Just count the exclamation points … With every passing year, Hard Events’ electronic dance music cruise only gets more epic. And Crossfade can vouch for that fact ’cause we’ve been aboard the MSC Poesia for each and every edition of this EDM rager at sea since 2011. Now prepping its…
Who didn’t get a little wet watching Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z kill it at the Grammys? We haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. We just keep rewatching the clip and dreaming about seeing them in person. Well, thankfully, our dreams are rumored to become reality. If the New…
The Biebz is feelin’ unloved. Yeah … Despite being an unfunny bazillionaire with good hair who gets to host Saturday Night Live (because SNL’s ratings among tweenage girls suck?), Justin Bieber feels he deserves mooooooooore. Namely, a Grammy. (Or at least a nomination.) ‘Cause, like, he’s made huge contributions to…
Dressed dapper in designer duds, a hungry Rick Ross walked the red carpet of the 55th annual Grammy Awards last night, eager to take a bite out of his competition and jump on a chartered flight back to Miami with a gold-plated gramophone under his arm for God Forgives, I…
Who could’ve guessed that Israeli dubstepper and Miley Cyrus collaborator Borgore’s set would be cut short at Story Nightclub on South Beach this past weekend? Well, how about @BlakeMinto1, a local Twitter user and “DJ/Producer” who spent Friday night wondering: “Borgore sucks why do people wanna go to Story so…
Puerto Rico stand up! Miami’s own Marlow Rosado was awarded the Grammys’ Best Latin Tropical Album for his band La Riqueña’s May release Retro, a “salsa duro” nostalgia project covering golden-age classics from the 1970s. The album was recorded, produced, arranged, and promoted right out of the 305, and features…
Rick Ross has may have a “Fuckin’ Problem,” but a drive-by shooting ain’t one. On the same day that Funkmaster Flex debuted the MMG Kingpin’s “Fuckin’ Problem” freestyle, Rozay was all smiles after leaving a Beverly Hills restaurant yesterday with his head held high and puffing on a fat stogie…
Poor Chris Brown. After beating his gorgeous girlfriend in 2009, going ape-shit on the set of Good Morning America in 2011, brawling with Drake’s posse at a New York City nightclub in the summer of 2012, insensitively dressing up like a terrorist for Halloween last year, and probably calling Frank…
ADHD? Downs? Three nipples? Slurred speech? What damage is subpar NBA star Kris Humphries doing to Kayne West’s unborn baby? According to TMZ, Yeezy’s pregnant “perfect bitch,” Kim Kardashian, is mad stressed about her and estranged husband Humphries’s sluggish divorce proceedings. And during a recent house call, her personal doctor…
The Breezy wire is goin’ beserk. Oh, it’s just the alert system that we here at Crossfade rigged up in order to receive prompt notification of Chris Brown’s next massive fuck-up. And last week, it almost whirred itself to death when Brown punched Frank Ocean over a parking spot. Or…
What do you get when you combine eight guys from across the Caribbean and Latin America with a passion for creating sazón? Bachaco. Named after the leafcutter ant in Venezuela, an insect that’s used to make salsa picante, the Afro-Caribbean-roots-rock-cumbia-reggae-ska band recently released its first self-titled album and the crew…
The timing? Perfect. Happy hour at the strip club was starting to feel like a XXX version of Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day. It’s the same three songs over and over and over again. We’ve already experienced how every “big booty ho” works the pole to 2 Chainz’s “Birthday Song,” and…
Well, it finally happened. Tickets for weekend two of Ultra Music Festival 2013 have officially sold out. That means the possibility of a trip to Miami’s annual dance mecca is quickly slipping out of your slow-grabby reach. Yes, you still have a shot at purchasing weekend one tickets or six-day…
Lady Gaga used to have it all. She had the most Twitter followers in the world. She had number-one single after number-one single. And she had a legion of obsessively adoring fans at her every beck and call. Well, she probably still has those Little Monsters. But in a lot…
We’re almost done with the week, and we’re almost done with the first month of 2013. How much have you gotten done so far? Alright, forget that question. How much have you partied so far? Not enough, right? Cool … Well, there’s loads of great music coming ’round the bend…
Like a gangsta, Rick Ross has kept (mostly) silent since escaping a would-be assassin’s 20-bullet barrage on Las Olas Boulevard. His only comment: A freestyle “wishing death on you niggas.” Meanwhile, the City of Fort Lauderdale Police Department continues to pore over surveillance video from the crime scene, seeking leads…
While an alleged scuffle with Frank Ocean and a highly publicized brawl with Drake suggest otherwise, Chris Brown is a changed man. At least that’s what his on-again, off-again girlfriend Rihanna tells Rolling Stone. “I decided it was more important for me to be happy,” the singer says in the…
Not long after becoming the target of a foiled drive-by murder plot, Rick Ross issued a musical warning seemingly directed at his would-be assassins: “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe.” “Wishing death on you niggas, we never see eye to eye,” Ross roars on the track. “Somehow I pray for you…
Who shot at Rick Ross? Police are still investigating the drive-by shooting that nearly cost Ross and girlfriend Shateria L. Moragne-el their lives early Monday morning in Fort Lauderdale, sifting through video surveillance footage from a nearby building in an effort to identify the perpetrator–or perpetrators–responsible. “The Fort Lauderdale Police…
Rozay says: “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe.” Yesterday, after escaping an unknown assailant, dodging 20 bullets, and smashing up his Rolls Royce on the streets of Broward County, Rick Ross disappeared for approximately 12 hours. He couldn’t be reached for comment on the shooting by TMZ, MTV, the Miami Herald,…
Chris Brown’s “not working on negativity” anymore. Instead, the Grammy-nominated hothead says he’s turning to Jesus and Michael Jackson for inspiration to help get him through his latest public display of douchebaggery: Sunday’s parking lot scuffle with Frank Ocean. However, Brown may also need his lawyer. Reuters reports that Ocean…
It’s bigger than hip hop. No, really, EDM might just be. According to Dancing Astronaut, EDM is making so much money, an estimated $4 billion worldwide last year, that some heavyweights have banded together to create the Association for Electronic Music, an advocacy and lobbying body that, like, PLUR and…
