Envision the archetypal marketplace. Vendors hock wares by waving them in the air and shouting prices while the consumers are divided into two classes: astute veterans who know the art of the bargain and rubes about to lose their pants. Buyers bid competitively on rare and esoteric goods. A child…
Scream! In just a couple of days, Jerry Only and the Misfits will slither into Grand Central Miami. We already feel a telltale tingle in our vestigial demon tail. That’s called excitement. Or as the ‘Fits prefer: “A chill runs up your spine …The freezing touch of fear.” Now tix…
The Misfits are the blood and guts of punk rock. Founded in Lodi, New Jersey in 1977, the band has grown into a monster of iconic sounds and merchandise ripped from the burning reels of American horror. Founding member Jerry Only, former Black Flag barker Dez Cadena, and Chupacabra from…
On Saturday, Yanni gave the final performance of a two-day run of shows at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. Billed as “An Evening with Yanni,” there was no opener, unless you count millennia of human cultural history. Shout out to Ancient Greece. Now, he may have shaved off his…
Stuck in Basel mode? So are we. Good thing we live in the Magic City where celebrities and artists are always putting on a show for us beautiful people. And while the arty party may be over, we can still pretend it’s Basel week. Here are the five best concerts…
Fool’s Gold Day Off With Trick Daddy, A-Trak, Danny Brown, and others Mana Wynwood, Miami Sunday, December 8, 2013 They called it a Day Off, but that shit was lasted from early in the afternoon till way after dark. The insta-midnight feel inside Mana Wynwood’s warehouse setting helped dancers forget…
Basel Castle 2013 Grand Central Park, Miami Saturday, December 7, 2013 In the past, the setting for The Overthrow’s Basel Castle extravaganza had been a slightly cartoonish, sort of fragile-looking fortress in Wynwood. But that shit is dead, son. Last year, the overcrowding got outta hand. So for 2013, the…
NADA Art Fair’s Fade to Mind Takeover With Kingdom, Nguzunguzu, and Total Freedom Sandbar, Miami Beach Saturday, December 7, 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach, when art walk goes to SoBe and takes steroids, is rife with the kind of surrealism that’d only make sense if Riff Raff narrated it. Celeb…
Tegan & Sara VH1 and Scope’s Art + Music + Beach Party SCOPE Pavilion, Miami Beach Friday, December 6, 2013 At 8 p.m., the massive oceanfront tent that houses one of the largest auxiliary fairs during Art Basel Miami Beach week, Scope, closed its doors for the night. Nearby, a…
Ghostface Killah With secret guest Raekwon Plus Tha Lox’s Sheek Louch DJs Heron, Self Born, Klassik, and Exes The Stage Miami Friday, December 6, 2013 There were patdowns at the door. And a bouncer forewarned “tonight’s a different crowd.” On Thursday, De La Soul’s Maseo, Dave, and Pos did Art…
De La Soul With DJs Heron, Self Born, and Ynot Opening set by Problem Kids The Stage Miami Thursday, December 5, 2013 “We are De La Soul! And we been doin’ this a long fuckin’ time,” MC Dave, AKA Trugoy the Dove, hollered, smiling and bouncing around the stage at…
Black Lips Shore Club, Miami Beach Thursday, December 5, 2013 It’s fair to say that Art Basel Miami Beach has come under critical siege at times for its supposed devolution from world-class art festival to glorified party. However, while plenty of people critiquing Basel are, in fact, too cool for…
At 22 years old, Ben Wash is hoping to become a music mogul and electronic music heavyweight. He’s so committed to his craft, he moved from his native Greenville, South Carolina, to Miami in order to gain wider exposure. And with his label King Head Records, he’s well on his…
Photo by Morgan ColemanCheck out Crossfade’s full 30-photo slideshow of Kendrick Lamar at Mana Production Village. Last night, I tweeted at Kanye West for the first time ever. Did I think he’d read the tweet? No, duh. But I did want to document that my feet hurt a lot, and…
Colombian native and former South Florida resident Rafael Martinez has been involved with some of the most electrifying bands in metal since leaving Miami in the mid ’90s to pursue further training and education at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Few will remember his recorded local music ventures…
Alabama Shakes Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, December 4, 2013 Better Than: An abbreviated Kendrick Lamar set, a weird party not thrown by Lady Gaga on North Beach, drinking warm beer in Wynwood. As the rest of South Beach clamored about to secret parties, cramped galleries, and other Basel diversions, the…
Wolf Eyes is one of the most iconic bands from the early- to mid-2000s explosion of noise music that reverberated (deafeningly) across North America. While the genre is the cumulative product of often disparate scenes, this Michigan unit — consisting of Nate Young, longtime collaborator John Olson, and a shape-shifting…
What’s that boom-bap? Just the thump of golden-era rap legends De La Soul, Wu-Tang mic mangler Ghostface Killah, and fiddle-wielding hip-hop duo Black Violin rolling up to The Stage Miami for three straight days of real beats and even realer rhymes, all in honor of Art Basel Miami Beach week…
Back in 2011, we here at Crossfade included Terre Thaemlitz, AKA DJ Sprinkles, on our list of the World’s Least Douchey DJs. It was a nod to her longstanding work as an educator and activist promoting awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. Like many others, we’d first gotten…
Hip-hop and rap are seven years removed from Lupe Fiasco’s “Kick, Push,” the song that might’ve truly introduced skateboarding to the genre’s mainstream, even though the effect probably wasn’t as sweeping as it was when Lil Wayne donned some Vans and skinny jeans. Today, there’s Black Dave, a 21-year-old Bronx…
Anyone who says they want to see Kanye West and not hear a rant is a straight-up liar. Rants are part of the package, and we ain’t about getting stiffed. That being said, Kanye’s words are always being taken out of context. And we want to make sure you get…
It is an interesting time for the Alabama Shakes. Riding high on the success of a nearly universally lauded debut full-length album, Boys & Girls, the group has undoubtedly earned a rep as one of the most exciting bands dwelling within the increasingly overrun world of roots and Americana music…
