about Andy C. But in all fairness, this is South Florida and not the working-class boroughs of London, so here’s the lowdown.Andrew “The Executioner” Clarke is basically one of the demigods of international D&B. Schooled…
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — or more simply, O.M.D. — is Exhibit A in New Wave’s final evolutionary leap toward synth-pop. While many people had only just heard the Sex Pistols two years before O.M.D. released its first single, “Electricity,” the song — and the band, really — were…
Suge Knight, the notorious, oft-incarcerated former Death Row Records kingpin, has joined the long list of rappers getting arrested for totally wimpy, non-gangsta offenses. His crime and punishment: Driving with a suspended license and 36 months of probation. In 2008 and 2009, Knight was involved in some legit club scuffles…
Finnegan’s River is honoring Labor Day, our federally granted 24 hours of rest, with a music festival guaranteed to distract you from any lingering work preoccupations and chill you the hell out. The three-day fest is beefed up with killer representation of the best pop, reggae, hip-hop, and Latin fusion…
TMZ is reporting that Birdman’s baby, Weezy “F”, is being sued by rapper Rich Rick over the beat to Wayne’s recent ex-lax-smooth single “How To Love.” The beat was part of a recording suite cooked up by rap production team Drummer Boyz, and spanning instrumentals written from 2006 to 2009…
See the full 24-photo Summer of Weirds II slideshow. Summer of Weirds II Churchill’s Pub Friday, August 19, 2011 Every single piece of press about Summer of Weirds II at Churchill’s Pub, including the feature story published by New Times, opened with a mention of the festival’s incredibly rabid Facebook…
Go RSVP for the Crossfade Music Series via Facebook and invite all your homies and hoochies. Whatever the haters may say, we here at Crossfade aren’t just a gang of mindless party people. We are also pop philosophers. And lately, we’ve been asking ourselves some pretty deep questions, like, “What…
No two names are more Miami than Gloria Estefan and Otto Von Schirach. So when we heard that the king of Miami’s electronic underground and the international queen of the Miami sound got together on a track, we were seriously shocked. On paper (or sound systems), it doesn’t seem to…
Now that she’s all grown up and unemployed, former teen movie star and fake blonde Lindsay Lohan has been desperately scrambling to find a reliable revenue stream. (You know, so she can continue to support her nasty peroxide habit.) And apparently, after a whole lotta scheming with a top-notch legal…
One of the great things about owning a major porn company are the affiliate networks, like Sublime Directory, that advertise the free pics and trailers. They’re the perfect place to prominently embed a music video that millions of people a day will see during their cyberquest for poontang. South Beat…
Danny Daze started out like every Miami DJ: spinning at South Beach clubs and downtown joints, trying to earn a buck. But deep down, there was an electronic music artist waiting to come out. And now, whether it’s under his own name, DiscoTech, or Señor Stereo, Daze seems ready for…
If you’re a clubland regular, then you’ve probably noticed what a major comeback the classic ’90s dance sound has made in the last couple years. You can hear it from the jacking house revival of underground acts like Hercules & Love Affair and Steffi, all the way to the Swedish…
