Since launching in 2007, SoundCloud has emerged as one of the most popular audio distribution platforms on the web. By allowing sound files to be distributed and embedded anywhere online, SoundCloud has expanded its reach across major social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter.It’s been adopted by the international DJ…
See 10 photos from Buju Banton’s show at Bayfront.Buju Banton and Friends Featuring Buju Banton, Stephen Marley, DJ Khaled, Gramps Morgan, and MoreSunday, January 16, 2011Bayfront Park Amphitheater, MiamiBetter than: Any reggae concert you’ve ever attended.Last night was a movie of epic blockbuster proportions. Imagine if Avatar came out with…
We’ve always wanted to just hop in a time machine and transport ourselves back to the height of a different musical era — you know, jazz in the ’20s, British pop in the ’60s, funk and R&B music in the ’70s. Well, now thanks to Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings,…
Washed Out’s Ernest Greene has a success story that most one-man bands dream about late at night in their lonely studios. He was unemployed, looking for work, living with his parents, and making music in his bedroom before he was suddenly discovered by all the right music blogs. Soon, his…
Something to remember about roadtripping to Orlando: If you leave anywhere near dusk, you’ll always hit shitty traffic leaving Miami. Crossfade braved the “four” hour drive to check out Florida’s Dying’s six-year anniversary at Will’s Pub and experience what the fuck is going on up there and meet who’s a…
Raucous, rowdy and nothing if not fun, Bright Light Social Hour is everything so many of us fell in love with when we first discovered rock ‘n’ roll. It’s the kind of bluesy jam that could be heard blasting from our reeking bedrooms during junior high, as we listened to…
The Queers Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, January 15, 2011 The Queers’ frontman Joe King is back. He never left or disappeared or anything. But last night’s show at Churchill’s gave us a clear picture of what his band was like in their prime, maybe. More accurately, this is the Queers…
View the photos from Miss Kittin at the Vagabond here.Miss Kittin DJ SetFriday, January 14, 2011The VagabondBetter Than: Reliving the electroclash era through its unfortunate haircuts and makeup. With about a decade’s distance now from electroclash’s birth in proto-hipster South Williamsburg, it seems grossly unfair to still categorize the scene’s…
A self-proclaimed city kid from New York’s East Village, Jesse Marco took a free fall into the music business at the age of 18 when he began an internship with British music mogul Mark Ronson. He gained recognition after taking a number of opening slots at New York clubs. A…
Call off your trip to New Amerykah ’cause Crossfade just received official word from the James L. Knight Center’s assistant marketing director Roxy Este that tonight’s Erykah Badu concert has been canceled. According to Este and the James L. Knight Center website, the show will be rescheduled for a later,…
The Netherlands may be pretty tiny in actual land mass, but its influence on dance music has been outsized. The country represents a disproportionate influence on the trance scene — it’s the birthplace of titans Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, and Tiesto — and has offered forth countless other more…
If you’ve missed all four previous installments of the Rising monthly hip-hop series at Transit Lounge, go get correct this Saturday night. Launched back in August 2010 by local swag supplier Last Rights, Fort Lauderdale producer Numonics, the C9 family, and Miami rap crew ¡Mayday!, the Rising has done big…
hough these days he may be known as Mr. Worldwide, Pitbull will always be Mr. 305 here in the M.I.A. Which is why it’s only fitting that Miami’s own mayor celebrates his 30th birthday at South Beach’s Club Play tomorrow night. The party, called Pitbull Birthday Affair, will feature DJs…
Keyshia Dior has been in music videos with Weezy, Jeezy, Gucci, Plies, Timbaland, and now … Prunk! “You can’t have a small penis and expect to please your girl,” she said. I wiped the sweat from my brow as she continued, “It doesn’t have to be big like a donkey…
The Lee Boys are a world-famous family band of Perrine natives who all went to Miami Killian Senior High School. They play an updated, Miami-style version of Sacred Steel music strongly influenced by funk, soul, blues, rock, and R&B. The band tours the world playing 120 shows a year, and…
There are only five hours remaining till punk professor Steven Blush’s hardcore master class convenes at Sweat Records. Word is, there might be a pop quiz. So … Are you ready? Have you committed the entirety of the textbook — American Hardcore: A Tribal History, Second Edition — to memory?…
Kylie Minogue, the Australian pop princess who burst onto the music scene in 1988 with “Locomotion,” just announced a 2011 North American tour. But even though Miami’s been named the 15th Gayest City in America, the Magic City didn’t make the tour schedule. Instead, fans will have to hitch a…
When local MC Garcia does something, he always does it big. For years with their Crazy Hood Productions group, he, DJ EFN, and a tight-knit family of collaborators have been proving that “independent” definitely does not mean “unprofessional.” Crazy Hood keeps in-house everything from a recording studio, to a label,…
If you’re not scared of a little beer shower from a guitarist’s mouth or having your head knocked about by stage divers, you might want to head for Orlando this weekend to celebrate the six-year anniversary of record label Florida’s Dying. The show will feature Miami’s own Jacuzzi Boys, Electric…
When middle-aged lovers in matching pastel jumpsuits finally pop that little blue pill, light a dozen vanilla-scented candles, and get ready to rock so very soft, there’s only one soundtrack sexy enough for that kind of action — the sweet and flaccid strains of Air Supply’s Forever Love: Greatest Hits…
Years before Warped Tour, MySpace, and the opening of Miami’s famed all-ages punk venue Cheers, there was a copy of the Queers’ 1993 landmark Love Songs for the Retarded in every truant’s backpack. Faster and more intelligible than Nirvana, abrasive like Black Flag, and filled with as many hooks and…
Ah, electroclash, the dance genre known for analog rhythms and monotone vocals. Part krautrock, part electro, it was doomed to fail from the start. Why? Well, once you’ve heard one track, you’ve pretty much heard them all. That’s not to say there weren’t some genuine electroclash superstars back in the…
