Somewhere between YouTube, a Canadian rapper named Pat Stay, a competition called Jump Off, and American hip-hop conglomerate Grind Time Now, the world of battle rap was forever changed. Whereas snaps were traditionally served off the top of opponents’ heads, now the raps are written and heavily researched on the…
Stumbling upon Perez Hilton’s most recent video post about Kim Kardashian, we exclaimed, “Sweet, another sex tape!,” removed our pants, and hit the play button. For the first 23 seconds, we were really digging it. Sweaty and scantily clad with a face full of smeared makeup, there’s Kim K., dressed…
Newsflash! South Beach is a cesspool of Sodom and Gommorrah-style excess! While most Americans are collecting pennies from public fountains, replacing the ground beef in their Hamburger Helper with cat food, and crapping their pants in fear of the dreaded double-dip recession, SoBe residents (and the superrich jetsetters they schmooze,…
Thanks to a raging bitch named Irene, the Identity Festival’s originally scheduled Miami stop got canceled. Or, as the official ID Fest statement said: “Due to the potential effects of Hurricane Irene, the Thursday, August 25 date of the Identity Festival presented by Skullcandy is being postponed. Details regarding a…
Identity Festival organizers promised to reschedule last week’s canceled Miami show and they’ve kept their word. The festival is set to try again on September 30 at the Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park.Unfortunately, if you were hoping to check out Cut Copy’s performance at Grand Central, it looks like you’re…
Just a few days after Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against Pitbull for disparaging her name on summer hit “Give Me Everything,” Mr. Worldwide announced plans to perform the song at the MTV Video Music Awards. It was a subtle way of saying, “Suck it, bruha.” Then last week, Pit…
“We are badass. We are some the freshest people in the country, some of the most colorful, smartest and funniest.” This is how Psychic Mirrors frontman and mastermind Mickey de Grand IV describes Miami. He speaks with serious authority, as he’s been playing music and touring since he was 12…
If you’ve been paying any attention to Crossfade’s occasional pre-show coverage of the MTV Video Music Awards, you’ve no doubt taken note of the fact that we consider Music Television to be a soul-sucking celebreality wasteland and its marquee annual event, the VMAs, to be a total joke that only…
Folky Brooklyn-based crew Grizzly Bear has made quite a name for itself since debuting in 2004 with Horn of Plenty. Meanwhile, our very own Morningwar is also generating some very noteworthy buzz. And only a part of that has anything to do with Grizzly Bear.After all, Morningwar has spent the…
Working with bands such as Angels of Light, World of Skin and, most famously, Swans — not to mention what he describes as enough collaborators to fill a small stadium — post-punk pioneer Michael Gira has been experimenting with sonic extremes for over three decades. In the days following the…
We here at Crossfade had massive plans to spend last night swagging out with Metro Zu, O’Grime, and Chalk at The Stage. And if you paid close attention to the party scenario laid out in last week’s epic interview with the Zu crew and the O’Grime guys, you know that…
Fresh off a 65-city tour with new label Strange Music, ¡Mayday! return to Miami as great, conquering hip-hop heroes. And now that they have rocked more crowds than Stonehenge, their sound is sharper than a samurai sword. Will they play Stuck On An Island in its entirety, test out new…
When ex-teenage drama queen and current courtroom fixture Lindsay Lohan dropped a silly lawsuit against Pitbull last week, citing “disparaging” and “defamatory” lyrics from his song “Give Me Everything,” we here at Crossfade called her out for trying to score an easy payday. Pit, meanwhile, kept his head. And as…
Smokin’ and drankin’ under blacklight is just another day on the motherfucking job for Metro Zu. And last week, between discussing the art of swag with us and whipping up a “Fuck the Hurricane!” flyer for tonight’s Crossfade music series show at The Stage, the Zu crew’s Lofty, RubenSlikk, Freebase,…
Who’s Zed? He’s dead. His brains got blown out by bass. And two Toronto dubsteppers named DC and Hooks pulled the trigger. Coming together in 2009, after an earlier collaborative project called Mass Productions went kaput, the Zeds Dead dudes have been stretching the limits of dubstep for almost three…
What do you get when a mike mangler named Pitbull humps the Miami Sound Machine? A barking, buzzing remix of “Wepa.” Last week, we here at Crossfade unleashed our Martian chonga for Otto Von Schirach’s mega-mix of the first single off the impending Gloria Estefan album, Miss Little Havana. Of…
Last month’s Motown Brunch at The End/SPRING BREAK’s temporary Ear Conditioning space was packed with cool dudes and dudettes who left their first meal of the day with yummy chow in their bellies and Detroit’s best lingering in their ears. This Sunday, though, Leonardo Valencia’s comfy and classy brunch is…
Mogul BFFs Jay-Z and Kanye West must be pretty pleased with themselves. After so many late nights spent studying one another’s awesomeness in the Roc Nation executive penthouse, Jay and Ye’s collaborative vanity project, Watch the Throne, has played out precisely as planned — selling 613,000 copies, kicking ass for…
According to the National Hurricane Center, there is a nasty bitch with one eye named Irene who’s gonna come crashing through “the Southeastern…Central…and Northwestern Bahamas” today. She’s a “category three hurricane.” She’s whipping up winds of 115 mph. And she’s pissing “1 to 3 inches” of rain on any fool…
A quick survey of the cars surrounding you in rush hour gridlock will prove, once and for all, that the line between man and machine has been completely eradicated. Look at these fleshy bags of bones and organs: Their bodies are frail, so they strap themselves in with seatbelts. Their…
Listen to all 10 tracks off Glazin’, out August 30, at spin.com. Want three really good reasons you shouldn’t miss Jacuzzi Boys’s Glazin’ album release bash at Churchill’s Pub this Saturday? OK, (1) There will be wine and whiskey; (2) You’ll get to party with a band Crossfade likes to…
Update: Identity’s organizers have release another statement saying tickets for Miami’s canceled/postponed Identity stop will be honored at tomorrow’s show in Tampa. Road trip! (Full statement after the jump.)Dammit, Hurricane Irene!Despite NOAA’s prediction that the storm will skirt the state and stay well to the east, Identity Festival’s organizers aren’t…
