70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise Adds Portuguese Cachet With Moonspell

There’s no better way to battle Friday morning’s demons than with some searing Portuguese prog-metal courtesy of Moonspell, the freshest addition to the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise. If any of the hairs on the back of your neck aren’t awake after a run-through of “First Light,” it’s time to…

José El Rey is Dead

Sad news kids, José El Rey is gone for good. Finished. Dead. José Flores, AKA El Rey, announced via Twitter that his exaggerated Cuban persona has officially retired.This has us asking: ¿Pero porque? El Rey was hands down one of the most imaginative characters to come out of Miami’s local…

Heineken TransAtlantic Festival is Back This April

You may remember the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival. It came through last year? A whole bevy of top-shelf world music talent graced our fair shores. CuCu Diamantes participated, sharing her dulcet, neo-Cuban-cabaret-era-spliced-with-urban-NYC vibe. Quirky Mexican NuJazz songstress Ximena Sariñana also played a gig, and our own Rachel Goodrich opened. If you…

Music Movies at the Miami International Film Festival This Weekend

The Miami International Film Festival starts this weekend, and if you missed Miami New Times’ guide to the event, click here. Of more immediate interest to Crossfade readers, though, is the fest’s selection of music movies. Here they are. For complete screening and ticket details, visit miamifilmfestival.com. ​No One Knows About…

Blast From the Past: The Cichlids – Be True To Your School

​The CichildsBe True To Your School (Bold/TK Records)The Cichlids’ story is one of your typical musical stories rife with intrigue, pleasure, strife, and the passing of time. The act was widely considered one of the first alternative Florida acts who could have (should have) made it, and 1980’s Be True…

The Damon Fowler Group

The namesake guitarist of the Damon Fowler group might look, at first, a little too fresh-faced to really know about the blues. But the cherubic Gen Y-er already boasts more than a decade on the live circuit. Growing up in the Tampa Bay area, he picked up a guitar at…

Off With Their Heads

Minnesota punks Off With Their Heads have been grinding out some of the best melodic “don’t call it pop”-punk the Twin Cities have put out in recent history. For the past seven years, the band has gone under the radar. But a stable lineup since 2007 and constant touring (15…

D.O.N.S. Album Release Party

D.O.N.S. is best known to many clubbers as a remixer of Technotronic’s immortal “Pump Up the Jam.” Some 16 years after the original track’s release, in 2005 the Hamburg, Germany-based producer took his reworked version into the far reaches of the UK singles chart. He did so by grabbing the…

Steel Pulse

One of the longest-running roots-reggae bands, Steel Pulse boasts a list of former members twice as long as the current lineup. Only two of today’s players have appeared on all 11 of the group’s studio albums: keyboardist and backing vocalist Selwyn Brown and lead guitarist and vocalist David Hinds. That’s…

Weezy Wire: Lil Wayne’s Sentencing Rescheduled for March 8

It’s already painfully obvious that Lil Wayne, a South Florida resident soon to take a sabbatical at Riker’s Island, gets a lot of attention on this blog. Thanks to his Twitter developments and the unveiling of the rapper’s dentist Dr. Victor Mongalo, Crossfade can stay flowing with fresh content and…

Five Questions With … DJ Joshy Josh

​Joshy Josh is a journeyman DJ in South Florida who skims the fine line between South Beach and downtown. Some people know him as the spectacled dude with long hair and the perpetual three-day college professor beard, but most know him for his DJ sets of fun. Crossfade caught up…