Email Author Matt Preira

2011 Stories by Matt Preira

• Bassnectar at Fillmore Miami Beach October 22

  published October 20, 2011

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• Krisp at Vagabond October 21

  published October 20, 2011

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• Tupac's Sex Tape Features Unreleased Track Worth $1 Million

  published Oct 17, 2011

  From the day TMZ revealed the existence of an amateur sex tape featuring West Coast gangsta rap martyr Tupac Shakur getting, ahem, polished in public, Crossfade has been obsessed with unmasking the po... More >>

• Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon Split After 27 Years of Marriage ... Is Sonic Youth Nextr

  published Oct 14, 2011

  Crossfade is extremely sad to report that Sonic Youth founders and indie rock's always-cool Mom and Dad, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, have announced a separation after 27 years of marriage. The obv... More >>

• The House of Bernarda Alba's Measured Melodrama at Arsht Center

  published Oct 14, 2011

  Last night, the Arsht Center (in collaboration with the University of Miami's Department of Theatre Arts) debuted The House of Bernarda Alba, It commemorates the 75th anniversary of playwright Federic... More >>

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  Spooky Miami: Coconut Grove Ghost Tour

  published Oct 14, 2011

  Spooky Miami is a four-part series featuring supernatural, paranormal, and otherwise unexplained phenomena throughout Dade County."Miami is my hometown," Sandy Walker says with pride. "I've always kno... More >>

• LSD and Stevie Nicks: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown of Mick Fleetwood's New Viral Video

  published Oct 14, 2011

  Tequila, Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac, and Brooklyn coffeehouse singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins ... It sounds like the beginning of a joke. But no, it's the basis for the inaugural Cabo Wabo Teq... More >>

• Whitney Houston Refuses to Buckle Her Seatbelt and Four Other In-Flight Freakouts

  published Oct 13, 2011

  We all know Whitney Houston likes to keep it, um, reckless, and her latest flare-up is the direct product of the R&B siren's disregard for safety and basic public decorum. The big to-dor Ms. Hous... More >>

• Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso Announces Halloween Costume Party in Miami

  published Oct 13, 2011

  Every weekend, you finish work, catch dinner and drinks with friends, catch some more drinks, and maybe some pills at the club ... And before you know it, you're waking up Sunday morning (uh, afternoo... More >>

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  Five Shows We Wish Would Make an Arrested Development-like Comeback

  published Oct 13, 2011

  FOX's cult-hit-turned-fan-favorite, Arrested Development, is returning to the airwaves for a victory lap season leading up to the grand finale feature film. Word of an AD movie has long been buzzing ... More >>

• Plunge Into the Deathpunk Trenches With Turbo Tuesday, Churchill's Pub's Tribute to Turbonegro

  published Oct 13, 2011

  Norwegian party rockers Turbonegro get down like their lives depend on it. And next Tuesday night, Churchill's Pub will host the latest edition of its monthly cover shows with a tribute to the denim ... More >>

• Chris Brown and Bow Wow Drop $5000 at KOD! Plus Five Other Strip Club Spending Sprees (NSFW)

  published Oct 12, 2011

  A rapper spending a night at the club -- the gentleman's club, that is -- is like a scientist spending overtime in the lab, or an archivist hitting the microfilm. Yeah, it looks like an OK enough tim... More >>

• South Florida Grindcore Supergroup 440 Debuts at Fox's Sherron Inn October 15

  published Oct 12, 2011

  Someone needs to sit down and finally sketch out the ultimate South Florida punk rock family tree. Because, we're willing to say at any given moment in the past, say, 10 years of Miami punk and hardco... More >>

• Lil Wayne Talks All About His Sizzurp Addiction In New Homemade Video

  published Oct 11, 2011

  Post-Tha Carter II and right up until the year or so after Tha Carter III, you couldn't get Lil Wayne to shut the fuck up about slugging back big Styrofoam cups of Purple Drank, an unholy brew o... More >>

• Have a Krisp Aural Orgasm at The Vagabond October 21

  published Oct 11, 2011

  Wynwood-based synth-pop quartet Krisp has emerged from the Miami music-and-arts ether to gig around town like an old-school classic rock workhorse. Of course, the band's done its requisite time at Li... More >>

• Boyz II Men Bring the Science of Panty Droppin' to Miami November 5

  published Oct 10, 2011

  Boyz II Men have announced a Miami stop on their latest tour, along with fellow 90s smooth-crooner Keith Sweat and gangsta diva Faith Evans. And Crossfade anticipates the concert will be a top-shelf s... More >>

• Exiled Punk Venue Miami Chum Bucket Announces Search For New Space

  published Oct 10, 2011

  In Miami Chum Bucket's two years of existence -- first as a fundraising-slash-organizing effort, then as a short-lived warehouse-b/w-multipurpose space in Allappattah -- the DIY punk venue has been co... More >>

• Electric Beer Pong Battle of the Bands at Churchill's Pub October 16

  published October 13, 2011

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• Occupy Wall Street! Top Five Moments of Musical Protest From Hippies to Beasties

  published Oct 10, 2011

  Since erupting in New York City's Zuccotti Park on September 17, the #occupywallstreet movement has been taking the nation by storm with it's populist rage and youthful vigor. One sure sign OWS is a ... More >>

• Beyonce's "Countdown" Pairs Internet Quirk With Royal Hip-Hop Badonk

  published Oct 07, 2011

  Crossfade remembers exactly where we were when we first saw the video for Beyonce's mammoth nu-Girl Power single, "Single Ladies." We were at home, on the internet. Similarly, we were at home and on ... More >>

• Tupac's Sex Tape: TMZ Releases Photos and Afeni Shakur Is Pissed (NSFW)

  published Oct 06, 2011

  It's embarrassing to admit, but Crossfade isn't any closer to deducing the identity of the "anonymous owner" threatening to release a sex tape featuring '90s West Coast gangsta rap martyr Tupac Shakur... More >>

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  Spooky Miami: Biltmore Hotel Haunted by Gangsters and WWII Soldiers (PHOTO)

  published Oct 06, 2011

  Spooky Miami is a four-part series featuring supernatural, paranormal, and otherwise unexplained phenomena throughout Dade County.The Biltmore Hotel was the hotspot in sunny South Florida in the '20s ... More >>

• De La Soul + Soviet Jazz = TenDJiz's De La Soulviet Mashup Revolution

  published Oct 06, 2011

  The mashup is a decadent, triumphant symbol of the digital age's too-deep pool of influences. Before the internet, you had to save your pennies and hunt down sounds (and information about them) lik... More >>

• Miami DJ-Producer Jesp Talks Political Science of Pop and Raging Through the Recession

  published Oct 04, 2011

  Pop music doesn't have to be supersmart. It's for out-of-control bouts of shouting, makeout sessions, and screaming along with when traffic on 826 is moving in slow-mo. But Miami DJ-producer Joseph E... More >>

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  Who Leaked Tupac Shakur's Sex Taper Crossfade's Top Five Smutspects

  published Oct 04, 2011

  Ever since yesterday's announcement of a Tupac Shakur sex tape featuring the rapper broing down with Digital Underground bandmates, a blunt, and a blowjob, Crossfade has been going certifiably insane ... More >>