In 1967, The Beatles released their sprawling Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band concept album, a dense wallop of cutting-edge experimental production techniques, schizophrenic survey of genres, and, most importantly, the psychedelic youth movement’s most prominent statement. Really, the whole record, from start to finish, was about getting faded. And…
UPDATE Mansion and Deadmau5 have just announced a two-night reopening party for January 20 and 21. Log onto mansionmiami.com and the nightlub’s site has been scrubbed clean, except for a shocking three-word statement in big, bold red letters: “MANSION IS CLOSED.” That same mysterious message also went out over Mansion’s…
Near-tragedy and heroism have become synonymous with EDM-theme cruises, both around Biscayne Bay and abroad. On Saturday morning, the MSC Poesia ran aground in the Bahamas and sent beat freaks aboard the Holy Ship! cruise into panic mode as death seemingly knocked on their portholes. In 2010, Biscayne Lady captain…
We here at Crossfade provided plenty of advance warning that West Palm fuzz rockers Surfer Blood would be jamming out to “Miranda,” a single off last year’s Tarot Classics EP, during last night’s episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. But maybe you came down with a real nasty case…
It was in a 1974 Dodge Dart that Q-Tip and his Tribe Called Quest brethren took a four-minute cross-country trek with “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo,” the second single off the group’s 1990 debut, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. Now 22 years later, both car…
Chalk Dirt EP (Dubporn Records) You need look no further than Crossfade’s picks for Miami’s Ten Best Local Albums, EPs, and Mixtapes of 2011 to see that the 305 is rife with diverse homegrown sounds. But it’s not often that we hear the kind of eclectic electronic fusion offered by…
If y’all ballers been counting down with The Boss, you ain’t alone. All motherfuckin’ day, the internets, Twitters, and Facebooks been totally wilding out over the release of Rick Ross’s new Rich Forever mixtape. The hashtags (#RickyRozay, #RichForever, #MMG) been flying like AK spray. And earlier, The Boss himself said,…
OMG! Surfer Blood’s gone late night! About 15 hours ago, West Palm Beach-based Surfer Blood sent out an ecstatic tweet to their 6,894 fans announcing a January 9 appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Several minutes ago, Crossfade’s inbox was hit with a press release confirming the good news…
Dancing like a star can be dangerous. The proof: Miami’s own R&B crooner Jason Derulo fractured his neck practicing acrobatic tumbles for his Future History world tour. Derulo could have been paralyzed, but luckily avoided that fate. His tour, however, is canceled for the moment and Derulo (real name Jason…
When last year’s edition of Winter Music Conference took place at the Miami Beach Convention Center, it added to an already confusing year due to the “misunderstanding” with Ultra Music Festival. Before that, it was held at mid-Beach resorts like Eden Roc in 2010 or the Miami Beach Resort &…
Before there were 8-tracks, cassette tapes, compact discs, or MP3s, vinyl ruled Miami. Throughout the 1950s, Dade County’s coin-operated juke boxes were run by the Mafia. Old-school Minneapolis gangster Sam Taran was a key figure. He and his cronies set up shop in every hotel lobby, shine shack, whorehouse, and…
Browsing Swedish House Mafia’s social media pages is kinda like trying to decode the ravings of schizophrenic fist-pumper on bad acid. Earlier this week, we here at Crossfade mentioned that Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso “will returning to Miami for another shot of late-March madness,” otherwise known as Masquerade…
Nick Cannon has fallen ill and he’s “fighting to recover from a mild kidney failure,” according to wife Mariah Carey. The singer posted a picture on her website of the America’s Got Talent host inside an Aspen hospital rocking a blue beanie and general look of discontent. Carey — who’s…
If you say you’ve never bought an album because it had a sweet cover, you’d be a giant, fake-cool liar. The saddest part of downloading music isn’t just the demise of the music industry. It’s that we no longer get to enjoy amazing cover art or oddly personal liner notes…
Drug addiction? Check. Liver transplant? Oh yeah. Hepatitis C? Big deal. At 64 years old, Gregg Allman’s been through a lot of shit. But for the Nashville-born, Georgia-based Southern rocker, slowing down is not an option. Last January, Allman released his first solo album in 14 years, Low Country Blues,…
After two kids, a decade-long courtship, and zero NBA championships, LeBron James has finally asked high-school sweetheart Savannah Brinson for her hand in marriage. Having turned 27 years old approximately 24 hours earlier, King James manned up, took a knee, and proposed to Brinson during New Year’s Eve dinner at…
In exactly one day, 20 hours, and 30 minutes, Swedish House Mafia’s Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso will stop being so fucking cryptic and finally reveal the details for the 2012 edition of their Masquerade Motel party in Miami. The inaugural installment of SHM’s semi-annual dance music experience took…
Can a columnist get a table dance? One-time 2 Live Crew capo and Miami-Dade County mayoral candidate Luther Campbell celebrated his 51st birthday last week. But the New Times contributor isn’t calling it quits just yet. Tomorrow night, Uncle Luke’s hosting an NYE weekend birthday bash alongside 99 Jamz’s Felicia…
Hare Krishna hardcore? Screamo? Whatever-the-fuck-genre-Flogging-Molly-plays? There’s no denying it: Punk rock has gone through some seriously bizarre permutations. And in keeping with the big-tent genre’s proclivity toward making bedfellows of once-disparate sub-scenes (like suburban US skate-punk and Jamaican ska), Little Haiti’s favorite holy house of wax and vegan cupcakes, Sweat…
According to Wikipedia (The Free Encyclopedia), the term peak oil refers to “the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline.” Similarly, the concept of peak chillwave is that moment in history during which hazy ’80s…
Ice Cream is a local band with a deliciously sweet name and a curiously exciting sound. But sadly, the five-guy psychedelic rock crew is skipping town for good. After tearing up eardrums across South Florida for the past two years, Ice Cream’s Thomas Kennedy, Justin Anthony Rivers, Roy Neil Hunter,…
Often associated with violent street crime, urban decay, and N.W.A., South Central Los Angeles is generally considered a residential wasteland, the type of gritty, big-city neighborhood where dreams die and poverty prevails. During the early ’90s, it was the epicenter of the Rodney King scandal, inspired countless West Coast rap…
