EDM is a new music genre. And Skrillex invented bass music. Yeah, maybe if you’re a clueless American Gen Z glowstick raver. Because in the U.K., everyone and his grandmother knows electronic dance music has been going strong for more than three decades. Music historians even have a name for…
“There is a reason I have a stage name,” Alejandro Rose-Garcia (AKA Shakey Graves) admits. “There is something to be said about performing outside of yourself. I feel that when a lot of people get onstage, they become a bigger version of themselves. It’s the classic becoming the band.” But…
Smoking ganja isn’t just a recreational activity. It’s a righteously stoned ritual. “The more you accept herb is the more you accept Rastafari,” the patron saint of tokers, Bob Marley, explained in a TV interview a few years before his death from cancer in Miami at the tragically young age…
Better than: 90 percent of your other options on a Tuesday night.”We do what we do for this, right here” decreed Every Time I Die lead singer, Keith Buckley, as he stood tall at the edge of Grand Central’s stage, extolling the sanctity of sweaty club dates. Buckley’s declaration was…
Hold on. Has it really been 23 years since Wilson Phillips knocked Madonna’s “Vogue” off the top of the charts? Yeah. And it’s even been more than two decades since Carnie Wilson, her sister Wendy, and their friend Chynna Phillips called it quits just a couple of years after becoming…
“Before Adam and Eve, God created disco and cats — God was Spanish, of course,” say the Young Hearts. Sounds like the kind of God who could have created Miami — America’s tropical, hedonistic disco Garden of Eden.Disco cats are the concept behind Gato y Disco, Young Hearts’ exclusive WMC…
Yo, who’s hungry? We’re fucking starving. But before you start eating faces and torturing people, calm down. Raekwon the Chef is coming to feed Miami some meaty beats. The Wu-Tang Clan man will be stomping through The Stage on Saturday, March 9. He’s bound to exhibit some “Fly.International.Luxurious.Art,” because he’ll…
Saturday night is for him. It’s also for her. Thanks to Poplife, it’s for everyone, because the non-gender-specific get-down His and Hers was in full-swing at Grand Central’s upstairs Garret. This weekend, EDM mastermind, composer, and connoisseur Destructo hit the loft for its second installment of their new night. Naturally,…
There’s something inherently blue collar about working on cars. Grease stains. The inescapable smell of motor oil on calloused hands. Engine grit collecting under already dirty fingernails. The cigarette breaks. Similarly, there’s something inherently blue collar about Alejandro Rose-Garcia, the 25-year-old actor/musician behind Shakey Graves and one of NPR’s “Ten…
Come for the pretentious, arty stuff. Stay for the booze, Afro-Cuban funk, experimental freakouts, sports jams, drag queens, break dancing, and, uh, more booze. Once a year, New Times throws a big, ostensibly highbrow bash called Artopia. And officially, it’s “an eclectic touch of art, culture, fashion, food, music, and…
Destructo (AKA Gary Richards) is the electro-house chief in charge of Hard Events, the good people behind Holy Ship!!! and the Hard Miami parties during Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week. But Richards is more than just a promoter. He’s been DJing and producing his own killer tracks since…
And the uhntz-uhntz continues … Last month, the Opium Group dropped its Phase One lineup for Miami Music Week 2013, revealing eight shows at four clubs: Mansion, Cameo, SET, and Mokai. Now almost exactly four weeks later, the clubbin’ conglomerate has unveiled its Phase Two slate, including MMW throwdowns with…
Will JT and Jay-Z be hitting up the MIA? Last week, after Timberlake admitted “[Jay and I] are definitely going to go on tour” while walking the Grammys’ red carpet, we here at Crossfade insisted: “These two dapper dudes gotta make a stop in Miami, right?” And it seems as…
There will be an epic DJ battle during Winter Music Conference 2013. But this one won’t be fought behind the decks. It’s going down on the basketball court. Yes, the Red Blue Classic on March 19 is WMC’s inaugural DJ basketball game — a chance for enthusiasts of the sport…
Strippers are stars. Just ask 305 rapper and Rick Ross collaborator Ice Billion Berg. Like any straight-up gentleman with a lifetime platinum membership at the gentleman’s club, he’s got mad respect for the inner strength, physical prowess, and work ethic of the average exotic dancer. “It’s a way a lot…
Y’all ready to get your HARD on? It’s beginning to look a lot like springtime. And as such, electro bangers will soon drown out every other noise Miami generates in a 24-hour period — construction, traffic, chusmeria — as part of the March tradition known as Winter Music Conference and…
Who in the 305 “want[s] to get up close and personal with your favorite #RizinStar artist?” Well, sorry. It ain’t gonna happen ’cause the Rizinstar Tour with Travis Porter, Kirko Bangz, Ca$h Out, and others has nixed its show at the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami. The venue…
Beware the Ides of March. No, not because someone’s planning to stab you in the back à la Brutus. But rather because this year’s Winter Music Conference kicks off on March 15, meaning you have only about three weeks of fake tanning sessions, CrossFit classes, and detoxing left until you’re…
Skeptical until about 46 minutes ago, we just learned there is, in fact, a God. And while it took her several years to answer the one prayer that we’d been repeating every night for the past 1,460 days, Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona is finally returning to Miami. The veteran crooner…
Some say “happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.” But in reality, happiness is a three-night cruise with Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas at the helm. For the first time ever, the 2004 People’s Choice Awards selection for Favorite Musical Group is hitting the high seas aboard the Carnival…
Now going on its sixth year, Flying Circus has emerged as one of the foremost mid-week Winter Music Conference parties. Back in 2011, Luca Saporito of UK DJ-production duo Audiofly reminisced with Crossfade about the fateful day in 2008 when he teamed up with SAFE Miami to launch the party…
MC Yogi grew up in the rough world full of drugs, gangs, pimps and hoes in the Bay Area. At around 18 years old, he discovered yoga, and later applied his new philosophy on life to making hip hop. Today, he’s independently sold over 100,000 albums. And this weekend, he…
