Calvin Harris, Maroon 5, Flo Rida, Gym Class Heroes, Enrique Iglesias … It reads like the soundtrack listing of a PG-13 rom-com. But that’s just the lineup for the iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. In fact, the two-day musical extravaganza is a strict 21-and-older pachanga. The…
Steve Aoki is the DJ equivalent of Shamu. If you’re in the first ten rows, you’re gonna get splashed. It used to be that you only had to worry about some sweat and a champagne shower. Of course, though, Aoki’s gotta keep raising the ante. So there’s a good chance…
See Crossfade’s interview: “J. Nics on Miami Rap, The Tribute, and The Product: ‘Southern Niggas Ain’t Slow.'” It’s always great to see a hard-working local artist’s hustle blossom into much-deserved national attention, and that’s definitely what’s happening right now with rapper J. Nics. The Miami Gardens-raised MC adds another notch…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. Simply put, Deaf Poets won Sweatstock 2012. There was crowd chatter before the show about how well the band’s two-person brand of rough, throat-shredding garage rock would translate to an outdoor stage. And it took a couple of songs for Deaf Poets…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. Just before Haochi Waves began their set, drummer and vocalist Juan Fernando Oña popped his head into the Churchill’s Pub patio bar to announce that his band was about to start playing. This crew is a modified version of its three members’…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. If there’s a Miami musician who’s best suited to accompany early afternoon drinking on a rainy day, it’s Jesse Jackson. Driven inside Churchill’s Pub by the rain, Miami’s favorite melancholy scruffster played a set pulled from his approximately nine billion songs, accompanied…
Skrillex is on a speedboat flying through the Biscayne Bay. He’s on his way to commit mass murder at Ultra Music Festival where he will kill beats and cause a massive dubstep bloodbath. For now, he’s just another cracker tourist on the water in Miami. But soon, his massive legion…
Marley documentary April 20-29 at O Cinema
Read “Marley Film Review: A Fascinating Look at the Reggae Legend.”
Gipsy Kings at the James L. Knight Center April 20
Mr. Haka at Jazid April 21
Elvis Costello at Hard Rock Live April 25
Nope, you didn’t misread that headline. DJ and electronic music producer The Polish Ambassador (AKA David Sugalski) is giving away the greatest gift in the world … Free music. And not just one song. But all of them. That’s over seven hours of music…
On Magrudergrind’s Crusher EP, there’s a track called “Heaviest Bombing” about writing graffiti. It fades from grindcore brutality into a hip-hop breakdown, ends in a squall of screeching feedback, and then jumps back into violent chord changes for the next song. That shit’s pretty cool. And the Washington D.C. band…
Win free tickets to Afrojack’s Jacked Summer Tour at Mansion Miami on June 15 and 16. Dutch DJ-producer Afrojack just announced his Jacked summer tour with a stop at Miami’s Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park on Saturday, June 16, and it’s being billed as his most ambitious roadtrip to date…
Proof that God is nonexistent struck us like an 18-wheeler going 65 MPH in a school zone when Nickelback announced their Here and Now arena tour earlier this year. We asked our readers to join the “stop Nickelback from infiltrating our up-and-coming, culturally relevant music scene” movement, but few responded…
Yesterday, CNN ran an interesting article about Southern stereotypes, “The South: Not all Bubbas and Banjos.” “The lower right-hand portion of the U.S. of A. is often pigeonholed as a tobacco-spittin’, Bible-thumpin’, gun-totin’ (and worse) backwater,” writes Todd Leopold. “So go ahead, fry up the buckwheat cakes, spoon out the…
WTF, 1.8 Million people “like” Def Leppard on Facebook? And holy shit, another 800,000+ dig Poison? No wonder these two glam metal giants are hitting the road together again; it’ll be the biggest tour ever! That’s right, MILFS, “Great Britain’s premiere arena rock band” and Rock of Love heartthrob Bret…
Babasonicos at Grand Central April 12
Flosstradamus at Mansion April 13
MillionYoung at the Vagabond April 13
Serge Devant at Set Nightclub April 15
The art of sensual seduction via song ain’t nothin’ like it used to be. Back in the day, all it took was a few lines from Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” to not only get the panties droppin’, but also have them flying through the air like graduation caps. Contemporary…
