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Five Real Trap (Rap) Songs

The word "trap" has two meanings in the music world. Birthed in the early 2000s, it was bass-y, kick drum-ridden, synth hi-hat Southern hip-hop, all about the venue (a trap) for drug deals and the lifestyle of a bagman. Now, though, trap rap is often befuddled with the mechanical, schizy EDM spawn ... More >>

Afrika Bambaataa at PAX Miami June 15

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Playing evil is more fun than playing good anyway, right?

Inner Circle Talks Tour Bus Crash in Louisiana: "Everyting Was Flyin' and Turnin'"

Yesterday near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Inner Circle's tour bus crashed into a highway cable barrier on Interstate 10 as the classic reggae band traveled to California to kick off its summer tour. A tire blowout was the cause. "Listen man, God is good," cofounder and guitarist Roger Lewis tells Cros ... More >>

T. Williams Talks UK Garage, His Rinse FM Show, and EDM's Future

One of the things that US electronic music fans have to envy the most about the UK scene is its diversity of sounds. For decades, it's been a creative hotbed for all sorts of experimental styles and hybrids, from jungle and drum 'n' bass to UK garage, grime, dubstep, and all the interesting new "pos ... More >>

Summer Movie Guide 2013

Big Boi's Shoes for Running Tour Postponed

Art By Beasts

Best of Miami 2013 Readers' Poll Closes Today! Cast Your Vote Now

Much to learn we still have. That's why New Times and Crossfade are seeking your help in the Sunshine Wars. So many questions! And strong in you the force is! Who is Miami's best band? DJ? Dance club? Latin club? Rock club? Radio station? Lend your wisdom to Best of Miami 2013: The Sunshine Stri ... More >>

Six Best Strip Club Parties for Memorial Day Weekend 2013 in Miami

Each and every year, we here at Crossfade spend Memorial Day honoring those brave men and women who've sacrifices their lives in service and defense of these United States of America. Then the sun goes down. The bricks of dolla dolla bills come out. And we hit up our favorite titty bars (namely Ki ... More >>

Best of the Best 2013, With Beenie Man, Beres Hammond, and Others, at Bayfront Park May 26

Ten Best Memorial Day Weekend Parties in Miami

Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs

El Ballet Clásico

Who Wants Free Tickets for Buckshot at The Stage Miami?

Good hip-hop can be hard to find, but the beat lives on at The Stage. And next week, the Design District club is pleased to welcome Buckshot, the latest in a string of shows by underground rap kings. The heavyweight rapper is renowned for his funky flow and sick collaborative efforts. Since 1999, ... More >>

Best of the Best 2013 Festival Guide, From Beenie Man to Beres Hammond

Come summer, reggae festivals are as commonplace in the States as Bob Marley tees are at reggae festivals. Held every Memorial Day weekend in downtown Miami since 2007, Best of the Best is one of the only annual fests in the U.S. that puts the emphasis squarely on dancehall, and it's certainly the ... More >>

Florida Rep. Trey Radel Thinks Public Enemy's "Fight The Power" Is a Conservative Anthem

Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" may have been one of those politically radical songs to crack the American mainstream, but apparently Rep. Trey Radel (R-Naples) thinks that, "really, if you really get down to it, in many ways reflects the conservative message." Yes, Radel has decided to join Marc ... More >>

Ice Cube's Top Six Gangsta Bangers

These days, the rap game is kind of soft. It's all over-glorified Hokey Pokey dance steps, 808 tics, and bull-shit braggin'. Most of the time, these MCs are just mimicking the gestures of gangsters gone by. Still, there was a time when rap was real, and Ice Cube is one real motherfucker. He's been ... More >>

Digitalism on EDM in America: "Las Vegas Is Getting Bigger Than Ibiza, It's Supercool"

