It’s a typical scenario nowadays: A Canadian band crosses the border to market itself to the masses and becomes a pop sensation before it has even hit its prime. Yet somehow, between the full-lengths, EPs, and fame, Tokyo Police Club has managed to solidify its sound — and its audience…
Why choose between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, when you can have both? DJ Mag has decided to do exactly that this year as it once again takes over the Shelborne, and its nightclub Shine, for two weeks worth of parties.Highlights include the return of DJ Mag’s Recession…
If you choose to party with Robbie Rivera and the Juicy Beach freaks, be prepared to wake up drunk and blistered with a fistful of sand in your pants, an uncut Key lime in your mouth, and absolutely no memory of the last 17 hours. Kicking off Thursday, March 24…
We already broke the news that Hard was returning to the Magic City — only this time it’s going to be a proper club event at Grand Central on Thursday, March 24. Now the lineup has popped up. And while Simian Mobile Disco in nowhere in sight (not that we…
Most of your American friends don’t know composer Yann Tiersen by name. But play a couple of ten-second clips from songs like the melancholy accordion-and-piano piece “La Dispute” or the waltz-y whirlwind lament “J’y Suis Jamais Allé” and your test subject will almost immediately identify him as “that guy who…
One of Miami’s most collaborative musicians, Jorge Rubiera, has decided to create his own personal labor of love. For years, he’s been performing alongside longtime pals in Pygmy, the Down Home Southernaires, and Animal Tropical. But now he’s created Can’t Stop. Only a month ago, the band played its first…
2010 marked not only the quartercentennial anniversary of Miami’s Winter Music Conference but also 25 years of Detroit techno, the seminal EDM movement that spawned the worldwide techno phenomenon. And this year is also a significant one for Detroit techno, as it marks the 20th anniversary of Carl Craig’s Planet…
Sleigh Bells, the noise pop duo from Brooklyn whose debut album, Treats, generated a shit-ton of blog buzz last year, including Pitchfork’s “Best New Music” award, and a nearly perfect review in Paste, is hitting the road this spring for a North American tour with CSS. But when Derek Miller…
Does Barry Manilow even exist? Or was the Manilow concept brewed by aesthetes in the Laboratory of Cool to give record store clerks and music snobs a clear enemy to rail against? Something like Saddam Hussein circa 2002, only instead of WMDs, we’re dealing with the globally relevant threat of…
The story of DJ Bad Boy Bill reads like the history of house music itself. It tells exactly how this Chicago music subculture spread across America and the world to become an international mainstream phenomenon. Schooled in the Chi-town house boom of the mid ’80s, Bill first made a name…
View photos from Washed Out’s performance at Eve here.Washed OutWith ANREve, Miami Friday, January 21, 2011 Better than: Chilling on chillwave — at home.We didn’t really know what to expect last night at Eve. Sure, Washed Out frontman Ernest Greene has done a solid job of being the poster boy…
It seems like only a few years ago that the international EDM scene was in some sort of minimal techno dark age. The sounds were cool and slick and oh-so-Berlinesque, but they just weren’t very fun. Fast-forward to 2011 and Boston’s Soul Clap have helped kick-start a veritable clubland renaissance…
Don Omar is a platinum-selling reggaeton artist based out of San Juan, New York City, and Miami. He’s also the guy who trumped Britney Spears for most albums sold during an in-store appearance at Disney World’s Virgin Megastore. And now the Puerto Rican playa and owner of Orfanato Music Group…
Naming a band can be a tricky thing. You don’t want to get all set to rock the Pit on Saturday in order to save the dorm and put together some upstart, slacker rock band called Everyone Gets Laid, if in fact nobody does. That said, Xperimento didn’t seem to have a problem…
Sampling tracks and random sounds from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s — and even voicemail messages — seems the norm for Washed Out’s Ernest Greene. But it won’t always be that way. “The new album is slightly [more rock-based],” Greene says. “There’s just more live drum sounds. There’s a bass guitar…
Brazilians have rapidly become an integral part of South Florida’s cultural melting pot. And while many will recognize their contributions to the arenas of futebol and beach wear, I’ve always made a big case for their musical innovations. From bossa nova to death metal to MPB, the Brazilian sound is…
The Groove Cruise sets sail from Miami January 29! It’s gonna be three days of unadulterated hedonistic fun under the sun, all to the beat of some seriously high-energy electronic tuneage. You’ll need some tan in a can. You’ll need tons of water. And you’ll probably need an industrial-sized supply…
Read Crossfade’s review of Interpol’s August 2010 show in Miami. Back when Paul Banks and Interpol first crawled out of the NYC indie underground in the very early Aughts, the whole post-punk revival thing seemed seconds away from completely conquering pop music. But the hugely hyped, grunge-level takeover never really…
This past September, effusively adored (and often reviled) Linkin Park released A Thousand Suns, a sprawling studio experiment that challenged the band’s oft-constrained standards as well as those of the pop-rock world at large. Has there ever been a moment before when Village Voice would dare assert “Linkin Park Made…
DJ-producer Eric Estornel is a veritable chameleon of electronic dance music. In a career spanning almost two decades, he’s shifted musical styles as often as monikers. His extensive discography boasts atmospheric techno as Maetrik, twisted electro as Mariel Ito, and moody deep house as Maceo Plex, all executed with a…
There’s a chance Tyvek’s Nothing Fits is a painstakingly assembled second record. Perhaps every player utilized great precision and grace when performing each note. The resulting album, however, sounds like a glorious mess. The Motor City band spits out its lo-fi, garage-y punk rock with such urgency it seems as…
Now in his 40s, British-born rapper Slick Rick has spent nearly half his life battling MCs, criminal charges, monocular vision, and deportation. Like a fortune teller, the rapper titled his 1988 masterpiece The Great Adventures of Slick Rick two years before his real troubles began: an attempted murder charge, followed…
