Live from a stadium near you · 1999

Burns Ice

The hottest coolest duo to ever climb out of the mean streets of Maui. Two voices. One wind machine. Zero chill.

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The Legend

Forged on the mean streets of Maui

It was the summer of 1996. Paradise was dangerous. The shave ice line in Kahului stretched for nearly six people, and the trade winds showed no mercy to anyone's hair gel.

Blaze Kahale was a bald, bearded shave-ice vendor with a sunburn on his scalp so severe it could be seen from Molokai. Crystal Frost was a mainland transplant with three feet of straight platinum hair and a karaoke trophy she refused to put down. One fateful afternoon they reached for the last blue-raspberry syrup at the same time. Their hands touched. A boombox fell off a pickup truck. A chicken watched. Burns Like Ice was born.

They cut their first demo in a laundromat, sold cassettes out of the back of a rusty pickup, and survived a brutal circuit of luaus, swap meets and one very confusing bar mitzvah. By 1999 they had matching denim, a manager named Chad, and the #1 video on afternoon music TV for eleven straight weeks.

Blaze and Crystal posing tough on a sleepy Maui street next to a rusty pickup, a boombox and a curious chicken.
Kahului, 1996. The streets made them. The chicken is uncredited.

Meet the Duo

One burns. One is ice. Together: lukewarm magic.

Blaze Kahale

Vocals · Beard · Dramatic Kneeling

  • LookShaved head (bleached-tip goatee), wraparound shades, silver leather pants
  • Signature moveThe slow-motion stand up from a stool during the key change
  • Fun factHas worn SPF 100 on his head since 1994. It has not worked.

Crystal Frost

Vocals · Hair · Wind Machine Liaison

  • LookWaist-length platinum hair, 14 butterfly clips minimum, 6-inch platform sneakers
  • Signature moveThe 360° hair flip, legally classified as a weather event
  • Fun factOnce held a high note so long the mall's fountain froze

Discography

The Hits (and the Bonus Tracks)

Burns Like Ice

1997 · Sold from a pickup truck · Cassette only

  1. Sunburn of My Heart4:12
  2. Shave Ice, Shave Ice Baby3:33
  3. Pager Love (Beep Me Tonight)3:58
  4. Frosted Tips, Frozen Heart4:20
Frostbite album cover: Blaze and Crystal in matching icy-white puffer jackets over a chrome ice-crystal background.

Frostbite

1999 · Certified Diamond (in our hearts)

The breakout

  1. Matching Denim (Till the End of Time)4:01
  2. Y2K (Why 2 Kiss Me)3:47
  3. Dial-Up My Heart5:56 (connecting…)
  4. Leather Pants Don't Breathe (And Neither Do I)3:29
  5. Butterfly Clip My Wings4:44

Millennium Meltdown

2000 · Includes 11 remixes of the same song

  1. Platform Shoes, Platform Dreams3:50
  2. Mall Tour of Duty4:15
  3. Lava Me Tender4:38
  4. I Burned You a CD (Track 7 Is Us)6:07

Critics

“Like if a lava lamp and a snow globe started a band and then got really into eyebrow piercings.”

— A magazine, probably, 1999

On the Road

The Millennium Meltdown World Tour

All dates are from 1999–2000 and entirely imaginary. Please do not drive to a mall in 2026 expecting pyro.

  • Kahului Food Court

    Maui, HI · The homecoming

    Sold out

  • Mega Mall Center Court (by the fountain)

    Somewhere, Ohio · Free scrunchie w/ cassingle

    Sold out

  • Countdown Studio, Times Square Window

    New York, NY · Live on afternoon TV

    Screaming only

  • Spooky Teen Dance Spectacular

    Orlando, FL · Costume: matching denim

    Sold out

  • Y2K Countdown Bunker Show

    Undisclosed location · Bring canned goods

    Postponed (Y2K)

  • A Very Large Stadium

    Houston, TX · 3 tons of pyro, 40 lasers

    Sold out

  • Enormo-Dome Arena

    Los Angeles, CA · Wind machine upgraded

    Few left

Official Fan Club

Join the Frost Burn Crew

Membership includes a laminated card, a glitter-pen autograph, a 1-800 hotline that just plays “Dial-Up My Heart,” and the deep spiritual satisfaction of being early to something that happened 27 years ago.

  • ✦ Imaginary laminated membership card
  • ✦ Quarterly newsletter (printed on a dot-matrix printer)
  • ✦ First dibs on frosted-tip kits

No sign-up, no email, no data. Clicking just makes you a member in spirit.