Alex Caso has been a man of different names in South Florida’s music and DJ scenes. Alternately known as DJ Cookieheadz and/or Sad Tiger, he was the synth/keys player in the Waterford Landing and one of the early figures of Pop Life’s success. A man with an enviable collection of…
Yesterday, Louis Salgar, a Miami punk musician and bartender, was shot and killed at his home in Miami. And his car was stolen. Hours ago, Palm Beach Police found a gray Honda Accord in the bushes near the Breakers Hotel after receiving an early-morning call from a security guard about…
The Bawse got beef in the Motor City. Over the weekend, Rick Ross was set to headline Hot 107.5’s Summer Jamz concert at the Chene Park Amphitheater in Detroit. But according to the promoters, when big homie rolled up in his tour bus, he was turned away by “100 individuals…
“RIP, brother.” Family, friends, bandmates, and barmates are mourning the loss of Louis Salgar. Yesterday at approximately 3 p.m., the 31-year-old punk musician and bartender was found dead in his home at NE Eighth Court and 85th Street just east of Biscayne Boulevard. He was shot and killed, according to…
Miami is no friend to underground clubs. They open. They flourish. They close. So when we here at Crossfade wrote about The Nest for the club’s grand opening during Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week, we were hopeful, but we also suggested not getting used to the new pop-up…
Photo by Christopher Victorio The Clark County Coroner is investigating the death of a 24-year-old who collapsed outside Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas Saturday morning. An autopsy was being conducted this weekend, but results aren’t yet available to the media, an official at the coroner’s office told us. If…
The Crumbs have been around for almost 20 years in one shape or another. Fronted by Raf Classic, whose Latin-inflected nasal snarl is widely recognized as one of the best voices in the realm of punk rock ‘n’ roll, The Crumbs have been relatively quiet since he relocated to Los…
Sure, two high-school girls can make a “Chonga Song” with an old PC and a USB mic, and go viral. But there’s still nothing like a professionally recorded song produced with quality gear and a dedicated engineer in an acoustically sound environment. Miami’s great musical history is proof. Outside of…
¿Que es un “Tipo Tropical”? Well, just ask Cuban puppet and Miami media mogul Pepe Billete: “Imagine it like this … If you went to sleep tonight and were visited by the morronga fairy and tomorrow you woke up with five additional inches added to both the length and diameter…
Is Weezy squashing his beef with the Miami Heat? Last year, the Young Money maniac declared war on King James and crew during an NBA All-Star Game weekend concert. “Fuck LeBron! Fuck She-Wade! Fuck Chris Bosh! Fuck all them niggaas, man. And, and, and,” Wayne cackled. “I fucked Chris Bosh…
Dan Destructo has lived through five decades of punk rock, witnessing its ebb and flow from the skewering environs of Venice Beach, Florida. Now relocated to the Los Angeles area, his long-running outfit No Fraud has proudly released a 17-track collection of some demos recorded in 1984. While Destructo and…
The Moz is oh so sick. Again. When the post-punk crooner announced his 2014 U.S. tour, we here at Crossfade joked about his recent history of repeated concert cancellations caused by food poisoning, extreme flu, and other health issues. “Let us pray that the Pope of Mope does not fall…
Listennn! Rap superproducer, local radio personality, and Miami Heat superfan DJ Khaled has an NBA Finals prediction: “It’s over! We winnin’ tonight! And we’re winnin’ in the next game!” Oh, and big homie’s also got a message for the San Antonio Spurs: “You cheaters! They don’t love you no more!”…
With Churchill’s Pub sold, the future of Miami’s most legendary rock establishment is uncertain. It’s hard to imagine that the new owners will shoot themselves in the foot by making radical changes. Shit, leave the bathrooms alone, save yourselves some cash. Meanwhile, Tobacco Road could be facing relocation next year…
Miami is home to some of the best dance clubs and art galleries in the nation, but there still aren’t enough places where 305 artists can freely and boundlessly express themselves. That void is what inspired Alicia Apfel to launch Space Mountain Miami, a gathering point for the Magic City’s…
Henry Stone first met James Brown in about 1954, when King Records founder Syd Nathan told both him and Ralph Bass to race to Macon, Georgia, to sign the R&B singer to a record deal. Bass got there a day before Stone and inked the contract with James Brown for…
It wasn’t long ago that DJ Drastic X turned his “It’s All Gravy” show on FIU’s WRGP Radiate FM into the vehicle by which artists like Pitbull, Rick Ross, Flo Rida, and DJ Khaled saw some of their first college radio airplay. And today, he continues to break new ground…
Churchill’s the Movie is currently in production, and there’s a Kickstarter campaign raising funds to help complete Little Haiti Rock City. The dude responsible is Franco Parente, a freelance filmmaker born and raised in Miami. He has won numerous film festival awards. He has a French television series development deal…
Some know him as Roach. But the Miami Beach Police Department prefers the name Glenn Thor Larsen. Once a Miami punk rocker who played drums in hardcore bands like U.F.C. and Sound4Sound, Larsen also served as a sound guy at Churchill’s Pub during the 2000s. But yesterday, the 34-year-old man…
The 305’s nightlife scene is notoriously fickle. Since last year, more clubs than ever before, specifically in Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road and downtown’s Brickell neighborhoods, have relocated to other parts of town or closed their doors. Places like Score, the Van Dyke Café, and now Mova Lounge have all moved…
Blood. Shit. Spilled beer. “And a girl,” as Churchill’s Pub enforcer Nicky Bowe recalls, “pissing into a saucepan.” Only a few examples of the weird, wild, and occasionally disgusting stuff that can happen in the course of a trip to Our Beloved Shithole at 5501 NE Second Avenue on any…
Bizerk was a 13-year-old kid when he started fetching water for rappers at Circle House, the North Miami studio where artists from Pitbull to Rick Ross have laid down some of their first major verses. At the time, Trick Daddy was smashing the world with hit after hit, iTunes didn’t…
