If you’re in a band, you are probably broke. It sucks. But it’s true. And there are a limited number of ways for a struggling rock ‘n’ roller to realistically collect some cash. You could (A) quit the band and get a real job; (B) ask Mom for the ten…
If Miami wasn’t always a techno town, it sure as shit is one now! This week alone, there’s — count them! — six major international techno players booked at various clubs around town. This has gotta be a record number of bookings for a single week outside of WMC and…
Last night, 21st-century leading lady Anne Hathaway was on Conan to promote the third Chris Nolan-directed Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, in which she plays quintessential femme fatale, Catwoman. We’re big fans of Batman, Tim Burton’s Batman Returns and Michelle Pfeiffer’s incredible psychosexual interpretation of the role. (Sorry, Halle!) So…
Let’s face it … The internet-addled children of the digital age don’t have the attention span for a 180-second music video. So why the hell would they sit through Peter, Bjorn and John’s new 37-and-a-half-minute vid? It’s longer than an entire freaking episode of 16 and Pregnant! But if you…
Dance music’s gonna blow up! That’s the kind of ecstatic chatter that’s been endlessly parroted by pop commentators in 2011. However, this perception that electronic tuneage has been waiting idly on the sidelines just isn’t true. Dance music crossed over a long time ago. In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s…
No one thing speaks of this city’s loyalty, questionable taste, and absolutely undeniable radness like Luther freakin’ Campbell. Miami loves Uncle Luke wholeheartedly and unconditionally. One of the patriarchs of our 305 family, he could start a dogfighting ring and we still might forgive him. Singing about how we want…
The greatest danger involved in making superpotent sex music is the high risk of inadvertently impregnating an entire roomful of glammed-out party girls. Just ask Chromeo’s Dave 1 and P-Thugg … There is no condom, diaphragm, spermicide, morning-after pill, or contraceptive sponge in existence that’s properly equipped to deal with…
Do you remember the Alternative Revolution? Well, you’re old. Grunge is ancient fucking history. And all those ’90s babies born during the reign of George H.W. Bush are grown up and getting naked for Playboy. OK, so maybe they’re not all posing without clothes in old Hef’s gentleman’s mag. But…
There’s no doubt that Jay-Z — even as hip-hop’s retired-unretired elder statesman — still balls like the best of ’em. Just last night Hova was makin’ it rain at the Fountainebleau’s LIV in Miami Beach, dropping more $100,000 on a single bottle of champagne in celebration of the release of…
Bad music stinks as bad as Gaga’s meat dress after a week out in the sun. In your car, your bedroom, or your cubicle, you are the noise master of your audio universe. And it sounds so sweet. But there are other times when you’re trapped, helpless, and without control,…
After twelve years of live mixing the weekly WNYU radio program Beats in Space, never once missing a night, Tim Sweeney has hosted pretty much every big name in electronic music. Sweeney started the Tuesday night affair as an 18-year-old college freshman. With ambition, smarts, and commitment, Beats in Space…
Stalwart South Beach record store Uncle Sam’s Music has announced a free, all-ages, and unplugged Matisyahu in-store performance that’ll take place a few hours before the Hasidic reggae superstar’s gig at the Fillmore on August 25. As the biggest name in the history of Jewish riddim’, the MC is known far…
Broward County hustler and We The Best prospect Ace Hood never stops, sleeps, or surrenders. The game is ruthless. And a real player’s gotta stay hard. Just like Hood spits on “King of the Streets”: “It’s blood, sweat, and tears, that be the realest shit I ever wrote/Never stop or…
After four decades of “Breaking the Law,” “Burnin’ Up,” and persuading impressionable teens to dress like S/M slaves to rock ‘n’ roll, metal legends Judas Priest have decided to take a little time off from doing the Devil’s dirty work. Last December, it was officially confirmed that “JUDAS PRIEST, one…
What do Sesame Street, Patti LaBelle and the West African Yoruba religion have in common? Well, they’re all part of legendary DJ-producer and Yoruba Records chief Osunlade’s fascinating story. Back in the ’70s, he started out by juggling different musical gigs, like composing for Sesame Street and putting in studio…
It was a shitty awesome Saturday night at Grand Central. With a seizure-inducing stage show and high-tech fluorescent headgear, DFA crew member Shit Robot (AKA Marcus Lambkin) unleashed a sci-fi dance-rock shitstorm upon drunk downtowners, fellow DJs, and other assorted clubland degenerates. The shit was hot. The shit was solid…
Drugs and electronic music have always gone hand in hand. For one thing, raving like the Tasmanian Devil from dusk until the wee hours of the morning isn’t gonna happen without stimulants. But more importantly, the enhanced sensory perception induced by drugs like MDMA can make the sci-fi sound effects…
With similar holy praise and spiritual righteousness, Matisyahu scratches the Haile Selassie out of reggae music and gives it up to G-d. Born Matthew Paul Miller, the musician made it all the harder for us to say his name when he started using the Askenazi version of it. This former…
Little Beard With North & South and Plains Grand Central Friday, August 12, 2011 Better Than: Spending another Friday night watching TiVo-ed episodes of “So You Think You Can Dance” with my cat. Going into Grand Central is a confusing, disorienting experience. On the one side, you’ve got hip Miami…
Dude’s got a reputation as a one-man rock show. He feeds entire magnums of pricey champagne to his fans for fun. He crowdsurfs and stagedives like a crusty punk let loose in the club. And he’s got a beautiful mane of long black hair that’s just a little too perfect…
Artist Daniel Edwards is best known for casting a life-sized sculpture of Britney Spears giving birth on all fours, hunched over a bear skin rug. (As if Brit were that earthy!) But now Edwards has shifted his humorous and critical gaze to the next generation of “musicians” with a sculpture…
Indeed, beat freaks. We here at Crossfade are fiendishly counting down the days (12), hours (23), and minutes (15) till the Identity Fest finally makes its SoFla stop at Klipsch Amphitheater on August 25. So it’s probably no surprise that we’ve also been obsessively trolling the interweb (e.g. facebook.com/IDFestival) for…
