See the 55-photo slideshow from Identity Festival 2012 at Klipsch Amphitheater as well as The Fashion at Identity Festival Miami. Identity Festival 2012 With Eric Prydz, Excision, Doctor P, Porter Robinson, Le Castle Vania, Audrey Napoleon, and others Klipsch Ampitheater at Bayfront Park, Miami Saturday, August 4, 2012 Better Than:…
You already know Rick Ross is having his official album release party for God Forgives, I Don’t at King Of Diamonds tomorrow night. But you probably don’t know that two formerly felonious armed-robbing cocaine jackboys from North Miami are the promoters. Tru Story Ent’s Dave and LT took the time…
Los Enanitos Verdes’ next album won’t be out until early next year, but that hasn’t stopped the Argentine rock group from promoting it. “We’re recording the new album, that’s why we’re celebrating,” lead singer Marciano Cantero recently told Mexico’s Diario de Yucatán. “The album’s so good, I’m so proud of…
See also “Bear in Heaven’s Mustache Speaks! Anticipates ‘Mustache Afro’ in Miami” Adorably tragic or tragically adorable? The legacy of Knut the Polar Bear is still being debated by experts everywhere. Rejected by his mother and raised by zookeepers, Knut captured the heart of anyone who, like some New Times staffers,…
Remember your first computer? Ours was a rather unflattering, bulky Packard Bell Legend with horrid speakers hanging off the monitor. There was also a flimsy microphone that we could use on the integrated “telephone answering system with full-duplex speakerphone.” But a digital phone system was only the beginning of our…
See also “Who Wants Tickets for Identity Festival in Miami?” and “ID 2012 in Miami: Full Lineup and Set Times.” Identity Festival 2012 in Miami is 52 hours away! And no doubt the city’s epic partiers are gearing up to get down with Eric Prydz, Wolfgang Gartner, Madeon, and all…
Ted Nugent at Revolution Live August 7
Rev Run at LIV Nightclub August 3
Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart’s Heart and Soul Tour at BankAtlantic Center August 4
O Rappa at Fillmore Miami Beach August 5
It takes a real man (or Crossfade’s grandma) to grow a truly special mustache. And Adam Wills, multi-instrumentalist in widescreen synthpoppers Bear in Heaven, is just such a man. Look at that ‘stache! It sits astride his upper lip like the legs of the Colossus of Rhodes! Virility personified!…
From the Prince of Brooklyn to the baddest ‘fro in popular experimental jazz … The Adrienne Arsht Center has just announced the six-act lineup for its inaugural Live at Knight concert series. Jumping off in October with Talib Kweli & Res’s Idle Worship and ending seven months later with Esperanza…
Whoa, dude … Primus just announced its “first-ever traveling 3D-enhanced live musical performance.” And it’s gonna be “really trippy.” That’s what weirdo ringmaster Les Claypool tells Billboard, adding, “The past couple of years, Primus has gotten pretty psychedelic. We keep joking that we’re bringing acid rock back to the masses.”…
As far as Hollywood action movies go, 2011’s Drive starring Ryan Gosling was a stylistic tour de force. And whether you’re one of the countless chicks swooning and drooling over RyGos, the dreamy yet dangerous loverboy-next-door or a dude amped up by Gosling’s stoic skull-cracking badassery, the one thing both…
To quote adorable guy-girl indie poppers Matt & Kim: Oooh-oooh-oooh-woo, oooh-woo, oooh-woo … Just a few minutes ago, the perpetually psyched tag team (“Matt plays keys! Kim plays drums!”) announced their 38-date Lightning Tour via Twitter, expressing an overwhelming level of excitement with all-caps hashtaggery such as “#PARTY!” and “#LETSGO.”…
Check the contents of your ostrich-skin wallet. Along with the XXXL lambskin condom, stack of hundreds, and black AmEx, there should be your up-to-date 305 Baller Certification card. If, however, you haven’t taken care of this year’s dues, make sure to send that suitcase full of singles to Baller HQ…
See also John Lydon and “Ten Raging Punks Who Crashed the Daytime Talk Show Circuit.” After spending the mid-1970s repeatedly slapping the Queen with the knobby end of his spit-soaked Sex Pistol, pioneering British punk John Lydon (AKA Johnny Rotten) decided to take a break from all that endlessly snarling…
Diabetes, a literal hole in the heart, and severe brain hemorrhaging would almost certainly kill the common man. Poison’s Bret Michaels, however, is not your average Joe. “I feel really great,” Michaels recently told the Columbus Dispatch. “I’m about 90-percent back from the hemorrhage and the heart surgery. I feel…
See also Crossfade’s interview with Eric Prydz and “Identity Festival 2012’s Five Most Exciting Artists.” Identity Festival is coming, and many of you are no doubt running around the city, calling everyone you know, trying to finalize all your “preparations” for Saturday, August 4. It’s an exciting chance to see…
When talking house music, Mexico is not the first place that comes to mind. But Guadalajara’s Balcazar & Sordo might be single-handedly changing that perception. Or at the very least, they’re at the top of a rapidly growing new wave of Mexican producers. The DJ-production duo has exploded practically overnight,…
Solos are boring. Encores are predictable. And opening bands suck. Thankfully, Grand Central and Idle Hands Bookings have cooked up a wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am showcase that dumps a cinder block on the accelerator and let’s that bad boy ride right off the edge of the circle pit. And did we mention that…
See also “Identity Festival 2012’s Five Most Exciting Artists.” Before even being given the go-ahead to speak with Eric Prydz, the London-based Swedish DJ-producer, we are told that any questions about his fear of flying are “off the table.” This is somewhat disappointing, considering his phobia is well known. It…
