There was no doubt, as 2012 got started, that Kenisha “Tip Drill” Myree was at the top of Miami’s stripper food chain. The top-drawing dancer at King of Diamonds, she pulled in as much as 10 grand a shift. There were a couple nights, she says, where she brought home…
Miami doesn’t have the strongest of indie music scenes. So it’s nowhere near often enough we see promising local underground artists erupt with new, promising work. Now if these artists also happen to be pushing the envelope and breaking ground with their music, it’s a very special thing indeed. With…
America. We’re on the brink of war, just moments from disaster, shaking up and down, side to side, hanging out the bottom of some nude-colored shorts. No, we’re not talking about Syria. We’re talking about Cyrus — Miley Cyrus. And while the President fumbles with words and foreign relations, the…
Freestyle music got its name from a Miami group called Freestyle Express. Someone left out half the name on the group’s most popular record, and when “Don’t Stop the Rock” became a national hit, the label just read “Freestyle” and that word came to define the sound. Miami Freestyle is…
“Have you ever dreamed of being a star?” Who’s asking? Flo Rida! He wants to make your dreams come true, and he’s not going to do it with the exciting new BeamzByFlo, “the future of interactive music.” What is it? Probably the cheapest piece of plastic crap turned musical instrument…
Chief Keef has been 18 for less than a month, but he’s already got a police record riddled with more crimes than 50 Cent’s body got bullets.
Mad Skrews is a Miami Beach producer with more metal in his face than Kanye West, hence the name. And in the four years since Crossfade last caught up with him, he has continued landing placements on albums from the likes of Funkmaster Flex, Trina, and Ky-Mani Marley. Now the…
The “abandoned-treasure-turned-retro-sixties-alternative-atomic-bomb-dance-music-bar-institution” that is Do Not Sit on the Furniture (or Don’t Sit for short) is officially opening its doors. Don’t Sit debuted its SoBe “living room” on Fourth of July weekend, but tonight marks the soft opening of the club, where owner and Electric Pickle veteran Behrouz will be…
When one club closes, another one opens. That’s how we here at Crossfade summed up the Miami nightlife cycle in the opening to our profile of downtown’s Therapy when it launched during Miami Music Week 2013. But you know, maybe we’d have been closer to the truth with something like,…
Denzel Curry sits on the couch with his friend Raul, who’s in the middle of a sketch. Another friend, producer Ronny J, stands by the sink, just watching. A few seconds later, Curry reaches for an Xbox controller and scrolls through Netflix to pick The Truman Show. It’s been more…
Love is a powerful thang. So who among us will dare to ask why LeBron James’ mom could have fallen for a man named Lambo? That’s right … Mrs. Gloria James has a new boo. And he’s a rapper from Miami who happens to be only three years older than…
In the 1970’s TK Productions was 10 times more powerful than Cash Money Records is today. Company President Henry Stone had more artists, more hits, greater distribution, and more sales. But when 1980 hit it all came crashing down and the company went bankrupt. One of his first million selling…
It’s always great to see local bands do big things. And for Miami-bred technical grind masters, Maruta, signing to Relapse Records, a titan among extreme genre labels, has been a long time coming. The group, currently composed of Mitchell Luna, Eduardo Boria, Mauro Cordoba, and Daniel Morris, has previously put…
Must be lonely at the top for the world’s richest DJ, Calvin Harris. Harris was once an underground sensation — a favorite among late-2000s hipsters — thanks to cuts like “Acceptable in the ’80s” and “The Girls.” Needless to say, he has taken a more pop approach to dance music…
For 22 years, Uncle Sam’s Music has been one of the best record stores in South Florida, a place where you can buy a used CD, a new record, and a bag of incense, a pipe, and a t-shirt to go with it. After nearly a quarter century, though, shop…
Hyped for the return of “the old Goodie Mob days”? Well, keep waiting while tapping your foot and checking that watch, because Cee Lo, Big Gipp, Khujo, and T-Mo are no longer bringing their reunion tour to Miami or most of the other 11 American cities. That’s right, as Grand…
Attention Miami trapaholics! Your days of wandering the streets, following ratchet bass systems in random cars are over. Your weekly fix has arrived. It’s time to get Based. Every Saturday, Red Rabbit Presents is bringing Base at Space and real trap music to Miami. Since debuting in June, this weekly…
In 1975, Willie Clarke won a Grammy for his work on Betty Wright’s “Where Is The Love”. It’s one of many hits he wrote in the ’70s for the biggest independent record company in the world, Henry Stone’s TK Productions, out of Hialeah. But Clarke’s recording career began in the…
Alright, so TomorrowWorld may not be coming to Miami. But a slice of the 305 will be making its way to Georgia next month as Belgium’s TomorrowLand travels overseas for its first U.S. fest. European EDM promo powerhouse ID&T has announced that LIV will be joining forces with TomorrowWorld as…
Say what you wanna say … But the truth is there’s no escaping the uhntz-uhntz of Calvin Harris and the ilk. Within the last year alone, the blond-haired, bright-eyed Scottish EDM master made it to the Billboard Hot 100 at number 12 with his hit “Feel So Close,” signed a…
Hey, beat freaks! It’s August, and you know what that means … Time to start plotting your annual Winter Music Conference plan of attack! There are only 217 days left until the 2014 Conference kicks off. And no, that’s not a lot of time. Believe us, you’re going to blink…
Miami independent music pioneer Willie Clarke is a Grammy winner whose music has been sampled by Beyonce. In the mid 1960s, he and a college buddy named Johnny Pearsall started a label called Deep City, based out of Johnny’s Records in Liberty City. It was the first independent, black-owned record…
