Dirtybird NYE 2013 With Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin, J. Phlip, Kill Frenzy, and Mark Starr Grand Central, Miami Monday, December 31, 2012 Better Than: Any party that doesn’t let you load up on free drinks for the first four hours. San Francisco’s Dirtybird Records isn’t the fanciest label around. But…
Miami never sleeps. Sure, the $700 bottles stop poppin’ at dawn. But then it’s just time to drag our sexy uhntz-uhntz-ing asses to the supersecret afterparty, followed by some beat-freaking brunch with DJ Mimosa! To be honest, though, we here at Crossfade are kinda exhausted of being so expensive and…
Future With T.I. and B.o.B. Cameo, Miami Beach Monday, December 31, 2012 Future was slated to go on at midnight. But Cameo is a long way from Pluto so his landing got delayed. In the meantime, Baltimore club legend DJ Class’s “I’m the Shit” remix dropped over the club speakers,…
If Gramps had announced this party a bit earlier, it would have surely make Crossfade’s list of best free New Year’s Eve events. And in a city where the average general admission ticket for tonight’s festivities ranges in the hundreds, it’s great to see a solid New Year’s Eve celebration…
Wanna get the adrenaline pumping for this week’s BCS National Championship game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Alabama Crimson Tide? Well, all you’ve gotta do is follow these three simple steps to achieve superfan status: (1) Shotgun six ice-cold beers and an equal number of sugar-loaded sodas, (2)…
Life In Color With Diplo, Benny Benassi, R3hab, David Solano and more Miami Convention Center, Miami Friday, December 28, 2012 Better Than: Rollin’ through the Sherwin-Williams store geeked up on mollies. “Does Miami go hard in the motherfucking paint?” Yeah, we do. We let it drip from our chin and…
Leftöver Crack exists at an intersection of punk rock just barely less bewildering than Hare Krsna hardcore. While dishing out a manically mode-shifting blend of pop-punk, third-wave ska, and death metal, the lyrical content is equal parts gutter punk and Food Not Bombs. The Crizack mashes radical, left-wing anarchism with…
Bass, bass and more fucking bass. If your main erogenous zone is that spot in your solar plexus that gets pummeled by low-end sonic frequencies, inciting your gluteus maximus muscles to start gyrating of their own accord, then look no further than Dirtybird’s label showcase at Grand Central for New…
Yo, for real … WTF?! Our stupefied disbelief refers to the latest announcement from Speedfreek, Miami’s leading connoisseur of metal, hardcore, and every combination of every permutation of both genres and their extended, interwoven family trees. Just yesterday, we were crapping our Amebix butt-flaps at the news that The Freek…
By now, there’s not much King Britt hasn’t done musically in a career spanning almost three decades. As one of Philadelphia’s electronic dance music pioneers, Britt enjoyed massive commercial success in the ’90s, through his Sylk 130 project and as half of E-Culture with fellow luminary Josh Wink, with whom…
He was asking for a “big booty ho” on his birthday, but we’re pretty positive that 2 Chaniz wrote Santa for a couple of “dem strippers” this Christmas. The lucky bastard just booked a gig at New Time’s favorite strip club, King of Diamonds. Hip-hop’s explicitly heterosexual equivalent of disco’s…
Are you mad bro? It’s understandable. Have you seen the state of dubstep lately? It’s all big drops and wobble sirens and buff dudes in silly tank tops. But it’s OK ’cause The Vagabond and its Get Low crew are going to make all the bad feelings go away. They’ll…
Life in Color at Miami Beach Convention Center December 28
Leftover Crack at Churchill’s Pub December 28
Bright Light Social Hour at Culture Room December 30
B.B. King’s New Year’s Eve at Broward Center for the Performing Arts December 31
Way back in 1987, when the members of Capitalist Casualties — one of California’s most revered first-wave powerviolence crews — were coming up with a name for their band, what do you think was the inspiration? Are they talking about victims of capitalism? Or is the moniker a reference to…
Fang With No Fraud, Powerhouse, To Be Hated, Out of Sorts, and FWA Presented by Idle Hands Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, December 22, 2012 Better Than: An Xmas weekend spent with anything besides loud abrasive music and old friends, reminiscing about those who are no longer here, in a sea…
Damian Lazarus’ Crosstown Rebels is a world-class dance music institution by now — a regular shoo-in for best international label on yearly polls like Resident Advisor’s, and a permanent presence on the global scene through its myriad transatlantic artist bookings and formidable Get Lost and Rebel Rave lineups. It follows…
Mr. Nice Guy Records’ Second Anniversary at Mansion December 20
SkaPocalypse at Talent Farm Studios December 21
End of Days Party at Grand Central December 21
