Belaxis Supreme Get It While It’s Hott. Brash is Beethoven. Belaxis is Buil. (Self-released) belaxisbuil.com This disc is another exciting incursion by visual artists into the arena of audio art. Now, while it might seem a little heavy-handed to refer to this as a genre (“audio art”), I only do…
Behind every good chart-topping song is a good producer, usually — but behind all that, and often sticking longer-term with the artist him- or herself, is a good engineer. In honor of today, the Biggest Day In Hip-Hop History of 2010, the day Lil Wayne finally goes free, Crossfade brings…
Robyn plays the Fillmore Miami Beach November 5
For those who don’t know, El Gran Combo is known as La Universidad de la Salsa (the University of Salsa). And Sergio Vargas is the king of merengue. Which basically makes their gig at the James L. Knight Center this Friday the equivalent of the ’73 Miami Dolphins meeting the…
Just like Ms. Whitney Houston, former Fugees frontwoman and diva of the new millennium Ms. Lauryn Hill was a mind-blowingly successful pop star and actress who freaked out under the pressure of her own fame. But where Whitney disappeared into a billion-dollar mansion and ten thousand hits off the crack…
If your name were “Steve Lawler,” you’d probably spend Wednesday afternoon spinning for the Masters of the Universe on the deck of some Cypriot millionaire’s gigayacht off the coast of Dubai. Then Thursday, you’d take the red-eye home to collate your 1,001 solid-platinum platters. And Friday, you’d teleport to Miami…
Miguel Bosé is a living freakin’ legend. Maybe it was just his fate, or maybe it comes from being gifted progeny. (Bosé’s mother was a famous Italian actress, and his father a celebrated Spanish bullfighter.) Or maybe it’s the sort of thing for which he was simply hard-wired, readily exemplified…
In the early ’00s, cool kids everywhere became obsessed with all kinds of lupine creatures. Maybe it was irony. Maybe it was rabies. Or maybe the moon had slipped off its axis. Whatever the cause, almost everyone between the ages of 16 and 28 was wearing a howling wolf’s head…
RIP, Johnny Salton, one of South Florida’s greatest guitarists
Rico Love and Usher at the Division 1 label launch November 5
Space Between WordsAnd We All Follow the Sun(Space Between Words, Magnetron Publishing LLC, SESAC)spacebetweenwords.net Go to the website above. Head to the media section and download Space Between Words’ crispy new debut album, And We All Follow the Sun. Don’t forget to make a donation. Then drop it into your…
To understand the German techno scene’s fascination with African-American funk and soul, you need look no further than the work of Frankfurt-based DJ-producer Sascha Dive. As chief ambassador of the so-called “Rhein-Main sound” (though he shrugs off the label himself), Dive boasts that quintessentially Teutonic interpretation of soulful house via…
Last month, we announced that British industrial act Nitzer Ebb was stopping in Miami November 13 for a rare concert appearance. At the time, ticket prices hadn’t been announced, but they are now available for $20 via Flavorus.As a primer for the Grand Central show, take a listen to the…
UPDATE: We’ve just been informed that today’s show has been cancelled because of rain. What do we know about Entresol? Well, like all good 21st century journalists, we here at Crossfade subscribe to incredibly laborious methods of research, such as Googling stuff, poking through Tumblr blogs, and checking out Facebook…
All you old-school heads, it’s finally safe to creep out from your trenches and return to the club. If only for one night, the non-stop digital assault on classic wax has been called to a halt. And tonight at the Electric Pickle’s Champion Sound, the 45 rules! Leading the retro…
Man, there ain’t nothing that typifies the American Dream like speeding through the suburbs at night in your brand-new Buick Regal GS while the Plain White T’s hit “Hey There Delilah” blasts out the radio. OK, the above statement isn’t entirely accurate unless you replace “the suburbs” with “Death Valley”…
Kris Huseby is a local musician, chef, syndicated sports columnist, and thong-sandal model. But he’s probably better known for having pounded the drums with Fireside Social and currently fronting Bulletproof Tiger. The latter band recently got back to South Florida from a small tour in support of its The Starving…
When middle-aged rock stars start breaking their backs like Bono, it’s hard not to wonder whether fans should request a mandatory retirement cutoff for all arena-level entertainers. But following emergency surgery in May and the cancellation of a bunch of tour dates including this summer’s original Miami stop, U2 actually…
Exactly 40 days ago, Crossfade broke the news about Plastikman’s Richie Hawtin’s scheduled invasion of Miami. (UPDATE Due to some press release confusion we made the mistake of assuming the DJ would be performing Plastikman material. Sorry.) And we also talked some shit about the fact that “buying a Richie Hawtin release…
Somewhere right now, a Halloween moon is still rising. And evil clowns, half-naked ladies, and psychopathic serial killers are raging through their 60th hour of candy- and cocaine-fueled mayhem in a (literally) underground club. But if you, like us, belong to the lame-ass workaday class, then you’re already at the…
Big news out of Ricky Martin’s camp: The Puerto Rican superstar has been locked away in the studio, hard at work on his latest record since the beginning of the year, as Crossfade reported here. It seems that fans won’t have to wait much longer to hear the first of…
See Crossfade’s review and photos from Ms. Lauryn Hill’s UM Homecoming concert. Just like Ms. Whitney Houston, former Fugees frontwoman and diva-of-the-new-millennium Ms. Lauryn Hill was a mind-blowingly successful pop star and actress who freaked out under the pressure of her own fame. But where Whitney disappeared into a billion-dollar…
