Damn you, leap year! This extra day nonsense is really starting to piss us off. With so much to look forward to in March, the thought of February 29 holding us back is killing us. Especially ever since we found out that Boys Noize is throwing a WMC party at…
Every Valentine’s Day is exactly the same — the candy, the flowers, the teddy bears, and some slutty lingerie. Don’t people ever get sick of spending a bunch of money on a bunch of stupid crap so some Hallmark execs get that big V-Day bonus? Or wonder just what the…
Once upon a time, some kids from West Palm were chilling at an Ultra Music Festival afterparty in Miami, and they started talking about forming an indie rock band. We can’t be sure if these guys were sober or not. But thankfully, they were serious, and Surfer Blood went on…
The never-ending awards show season reaches its apex next week when Univision beams the Premio Lo Nuestro to millions of families all across the Americas. On Thursday, February 16, the Spanish-language network will honor a cross-section of Latin music artists at the American Airlines Arena. Among them, Miami’s own Pitbull,…
A memo from Uncle Luke to all y’all haters who seem to think the hip-hop industry should institute some sorta superstrict mandatory retirement policy … Screw you. That shit’s ageist. In today’s edition of Luke’s Gospel, entitled “Jay-Z, Eminem, and Rick Ross Are Never Too Old For Rap,” New Times’s…
Following Costa Concordia’s horrific disaster-at-sea, competing cruise line Royal Caribbean has managed to avoid their own maritime mishap thanks to Mr. Worldwide, Pitbull. Armando Christian Perez’s Club 305 Cruise has been cancelled, but questions as to why the “magical voyage” with Pitbull, Paul Oakenfold, Flo Rida, and 2,500 of their…
Part passion project and part philanthropic endeavor, Lupe Fiasco’s latest gig is both catchy and admirable. The Chicago-based rapper has combined forces with longtime friend Sky Gellatly to form Soundclash (SNDCLASH), an electro-clash collaboration appearing at LIV this Wednesday. The duo’s set to release its debut all-electro EP, Don’t Drop…
Noise. It sucks. It hurts the ear. But every year, Rat Bastard’s International Noise Conference draws sickos from around the world to Churchill’s Pub for a free, curated, four-night concert series featuring the worst sounds humans are capable of producing without drones or laptops. All the bands have terrible names…
Every musician dreams of making it big. Of course, it doesn’t usually work out that way — unless you’re Miami-based electro duo GTA. Matthew Toth and Julio Mejia, AKA Van Toth and JWLS respectively, have been working together for only about a year and half. But already, their work has…
Just when you thought the fact that Miley Cyrus loves penis cake was officially too hot to handle … TMZ has revealed that Miley ain’t the only one who’s got a need for desserts fashioned after gargantuan shlongs. Yes, it’s true, Demi Moore has been implicated in The Great Penis…
C’mon, y’all! For many shining moons, Boise Bob and his Backyard Band have been rockin’, rollin’, and ramblin’ down from Hallandale to Little Haiti’s Churchill’s Pub for late nights full o’ hootin’, hollerin’, and gobblin’ “Possum Meat.” And let’s not forget … Anytime you were broke and busted, Bob and…
The best dance parties aren’t the ones you can escape with your sexy intact. Great nights are the ones that leave your hair a mess and clothes covered in booze. Maybe you wake up the next morning with a headache and a couple of mysterious bruises. Never mind the consequences,…
Last time we checked, ANR’s Brian Robertson and Michael-John Hancock said they were busy recording an album. So when 10K Islands’ Will Suter emailed us about the band’s upcoming show at Mamushka’s, we asked for an update on Robertson and Hancock’s doings.”[They’ve] added [a] live drummer, Luke Moellman, to the…
Yes, King of Diamonds stripper Tip Drill has been experimenting with politics lately, crashing MSNBC talk show Morning Joe on Monday and then helping New Times analyze the Florida Republican Primary. But tonight, Ms. Drill will return to her true area of expertise, putting aside a possible presidential bid to…
Whenever O’Grime’s L.Rey and Nikolais Javan ain’t too busy playing video games and enjoying domework, they’re cranking out absurd and amazing rap vids dedicated to stuff like strippers ass-smashing Nachos Supreme, the handsomeness of Miami Heat center Udonis Haslem, or “#Planking On Yo Bitch.” And their latest shot of audio-visual…
For EDM fans, there are only a handful of live experiences worth hundreds of dollars. And while we wait patiently for Daft Punk to announce a new tour, the Chemical Brothers reign supreme as old-school dance masters we just gotta see. Luckily, Miamians are about to get the chance to…
Kanye West’s ex-girlfriend and Wiz Khalifa’s current girlfriend Amber Rose was struck by lightning on Saturday night at Cameo. The 28-year-old bald supermodel was in Miami over the weekend with Wiz and she was spotted sporting a lighting bolt face tattoo.. TMZ broke the story, questioning whether or not the…
”Playing in Cuba was more than just a gig,” says postcolonial and quirky acoustic songstress Sol Ruiz. “It was spiritual. It brought meaning to my existence.” In keeping with the passionate reverence she expresses toward performing music in the ancestral homeland that she has long been barred from visiting, everything…
Hard, the long-running Los Angeles club night and electronic music festival, made its Miami debut during WMC 2010 with a pool party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. We called it out for being a lite version of Hard’s notoriously heavy throwdowns. Now we won’t try take credit for it. (Actually,…
Ever since the internet turned every last drip-drop of intellectual property into the featured item at an ever-extending, all-you-can-download digital buffet, nobody’s even sure if concepts like “underground” or “mainstream” exist anymore. But Chicago electro-hop diva Kid Sister straddles the line like the best of them. After cutting her chops…
No doubt, those ¡Mayday! homies ain’t afraid to hustle. As we here at Crossfade reported last Thursday, the 305’s raddest hip-hop collective is already prepping for Tech N9ne’s Hostile Takeover tour, an insane sked of 90 shows in 99 days with Machine Gun Kelly, Krizz Kaliko, Prozak, and Stevie Stone…
Late last week, the Crossfade staff (as well as our siblings over at County Grind) received a truly terrifying press release from Revolution Live reps. The all-caps subject line screamed, “SLEIGH BELLS [AND DIPLO] CONCERT CHANGES LINE-UP!” And like most bad news, this message was accompanied by another 39 exclamation…
