You’ve slept. You’ve showered. You’ve done a little bit of pre-drinking while dancing naked around your apartment. You’ve finally slipped into some clean clothes. And now you’re starting to feel like the time is right to strip down again and sacrifice your Ultra week virginity. So why not head to…
Last night at Mansion, Italian electro-house DJ Benny Benassi warmed up his turntables — and our town — for his performance at the Ultra Music Festival. The world-renowned musician, maybe still best known for his 2002 hit “Satisfaction,” counts British singer Gary Go and the infamous Chris Brown among his…
So, we’re officially in the midst of Miami Music Festival. Or Ultra Week. Or Winter Music Conference V.2. Or WMC A.D. Or whatever the hell you feel like calling it. And basically, this is the gist: Another week of parties uniting some of the best electronic music talent in the…
Once upon a time, Chicago-bred, L.A.-based DJ/producer Johnny Love was best known on underground dance floors as half of Guns and Bombs. That project, as the name implies, was all about going hard and going big, full of searing chainsaw basslines and “subtlety” turned into a four-letter word. At the…
If you missed out on last year’s Sweatstock, Sweat Records’ birthday bash and Record Store Day celebration, you’re gonna want to make time for this year’s event. The Little Haiti store has announced the first phase of the lineup for its April 16 bash. The outside stage returns this year –…
Let’s be prepared, beat freaks. There is absolutely no reason to wait till we’re trapped at the bottom of a 1000-foot k-hole to start planning our Ultra Music Festival itinerary. So before digging out our dosage, stripping down to our rubber underwear, and temporarily leaving behind these human husks we…
Giacomo Gates is undoubtedly one the most exciting and articulate male jazz vocalists on the scene right now. He is a cool cat who embodies the eternal swagger of jazz. However, for the first forty years of his life, Giacomo Gates couldn’t have been farther from hep life. As a…
Earlier this week, we previewed the upcoming Visionquest label showcase at the Shelborne this Friday. The label/production quartet of illustrious Detroit DJ-masterminds Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss, Shaun Reeves, and Seth Troxler owns the international hot tip right now, having put out Benoit & Sergio’s chart-topping Where The Freaks Have No…
Who are Miami Chum Bucket and what are they doing in Allapattah? They are house punks, skaters, workers, drifters, schoolies, and grads. They are dropouts, misfits, fuck-ups, uglies, and normals. They are players, haters, riders, and sliders. They are secretaries, architects, assistant managers, and thugs. They are lovers, fighters, rockers,…
There are several parts to the Duran Duran saga. The first found the Brit New Wave band conquering America, providing fodder for MTV, and turning songs such as “Hungry Like The Wolf,” “Save A Prayer,” “Union of the Snake,” “The Reflex” and “Wild Boys” into rallying cries for a new…
Hey, Miami! Let me report that SoFla was well represented at SXSW 2011 with a large variety of acts playing around Austin: ANR, Dreaming in Stereo, Locos Por Juana, Panic Bomber, and Surfer Blood all played official showcases that made major press. In fact, Austin360.com picked Dreaming in Stereo’s showcases…
This weekend, Bicentennial Park will be flooded by an international wave of beat-makers and pookie heads for Ultra Music Festival. But just a half-mile west of downtown’s loudest outdoor fiesta, Shit Robot will pop his Miami cherry on Friday at the Vagabond, two days before hitting Ultra’s Heineken Dome. Marcus…
In this episode of Prunk TV, we meet up with J. Randall, who is the one and only pop star on Poe Boy Records. His YouTube videos get millions of hits, because he is an adorable young man, and quite possibly the “new Elvis Presley.” Bleidat! He sings like Chris…
Benoit & Sergio’s rep on the international EDM scene rised slowly and surreptitiously, thanks in part to word-of-mouth praise from inner-circle luminaries like Seth Troxler and Bruno Pronsato. The release in question was a two-track gem of an EP called Full Grown Man which Pronsato put out on his small…
Chris Brown’s new album, F.A.M.E., is out today, and so is part of a window at Good Morning America’s New York City studio. Various sources are reporting that the 21-year-old pop-star-with-major-anger-issues went all Chris Brown on a window, smashin’ that bitch after becoming enraged during an on-air interview with GMA’s…
You were lazy. You were broke. You were stupid. And now you’re standing ticketless and bereft outside Bicentennial Park, peering enviously at all those beaded, drooling pookie heads as they bask in the Day Glo wonder of this year’s totally sold-out Ultra Music Festival. Sure, in a desperate, last-ditch stab…
Dyslexic Postcards Spare the Altar (Self-released)myspace.com/dyslexicpostcards There is something magnificently debauched about Miami’s Dyslexic Postcards that might be hard to put into words without actually triggering your porn filters. That said, these guys (in particular longtime frontman Joshua Xmas) put that seed of corruption into my teenage mind many, many…
Behind Bayside Marketplace’s Hard Rock Café, the Biscayne Lady enjoys a mid-afternoon hosing under the hot Florida sun. As cold water trickles down her sleek frame, we board the vessel to meet the ship’s captain and Biscayne Bay legend, James Cho. Since joining the Biscayne Lady team, Cho has skippered…
You really, really, really want to spend the night at Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel. But how do you even find the place? Well, you could always try to track the synthy cinematic overload of the club-killing triumvirate’s superhit single “One” to its source. However, here’s another (admittedly fictional) way:…
All week, everyone was talking, “Michael Cera’s here, Michael Cera’s there. Where’s Michael Cera?” On the morning of the final day of South by Southwest, we headed to a little Mexican restaurant called Mi Madre’s. After ordering breakfast tacos, there he was. Finally, Michael Cera, chatting with a young lady,…
We don’t like to admit it. But sometimes we here at Crossfade screw up. The most recent example: In an item on the Pretty Lights Showcase from last week’s special New Times Miami Music Guide 2011, we stated that Derek Vincent Smith’s party at the Fillmore Miami Beach had “sold…
See the full 30-photo Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings slideshow. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings The Fillmore Miami Beach Sunday, March 20, 2011 Better Than: Anything that’s ever happened to me. Despite the fact I previewed this show with a music feature in last week’s New Times, you’ll find more words…
