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Interpol at the Fillmore Miami Beach April 29

Taking Back Sunday at SunFest April 29

The Billboard Latin Music Awards are here once again — and along with it, all the glitz, glamor, and celebrities you can stomach. There will be singers and rappers, songbirds and crooners, hip-hoppers and rockers, actors and starlets, and all manner of Latin entertainment superstars. And you want into the…

Humanity has come a long way since the Stone Age when we were dancing around fires like deranged sex-crazed monkeys. Or has it?It seems like every new decade’s dance styles become more and more bizarre and less and less inhibited. In fact, these emergent ass-shaking techniques are often nothing more…

You’re jolted awake at 7 a.m. by the infuriating screech of your dollar-store alarm clock, too tired, too sober, and too pissed off for another work day, just sick of minimum-wage paychecks, thinking, “Fuck my life.” But after you’ve had your wake-and-bake and sipped some coffee, you start to feel…

Early last year, former X-Ray Spex singer and ’70s punk icon Poly Styrene (born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) started work on Generation Indigo, her first solo disc in 31 years. And over the next several months, she worked in the studio with ex-Killing Joke bassist and producer Martin “Youth” Glover, finishing…

Remember your cousin’s Quinces? Aside from the choreographed salsa rueda, what was the entertainment like? Chances are if your prima turned 15 in Miami, it was a Yellow Pages DJ-for-hire that mixed a blend booty bass, merengue, and a few slow jams after sprinkling The Very Best of Kenny G…

Karaoke … Miami fuckin’ loves that shit. And right now, it’s time to celebrate. This is National Karaoke Week, people. Yes, the art of performance over pre-recorded instrumentals has its own holiday. People get on a mic, belt out their favorite tunes, and live the rock star fantasy in front…

Damn, America. You really love yourself a generic televised singing competition, don’t you? We already have good ole’ reliable American Idol jamming up the airwaves with massacred Top 40 favorites. And now Simon Cowel’s The X-Factor is slated to premiere this fall, not to mention Bravo’s Platinum Hit, hosted by Jewel and Idol…

After spending three hours sitting on our asses for Saturday night’s Borscht Film Festival screenings at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall, we here at Crossfade needed a fucking drink. Now don’t get it twisted … We totally love cinema, especially the Magic City-made variety. And if we were…