Ultra Music Festival 2012: Carl Cox and Sven Vath Added to Ultra Lineup

UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. Yes, we here at Crossfade continue to sit, unwashed and sweaty, at our laptops. Like a 150,000 other beat freaks all around the globe, we are…

Miami’s Best Albums of 2011: O’Grime’s Self-Titled EP

To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. O’Grime O’Grime EP (Self-Released) Over the summer, swag tag-team O’Grime — Nikolais Javan and L.Rey Reyes — spit, giggled, and screamed onto the 305’s street-level…

Miami’s Best Albums of 2011: Pitbull’s Planet Pit

To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Pitbull Planet Pit (Sony) If you grew up in Miami, it’s absolutely impossible not to like Pitbull…

Miami’s Best Albums of 2011: Mr. Pauer’s Soundtrack

To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Mr. Pauer Soundtrack (Fabrika Music) After tirelessly toiling away for nearly two decades, Venezuelan-born DJ, producer, and all-around contributor to Latin culture, Toto Gonzalez, broke…

Miami’s Best Albums of 2011: Spaceghostpurrp’s Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6

To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Spaceghostpurrp Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6 (Self-Released) Spaceghostpurrp (AKA Muney Jordan) is a dark ass, blaspheming, postmodern motherfucker. Tracks off 2011’s Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6 (or Blackland Radio…

Miami’s Best Albums of 2011: Afrobeta’s Under the Streets

To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Afrobeta Under the Streets (Do It Entertainment) This album was five years in the making. In 2006, Tony Smurphio and Cuci Amador joined forces as…

Miami’s Ten Best Local Albums, EPs, and Mixtapes of 2011

Welcome to Miami. Here, you can’t be the kind of music snob who only listens to The Velvet Underground & Nico, Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and Pitchfork’s current playlist on repeat. Sure, all that stuff is awesome. But when you’re running wild in the streets of the 305, the…

Meet Beach Day, a Surf Rock Three-Piece from Hollyweird

Earlier this week, Crossfade met up with Kim, Nat, and Skylar of local band Beach Day on the set of their promotional photo shoot. The three-piece’s sound is mellow ’60s surf rock, and these girls and their guy have been spreading laid-back tunes all over town with multiple shows at…

House Might Be Wynwood’s First Proper Nightclub

Is Wynwood, Miami’s arts district and hipster mecca, ready for a full-fledged nightclub? Mark Lowe thinks so. Lowe, the man behind Fort Lauderdale’s Living Room, is poised to open a 9,000-square-foot party spot called House, which scheduled to open February 2012. “It’s definitely not a lounge, but I wouldn’t describe…