Big news, beat freaks. After months of teases, hype, and promises that it “will be bigger than last year,” there’s finally been a major development in the ongoing saga of Ultra Music Festival’s 2012 lineup. Of course, we here at Crossfade have spent the last few weeks scouring the web…
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…
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…
Rick Ross. Two words, two syllables, and one hardcore boss. Over that past 12 months, the Maybach Music capo effortlessly managed to make 2011 his bitch, surviving two seizures and a Kreyashawn diss along the way. He expanded his investment portfolio, adding Wingstop franchisee to his resume. And along with…
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. Rachel Goodrich Rachel Goodrich (Yellow Bear Records) Loving Rachel Goodrich hasn’t always been easy…
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…
Welcome to the southernmost tip of the Floridian peninsula, otherwise known as the land of Purple Christmas. Now if you’ve never celebrated the high holidays in Miami, here’s the deal: We don’t decorate trees. We cut ’em down and smoke ’em. And this year, the fine folks at local nightlife…
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. Betty Wright With The Roots The Movie (Ms. B Records/S-Curve Records) Betty Wright’s status as the queen of Miami soul has never been in question…
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. Danny Daze Your Everything/Fall Away From Love EP (Hot Creations) Despite the 305 being a transatlantic house and techno mecca during WMC, we hadn’t really…
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…
Every once in awhile, a bar opens that bridges scenes. Its appeal is universal. Whether you’re into Moose Juice or PBR, Pitchfork or Porsches, this is your common ground. And Wood Tavern is that bar. Recently, the cosy Wynwood spot opened its doors for private gatherings and Art Basel events,…
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…
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…
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. Maybach Music Group Self-Made, Vol. 1 (Maybach) Don’t no one got grind like The Boss. When it comes to the post-gangsta rap game, Rick Ross…
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…
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…
The time has come to take a trip with local Latinotronica crew Elastic Bond. But you can’t show up without supplies. You’ve gotta pack a bag. You will need (1) a stash of premium psilocybin; (2) a sturdy pair of sunglasses with sparkly starbursts embedded into the lenses; (3) a…
Christmas. To some, it represents the birth of Jesus Christ, the immaculately conceived love child of a Galilean woman named Mary and a theistic being referred to as God. But for 18 Jewish gals aged 17 to 26 from the South Florida metropolitan area, December 25 will be a day…
Meet Steve Lawler at Wall Lounge for a pre-NYE party on December 28. Check out Crossfade’s full New Year’s Eve 2012 guide. Dance music sucks. House music rules. Just ask British rave legend and Viva Music label boss Steve Lawler. “Dance music is not the same as house music,” Lawler…
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…
Totally contradicting Western civilization’s standard calendar, New Year’s Eve now lasts a lot longer than just one night. Especially on Miami Beach. In this land of endless neon and fake boobs, NYE has become a seven-day holiday weekend packed with stupid hats, stupider behavior, and absolutely insane admission fees. You…
The Herd just got a little thicker. Two weeks ago, the Virginia Key Grassroots Festival — a SoFla spinoff of Ithaca, New York’s Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival, organized by mountain music crew Donna the Buffalo — released its initial 25-act lineup, starring socially conscious hip-hop collective Arrested Development, Del McCoury’s…
