Deaf Poets is a Miami music duo starring Nicolas Espinosa and Sean Wouters. These two duded sound like the Black Keys making love with early Kings of Leon in a ’60s garage. And yet they’ve got their own sort of sexy, spirited vibe that’s impossible to ignore. This Thursday, Deaf…
Throwing together some preset drum loops and samples doesn’t qualify you as a bona fide electronic music producer. And even if you do know your shit, that doesn’t necessarily put you in the same league as UK tech-house wizard Glimpse, AKA Chris Spero. That’s because Glimpse is the kind of…
Every time we here at Crossfade screw up and need to say sorry to our (current) significant other, we don’t bother with sweet nothings, red roses, or awkward attempts at makeup sex. We just pop in our fave Kelly Clarkson mixtape, turn on the waterworks, and let the American Idol…
See the full 28-photo Taylor Swift at the American Airlines Arena slideshow. Taylor Swift With Needtobreathe American Airlines Arena Sunday, October 13, 2011 Better Than: Anything we expected. Like, a lot better. Let’s note that this review is being written by a former pop-loving tween. In between the ages of…
When he’s not hanging out with Chris Martin and remixing Coldplay tracks (see “Paradise”), superstar Dutch DJ-producer Fedde Le Grand likes to stay busy plotting the final stages of his total takeover of the North American continent. As if superexplosive 2006 hit “Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit” and non-stop…
Cultura Profética don’t mind if you smoke a spliff, bone your chick, or fight oppression while they beat up the speakers at the Bayside Rocks Festival.They record with Bob Marley’s engineer, tour the world spreading conscious music, sing in Spanish, and rep Puerto Rico to the fullest.We spoke to guitarist…
See the full 15-photo Sting at the Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow. Sting Back to Bass Tour Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday, November 12, 2011 Better Than: Getting stung. He faked out the audience three times, once for every decade of his career. And all three times, the crowd’s heavy applause pulled…
Ultra Music Fesitval quickly announced (and sold out) early bird tickets. But so far, the fest has given no indication of what else is in store. No acts. No venue. Nothing.However, a reliable source told Crossfade today that a venue announcement is coming very soon. In fact, the festival is…
Tinariwen With Sophie Hunger Presented by Rhythm Foundation Grand Central Thursday, November 11, 2011 Better Than: Being exiled from your native land and wandering the desert in search of rock ‘n’ roll. In the past month Grand Central has treated us to eye-crossingingly complex new school prog/math rock courtesy of…
While hardcore has long been colonized by pampered yet meatheaded suburbanites, the original purveyors of NYC’s first wave of punker-than-punk rock ‘n’ roll were actually meatheads from the unforgiving freak show that was pre-Giuliani New York. Violent crime was rampant, public services were seriously underfunded, and Times Square sat on…
The Stage’s Anniversary Weekend November 10-14
Tinariwen at Grand Central November 10
Architecture in Helsinki at Grand Central November 11
Rola Music Fest at Klipsch Amphitheater November 11-13
Kreayshawn at Mansion November 11
The true secret to a bona fide proper pint lies in the foam. Just look to your right … Doesn’t that baby look delicious? And why? Because of the thick and creamy head. Meanwhile, like so many nuanced activities (ping-pong, calligraphy, masturbation), the proper pour is a matter of delicate…
Bribe the bouncer. Buy a dozen bottles. Get a job behind the bar. We here at Crossfade will personally do whatever’s necessary to get our art-addicted asses past the velvet ropes at LIV on November 30. But you should probably just keep it legit and buy a pair of tickets…
If we here at Crossfade ever manage to get a glimpse at James Murphy’s personal day planner, there’s a pretty solid chance that the first week of December is perennially empty, except for a short, four-word phrase, presumably written in fat, blood-red block letters: Art Basel Miami Beach. Last year,…
Radiohead just released the first 10 dates of its 2012 US tour and we couldn’t be any happier. Thom Yorke and his mates from Oxfordshire will be kicking things off at the American Airlines Arena on Monday, February 27. Since releasing its eighth studio album, The King of Limbs, earlier…
After the Wu-Tang mothership crashed full force into pop culture with the release of the 1993 gangsta rap classic Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the first order of business was to send out the pods. Method Man was the first to strike out solo with 1994’s stellar and intensely hardcore…
AIDS Wolf With Last, Holly Hunt, Unicorn Hard-On and The Laundry Room Squelchers Churchill’s Pub Thursday, November 3, 2011 Better Than: Whatever else was happening last night. Whenever some chump wants to talk shit to you about how much they hate “noise,” you should maybe ask what exactly they mean…
Austra With Grimes Grand Central Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Better Than: Falling down a witch house YouTube rabbit hole. Last night, Nightdrive Miami presented its second major Grand Central production in just two weeks. And much like the recent Battles show, all factors — sound, venue, performance — were in…
