It is a well-known fact that the Toronto of the mid 1980s is not the stalwart and vibrant community that it is these days. No, those were bleak times where heavily-armed, extremely polite Canadians wiled their days away with dreams of hockey glory and how to better their already pretty…
If you’re among the fortunate few whose acid-soaked inner child hasn’t been snuffed by a billion boring days at the office, then Rachel Goodrich’s twisted, jaunty tune “Light Bulb” should still fill your skull with all kinds of weird and wacky hallucinations. “You know, I like to take a dark…
Have you sold your Serta, gutted your bedroom, and turned it into an elaborate shrine to the magic of percussion by erecting an exact replica of Rush beatkeeper Neil Peart’s 360-degree drum kit? Or do you prefer to bang on a beat-up trashcan? Either way, go join Roofless Records’ Percussion…
After stocking Sunday School for Degenerates with 30 stellar DJs such as minimal mastermind Richie Hawtin and then another 10 including Guy Gerber, Heidi, and Jesse Rose, Made Event’s gotten busy bringing the bang to its other Ultra week engagement, the Anjunabeats party at Ice Palace Studios. As always, trance-y…
Indeed, Crossfade’s 24-hour Swedish House Mafia watch continues … Back in December, we announced that Masquerade Motel would be returning to Miami for some serious Ultra week excess. Then we blasted the lineup (Calvin Harris! A-Trak! Eight More!) across the interweb. And now here’s the latest news: The club-killing triumverate…
Every year, coinciding with Winter Music Conference, the International Dance Music Awards (IDMAs) recognizes those who make electronic music great. Sure, it’s not exactly the Grammys or MTV’s Video Music Awards. But dammit, it’s a homegrown awards show and that’s reason enough to give it some respect.The list of nominees…
Can you imagine roadtripping through the hot gothic guts of Florida with a bunch of crazy old limey metalheads and one skinny zombie named Eddie the Head? Well, the members of Miami metal crew Black Tide are doing more than just dreaming about a lost weekend among hard rock royalty and the…
Dear devout fans of Miami’s college radio jocks: You did it! You gave two of our raddest local broadcasters a Woodie. Well, almost. Yesterday, WVUM 90.5 FM and FIU’s Radiate FM both advanced to the final pool of 25 nominees in the furious fight to win this year’s MTV Woodie…
Somewhere in the middle of Crossfade’s interview with drummer Ryan Welch, Mr. C. of Churchill’s Pub interrupted to say that he’s taking this Friday off because of Rat Bastard’s three-day International Noise Conference. He said the people that come to INC are a bunch of hippies and they stink. We…
Let’s blame too much coffee and a raging case of ADD. This morning, Crossfade gave WVUM props for its MTV Woodie nomination and urged you all to vote for the Voice. We failed to notice, however, that another one of Miami’s awesome college radio stations, FIU’s Radiate FM, had also…
We here at Crossfade wanna give WVUM 90.5 FM a Woodie. And you should too. Last week, the Voice of the University of Miami scored a nomination from MTV for America’s best college radio station. And while the pool of potential winners has already been slashed down to 50, the…
Local post-punkers Astari Nite may not have been playing an overload of shows within the county’s borders lately. But that doesn’t mean they’ve been quiet. Instead, the foursome’s been gigging frequently through the rest of South Florida, most recently at Respectable’s annual New Year’s shebang in West Palm. They’ve also…
Now wait a second before you shit your hipster pants ’cause this blog’s headline is somewhat misleading. In case you got the wrong idea, those awesomely amazing bands we just namedropped won’t be performing live in concert at your favorite SoBe hangout this weekend. Instead, the eMusic Road Show (basically…
If there was one 2010 WMC party that left peeps buzzing for the rest of the year, it was Crosstown Rebels’ now-legendary fifth installment of Get Lost at the Electric Pickle. Maybe it was the vibrant, sunny setting of the Pickle’s patio. Or the casual blend of international star DJs…
We Miami residents are damned lucky. We have a killer local music scene just bursting at the seams with ultra-talented groups that draw on the wellspring of myriad influences that come from being a melting pot. There’s a whole movement of bands here in Miami that meld sounds as far-reaching…
Chicago native Common (AKA Lonnie Rashied Lynn Jr.) has often been dubbed “hip-hop’s Renaissance Man.” His socially conscious music has won him Grammys, been utilized by Barack Obama, and survived the phases of an often fickle music industry. Buddy’s acting chops aren’t too shabby either. He’s graced the silver screen…
For a certain kind of music snob, there’s nothing more annoying than all that saccharine radio pop stuff called bachata. At best, it’s elevator muzak. At worst, it sounds like a sad baby wailing over a karaoke tape full of stuttering guitar, bongo, and maracas. But there are millions of…
Television is a magic medium. It’s also evil. And sometimes shitty. But really, who thought that Ricky Martin and the Roots would ever hook up? No one. And yet, thanks to TV (and the fact that Questlove’s crew decided they needed a day job), we’re all gonna get to watch…
If you can believe it, there was a time, commonly called back in the day, when a female with a microphone could be cute, dirty, sexy, funny, and smart. This was before Lil Kim and the boom of the MC slut. And back then, the undisputed rap scene queens were…
After 14 years of playing music together, the White Stripes are calling it quits. A statement on the band’s website claims that the breakup happed for “a myrid of reasons, but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band.” The White Stripes’ disbanding was expectedly unexpected. The…
After sorting the mail, painstakingly assessing the applications, arguing viciously about their merits, getting drunk, sleeping it off, and then agonizing over the decision for weeks, we here at New Times are finally set to announce our 2011 MasterMind Awards finalists. In the sound category, we’ve got Harvard-educated hip-hopper Black…
“Techno is a music that uses imagination to develop the fantasy of what the future can be,” says Carl Craig, waxing poetic. But his sound is just as informed by the past as it is by the future. Part of Craig’s unique contribution to Detroit techno are his forays into…
