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…
Does a $0.25 cover charge for some superintimate, semi-secret show at a small waterfront bar with French art-rock geniuses Phoenix sound too good to be true? Well, yeah. But fans weren’t about to hesitate clicking the “Buy Tickets” button when Live Nation and Ticketmaster suddenly sent out an app alert…
Update: Reached by phone on Sunday afternoon, Hardin County coroner Jessica Cullum released the name of the man who died as Cory Collins, 24, of Harrisburg, Illinois, a town about 35 miles northwest of the music festival. Cullum said the cause of death was still pending. More details about the…
Photo by Daniel HillThe now-closed “drug bridge.” The Gathering of the Juggalos’ infamous “drug bridge” was closed on Friday, following reports of a fatal overdose. Ambulances were on the scene at Cave-in-Rock, Illinois around 2 p.m. local time, according to witnesses. The substance involved is believed to be heroin. Since…
Every hipster millennial had their Killers moment. These kids vehemently yelled “Mr. Brightside” in the shower, and then on the bus to school (since it was 2004, and Discmans were still in), they packed an extra set of Duracells for a habitual Hot Fuss morning sesh. Over the years though,…
DJ Carnage — he’s “just chilling, eating food, watching Netflix,” doing whatever. You might have heard his breakout Bang! EP. Or you might have heard about how he pissed off a bunch of agro commenters by saying he was over trap. Or you might have killing it at Ultra Music…
Miami has a long history of putting out great, unique sounding heavy bands. In much the same way that the marsupials of the Southern Hemisphere have evolved with combinations of traits unlike those of any other mammalian group, Miami’s isolated heavies are a genus unto themselves. And now, in particular,…
With his first EP, Velvet, Austin Paul won the hearts of musical taste-makers from soulful-producer Kastle to groove-guru Pharrell. In the few months since it dropped, he’s traveled the nation making musical connections with big brands from Vogue to Porsche, and it’s just the beginning. Still, success can be stressful,…
If The Clash were from Miami and made a record in 2013, it might sound like ¡Mayday!’s new album, Believers. With rock and Caribbean guitar riffs, simple and heavy basslines, snap-and-crack drums, multilayered lyrics, and catchy hooks, this slab is the Miami rap crew’s latest masterpiece. We spoke with MCs…
“Miami bass is the ghetto-style hip-hop that came out of Miami in the ’80s,” says DJ Jerry Pulles. From 1989 to 1994, he drove a van loaded with speakers and records from Miami Lakes to Hialeah to Carol City, playing house parties for his friends from American High. Later, he…
Flo Rida is a Florida boy who’s basically made a career of ripping off dance music instant classics, and Diplo is a Florida boy who’s made a career spawning them. So far, the two haven’t really crossed paths. But it seems that’s all changed in the time it takes to…
“The best day of the year.” Yesterday, it was Miami Beach rapper Kat Dahlia’s 23rd birthday. And that’s what she tweeted 14 hours and 27 minutes before being busted by Miami Beach Police. The misdemeanor charge: “DUI” and “Resisting [Arrest] W/O Violence.” See also: -Five Rappers Dumb Enough to Get…
The Bawse is a former officer with the Florida Department of Corrections. Of course, though, he usually plays the role of gangsta thug drug dealer who “got a chopper in the car.” Hence the professional moniker, Rick Ross, a name lifted from an infamous Cali crack peddler. But on a…
Trina is Da Baddest Bitch. And that’s the way it’s been ever since her career first took off in the late ’90s. But it’s a decade and a half later. And the 34 year old’s got some stiff competition, what with all these bodacious youngins hitting the charts. In an…
Dr. George Clinton, the Godfather of Funk, “stand[s] in support of the spirit of the ‘boycott Florida’ movement” launched by Stevie Wonder in protest of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the Trayvon Martin case. But he also lives in the Sunshine State. So, as the Parliament/Funkadelic founder and his management team…
Kevin Hart’s a baller. He is America’s newest standup comedy superstar. He is personal pals with rap heavies like Rick “The Bawse” Ross. And he is the reigning MVP of the NBA All-Star Weekend Celebrity Game too. Unfortunately, though, Kev’s love of the limelight, celebrity friends, and pro ball recently…
OK… So it’d been widely (and frantically) reported throughout the blogosphere that Jay Z, Justin Timberlake, and nearly two dozen other celebs had decided to join Stevie Wonder’s Florida boycott in protest of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin. Yesterday, though, Crossfade helped cast doubt on this…
It’s been nine days since a six-person jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Yet despite President Obama’s unscripted personal address to the nation and the possibility of a civil case against Zimmerman, many Americans’ anger over the acquittal hasn’t dimmed. In fact, popular…
Scoring one of Jimi Hendrix’s chromatic gauze button-downs on eBay won’t be smooth sailing. But how about a band tee from the closet of a South Florida music legend? The first-ever Churchill’s T-Shirt Swap Meet will be a congregation of exactly that sort, where you’ll be able to peruse the…
Hey, racist America! Remember Marc Anthony, that raging Mexican impostor that crooned “God Bless America” at the MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday? Turns out, he’s a good ol’ Yankee. Even better, the Puerto Rican-American, Grammy-winning recording artist was born in New York State, and grew up in East Harlem, not…
They may “hail from the Netherlands.” But like lots of other famous Dutch DJs, Bingo Players’ Paul Baümer and Maarten Hoogstraten have made a second home of South Beach and Miami. Over the last year alone, they’ve headlined multiple times at megaclubs like LIV and Story, while also securing a…
If we had to name our most anticipated albums of 2013, Jacuzzi Boys would easily be on that list. But the wait is almost over. The Boys’ self-titled LP drops September 10 via Hardly Art. And they already gave us a taste of what to expect, first with the track…
