Alright, this is a big New Year’s Eve. What are your options? 1. Stay at home in your comfiest jammies, watch the ball drop, and sip sparkling wine. 2. Head out in a shimmery get-up to a real expensive, classy joint, and toast away your wallet. 3. Get fucking nasty…
Break out your vinyl copy of Candy Girl and get your “I Love JIG” tees. ‘Cause Jazz in the Gardens, everyone’s favorite mature-and-sexy Miami music festival, just announced its initial 2013 lineup, starring New Edition (with Bad Bobby Brown!), Earth Wind & Fire, Charlie Wilson, and a few other jazz-y…
Have y’all heard Trilogy yet? It dropped Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate The Weeknd’s first major-label release this Sunday night at LIV. It’s that good … The type of record that’s so damn legit, it continues to have “official album release” parties five days after the official…
It was cold outside in the summer of 1998. And she said, “Baby, it’s 3 a.m., I must be lonely.” Yeah, it’s been 14 fucking years and we still can’t get that fucking song outta our heads. Neither, apparently, can Rob Thomas and Matchbox Twenty. Because the ’90s Orlando-bred alt-rockers…
It took Haruki Murakami three years to complete 1Q84, the Japanese author’s nearly 1,000-page surrealist novel set in a fictionalized 1984 Tokyo. He described his creative process in a 2011 interview with The Guardian as “routine,” waking each morning well before sunrise, diving straight into his “subconsciousness,” and then writing…
Serrat and Sabina at American Airlines Arena November 16
Araabmuzik at Mansion Miami November 16
Regina Spektor at Fillmore Miami Beach November 17
I Love Latin Music Festival at James L. Knight Center November 21
Remember Art Basel Miami Beach week in 2010? Our favorite memory: Metric at Art Loves Music. Of course, though, the punky Canadian pop band has been a dear favorite of indie kids for about a decade, ever since releasing show-stopping debut Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?. In fact,…
Cypress Hill With Action Bronson and ¡Mayday! Grand Central, Miami Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Better Than: The “giggle stick.” Grand Central’s main cave was filled with a thick and sticky cloud of party smoke well before beat one was dropped at last night’s Cypress Hill show. But despite the night…
Toronto electronic dance music outfit Azari & III reek so much of style that it’s disgusting. Pure unadulterated chic wafts off flamboyant vocalist-frontmen Fritz Helder and Starving Yet Full. And it oozes from the group’s intoxicating cocktail blend of classic house and electro. Azari & III exploded onto the international…
When Swedish House Mafia’s Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello announced their career-ending One Last Tour, saying goodbye to 26 cities across every continent, we here at Crossfade lamented, “Miami’s not included.” But we also doubted “a group who had a huge hit called ‘Miami to Ibiza’ and makes an…
Stone Temple Pilots are widely considered one of the most prolific rock groups of the 1990s. The band has sold about 40 million records, released over a dozen top ten singles, and even won a Grammy for “Plush,” 1994’s Best Hard Rock Performance. Similarly, Velvet Revolver won Best Hard Rock…
Madonna is a dirty, old lady. And though she wasn’t always old, the Queen of Pop has been a hot and proud taboo-smashing slut from birth. Even before becoming famous, Ms. Madonna Louise Ciccone was making thought-provoking egg porn. She’s also burned through an insanely long line of famous and…
Kitsuné Club Tour With The Twelves and Oliver Grand Central, Miami Friday, November 9. 2012 Celebrating ten years of next-level hipster productions, French electro-indie fusion label Kitsuné launched the Club Tour, throwing happy birthday parties for itself all over the country. On Friday night, we here at Crossfade got the…
A$AP Rocky and the Mob LongLiveA$AP Tour With Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown, and Ab-Soul Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, November 8, 2012 Better Than: A Ziploc bag packed with “Purple Swag.” Shit was thick, homie. Weed smoke wafting around the lobby of the Fillmore Miami Beach like some kinda slightly skunky…
Welcome to SoBe. A strange and beautiful seaside oasis where it’s considered perfectly normal to spend one’s entire life wandering barefoot and half-naked through the streets and across the sands in pursuit of fallen coconuts and horny tourists. Other “normal” South Beach behavior: Auditioning for Internet porn on a street…
“I was there before reggae,” says Monty Alexander, speaking of his native Jamaica, in a way that’s perfectly balanced between humble admission and matter-of-fact declaration. “I was playing in the studios of Kingston Jamaica, with the masters of Jamaican music, The Skatalites, before they were The Skatalites. I played for…
For U.S. citizens, traveling to Cuba can be a tremendo dolor en el culo. Unless you’ve got special permission from the friggin’ Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, your ass is either flying into Havana under the radar through either the Bahamas or Canada. On the bright side, we…
Despite all of the hootin’, hollerin’, and mouth-breathin’ about “Obamacare,” communism is nowhere near making a comeback. Let’s review the facts: It’s been more than 20 years since David Hasselhoff rubbed his gargantuan wienerschnitzel all over the crumbling Berlin Wall. China went so far to the fucking left they ended…
That “Pretty Flaco” is going on tour with that “Good Girl Gone Bad” … So you know there’s fina be hella weed smoke on the tour bus. Tonight, A$AP Rocky will be at the Fillmore Miami Beach with his Mob. But he’s already planning a return trip to South Florida,…