Before David Guetta had everyone singing "Sexy Bitch" and Swedish House Mafia soothed with "Don't You Worry Child," there was Digitalism. Circa 2006 and '07, this German duo of Jens "Jence" Moelle and İsmail "Isi" Tüfekçi rode a wave of progressive dance music that took over indie dance nights ac ... More >>

Top Five Mom Bands and the Moms Who Love Them

When you think about mom, what do you see? Do you see her lovingly tending to you, sick in bed? Is she secretly buying the toy that she said you couldn't have at the mall? Maybe she's screaming to hurry and get up already or you'll be late for school? These are the many faces of mom. But mom has in ... More >>

Fred Falke on Daft Punk's Return: "An Adrenaline Shot Into Mainstream EDM"

If any label has best harnessed the international hipster appeal of electronic music and indie rock, it's definitely been Paris's Kitsuné. Founded in 2002 as both a record and fashion label by Gildas Loaëc and Masaya Kuroki, Kitsuné seems to have been able to sustain its momentum despite the fi ... More >>

Piazza, New York Catcher

Rap's Top Ten Struggle Songs

Hip-hop is the music of the people, and the sound of grumbling bellies sets the beat. In the game of life, it's eat or be eaten, and only the hungriest survive to tell their story. Songs about struggle are a cornerstone of the genre. Brooding tales of desperation often become heralded classics. Eve ... More >>

Peter Murphy: "Bauhaus Was the Seminal Moment in That Time, Joy Division Was Not"

As Peter Murphy prepares for a solo tour featuring only songs from his career as Bauhaus's frontman, he seems compelled to contemplate the late-'70s UK post-punk scene. Speaking via phone, riding a bus headed to the first night of his Mr. Moonlight Tour, the 55-year-old Murphy and Crossfade discus ... More >>

KRS-One Bringing "Real Hip-Hop, Real Culture, Real Street" to The Stage Miami

Hip-hop is 40 and a celebration's in order. So KRS-One is touring the nation, bringing real hip-hop back to where it belongs -- the streets. "The revolution will not be televised," the MC recently told allhiphop.com. "You keep looking for real hip-hop on these bullshit stations. You're not going t ... More >>

Jorge Perez's Art Donation to MAM Is Underwhelming

Dead Poets’ Society

Museum Swapping

Poet Kevin Young on an Ode to Pork, The Hungry Ear, and Food as Poetry

Food and literature are long-term lovers. And poetry, in particular, has had a romantic relationship with all things edible throughout the ages. From Shel Silverstein to Jonathan Swift, some of the most famous scribes have penned odes to their favorite bites. Poet and editor Kevin Young has compile ... More >>

Fillmore Miami Beach Won't Be Bulldozed! Developers to "Preserve" After Public Outcry

The panic alarm had sounded. It was time to save the Fillmore Miami Beach. "In case you haven't heard, here's the situation," Sweat Records' Lauren "Lolo" Reskin warned local music fans in a call to action earlier this month. "Two companies have proposals on the table to completely renovate the Mia ... More >>

Iron Fork, Miami Spice Kickoff at the Arsht Center: Miami's Best New Dining Event

Miami is known for some of the best food events in the nation. One of them is Iron Fork, the Miami New Times extravaganza where chefs battle for glory. Another is Miami Spice, a two-month bonanza sponsored by the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau (GMCVB), in which diners enjoy cool dining ... More >>

Scary Movie V Will Murder Your Capacity to Feel Joy

Latin Billboard Music Conference and Awards 2013, April 22 to 25

Ten Best 4/20 Parties in Miami, April 19 and 20

Poetry Magic

Ten Best 4/20 Parties in Miami

Praise the pot gods. We have all survived to see another 4/20, the highest, holiest, and happiest of weed holidays. The crop has been harvested. It is lush and green and good. Now if only there were someplace to celebrate with a nice, ceremonial, musical smoke out ... Here are the ten best 4/20 p ... More >>

Problem Kids's "Useful Idiot" About Jay-Z: "The Real Cuba Is Not What He Portrayed"

