The 305 has always been about bumping and grinding to ass-clapping booty bass music. And it ain’t gonna change if homeboy Jesse Perez gets his way. The DJ-producer and dirty mastermind behind Mr. Nice Guy Records has been busy releasing sleazy, bass-infused jacking house grooves on the local scene for…
See also “Dan Hosker: Memorial Services for Local Punk Hero Scheduled for This Friday in Hollywood.” R.I.P., Dan Hosker. Back in May, Hosker — a famed South Florida punk who’d done guitar duty in legendary local crews like Harry Pussy, The Holy Terrors, and Laundry Room Squelchers — was involved…
See also “R. Kelly Announces Love Letter Cruise, Sailing From Miami on October 1, 2012.” The R. Kelly Love Letter Cruise is cancelled. Almost exactly eight months ago, we here at Crossfade encouraged “you and your boo [to] visit some of the most exotic ports of call in the Caribbean…
See also “WMC is back with Ultra but still needs a makeover” and “WMC and Ultra’s complicated breakup.” We’ll admit, we’ve let Winter Music Conference’s organizers have it the last few years. But it’s not because we are choosing sides. We really hope they wake up and realize they need…
Until earlier this morning, the electronic dance music scene lacked synergy. But Ultra Music Festival founder and CEO Russell Faibisch and Ultra Music president Patrick Moxey have since rectified the situation. In a joint statement released by both parties, Ultra Music Festival and Ultra Music (a pair of entirely independent…
“Yo Skrill, College Drop it hard!” Or, uh, something like that … It came out yesterday that Skrillex got all up in the studio with Kanye West, and as far as Skrill knows, he worked on a track that will be West’s “first song” on the follow-up to Yeezy’s 2010…
Just two weeks ago, Joel “Deadmau5” Zimmerman was crowned the rat king of hooded sweatshirts, oversized graphic t-shirts, and flat-bill ball caps when he launched NeffMau5, an exclusive, collaborative clothing line with swag sport punk brand Neff. “The people involved are the people I see at my shows, so it…
Hell yeah, America! We’re going into the final weekend of the 2012 London Olympics neck-and-neck with China in the overall medal count, proving one Olympic sport at a time that the U-S-of-A rocks the shit out of athleticism. Seriously, did y’all catch the women’s gold-medal soccer match? We’re so nasty…
See also a four-step guide on “How To Piss Off the DJ” from Love Hate Lounge’s DJ Self Born. Yo, club rats … The Miami Ink guys have cashed out of Love Hate Lounge on South Beach, leaving DJ Self Born (the guy who started the most successful night, the…
See also “Rick Ross, Big-Booty Strippers, and 3,000 Ballers at King of Diamonds in Miami (NSFW).” Rick Ross is a fucking boss. But y’all already knew. What you may not know, however, is that the Maybach Music MC outsold some of the music industry’s biggest names to claim the top…
See also “Kanye West Calls Kim Kardashian “Perfect Bitch,” Plus Five Other Adorable Rap Pet Names.” Kanye’s a sweetheart. And when he calls someone a “bitch,” it’s cute. In fact, it’s an honor. Yesterday, we mentioned that Yeezy debuted his latest Kim Kardashian love song, “Perfect Bitch,” this past weekend…
See also “Cat Power’s Sun Album Announced, Listen to First Single, ‘Ruin.'” Hell to the yeah! Cat Power is back! After a six-year hiatus, the singer-songwriter otherwise known as Chan Marshall is set to release a new album, Sun, at the beginning of September. And where there is an album…
See also “Justin Bieber Disses Reading, Writing, Education: ‘I’m Really Not Into That Stuff.'” In the mid-’90s, Prince William’s adorable face was plastered on posters worldwide and then hung above millions of innocent young girls’ beds where they were kissed and admired by tweens who dreamt of one day becoming…
See also “Gunplay: How Miami’s Coke-Sniffin’, Po’ Pimpin’ Maniac Joined Rap’s Power Circle.” Gunplay was consuming so many narcotics while making his aptly-titled debut mixtape Sniffahill in 2008 that he dubbed himself “five-drug minimum” on one of its freestyles. Actually, for meter’s sake, he said it in an abbreviated form…
See also “Rick Ross, Big-Booty Strippers, and 3,000 Ballers at King of Diamonds in Miami (NSFW).” Last time we caught up with Ice “Billion” Berg about the possibility of signing with Rick Ross and Maybach Music, he was just about to drop his Strictly For The Streets 3 mixtape. That…
See also “Vagabond Owner Carmel Ophir Rumored to Be Opening Barfly, New Club in Old Bar Space.” Perhaps the worst-kept secret in Miami’s nightlife scene was what was happening to the space formerly occupied by Bar and PS14. Shortly after the decision had been made, local nightlife sources told us…
Paul van Dyk has become the latest European to shit on Madonna. In a recent interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur the Berlin-based DJ and producer accused Madge of working well beyond her prime, suggesting that Madonna should’ve hung up her leotard nearly 15 years ago. “I think she should have quit…
In the make-believe world of reality television, anything is possible … So long as it’s marketable. Take Teen Mom starlet Farrah Abraham, the 21-year-old aspiring chef-turned-model-turned-author who snuck into America’s collective heart with her charming smile and piercing gaze, who’s looking to capitalize on fame by dipping her toes into…
Dude … Why are there so many people here? Every time we go to Churchill’s Pub (or The Electric Pickle or Grand Central or Treehouse or Mansion), it’s such a mission even getting an alcoholic beverage. (Not to mention scamming our way into the back of the band’s van.) Just…
Madonna’s awfully public exploration of post-menopausal sexuality and her apparent midlife crisis have Elton John flaming mad. “She’s such a nightmare,” John recently said in an interview with Australia’s Molly Medrum. “She looks like a fucking fairground stripper.” According to the Huffington Post, John’s publicity team quickly redacted the comments,…
Photo by Erik HessThe rains left Lollapalooza mud-faced, but undeterred.See also “Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012” — plus “Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Wigs, TEED,” “Day Two: Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Twin Shadow, and Others,” and “Day Three: Jack White, Sigur Ros, Florence + The Machine, and…
Ever since World Cup-predicting Paul the Octopus went to that great fried calamari appetizer in the sky, the world has been adrift and directionless. How are we to know what is supposed to happen? Ask a tic-tac-toe-playing chicken? It turns out that the answer has been in front of us…
