If you were to mix the arena-style hard rock riffage of AC/DC with the drumming of Rush’s Neil Peart, throw in some Man Is the Bastard-style crusty sludge, a teaspoon of Black Sabbath, and garnish it with a cup of minced Thin Lizzy, the music would sound like Big Business,…
When LCD Soundsystem called it quits, it came as a surprise to the band’s legion of devoted dance rockers. Now where would they get their dizzying electro-ballad fix? Would any other occasion ever be worthy of LED-lit shutter shades? Well, Soundsystem fans in Miami don’t need to jump off that…
There’s been a lot of excitement around New Times HQ in the lead up to the first edition of Crossfade presents The Local at The Stage scheduled for this Thursday, June 30 at 9 p.m.. We’ve spent countless hours picking the perfect party dress. We’ve blown our rent on “party favors.”…
Even if you can’t tell house from techno and you’ve never even been to a rave, you know Tiësto. That’s because he is the everyman’s EDM disc jockey. He’s the DJ that your mom plays on her iPod when she goes out jogging. He’s a household name. But that doesn’t…
Alongside Mos Def, Talib Kweli was Black Star, a duo that created the soundtrack — via hand-me-down cassette — to this writer’s late-’90s college days. Somehow, their socially conscious, Afrocentric hip-hop totally articulated how we felt as a nerdy, suburban white girl driving through the streets of South Beach. So…
We are less than a week away from the inaugural Crossfade-sponsored The Local at The Stage concert series, and New Times HQ is buzzing with preparation. To prepare, we figured it would be a good idea to give you, faithful Crossfade readers and The Local attendees, a preview of the…
The Hundred in the Hands Presented by Nightdrive With Benton, Will Renault, Uchi, and Laura of Miami Electric Pickle Thursday, June 23, 2011 Better Than: Getting your car broken into by a crackhead looking for Lashonda’s iPod. Walking toward the Electric Pickle at 10:15 p.m. on the half empty streets,…
We’ve liked the idea of classical music ever since watching A Clockwork Orange. All those strings, all that bass, and all that drama made it the perfect soundtrack for sex and violence. So for years, we’ve thought classical music performances were really just big orgies in fancy clothes. Turns out,…
Crossfade was doing some casual afternoon lurking when the Events section of the Nightdrive blog slapped us in the face with some pretty cool news. According to the Miami promoters-slash-bloggers, math-rock mutant-pop ensemble Battles will be making its return to South Florida. The listing offers little information aside that the…
See the Irie Weekend 2011 schedule of events. There’s no question — Miami loves its sports teams and its DJs. So, no wonder official Miami Heat deckmaster DJ Irie has taken over the 305. You know it’s summer once those jam-packed charity events come into play — the seventh annual…
Tribute shows are terrible in so many ways. It’s like, If I really wanted to hear that song the way I enjoy hearing it, I’d use my iPod, thank you. But tributes are also fun to watch for their crash-and-burn performances. And sometimes, even because someone does a shockingly wonderful…
Fusion is a way of life in Miami. Spanglish may as well be the official language. Restaurants boasting Asian fusion cuisine are popping up everywhere. And mixing up musical influences is an ancient tradition by now. Xperimento, named New Times’ Best Fusion Band this year, blends the band members’ Latin…
Recently, Perez Hilton reported that tickets for Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale tour are selling for half off. Apparently, the original prices were extremely expensive, in the range of $96 to $346.50, before fees. But her boyfriend Jason Trawick is selling tickets on his site at a 50-percent discount, as was…
At approximately 1 p.m. last Tuesday, Crossfade was stuck in traffic and listening to WVUM to pass the time. When we poked the 90.5 preset on our dashboard, the station’s call numbers appeared, confirming that we had in fact selected the intended station. But the sounds coming out of our…
Rick Ross is the Boss. And he’s got a personal stockpile of greenbacks almost as huge as the Federal Reserve’s cash stacks. So needless to say, Mr. Ricky can afford to celebrate American independence and excess in a bling-bang way that’d make even the fattest capitalist shine bright and star-spangled…
The NE 14th Street strip has been hipster territory for years. But wait, here come the gays! That’s right. And when we here at Crossfade heard that Johnny’s Miami, a Dade County outpost of the infamous Fort Lauderdale gay bar and nightclub, was all set to bring beefcakes, boy butts,…
Remember the first time you saw some rocker like Slash or Tommy Lee on MTV, all sweat-slick and nasty, and sporting ink up and down their arms, and you said, “Holy shit! That dude’s a badass!” Well, tattoos are about as rock n’ roll as guitars. Which is why it…
The annual Flashback Night has revived classic Caribbean sounds in South Florida for the past five years. After a packed edition last year at Cafe Iguana Pines, the event returns this year even bigger and better at Revolution in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The guest performer of honor, as well, is…
U2 with special guest Florence and the Machine at Sun Life Stadium June 29
The Hundred in the Hands at Electric Pickle June 23
Bulletproof Tiger frontman Kris Huseby opens Gypsy Kitchen Food Truck
Fight Like Animals at Transit Lounge June 23
