When your predictions for the future of Planet Earth and the general good of all mankind are just as murky and doom-filled as the fourth and final verse of “War Pigs,” there’s probably no better way to acknowledge the passing of yet another year than waking up after sundown to…
If he hasn’t already made plans to build himself a giant geodesic disco dome atop the Fontainebleau Hotel, Swedish House Mafia member Steve Angello’s top priority in 2011 should be purchasing a prime SoBe condo. Ever since he and fellow Mafia-men Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso headlined the main stage at…
Sure, the internet may be infinite, but all you laptop producers gotta understand it’s not OK to digitally release whatever noise pollution creeps out of your MacBook. Frankly, it’s time to stem the flow. Otherwise, like minimal-techno DJ Matt Tolfrey has said, “you’re just filling up a virtual record shop…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Fucked Up September 14, 2010 Churchill’s Pub In addition to regularly leading manic mosh circuses and helping to mete out serious sonic punishment, Fucked…
The swamps and warehouse squats, Carol City and Coco’s Nightclub, South Beach and the megaclubs — our city’s music scene is the product of so many split-up, spliced, and remixed sources that any attempted overview of its output will inevitably seem insufficient and incomplete. But here at Crossfade, we don’t…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Air March 13, 2010 The Fillmore Miami Beach It had been 12 whole years and a couple of months since the release of Air’s…
The entire world’s tapped its foot to a Teena Marie tune. Some know it, like all those fans with feathered bangs who own a complete audiocassette collection of the Ivory Queen of Soul’s thirteen studio releases. But others are clueless, like the legions of 16-year-old stoners who got curiously caught…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Metric December 1, 2010 Oceanfront Pavilion at Collins Park It’s not often that you get to hang out with a band like Metric on…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Crystal Castles September 21, 2010 Grand Central Is it possible? Has Crystal Castles’ glitchy goth dance noise really gone mainstream? Will frontwoman Alice Glass’s…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. Phoenix October 27, 2010 Fillmore Miami Beach Thanks to last January’s merger between music industry monoliths Ticketmaster and Live Nation (not to mention a…
As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami’s Best Concerts of 2010. The Roots, Q-Tip, Eve, and Bobby Brown October 27, 2010 Fillmore Miami Beach When Crossfade first stumbled into the Hennessy Artistry party, our biggest…
Unlike so many other pop lotharios, Mr. Usher Raymond IV didn’t opt for some superexclusive NYE party attended only by celebs and their imaginary friends. Instead, the R&B star with the rippling abs decided to take his OMG world tour to the AAA so he could hang with 19,600 of…
Back when a president called Clinton ruled the White House, a band called Harry Pussy lorded over Miami’s tiny noise rock scene. The explosively experimental unit first emerged in 1992 when guitarist Bill Orcutt and drummer Adris Hoyos decided to cause general musical mayhem for no real reason besides their…
The swamps and warehouse squats, Carol City and Coco’s Nightclub, South Beach and the megaclubs — our city’s music scene is the product of so many split-up, spliced, and remixed sources that any attempted overview of its output will inevitably seem insufficient and incomplete. But here at New Times, we…
Even if your knowledge of that odd urban creature commonly known as the hipster is limited to whatever you see on TV, there’s still a pretty good chance you know Diplo. He’s the froggy-voiced star of the new-ish BlackBerry Torch commercial that’s undoubtedly popped up during one of your recent…
What’s next on Swedish House Mafia’s to-do list? Total global takeover? Almost. This evening, word has arrived that Mafia members Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, and Axwell will challenge Ultra Music Festival’s exclusive claim to the last weekend of March by throwing one of their Masquerade Motel parties on Saturday, March…
If he hasn’t already made plans to build himself a giant geodesic disco dome atop the Fontainebleau Hotel, Swedish House Mafia member Steve Angello’s top priority in 2011 should be purchasing a prime SoBe condo. Ever since he and fellow Mafia men Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso headlined the main stage…
See the full Justin Bieber slideshow. Whenever Justin Bieber invokes that magic couplet, “Baby, baby, baby, oh/Like baby, baby, baby,” people get crazy cracked! Maybe it’s the pitch of Bieber’s voice at this particular stage of his hormonal development that drives human beings into a rabid frenzy, like high-strung German…
Rejoice freaky party people ’cause Made Event’s massive Sunday School for Degenerates throwdown is back for another year. And just as we speculated last week when announcing the Anjunabeats party, class will be convening alongside Ultra Music Festival and not WMC. Like the 2010 edition (and Above & Beyond’s Anjuna…
You can joke about Justin Bieber’s lesbianism all day. But the Biebz reigns supreme. Powered by asexual androgyny and cotton-candy songcraft, he has brainwashed tween girls, their mothers, and even, in the most extreme cases, their fathers. You could be next. Seriously, if JB didn’t look (and sound) like an…
You’re stranded on the Beach, a little wasted, and too broke to afford the limo service. But shit … You wanna keep this party going all the way till 5 a.m. in the freaking morning. The solution: Grand Central Express, a free shuttle service that will zip back and forth…
Back when a president called Clinton ruled the White House, a band called Harry Pussy lorded over Miami’s tiny noise rock scene. The explosively experimental unit first emerged in 1992 when guitarist Bill Orcutt and drummer Adris Hoyos decided to cause general musical mayhem for no real reason besides their…
