Top Ten Reasons Tobacco Road Should Live Another 100 Years

The Road is 100 fucking years old! There’s never been a better time to get wasted, eat great, and have consensual drunk sex in a parking lot than tomorrow’s big birthday bash. Here are the top ten reasons Tobacco Road should live another hundred years. See also: -Graham Wood Drout…

Rihanna Rolls a Blunt… While Smoking a Blunt!

She loves, she loves, she loves it when you eat it. And we love it, we love it, we love it when Rihanna puffs a fatty. RiRi’s affinity for blunt smoking is no secret. We here at Crossfade caught her blazing that California cannabis at Coachella. Then she wore a…

Miami Jazz Fest Canceled “Due to Poor Ticket Sales”

Despite once being “an essential mid-20th century] stopover on the Southern tour circuit for legends like Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat King Cole,” Miami was never a straight-up jazz town. Our city’s always been more about the crooners, salsa, disco, booty bass, freestyle, street rap, and electronic dance music…

Rihanna Gets Naked for GQ, Five Other Sexy Pop Star Cover Girls

Wearing little more than a bad decision (read: underboob Iris tattoo) and a black, unzipped leather jacket draped over her bare shoulders, a nearly naked Rihanna will grace the cover of GQ’s Men of the Year issue. According to the magazine, “men straight lost their minds over” Rihanna in 2012,…

Ten Best Music-Related Things to Do in Miami This Week Under $10

Look … It’s not like we’re broke because we have a “serious drinking habit.” Or because we’re “lazy and just didn’t manage to make it into work on time.” OK, that’s a lie. But still, even with only $10 in our pockets, we here at Crossfade wanna party. Thank god…

South Florida Web Awards: Meet Your Music Blogging Nominees

To say the web ties worlds together seamlessly with invisible streams of data would be a gross understatement. So New Times is celebrating Miami’s greatest with our first annual South Florida Web Awards. We’ve scoured online media from news, to arts and culture, to food and music, and Twitter and…