come right out and say it: We hold a special place in our hearts for any band that proudly displays a synthy floating through space with a furry cat at the keys. And that’s just what Javelin is all about: Amazingly vivid imagery, word creatin’, and body shakin’. Over the…
Check out the full 30-photo Phoenix slideshow.PhoenixWith WavvesWednesday, October 27, 2010The Fillmore Miami BeachMiami used to suffer from one of the worst geographical disadvantages in the country. Touring bands on tight budgets often skipped the drive, resulting in only huge, mainstream stadium acts playing our city. But a few years…
Back in the early 2000s, cool kids everywhere became obsessed with all kinds of lupine creatures. Maybe it was irony. Maybe it was rabies. Or maybe the moon had slipped off axis. Whatever the cause, almost everyone between the ages of 16 and 28 was wearing a howling wolf’s head…
British DJ Greg Wilson is an authentic original. His career spans over three decades, preceding the birth of house music. On the late-’70s and early-’80s UK dance music scene, the mixing pioneer introduced that era’s generation to the new post-disco sounds coming out of New York City. Watching him live…
The Smoker’s Club Tour at White Room October 29
Chino y Nacho at La Covacha October 29
Carl Cox at Mansion October 31
Crocodiles at Grand Central November 3
Boys Noize at Mansion November 3
Djavan at Fillmore Miami Beach October 29
Nothing would please us more than seeing some dancing robots on stage with Phoenix tonight. And we’re not talking soon-to-take-over-the-world wonders of mechanical prowess. We want Daft Punk.Yes, Phoenix is a great band and that’s why we insisted on purchasing tickets the moment a pre-sale code was released. But once…
At approximately 8 p.m. last night, a totally sold-out crowd of indie chick jailbait, brainy head-bobbers, and jocks in silkscreened black hoodies overran the Fillmore Miami Beach in anticipation of MGMT’s impending psych-pop explosion. In fact, the place was so freaking packed that Crossfade couldn’t even smuggle a reviewer into…
Miguel Bosé is a living freakin’ legend. Maybe it was simply his fate, or maybe it comes from being gifted progeny. (Bosé’s mother was a famous Italian actress, and his father a celebrated Spanish bullfighter.) Or maybe it’s the sort of thing he was simply hardwired for, readily exemplified by…
Massive Attack and Thievery CorporationBayfront Park Amphitheatre, MiamiTuesday, October 26, 2010Better Than: No doubt the MGMT show was probably awesome, but if I could have split myself and watched both, I’m pretty sure this is where my betting money would still have gone….Before even a note was played at last…
El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico is considered the epitome of the salsa orchestra, so much so that the big band was given the title of the La Universidad de la Salsa (which translates to The University of Salsa) back in the early ’80s. Together they have produced over 40…
If you think all reggaeton comes from Puerto Rico, you’re dead wrong. To begin with, the genre sprouted from the seeds sown by Panama’s dembow. Beyond that little history lesson, though, one need only check today’s charts to see non-boricuas leading the movement. Somewhere near the top, you’ll spot Chino…
Okay, so MGMT is sold out. It sucks. But there’s no use crying over spilled PBRs. We here at Crossfade are all about seeing a can half-full, anyway. There are plenty of tickets still available for Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation at Bayfront Park Amphitheater tonight. Why should you spring…
British DJ-producer Carl Cox hardly needs an introduction anywhere that people get down to electronic beats, lazers, and glowsticks. A child of the late-’80s acid house boom and “Second Summer of Love,” Cox cut his teeth spinning for the rave generation at seminal UK hotpots like the Haçienda, Fantazia, and…
Spawned on the streets of our nation’s great federal district, Washington, D.C., amid palm-greasing, spook stories, shadow games, political corruption, and urban blight, DJ duo Thievery Corporation has always cultivated a certain distate for the sleazy dealings of America’s most priveledged classes. In 14 years of active opposition, Rob Garza…
On this year’s jazz-inflected album Ária, Brazilian singer-songwriter Djavan recorded a collection of covers that have inspired him over the years. He reinvents songs like Caetano Veloso’s “Oração ao Tempo,” Bert Howard’s “Fly Me to the Moon,” and Jobim’s “Brigas Nunca Mais” alongside several obscure gems by Chico Buarque, Edu…
Some people don’t know shit about music. And Arizona immigration zealot Sheriff Joe Arpaio can no doubt be counted among the hopeless, tone-deaf, and ignorant. Ever wonder what that guy blares while cruising the US-Mexico border in his personally pimped-out Humvee? Three Dog Night? Toby Keith? Maybe Gary Glitter? Who…
Way back in the summer of 2005, the internet gave birth to a baby called blog house. Yet unlike 99.9 percent of the web’s offspring, this particular suckling sub-subgenre survived. It was strong, loud, and infectious. And soon, the little bastard was remultiplying by the minute. One among the first…
