Beings and Plains The Vagabond Friday, October 29, 2010 Better than: Waiting until the Beings 7” is out of print and you’ve gotta pay Ebay prices. Beings is a band that transcends a niche audience, garnering regular praise from disparate South Florida demographics. The punks love Beings, the Fonzies love…
Miami’s big-room house heads have been raving for months about Swedish House Mafia’s upcoming Halloween Masquerade Motel ball at the Scope Art Fair tent tonight.Earlier this week, we caught up with the dynamic trio’s Sebastian Ingrosso for an, er, engrossing interview. (And a second part.) But we couldn’t pass up an…
If your name were “Steve Lawler,” you’d probably spend Wednesday afternoon spinning for the Masters of the Universe on the deck of some Cyprian millionaire’s giga yacht off the coast of Dubai. Then Thursday, you’d take the red-eye back home to collate your 1001 solid-platinum platters. And Friday, you’d teleport…
In the middle of the poorly lit Wynwood warehouse district, nestled between a boxing academy, a factory, and some art spaces, there’s a building overflowing with noise. Behind a gate, a double-locked door, and a barbwire overhang, Beings are hard at work. Many artists refer to the studio as “the…
Happy Halloween, party peeps! Sure, it may not be for another two days, but who gives a damn? You can celebrate that mofo all weekend long. And if a full 72 hours of drunken costumed debauchery is in fact what you seek, Transit Lounge is willing to lend a hand…
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…
