Unlike most bands named after seaside apparel and/or accessories (i.e. Swimshorts, Sunglasses, Sandals), bicoastal digi-pop duo Bikini doesn’t spin hazy, wavy sounds designed specifically for sunny, sandy days at the beach. Dark, distorted, and dance-y, this stuff is more like the soundtrack for a drugged-out midnight trip into deep waters…
A self-proclaimed city kid from New York’s East Village, Jesse Marco took a free fall into the music business at the age of 18 when he began an internship with British music mogul Mark Ronson. He gained recognition after taking a number of opening slots at New York City clubs…
The blending of genres and melding of styles is becoming as commonplace in popular modern music as cocaine lines next to grapefruit juice at Lindsey Lohan’s breakfast table. The whole world, including the biggest stars in any genre you can name, has been dabbling with mezcla of late. But just…
Like some kind of benevolent pied piper of international partydom, French electro-pop producer Martin Solveig (né Martin Picandet) bestowed last year’s Dragonette collaboration “Hello” upon the world, luring disco refugees, degenerate club kids, and dirty hipsters to the dance floor like hypnotized rats. And now Solveig wants to let you…
As far as Puerto Rican boy bands with American crossover appeal go, Davila 666 easily beats out Menudo with its balls-out ability to rock, though there’s definitely some overlap in the wearing of leather jackets, chaps, and accessories. Offering both clean garage pop and raw rock and roll, Davila 666’s…
If you wanna shake out your pompadour and sweat through your underwear, then stutter-step down to the Vagabond tonight for DJ Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap & Danceoff. Direct from NYC with an assist from the Bruise Cruise people, this rock ‘n’ soul party is so fucking powerful it somehow turned…
Working under an assumed fame name inspired by ’60s Swiss sex bomb Ursula Andress and the pseudo-futuristic numerical suffixes used to sell Atomic Age household appliances (i.e. The Cubla Carpet Sucker 500!), Brooklyn-via-Miami mixmeister Ursula 1000 (born Alex Gimeno) has spent ten post-millenial years mining retro musical territory for new…
It’s not easy cooking up a melting pot of exotic world sounds while still nailing a savvy dancefloor-ready formula. But that’s exactly how Zombie Disco Squad operates. The forward-thinking UK production duo of Lucas Hunter and Nat Self is breaking the house music mold by crossbreeding styles as diverse as…
A night out with sample-happy psycho Girl Talk (AKA Gregg Gillis) is never gentle. Imagine your brain being force-fed 36 hours of music in 36 minutes, pushed to the brink of seizure, and then fucked by a superpowered laptop that’s been wrapped in plastic to protect it from all kinds…
It’s called an “out-of-control crush.” Lately, we here at Crossfade have been totally and shamelessly agog over Miami’s weird and whimsical Rachel Goodrich. We’ve gushed about her “twisted, jaunty tune ‘Light Bulb'” and its “whimsy-laced lyrics.” We’ve stomped around the office to the tune of “G-Dino.” And we’ve chatted the…
First, they were Stonefox, a three-piece kicking ass around South Florida with an amped-up brand of swamp rock that was precociously sharp for these parts. Then they added a fourth member, kind of broke up, and regrouped again as a three-piece called Blond Fuzz, playing more of the same. That…
Yeah, we seriously slagged Questlove’s last local DJ gig. In fact, you may remember us saying shit like, “Besides the purp stench lingering in the air, nothing about Questlove’s mix … got us high” and “We’re done covering DJ sets.” Well, um, we meant it at the time. But with…
Cody Chesnutt’s been out of the spotlight for a bit. But after years of keeping a low profile, he’s back on the scene with a new message.He recorded his 2002 double album The Headphone Masterpiece on a four-track cassette recorder at home. That album ended up being nominated for the…
In between sipping drinks and smoking cigarettes, Detroit electronic dance music veteran Jimmy Edgar performed impressively. Recognizable at the beginning of his set was material from his most recent album XXX, which has its R&B and funk elements. Kinda sexy…
N.O.R.E. With ¡Mayday! As part of the Rising Transit Lounge Saturday, February 19, 2011 Better than: A XXXL Fatburger with cheese, some Swisher Sweets, and a PBR. Remember when Victor Santiago Jr. (AKA N.O.R.E., AKA Noreaga) got busted at a SoBe burger joint for slugging some dude three times and…
Goldie Electric Pickle Saturday, February 19, 2011 Last night, on its two-year anniversary, the Electric Pickle proved it is the club it always promised to be. When the club opened during WMC 2009, there was hope the club might fill the void caused by Circa 28’s sudden closure. And with…
Tickets for Ultra Music Festival have sold out. But for procrastinating electro nuts willing to drop a few hundred bucks on scalper tickets, the opportunity to trip balls in downtown Miami is still alive. The news came as a shock to everyone, smeared across the top of the festival’s website,…
That’s it, folks. According to Ultra Music Festival’s site, tickets to this year’s event are gone with 34 days left until the festival. Will more be made available? We’re not sure, but we’re working to finding out.Could this be a marketing ploy? Maybe. There is no way of really knowing…
The last year has been pretty goddamn huge for Ricky Martin. He released his autobiography in both English and Spanish (titled Me and Yo, respectively) in November of 2010, giving the world a very candid look at the notoriously private superstar’s life for the first time. Then, just a few…
Straight from scoring a gold-plated gramophone statuette for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at last Sunday’s 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, Hawaiian pop crooner Bruno Mars and his bouffant hairdo were pleading guilty to cocaine possession in a Las Vegas courtroom. Back in September, the Mars man got busted in a…
Like some kind of benevolent pied piper of international partydom, French electro-pop producer Martin Solveig (né Martin Picandet) bestowed last year’s Dragonette collab “Hello” upon the world, luring everyone from disco refugees, degenerate club kids, and dirty hipsters to the dance floor like hypnotized rats. And now Solveig wants to…
Julieta Venegas is a shapeshifter. Hers is a constant evolution, a never-ending series of experiments wherein she tests her own boundaries. She’s not quite reinventing herself — her sound is a signature, featuring quirky upbeat vibes and a soothing, sweet vocal style. But she’s not standing still, either. Nearly a…
