Is Lady Gaga really Freddie Mercury in reincarnated drag? Probably not. Mother Monster was already five years old when Mercury died in 1991. But the two flamboyant icons have a lot in common. So much, in fact, that Queen guitarist Brian May is hinting at the possibility of Lady Gaga…
Murder was the case in 1993. But Snoop Dogg walked away a free man and into the collective heart of American pop culture. Now 18 years later, he’s trying to crip walk onto primetime television. MTV News (via Deadline Hollywood) is reporting that NBC is working on Snoop’s “family comedy…
The mashup is a decadent, triumphant symbol of the digital age’s too-deep pool of influences. Before the internet, you had to save your pennies and hunt down sounds (and information about them) like a bounty hunter. Before electricity, you straight up had to wait until someone with an instrument came…
It’s happened again. On June 3, Brit songbird Adele was forced to cancel nine US tour dates due to a nasty bout of laryngitis. “I’m really frustrated. I was hoping with a weeks rest I’d be better to sing again straight away,” she said at the time. “However there is…
At this point in their music careers, the men of Stay Hitt have earned local legend status. Like old college drinking buddies or that guy in high school that set the principal’s car on fire, there’s tons of crazy Stay Hitt stories floating around Miami, most likely involving a goat,…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a decade already. Ten solid years of bleep-bleep, bloop-bloop electro synthpop courtesy of the Liverpool-based quartet known as Ladytron. Twelve years if you count that 1999 EP, Miss Black and Her Friends, released only in Japan. After five studio records, a live album,…
Originally, the Crossfade staff was hyped as hell to party with R. Kelly. We Google Mapped the perfect route to Revolution Live. We packed our survival kit (change of clothes, condoms, pee poncho, etc.) for a night with the slow-jammin’ pervert. And we put in our official press credential request…
Aside from being crazy stupid musical geniuses, R&B pop star Chris Brown and nimrod rapper Gucci Mane have a lot in common. For example, they’ve really got a way with the ladies. By which, of course, we mean that both C. Breezy and Radric Davis have been involved in unfortunate…
Pop music doesn’t have to be supersmart. It’s for out-of-control bouts of shouting, makeout sessions, and screaming along with when traffic on 826 is moving in slow-mo. But Miami DJ-producer Joseph Espinoza (AKA Jesp) thinks that pop should be both fun and intelligent. In fact, his dabbling in ostensibly serious…
A normal 9 to 5 job in Miami can be as hard to come by as money in your pocket after a night at the club. But fear not, party animal, just apply to work at the newest club on South Beach, Amnesia. A modern remix of a classic venue…
Guatemalan blues. No, that’s not right. Bilingual bossa nova. Eh, it sounds fun. But it doesn’t quite capture it all. OK, We think we’ve got it. We’ll call it music. Better yet, damn good music. After all, a word that accurately describes Gaby Moreno’s eclectic blend of ’20s and ’30s…
Even though it’s been 15 years since quintessential West Coast gangsta rapper and Death Row Records artist Tupac Shakur was tragically murdered, ‘Pac still manages to release about an album a year. Of course, these compilations are mostly sloppy, unnecessary greatest hits packages. So … Are you sick and tired…
“We don’t just throw beer pong parties,” says Pong Time Productions’ Doran Joseph. The 21-year-old Miami native describes the binge-drinking-slash-sporting events he hosts with collaborator Igor Argiba (also 21 and from Miami) as “electric.” The five parties they’ve thrown thus far — four at Little Haiti’s Churchill’s Pub and one…
Miami is going to be underwater one day. When the first tidal wave flicks down skyscrapers like shoe flies, people will stand with their mouths drooping vacuously, their wide, empty-eyes staring at the devastation in disbelief, and say to themselves, “Why didn’t we see this coming?”Until The Big One, we’re…
Gloria Estefan. We’ve never met her, but we know Miss Little Havana well. Maybe too well. She’s like Miami’s really cool tía, the type of woman that never raises her voice and has an infectious laugh. But like our favorite aunt, sometimes she says shit that fucks up our heads…
Whether two-steppin’ toward a birthday party, second line parade, or jazz funeral, New Orleans’s Hot 8 Brass Band always keeps it big, bad, and brassy. But over the years, the Hot 8’s battled through plenty of tough times. Three members — Jacob Johnson, Joseph “Shotgun Joe” Williams, and Dinerral Shavers…
Overtown once rocked with the sounds and soul of musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie. A hotbed of music and culture, Overtown’s heyday has passed, but not entirely. This neighborhood just northwest of downtown Miami is being revitalized, with help from Amy Rosenberg and the Overtown…
On September 21, 2011, at 11:08 p.m. in Jackson, Georgia, a death row inmate named Troy Davis, convicted 20 years ago for the murder of off-duty Savannah policeman Mark MacPhail, was executed by lethal injection. For decades, though, Davis, his supporters, and many justice advocates had proclaimed the prisoner’s innocence…
Calle 13’s Residente and Visitante are nominated for ten Latin Grammys this year, an impressive stat for a group that in the past five years has gone from the viral diatribe of “Fuck The Dear FBI” to filling stadiums in Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Chile, and wherever else they play.Lead vocalist…
Hypothetically speaking, would y’all get mad if Rihanna took her top off –for the sake of art — on your property? Neither would we. But for one Irish farmer, the 23-year-old superstar’s boobs were too much to handle. Rihanna was on a Bangor, Ireland wheat farm yesterday filming naughty bits…
The actual demise and cosmic destruction of Langerado Music Festival rained upon South Florida clubs with a thousand little shiny nuggets of musical opportunity. Thus, Bardot landed London indie group Yuck, a five-piece band consisting of boys and girls who conjure throwback ’90s rock with a heavy edge and low-fi…
Reports are all over the interwebs about legendary soul-funk man Sly Stone being homeless and living in LA’s Crenshaw hood. But we’d like to point out (as he probably would too) that Sly lives in a van, a pretty big one, and that having a mobile home is way better…
