Sorry, Roger Sanchez fans, your boy has been possessed by S-Man. “There’s a season for everything,” Sanchez suggests. “Just like there’s a day, there’s a night. You need to have the darkness to appreciate the light.” It’s been 20 years since the iconic spinner first had the idea for S-Man,…
EDM’s biological clock must be ticking. All the big DJs are having babies. It appears the next big trend is child stars. They may be young, but they’ve got moves enough to get the attention of heavy hitters. Famous jocks like Steve Aoki, A-Trak (once a 15-year-old child star himself),…
Tornados are for Dorothy, earthquakes are not our problem, and tsunamis are not even our language. In South Florida, one natural disaster reigns supreme, and if you’ve lived in Miami for more than six years, you’ve no doubt experienced one face-to-face. Hurricanes are hundreds of miles in diameter, and they…
Maybe you spent the past three days hidden in your bedroom, sleeping and watching Cosmos for fear of the insanity that was South Beach during Memorial Day weekend’s belovedly named Urban Beach Week. Of course, if you missed out on all the fashionable highlights, all the protruding bubble butts, all…
Some people become famous because they are incredible talents discovered at a young age. Others become famous because their parents treat the womb like a star factory. Hey, if you push enough kids into the spotlight, one of them is gonna have a hit. But when one kid becomes a…
Party people looking to keep the weekend going with good tunes and cheap drinks have a new Monday night hangout. Local DJ and producer Niko Javan, who recently dropped an EP via Vice Magazine’s Thump, has linked up with the Mondaze weekly at downtown dance club The Nest. “Basically, my…
Kill the Zo Grand Central, Miami Friday, May 23, 2014 It’s not uncommon for two or more DJs to band together in an attempt to form some sort of supergroup. The most obvious and commercially successful would be the late Swedish House Mafia. Hanbraekes is a personal favorite, combining the…
Is the EDM scene kind of played out and boring? Kill the Noise think so, “everything from the guys on the stage to the crowd.” “Pretty much the whole thing, right from the second you walk up to the door, is all a routine that we’ve all been through a…
Holy mother of period-prone angst, you guys. Veruca Salt just got back together and performed for the first time in 18 years on Conan. We were immediately transported to that time when we were 10 and our mom bought us the Eight Arms to Hold You cassette, with the warning…
Galleries can get stuffy, so every once in a while, the Museum of Contemporary Art (770 NE 125th St., North Miami) livens things up with a musical performance from a notable artist pushing the boundaries of his or her genre. In the past, MOCA has welcomed Gang Gang Dance, Kendrick…
Miley Cyrus and Morrissey are basically the same person. One is a lyrical genius shrouded in sexual mystery who speaks on behalf of intellectualism, animal rights, and sordid youths, defying borders and generations. The other is famous for a butt that resembles uncooked turkeys, being naked, and sticking her tongue…
III Points Festival is back. And promising “68 acts, one warehouse, three days.” Last year’s inaugural celebration of music, art, and technology was by most accounts a success. But some communication and organizational kinks are two things the III Points team is working hard to overcome for its sophomore 2014…
As 21st-century culture and technology continue to evolve, so too must our language. Whether you like it or not, all these hashtag buzzwords are part of the greater lexicon. Literally, “hashtag” was added to the dictionary. But it’s not just words like “selfie,” “noob,” or “friend zone.” The musical terms…
Everyone loves Miami. Our food, our people, our beaches. But we here at Crossfade would argue that it’s our music that puts us above the competition. We’ve never tried to steal anyone else’s sound. We keep it 100 with grooves and style of our own. We are leaders in the…
What’s better than watching a hot babe do whatever you ask on webcam? Why, meeting that hot babe in the sexy flesh at the first-annual Camming Con, of course. Yes, drooling masses. You can meet your favorite cam girl superstars at the Eden Roc hotel in Miami Beach, and participate…
We could hardly belieb our eyes. Could it be true? Has the world’s most popular singer-dancer-badboy been approved to attend the prom festivities at Miami Senior High School? Is some lucky girl (and teen model) from Little Havana named Yovanna Ventura actually dating the Biebz? Are they so super-cereal that…
When the dance music world heard bass monster Kill the Noise and melodic house kid Mat Zo were teaming up for a tour, the reaction was a collective wut? “We weren’t really too sure ourselves,” says KTN’s Jake Stanczak. “Mat comes from a different world, I come from a different…
Have you heard of Kid Ink? No doubt you’ve been partying to this newcomer from L.A.’s summertime megahit, “Show Me,” thanks in part to Chris Brown’s you-hate-him-for-being-so-sexy vocals. Bad-boy friends aside, Kid Ink is making a hot name for himself on the charts. His single “Main Chick” broke the Billboard…
Conversations about the old-school days of hip-hop don’t get very far before someone brings up Sugar Hill Gang. These three dudes from New Jersey were the first to break onto the Billboard charts with a recorded rap hit. Even if you don’t particularly like rap music, you know their jam…
Two years isn’t forever. But in clubland, it might as well be a lifetime. Most weekly nightlife ventures are lucky to last six months. A full 24 means that you’ve built something special. Miami’s Slap & Tickle is the Tuesday party with a reputation for wild nights and unique sets…
The ’90s are back! The fashions, the music, the attitude. There are more people Rollerblading by the beach than we’ve seen in about 25 years. (Wow, it’s been too long!) Now, we couldn’t be more excited about the return of the most bleakly apathetic decade in pop culture. But along…
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, playing the legendary rock journalist Lester Bangs in the film Almost Famous, once said the most brilliant thing about modern music. “They’re trying to buy respectability for a form that is gloriously and righteously dumb. The day it ceases to be dumb is the day it ceases…
