Tragedy With Rotting Palms, Maruta, Nerv, Devalued, and Nunhex As part of Speedfreek’s last show Churchill’s Pub, Miami Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Better Than: What else were you doing on a Wednesday night?! Promoter Roger “Speedfreek” Forbes has decided to call it quits. Forbes, occasionally in partnership with Torche/Shitstorm drummer…
New Zealand production duo Mt. Eden (AKA Harley Rayner and Jesse Cooper) are perfectly emblematic of the sensational overnight success today’s young EDM stars enjoy thanks to viral online exposure. Take 2009 breakthrough hit, “Sierra Leone,” which received tens of millions of YouTube views before it even got an official…
At a time when most bands were either grunge, punk, or nu-metal, Los Amigos Invisibles took a different route — danceable Latin funk — and it was a path that led them to becoming the premier party band in Venezuela. Over the last 20 years, these chamos musicales have definitively…
Hey Ultra, You are getting a lot of heat lately because some spoiled brats think they deserved to get early-bird tickets. No one deserves anything. Your request of $399.95 plus fees for a general admission ticket, while high, is reasonable. Coachella tickets go for $349.95; Bonnaroo topped out at $269.50;…
Yay, it’s a short week! Just when you thought life couldn’t get any better right about now, check your calendar. It’s already Wednesday, and because you live in the non-stop party city of Miami, you can start your weekend as early as tomorrow. After all, it’s never too soon to…
Lil Wayne talked shit on The Heat? (payback’s a bitch) Otherwise, fuck it, they’re still #winning. (Well, except for last night.) But this is America, land of free speech, and he’ s still one of the most popular rappers in the world, even if he fell asleep at the club…
Children of the ’90s … Remember that awesome alt-rock group The Breeders? Kim Deal of the Pixies started it with her buds, and they had that sick, bass-driven hit “Cannonball.” Well, someone did the math, and that song, as well as the Breeders third album, Last Splash, turns 20 in…
Over the weekend at Bardot, the Gaslamp Killer honored America’s fallen soldiers with what has to have been one of the best performances the loungey hangout has ever seen. It was heart-pumping, body-shaking insanity from start to finish. The loud and proud no-shits-given artist wasn’t holding anything back. He slapped…
If you can make it through Memorial Day weekend in Miami, you can make it through practically anything, including the dreaded work week ahead of us. But if you’re still stuck in party mode and are in need of a little motivation, good music will do the trick. Here are…
DJ Khaled stands atop a platform on Mansion’s stage, fist in the air, microphone in hand, heavy gold around his neck. Thousands of dollar bills explode in a hurricane of currency, fat purple thunder clouds of Himalayan kush blow around his camouflage pant legs, oceans of Luc Belaire Rosé flow…
Everyone’s ’bout to get long-weekend wild. It’s almost Memorial Day in Miami. There are way too many megaclub and nudie bar parties. But “yeah, yeah, uh,” we’re still gonna attend ’em all. As Mr. Trinidad says: “Got new shoes, got new clothes … We got bad bitches and a ton…
Last night, the double-helix LED columns inside Story for Rick Ross and Birdman’s The H: The Lost Album, Vol. 1 release party cycled through a very swank array of trippy colors as a 7-to-1 ratio of tourist women to NFL ballers danced, drank, and partied till 5 in the morning…
Each and every year, we here at Crossfade spend Memorial Day honoring those brave men and women who’ve sacrifices their lives in service and defense of these United States of America. Then the sun goes down. The bricks of dolla dolla bills come out. And we hit up our favorite…
Sanchez is the anti-Pat Boone. Where the conservative crooner made early rock and roll “safe” in the ’50s by taking all the edge of out of songs like “Tutti Frutti,” Sanchez has made a career of refashioning the schmaltziest pop and R&B songs into dangerous, seductive dancehall and reggae. The…
It’s Memorial Day weekend, y’all! And in case you’re wondering, here’s what that translates to: (a) a three-day weekend; (b) the official start of summer; (c) non-stop parties for the next 72 hours. The best part of it all, you won’t have to blow your entire life savings on endless…
If there were one word to describe el Sonero de la Juventud, it would have to be loyal. Víctor Manuelle has been singing the salsa since 1993. And unlike some of his Latin American counterparts who’ve changed up their style to transition into mainstream pop, the Puerto Rican salsero has…
WTF, beat freaks?! Ultra Music Festival 2014’s early-bird tickets were scheduled to go on sale yesterday at 1 p.m. EST. But as usual, the “overwhelming demand” proved to be too much for the “ticketing company’s servers.” And thus began the now-annual backlash against Ultra and its alleged “rip-off” tactics. UPDATE…
Pop the Dom. Buss that wallet open. Hit the ATM. Repeat. If you’ve never done Memorial Day in Miami, here is a warning: It’s going to get expensive. The bottles aren’t cheap. And neither are the hookups. But if you wanna party (or you know, remember the men and women…
The Gaslamp Killer isn’t for the faint of heart. He’s been in the game for more than a decade and he’s made a name for himself as part of Flying Lotus’s Brain Feeder crew. The Cali-based label is a tight-knit group of envelope pushers, and Gaslamp Killer has earned his…
Good hip-hop can be hard to find, but the beat lives on at The Stage. And next week, the Design District club is pleased to welcome Buckshot, the latest in a string of shows by underground rap kings. The heavyweight rapper is renowned for his funky flow and sick collaborative…
If partying with The Knocks and Brass Knuckles are any indicator of what’s in store for Memorial Day weekend, then you better put your party pants on and get ready for some non-stop EDM and dance action. The best part of it all, you don’t have to wait until the…
The winds of change are blowing for Caligula, Miami’s darkest dubstep duo. Members Damaged Goods and Mikey Millions have worked hard since 2010 to make a name for themselves in the streets, catching fire with hot remixes of Kid Cudi’s “Marijuana” and Swedish House Mafia’s “Miami to Ibiza.” They’ve also…
