He didn’t think it would happen — a Grammy-winning R&B crooner dipping his toes into bachata. But when former Aventura frontman Romeo Santos asked Miami-based record producer Rico Love if he could set up a Usher collaboration for his debut solo record, a dream became a reality. “To be honest,…
It’s Tuesday err’body. And that means we’re one day closer to Friday. Luckily, you don’t have to wait four, long, dreadful days to party like it’s the weekend. There are plenty of concerts going down all week, from goth rock to metal to hip-hop. Just check the cut for Crossfade’s…
Jarabe de Palo’s A piano y voz With Ulises Hadjis and Mr. Pauer Grand Central, Miami Saturday, April 27, 2013 In a very intimate setting at Grand Central in downtown Miami, Spanish rock band Jarabe de Palo kicked off its latest tour around the United States, called A piano y…
Let’s start with Peter Murphy’s infamous arrest on March 16 in Glendale, California, for allegedly fleeing a hit-and-run crash that left another driver’s car damaged and ended with Murphy’s detention and a meth charge. Asked for his version of events via cell phone while riding on a tour bus headed…
Before Luther Campbell was Uncle Luke, he was Luke Skyywalker. But George Lucas sued him for violating copyright. And that’s how the nasty boy went from car wars to Star Wars. The Lucas lawsuit was just the beginning of his infamy. Soon, Miami bass became the trunk rattle heard ’round…
Rebellion, it’s inevitable — whether as simple as hiding a cigarette habit from parents at 15 or as monumental as overthrowing a government in the Middle East. But when Bruno “Sergent” Garcia joined a revolution, the multinational musician wasn’t entirely sure why. “My view of the world is much clearer…
Vintage gear enthusiast and reclusive composer, Ramiro Jeancarlo, is renowned the world over as Staccato Du Mal. Under this handle, and in cahoots with post-punk electronica label Wierd Records, Jeancarlo has cemented a position for himself in the pantheon of contemporary coldwave, dark wave, and experimental, mostly-beat-oriented music. Adding to…
Alice in Chains Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, April 25, 2013 Better Than: Well, The Essential Alice in Chains. “C’mon, it’s the first gig …” Alice in Chains axe man Jerry Cantrell deadpanned when he and his band screwed up the opening bars of “Down in a Hole,” a 20-year-old top…
Be a music snob and hate on dubstep all you want — some of us here in the 305 live for that sick bass drop, bro. There’s a reason why Miami has always been the City of Bass. And few locals know that better than Juan BassHead. It’s why he’s…
A tragically pea-brained swath of society doesn’t believe P. Scott Cunningham and the University of Wynwood’s month-long, citywide “O, Miami” poetry festival is worth its weight in heroic couplets. What? Does simultaneously flying in the guy who fucking invented indie rock and the poet Obama had read at his second…
Hip-hop is 40 and a celebration’s in order. So KRS-One is touring the nation, bringing real hip-hop back to where it belongs — the streets. “The revolution will not be televised,” the MC recently told allhiphop.com. “You keep looking for real hip-hop on these bullshit stations. You’re not going to…
Virtuoso is one phrase that comes to mind to describe Recloose, AKA Matthew Chicoine. Also, master turntablist (not a credential you hear much in this era of laptop “DJs”), multi-instrumentalist producer, band leader, and even music academician molding the minds of electronic dance music’s next generation of DJ-producers. Of course,…
The weekend is so close, you can almost smell it. In a few hours, you’ll want to throw your papers in the air, run out of the cubicle, and make your way to the nearest bar for happy hour. The possibilities will seem endless, but that doesn’t mean you have…
Paint your claws. Dye your hair. Eat a dove alive. Because (formerly?) beastly heavy metal monolith Black Sabbath just announced its full 2013 North American tour. And the (formerly?) gut-rumbling triumvirate is coming to South Florida for a midsummer doomfest. As the Sabbath says (via Twitter), “Satan’s coming round the…
The hot weather is here. And South Beach summers are all about naked shoulders, bare backs and sweet, sweet music. So go get your epic party on at one, two, or all six of these steamy SoBe soirees. Some big names are coming to the beach, raining down trance, electro,…
For decades, Dade County has been caught up in a tide of grime and blood that rolls across across the concrete wastelands of the city and its suburbs. But this toxic waste is also the cesspool from which punk rock bands are born. Like Die Trying, a Miami crew whose…
“I’ve been living on such sweet nothing,” you lament. “But I’m trying to hope with nothing to hold.” Oh, it’s true … Tickets are all sold out for Calvin Harris at Story on South Beach tomorrow night. And yet you needn’t despair. Because Story Nightclub and Crossfade have got two…
Of Montreal just finished its new album. Frontman and creative nerve-center Kevin Barnes tells Crossfade that he wrote the whole thing in about three weeks on his first-ever, self-imposed “writer’s retreat” in San Francisco. After that, he returned to his Athens, Georgia, home and recorded it with his band in…
Oh, what have we done to deserve this? In just two short months, iconoclastic synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys (otherwise known as Mr. Neil Tennant and Mr. Chris Lowe) will be unveiling their 12th studio album, Electric. And then they’ll be venturing across our continent for the “Pet Shop Boys’…
Back in December, we here at Crossfade had a chat with Ben UFO about his Hessle Audio label’s roots in the U.K.’s early underground dubstep scene. Well, David Kennedy (AKA Pearson Sound and Ramadanman) is another Hessle cofounder, not to mention the label’s foremost producer. And he boasts a forward-thinking…
South Floridians owe beat freaks and frat boys a drink. Fueled almost entirely by Red Bull, Molly, and (presumably) a little bit of cocaine, sunburned college students from the Midwest, foreign ravers, and Ultra Music Festival organizers rallied to resurrect South Florida’s economy in March. See also: -Ten Richest DJs:…
Monday has just come and gone. But there are plenty of great ways to pretend it’s the weekend, starting as soon as tonight! Tons of great musical acts are laying down the grooves Tuesday through Saturday. A lot of great local talent will be showing off their stuff, and a…
