After shocking South Florida last month by suddenly resigning from his longtime morning-show gig at Power 96, Latin booty bass pioneer and 22-year radio vet DJ Laz (born Lazaro Mendez) insisted that he was “going to take the boat out for a little while” and spend more time with his…
Who’s ready to get dressed up like a six-foot Rastafarian puppet, suck down some lukewarm Corona, and absolutely not do any drugs while cruisin’ across the Atlantic Ocean aboard the MSC Poesia? That’s right … We’re talking about Jam Cruise, every South Florida hippie music junkie’s favorite floating vacation. This…
Read Crossfade’s Q&A with DJ Laz: “I’m Not Leaving Miami for Los Angeles, It’s Like Having Two Women.” El Heat le metieron tremenda paliza a los Knicks last night. But the big news in Miami wasn’t the Heat’s offense. It was DJ Laz’s decision to leave his beloved city for…
Read Crossfade’s Q&A with DJ Laz: “I’m Not Leaving Miami for Los Angeles, It’s Like Having Two Women.” Sandwiched between Detroit and Seattle, Miami ranks a depressing 12th among the largest radio markets in the country, according to Arbitron’s spring 2012 rankings. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is second only to New…
Read Crossfade’s Q&A with DJ Laz: “I’m Not Leaving Miami for Los Angeles, It’s Like Having Two Women” — plus our interview with SBS’s Jesus Salas: “DJ Laz ‘Needed a Bigger Platform to Grow.” Less than a month after DJ Laz “decided to move on and explore other professional opportunities,”…
It only took about 400 days, but Lil Wayne’s $20-million “Lollipop” legal drama has finally been settled. Last year, producer Darius “Deezle” Harrison filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records for unpaid royalties from sales of Weezy’s 2008 Grammy-winning album, Tha Carter III, and…
Check out Crossfade’s complete list of winners and losers at last night’s Billboard Latin Music Awards. The Billboard Latin Music Awards picked up where it left off last year. With Pitbull. Rising from the stage and seeming to struggle with his microphone, Mr. Worldwide opened the show with a two-song…
Check out Crossfade’s list of highlights and lowlights from the Billboard Latin Music Awards 2012. Three hours. Three long hours of fake tears, fake tits, and fake singing. It’s the nonsense that we sit through so that you don’t have to. Admit it, you didn’t watch last night’s Billboard Latin…
Shuffling through Record Store Day release bins this past Saturday left us feeling empty. Sure, we picked up some fine RSD stuff and supported local business. But all we really wanted was a Van Halen seven-inch. Wait! What’s that? If we buy Van Halen’s A Different Kind of Truth after…
Timothy NorrisDrum roll, please… Individual results may vary.We’ve just rolled out a new and improved calendar of Miami concerts. Our online music listings are now sortable by artist, venue and price. We’ve also got a raw, unadulterated, alphabetical list of upcoming shows in the drop-down menus on the righthand side…
It was about as unexpected as a Chinese sinkhole — a hip-hop heavyweight and, well, a former heavyweight. Last night, Rick Ross and Mariah Carey, together in a Miami recording studio with Jermaine Dupri and DJ Khaled. “Rozay and MiMi,” Ross tweeted at around 1 a.m. Attached to the late…
For years, everyone has told me, “You guys gotta play it, man! Juke would be perfect.” We’re talking about the annual Wanee Festival, a three-day, 30,000-strong, hippie jam extravaganza in Live Oak, Florida. It mostly specializes in “bluesy” acts like The Allman Brothers. And this year, my band finally went…
The Miami Beach Senior High Rock Ensemble is a storied local institution. Founded in September 1972, this program has allowed student musicians to travel the country and the world, playing as far away as Chicago and New York, as well as Japan in 2001. The ensemble has won award after…
Perhaps the third time’s the charm? When the Identity Festival set out on its inaugural summer tour across the United States last year, Miami was left out after the threat of a hurricane that never hit. Organizers tried to reschedule the show at a later date. But it proved too…
Mariah Yeater, remember the name? She’s the chick who allegedly took Justin Bieber’s virginity backstage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and gave birth to the pop singer’s only child nine months later. She filed a paternity suit, became the key suspect in a statutory rape investigation, and subsequently lost…
Drug addiction, alleged spousal abuse… That’s all behind him. Ever since Whitney Houston drowned in a Los Angeles bathtub, Bad Bobby Brown’s been able to focus on the important stuff like fighting a DUI charge in California and hitting the road with his Boston-bred R&B group, New Edition. The 43-year-old…
Sandwiched between Usher on May 18 and a “special Thursday” performance by the future American Idol champ and runner-up on May 31, Pitbull has been added to the mainstream list of musical acts tackling the Today Show stage as one of several participating in the year’s Toyota Summer Concert Series…
See Crossfade’s top ten 4/20 parties in Miami. In the days before ganja, Planet Earth was a boring expanse of mountains, flatlands, and water. But on the fourth day, there was weed, and it was good, and after 20 hits off the burning bush, man was hungry, and he filled…
It’s the 64th hottest track on iTunes. And now Pitbull’s taking you behind the scenes of the music video shoot for “Back in Time.” Earlier today, Miami’s Mr. Worldwide dropped an exclusive two-minute-and-22-second teaser trailer for the Men in Black 3 theme song on his official Vevo channel. Shot on…
Kanye West … The dude’s obviously troubled. And according to at least two exes, he’s got an awfully violent temper. If the rumors are true, Kim Kardashian may be dating a physically abusive mental case with a dangerously short fuse and a celebrity porn obsession. Worst of all, she is…
J. Nics has the kind of voice that always sounds cool. Gravelly and guttural, it’s as forceful and blunt as it is smooth and soothing. Fortunately, the rapper (appropriately nicknamed “Polar Bear Mack”) has something to say. The acronymic title of his latest mixtape, SNAS: The Product, stands for “Southern…
Schizophrenic instability. It’s a dangerously shaky state of being that threatens every facet of life. But for the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson’s psychosis was also the group’s paradoxical saving grace. This year, the iconic surf band is celebrating its 50th anniversary by hitting the road and tackling major U.S. festivals…
