“In case you haven’t heard, here’s the situation,” Sweat Records’ Lauren “Lolo” Reskin writes on the record shop’s blog. “Two companies have proposals on the table to completely renovate the Miami Beach Convention Center site. “South Beach ACE wants to preserve the Fillmore Miami Beach and make it better,” Reskin…
As supercouple Jay-Z and Beyoncé prep for World Humanitarian Day (“I’m doing something good,” Mrs. Carter tweets, “somewhere, for someone else. Join me!”), they’re also getting slammed by South Floridian members of Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart for helping to “fund the machinery of oppression.” How exactly? Spending all…
There are few things manlier — and in a woman’s case, womanlier — than stepping out of “the closet” and letting the world know you’re gay. And you’d be an asshole not to respect someone with that kind of courage. But you’d be an even bigger culo to issue a…
“For me,” Ricochet mastermind Alan Roth tells Crossfade, “the nightlife business has been an incredible ride. “What I’ve been able to see and do and the life it’s given me, I’m grateful,” he says. “I’ve been able to buy the houses that I own because of nightlife.” But now he’s…
“This Spring is your chance to witness the legend himself.” That’s the official hype for DJ Shadow’s All Basses Covered 2013 tour, a 15-city U.S. trek that’s set to snub Miami (and Mansion Nightclub), where the Cali selektor was kicked off the decks for being “too future.” “As opposed to…
Sitting in a car with two unidentified men near NW 152nd Street and Sixth Avenue in the parking lot of an apartment complex, Kenneth “Nu Money” Casilla was murdered. According to Miami-Dade Police Department (via NY1), the Brooklyn-bred, Miami-based rapper and Rich Mafia crew member was shot and killed at…
“It is true,” longtime downtown Miami don Louis Puig admitted last month. “I sold Club Space.” Writing in his semi-annual “tell-it-like-it-is letter regarding EDM,” Puig also confirmed that Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013 would be his last with the NE 11th Street party institution. But the ex-owner…
Usually when C. Breezy visits a morning talk show for a lil’ chit-chat about domestic violence, all the windows get smashed. This morning, though, an uncharacteristically sedate Chris Brown visited with NBC’s Matt Lauer on the set of the Today Show to discuss a new single, “the Quincy Jones approach,”…
We know Chris Brown can dance, and we know he’s moody, but now we can say without a doubt that he’s a “true artist.” Not only is he gifted in the realm of hip-shaking and heart-breaking, he can really strut his stuff with a spray can. He came down to…
The promoters and DJs of SAFE Miami have been providing the soundtrack for the drunken shenanigans that go down at the Electric Pickle and other 305 clubs since 2007. Having played a pivotal role in Miami’s music scene for nearly six years, SAFE is the subject of a new mini-documentary…
We here at Crossfade are still praying to the gods of robot music for a miraculous Daft Punk cameo at Ultra Music Festival 2013. But as YouTube user Deniz Korkmaz just ecstastically commented via UMFTV: “OMFG SLASHHH.” Of course, not everybody’s superstoked about the former Guns N’ Roses axe slinger…
It’s been less than a week since Lil Wayne was reported to be dying, on life support, and awaiting last rites. And it’s been about a month since he was the human target of a Miami-Dade County-wide “Fuck Wayne” campaign for beefing with the Miami Heat and snarling: “Fuck LeBron!…
Mr. Moonlight’s been caught. Two weeks ago, Peter Murphy announced a tour “celebrating 35 years of Bauhaus,” for which he will be traveling to Miami’s Grand Central, as well as 51 other North American and European cities. Over the weekend, though, he was cruising through Glendale, California, in his Subaru…
Lil Wayne is alive. Despite reports from TMZ last week, claiming he was dying, on life support, and awaiting last rites, the YMCMB rapper has apparently been discharged from the intensive-care unit at Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. His six-day stay in the hospital and ICU was allegedly caused by a…
Lil Wayne (born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.) is reportedly near death. Earlier this week on Tuesday, the 30-year-old rapper was admitted to Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. He was released the next day. But just hours later, one of Carter’s bodyguards discovered him, unconscious on the floor of his room. He…
It sucks to be broke. Especially when Ultra Music Festival, only the best EDM festival on Planet Earth, is going down, and your friends, who were lucky enough to score tickets, are constantly reminding you of all the missed fun by posting pictures of Tiësto, Calvin Harris, and Swedish House…
Yes, Ultra Music Festival 2013 will still start tonight. Even though approximately 16 hours ago “a section of an LED screen fell” from the Ultra main stage “and injured three workers,” the EDM fest fully intends to stick with its two-weekend, six-day plan. According to Crossfade’s communications with Ultra reps…
Ultra Music Festival has never offered much homegrown local flavor. Even as the globally minded EDM fest has broadened its musical scope to include rappers, R&B stars, and indie bands, the other sounds — reggae, salsa, merengue, authentic Miami Bass — that keep much of the 305 dancing the rest…
The Ultra Music Festival 2013 stage looks epic. Unfortunately, according to eyewitness reports and a statement from UMF reps, “a section of an LED screen fell and injured two workers.” The accident apparently took place at about 8 p.m. this evening, while Ultra organizers and workers were prepping for tomorrow’s…
The $1-billion EDM pledge. That’s what has most recently made SFX Entertainment mogul Robert F.X. Sillerman famous. During the summer of 2012, the New York billionaire, who built his fortune throughout the 1990s by consolidating regional rock promoters into the company that eventually became Live Nation, announced his intention to…
Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week 2013
