If Mitt Romney smoked a joint, nothing would happen. Because robots can’t get high. But Crossfade’s backing Obama. Like most Americans, we’ve smoked marijuana. And we’re not afraid to admit it. We also recently spoke to B-Real of Cypress Hill about why weed’s a good thing, why voting is important,…
Bobby Peru. Special Request. Hip Therapist. Wooly. Those are just a few of the guises that UK DJ-producer Paul Woolfoord has assumed over the years. And his sound is just as elusive as his artistic identity — straddling house, techno, UK hardcore, and bass. Nevertheless, in spite of his sonic…
Backed by DJ Eric B’s expertly sampled soul-funk-R&B ejaculations, late ’80s rapper Rakim was a true hip-hop innovator who broke from the first wave’s Mother Goose rhyme schemes and party-shout vocal delivery. The duo is regarded as one of the all-time greats. Rakim sans Eric B? That’s a slightly different…
Plan B From Outerspace With Holly Hunt, Crucial Taunt, and Andrew W.K. 2 Churchill’s Pub, Miami Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Better Than: Throwing a party on a Native American burial ground, moshing with mummies, and Trick-or-Treating at Britney Spears’ house. Miami has a tendency to turn every holiday into a…
There’s just somethin’ ’bout Kreay. The O-Town rapper has copped a lot of fame recently, leading up to her major label release and a big nationwide tour that she can only describe as “crazy.” Her travels will bring her to our very own LIV for a special performance on Wednesday,…
In the immortal words of hip-pop visionaries Loving My Friends and Others, more commonly known as LMFAO: “We’re in Miami, bitch.” In fact, we here at Crossfade are drink-all-day, play-all-night, party-rocking freaks who spend every Thursday-through-Sunday getting wasted in the megaclubs, wearing Vans, and stumbling in the sand with a…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a greater authority on house and techno — and the area where these two EDM genres overlap — than Steve Bug. As head honcho of the seminal Berlin imprints Poker Flat, Audiomatique, and Dessous, he’s emerged as one of the transatlantic scene’s foremost tastemakers since…
OWSLA Tour at Grand Central November 1
Glen Matlock’s Acoustic Anarchy Tour at the Vagabond November 2
Miami Live Music Month Kickoff Party at Grand Central November 3
Curren$y at Club Cinema November 3
Taking Back Sunday at Revolution Live November 7
Kreayshawn at LIV November 7
Black Moth Super Rainbow With Casket Girls, Ark IX, and Mr. Feathers The Stage, Miami Tuesday, October 30, 2012 Better Than: Having frotteurs dressed as unicorns, human fruits, and Batman characters rub against you in eerie silence. Last night, Sweat Records brought Black Moth Super Rainbow to The Stage shortly…
Miami’s increasingly unfuckwithable curator of extreme tuneage, the appropriately named Speedfreek booking agency, is ripping out shows faster than a death metal drummer zooted on green tea caffeine pills. But no matter how quickly the 305’s calendar fills with assorted acts, flown in from all over the country being to…
The xx was supposed to play Baltimore tonight, the English indie pop outfit’s last North American gig in support of sophomore release, Coexist, before a string of shows across Western Europe in November and December. Instead, inclement weather forced the group to postpone its remaining three concerts. “We’ll have another…
Kitsuné has done so much for us. Over the last decade, the Parisian electro label has delivered some of our favorite music, from Cut Copy to Boys Noize, Bloc Party, Digitalism, Hot Chip, Klaxons, La Roux, Two Door Cinema Club, and a million more we would literally die without. And…
Sexy kittens and Mad Men characters, you had your fun this weekend at the family-friendly Halloween parties. But when Sweat Records brings Black Moth Super Rainbow to The Stage in Miami tonight, there won’t be any peeled grapes or cold spaghetti. This time, it will be real-deal eyeballs and guts…
Continental drift is ultimately to blame for electronic dance music’s latest heartbreak. Had the continents not started shifting 250 million years ago, London might’ve only been a short domestic flight from Los Angeles, and Skrillex would still be dating Ellie Goulding. According to The Sun, the dubstep messiah and electro-pop…
The Swedish electro chicks of Icona Pop sing: “I crash my car into a bridge. I don’t care. I love it,” to a floor-smashing dance beat. They are the perfect example of a species that one of their songs terms the “90s Bitch.” Who is this bitch? She’s a wild…
Psychedelic Furs and Lemonheads With the Chevin Grand Central, Miami Sunday, October 28, 2012 Better Than: Wondering if the Lemonheads will be good or terrible or both. Knowing is better than not knowing. Last night, Grand Central was packed with grown-up ’80s and ’90s outsider teenagers. Most of us have…
Strip clubs across the country (if not the world) owe the city of Miami a lap dance. Had it not been for our late ’80s and early ’90s bass, pole dancers may have never shown us that “Tootsee Roll” or how to buss the “Kitty Kitty.” During booty music’s most…
