Questlove with M1BardotSunday, December 6Better than: Anything starring Jimmy Fallon.Our tolerance level for pretentious Brooklyn scenesters and celebrity star fuckers reached its boiling point Sunday night. And we’re done covering DJ sets. At least this reporter is. The Questlove set at Bardot had been hyped all week. It was the last…
Saturday night in Wynwood felt like God peeled our cap back, palmed our brain, and dunked it in a vat of freezing acid. Not the kind that corrodes to the bone. The kind that makes you trip your face off. And by 11:38 p.m. our skull was so flooded with…
If he wasn’t a graphically ingenious (albeit conceptually vacant) international art star, would anyone give a shit about Shepard Fairey’s DJ sets? Nope. Not unless they were drunk and dying for a dose of radio-ready epicness. But he’s the dude who invented OBEY and Obama’s campaign poster. So Saturday night…
As if the promise of a big hipster party out at sea isn’t reason enough to pack up your favorite American Apparel swimsuit and head to sunny Miami in February … Now the Bruise Cruise (the world’s first-ever hipster cruise?) is throwing a pre-party at Grand Central February 24.The lineup reads like Pitchfork porn…
Everyone who went to Basel should be able to agree that that it was great. (Or at the very least “interesting.”) But sometimes all that art can make you feel dumb, like maybe you just don’t get it. So when we finally got tired of cracking jokes with our friends,…
Label this as the least surprising booking for Ultra Music Festival 2011, but our sources have confirmed Carl Cox will be returning for the next edition of the annual event. His return will mark the seventh installment of the Carl Cox & Friends Arena at the festival.Festival Outlook also points…
Toyota Antics PresentsWith Phantogram, Twin Shadow, and FlosstradamusGrand Central, MiamiThursday, December 2, 2010Better than: Paying a cover charge to see a bunch of bands during Art Basel. We worried when Phantogram announced its second Miami show in as many months. Not because we’re not fans of the two-piece (we are),…
If you’ve never attended one of Roofless Records’ Cinema Sounds soirees, then the whole concept can seem a little arty or highbrow or out there. And, duh, it’s all of those things. But at the same time, no one’s wandering around in a vintage tuxedo and monocle, reciting lines from…
British DJ, producer and label magnate Nic Fanciulli has steadily climbed the international ranks over the course of the past decade, positioning himself as one of the biggest stars in electronic dance music. His career had an auspicious start in the early ’00s when his fledgling production work piqued the…
Fueled (and a little fucked up) on free Famosa beer and Brooklyn Lager, last night’s crowd for No Age at the Fountain Art Fair (or at least the stageside section where I spent the show) was a pretty serious sausage fest. Things were quiet for the first few minutes. You…
The beauty of Art Basel week is the spontaneity of it. One minute you can be having tempura eggplant before a special indie-pop DJ set at Bardot, then all of a sudden you’re in a Haitian man’s cab listening to Creole talk-radio en route to the Fontainebleau. At least that’s…
See the full Scope Miami Night Event slideshow. There have been some unhappy grumblings in Crossfade’s comments section in regard to last night’s Scope Miami Night Event at Charcoal Studios. For one, Ted Jusko says: “Ha! what a joke – got 2 stoli drinks at bar last night..$19..! hardly any…
In a week of mind-blowing art (and some that just plain blows), we here at Crossfade nominate this bizarro illustration for the WTF Am I Looking At? Am I Having a Perverted Nightmare? award. Lifted from the flyer for tonight’s Suck It and See bash at the Electric Pickle, the…
Bardot is the only music venue in South Florida that has a very strict no-camera, no-press policy. However, Perry Farrell’s Basel bash last night was the first and only time Bardot allowed select photographers inside the club. And while the camera restrictions were still very tight, Bardot and Mr. Farrell…
Paper Magazine and AOL Presents FriendsWithYou OpeningWith a performance by N*E*R*D At Rainbow City, Miami Thursday, December 2, 2010 Better than: Being treated like worthless shit by security. If you were part of the massive mob outside Rainbow City yesterday, waiting to catch a glimpse of Pharrell Williams and N*E*R*D,…
NYC-based DJ-producer Chris Manik is on fire right now. In little more than twelve months he’s made a formidable leap from virtual unknown to internationally celebrated “It” boy, with releases on top labels like Ovum and Poker Flat. Specializing in a delectably deep and bass-heavy fusion of tech house, nu-disco,…
PeachesBally Love Private EventMoore Building, MiamiThursday, December 2, 2010Better than: Everything else happening at that very moment.Reporters sometimes get a bad wrap for diva behavior at events. These low-lifes use clout to get in or try to get an extra something. I personally try to keep that to a minimum,…
Art Basel is in full swing by now. There are oversized mollusks all over the freaking place! But in addition to the “art,” come some of the very best parties, like, ever.Case in point: How To Dress Well and Toro y Moi tomorrow night at Bardot. Now we like Toro…
In the run-up to November 2009’s release of his debut disc Attention Deficit, D.C. rapper Wale floated into pop consciousness on a thick, fast-moving cloud of accumulated hype. After hooking up with master trend-caller Mark Ronson in 2006 and then signing a million-dollar deal with Interscope Records in 2008, the…
If we are a little sluggish this morning, we have Mark Ronson to thank. We stopped by LIV at the Fontainbleau Hotel last night after watching LCD Soundsystem play for a bunch of old, rich people at the Raleigh during MOCA Los Angeles’ party. (There is nothing quite like the…
See the full 32-photo LCD Soundsystem slideshow. LCD SoundsystemMOCA LA Beach Party, at The Raleigh Hotel, Miami BeachDecember 1, 2010Better than: Getting into a private party during Art Basel. Oh, wait….It’s pretty hard to properly assess what an art crowd’s reaction is going to be to a dance-all-night band like LCD…
Eminem was the name on everyone’s lips during last night’s Grammy nominations special. The Detroit rapper stole the show with ten nominations. They included nods for Record of the Year (for “Love the Way You Lie”), Album of the Year (for Recovery), Best Rap Solo Performance (for “Not Afraid”), Pop…
