He’s perhaps the most unrecognizable face in modern R&B, often photographed while hiding amid dark shadows. But Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye’s music is anything but unfamiliar, especially if you’ve stumbled across a indie music blog over the past year. With three mixtapes, a co-headlining spot at the Coachella Valley Music…
See Crossfade’s concert review, “Avicii Totally ‘Le7els’ Miami at American Airlines Arena, June 8.” Even though Avicii’s spent the entire summer luring underage uhntz-uhntz addicts to arena raves all across America, he isn’t gonna take a beat-freaking break. Nope … This Swedish DJ, producer, and Ralph Lauren poster boy is…
Brooklyn-based alt-rapper EL-P is admittedly not that “fucking brilliant,” but he’s comfortable being a perfectionist. “When I do my records, I’m trying to push myself and say everything the right way for me at the time,” he recently said in an interview with our sister paper Phoenix New Times. “I’m…
Christopher VictorioStevie Wonder at Outside Lands.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. See more Outside Lands Music Festival news. Stevie Wonder, in theory, is an American artistic treasure. He’s more than our Beatles or Rolling Stones; he’s our Dickens…
See the full 36-photo slideshow of Fake Blood at Grand Central. Fake Blood With Damaged Goods and Mike Deuce Grand Central, Miami Saturday, August 11, 2012 Better Than: Parties with the Manson family. Not everything that’s hard is dubstep. And just because it’s dark, doesn’t mean it can’t be funky…
Christopher VictorioMetallica at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. See more Outside Lands Music Festival news. Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, proved just…
Photo by Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Crazy Horse at the Outside Lands Music Festival.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. See more Outside Lands Music Festival news. While he’s putting everything into a solo, Neil Young’s face looks like…
See also “Diplo, ‘Mr. Express Yourself,’ Announces Expression Session Party at LIV Miami.” So, as you should know, Diplo will be coming to LIV for a special expression session on Wednesday, October 3. But what exactly is expressing yourself? Does Diplo want you to write an epic poem about love…
Footrprintz is multi-intrumentalist producers Clarian North and Adam Hunter. The Montreal natives are currently their city’s most hotly-tipped house and techno crossover act, thanks to 2011’s auspicious Utopia EP on Visionquest, a label beloved by the techno heads with a taste for left-field dance-pop. After all, Footprintz’s North and Hunter…
As you should know, Afrojack protégé R3hab is coming to rock the house at LIV this Saturday. And we here at Crossfade sent him some need-to-know questions. We were desperate for the scoop on why R3hab’s got a number “3” in his name. But he refused to tell us. It’s…
See also “25 Diplo-Certified Ways to ‘Express Yourself.'” Spread your legs, arch your back, work it down, and make it clap … Diplo is coming to town. Oh yeah, Mr. Express Himself will be hitting the flashing lights of LIV for a crunked-up edition of the weekly Dirty Hairy on…
Only in America will you get sneakers and “Pu$$y” for $20. And only an Australian dude can make it happen. A decade ago, Aussie Peter Fahey embarked on a mission to combine two of his passions — footwear and music. The result: The Sneaker Pimp Tour, a mishmash of “limited,…
SAFE Miami is turning five years old this month. Now that may mean something to you if you’re a regular Crossfade reader, because we’ve been following the electronic dance music tastemakers and promotions veterans since the beginning. And it’ll definitely mean something to you if you’re a regular on the…
It’s been about 100 years since that quintessentially American art form known as jazz music was invented by a mostly nameless gang of raw and adventurous trumpeters, trombone blowers, clarinetists, tuba men, guitar guys, bassists, piano players, and drummers in New Orleans. In the 1910s, though, our Magic City (less…
Rock of Ages Tour at BankAtlantic Center August 9
Neon Trees at Revolution Live August 10
Buraka Som Sistema at Grand Central August 9
The Drive Tour at Grand Central August 14
See the full 45-photo slideshow from Summer of Weirds 2012 at Churchill’s Pub. Summer of Weirds III With Xela Zaid, Sharlyn Evertsz, Ed Wilcox, The Jellyfish Brothers, Rose Quartz, Mr. Feathers, Crucial Taunt, Luma Junger, and This Heart Electric Churchill’s Pub, Miami Tuesday, August 7, 2012 Better Than: Taco Tuesday…
Yo, beat freaks. It’s almost time to slow it down and heat things up at Grand Central, because another edition of Miami Moombahton Massive is coming this way. D.C. moombah founders Nadastrom will be topping the bill on Thursday, August 16, alongside local boys Craze and JWLZ. Surely, this is…
House music is currently embroiled in a hot steamy love affair with its own past. Look no further than the lush slow-mo vintage grooves of Scotland’s The Revenge, AKA Graeme Clark. As a master of the disco edit, Clark is keeping the old-school tradition of garage legends like Larry Levan…
“XTC” … The only way to start your beat-freaking day. Of course, we here at Crossfade aren’t advocating early-morning methylenedioxy-methylamphetamine. Just the new entactogenically exhilirating single by professional Berlin-based party starter and label boss Boys Noize, AKA Alexander Ridha. It’s kinda like porn music for Kraftwerkian supercomputers. Also, if you’re…
