III Points Festival 2014, Day One With Lykke Li, Flying Lotus, Duke Dumont, and others Soho Studios, Wynwood, Miami Friday, October 10, 2014 Last night, III Points 2014 kicked off with the strongest musical lineup of the three-day festival. There were a few infrastructural hiccups. Many of the bars did…
We’ve “got a feeling inside…” It’s “a certain kind” of feeling we just “can’t explain.” That’s because British rock legends and Hall of Famers the Who have just announced their two-leg 50th anniversary tour and yep, they’re coming to the Magic City next spring. Check the cut for the Who’s…
There aren’t too many musicians left like Kaytranada, not in the big leagues, anyway. His sound is hard to classify as anything more than head-knockin’, and he loves to break the rules. He makes headlines for his noiseless drops, like the Whatever project, when he just dumped a file of…
When it rains in Hell, the ground cracks open and Satan’s blood flows up from Hades to soak the Earth. Maggots in the dirt gorge themselves on the devil’s plasma until their tiny, ugly bodies burst and microscopic eggs spray everywhere. Six days later, a new generation of long-haired black…
One of Germany’s leading electronic dance music trailblazers for two decades, Roman Flügel remains very much capable of reinventing himself and surprising listeners with each new release. For one thing, he swaps artist monikers as often as he does musical styles: Roman IV, Eight Miles High, Soylent Green, and Ro…
You were born to the pulsing pound of your momma’s heart going thump. And today, the beat of a drum still brings you new life. Now multiply that phenomenon by 22, and you’ve got the estrogenergetic force of Venus Rising, South Florida’s premier all-female dance and drum group. After a…
The great state of Texas is known for many things, including football, barbecue, big oil, women with big hair, men with big hats, and the fact that, well, everything is supposedly bigger there. The latter assertion may be cause for debate, but one thing is beyond question: the Lone Star…
In 1994, singer and guitarist Warren Haynes never imagined Gov’t Mule would still exist in the year 2014. “In the beginning, it was just a side project, because Allen Woody and myself were full-time members of the Allman Brothers Band,” Haynes says. “We had no ambitions or aspirations. It was…
St. Vincent Fillmore Miami Beach Monday, October 6, 2014 Better Than: Doing the Automaton Shuffle alone. “Hello to all of you men and women out there,” said St. Vincent, welcoming a few thousand art-rock acolytes to the Fillmore Miami Beach last night. “And,” she added, after a pregnant pause, “all…
III Points, three days. The second annual edition of Wynwood’s music, art, and tech fest has finally made the big reveal of its 2014 music sked. Day by day. Hour by hour. So snatch up some last-minute tix. And check the cut for III Points’ music set times. See also:…
The last time that the Juan Maclean performed live in Miami, it was in 2009. At the then-new LIV nightclub at the Fontainebleau, he and DFA Records diva Nancy Whang were booked for the megaclub’s Dirty Hairy party, a weekly Wednesday-night party meant to mimic what was happening downtown, even…
“Maybe it was crazy. But we believed.” Out of nowhere in the summer of 2013, Miami’s David Sinopoli and Erica Freshman unveiled their vision for something called III Points, a sprawling three-day festival that aimed to unite our city’s disparate creative communities — and perhaps even help forge the future…
Miami, we’re more than just a city of superficiality, alcoholics, and club rats — we’re actually a town of thinkers, artists, and creatives. And every now and then, we get hit with some pretty good music, like the five best concerts going down this week. Check them out, from St…
Marc Anthony’s Cambio de Piel Tour With Joey Vega American Airlines Arena, Miami Friday, October 3, 2014 Better Than: A night salsa dancing at Mango’s. “Latinos, we always wait to the last minute,” joked comedian Joey Vega as los rumberos at the American Airlines Arena waited for el Rey de…
Christians pray for the men of Eyehategod. Which is good, considering the Louisiana sludge giants’ 26 years of hardship, disaster, and even death. They may have sold their souls on the bayou. But how else would they spawn heavy, full-bellied blues and give a pulse to stiff darkness? “We’re definitely…
If you had the misfortunate of missing Bonobo’s Miami performance last year, the UK electronica wizard is back at Grand Central on Saturday. Now while this gig comes as part of his current North America DJ tour — meaning no awesome full-ensemble live show — the show packs a very…
What is “Real Love?” That’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves at one point or another. The hopeless romantic might say it’s when your other half let’s you eat the bigger cookie. The pessimist would agree it’s nothing but a fairytale. But us here at Crossfade, we know the true…
An accomplished vocalist, producer, and DJ, Joyce Muniz is as consummate an artist as you’ll find on today’s global electronic dance music scene. Born in Brazil, she spent her formative years in ’90s Vienna, soaking up the European underground house, techno and bass music which she would later put her…
There’s no doubt III Points’ anchor will be the amazing lineup of artists performing throughout the weekend at the fest’s Soho Studios headquarters. Lykke Li and Flying Lotus alone are worth the price of admission. But if you want to get up close and personal with your favorite acts, you’ll…
Stéphanie Sokolinski, better known as Soko, is a 27-year-old actress and musician who’s steadily garnered accolades and critical praise for both facets of her work. Immortalized on the screen in Alice Winocour’s impeccable historical drama Augustine, SoKo’s 2012 album I Thought I Was an Alien also shot to fame thanks…
AC Slater is about to take you back to a time before fancy light rigs and Jesus-posing DJs, when dance parties were messy, dark, personal affairs and nothing mattered but the bass. Maybe some of you remember those times fondly, and perhaps some of you are tired of hearing about…
On your mark. Get set. Go score some rave tix. Ultra Music Festival 2015 tickets are officially on sale. So for all those party people who qualify under UMF’s new 18-and-over policy, it’s time to camp in front of the computer and secure a spot at America’s longest-running dance fest…
