Metallica: Five Signs These Metal Legends Still Shred

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…

Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Outside Lands Music Festival, August 10

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…

25 Diplo-Certified Ways to “Express Yourself”

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…

Footprintz Talk New Album on Visionquest and Recording at the BBC Studios

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…

Boys Noize’s “First-Ever U.S.A. Live Tour”: Fort Lauderdale, NYC, L.A., 13 Other Cities

“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…