Problem Kids are Miami Cubans with a message for Jay-Z about his trip to Cuba. Their response to his "Open Letter" is a new track called "Useful Idiot." "He looks like he's praising the Castro regime, and we wanna give him a history lesson," say MCs Mario Obregon and Christian Martinez of the local ... More >>

Joe Preston (AKA Thrones) Predicts Miami Show With Floor Will Be "Best Part of the Tour"

If Joe Preston had simply hopped from prolific, legendary stoner metal band to prolific, legendary stoner metal band, he would still probably be Joe Preston. But he didn't. In addition to performing as a member of some of the genre's all-time heaviest hitters - Earth, The Melvins, High on Fire, and ... More >>

Ricochet Miami Closed, Sold to Owners of Baru Urbano

Joe Preston's Thrones at Churchill's Pub April 12

Billboard Latin Music Conference 2013: A Five-Part Guide

Whenever two or more Latinos get together, you know it's gonna be a party. So when a slew of Latin  musicians gather from across the globe and make way to the Magic City for the Billboard Latin Music Conference, you know it's gonna be una tremenda pachanga. Especially when the conference runs o ... More >>

Jay-Z's "Open Letter" to Cuba Haters: "Obama Said 'Chill, You Gon Get Me Impeached'"

It seems Jay-Z has been up to more than smoking cigars and celebrating his marriage in Cuba. He's been busy penning and recording a serious dis track to all those haters who aren't happy to see the first couple of hip-hop chillin' so close to Castro. His recent vacation to the island set some polit ... More >>

Jay-Z, Beyonce in Cuba: Treasury Department Confirms the Trip Was "Authorized"

When you're the Carters on vacay in Cuba .... You've gotta expect to get slammed by South Florida's exilio Cubanos. Even if you dress like Maya Angelou and her bagboy on a humanitarian mission circa '64. So it was probably no surprise to Jay-Z and Beyonce when Republican politicos Ileana Ros-Leht ... More >>

Ros-Lehtinen Still Insists Jay-Z, Beyonce in Cuba "Was a Wedding Anniversary Vacation Not Even Disguised as a Cultural Program"

She demanded answers. And she got them. And she's still not satisfied. Pissed about "the highly publicized trip by U.S. musicians Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (Beyoncé) and Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) to Cuba," South Floridian member of the U.S. Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) bashed the Carters for spending ... More >>

Kate Upton, Diddy Caught Sucking Face on South Beach

What are the perks of life as a has-been Bad Boy? Well, there's continuing to cruise atop Forbes' "Hip-Hop's Wealthiest Artists" with personal riches exceeding $580 million. And then there's flashing that cash and guzzling unlimited Cîroc while sucking face with freshly single Sports Illustrated ... More >>

King of Diamonds' Disco Rick: "Lil Wayne Is KOD ... Trick Never Made Him Leave"

As the don of Miami's KOD, business man and booty bass legend Disco Rick is the final word at "the world's largest & sexiest adult club." So what's he gotta say about Trick Daddy allegedly chasing Lil Wayne and his Young Money crew out of King of Diamonds? "Yo, that fake news and lies," Rick t ... More >>

Jay-Z, Beyonce in Cuba Was Approved by U.S. Treasury as "People-to-People" Cultural Visit

The Carters were officially OK-ed to vacay in Castro's Cuba. According to "a source familiar with the itinerary," Jay-Z and Beyonce's controversial fifth-anniversary trip to the island, Reuters reports, was fully approved and licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department as a "people-to-people" cultural ... More >>

Marco Rubio: Jay-Z, Beyoncé "Tourists Who Have No Interest in Cuban People's Freedom"

He don't belong to your motherfuckin' "Clique." Despite the fact that Marco Rubio's got the Kanye, Big Sean, and Jay-Z collabo track looping through his Spotify playlist (not to mention Tupac's "Changes," Flo Rida's "Good Feeling," and Pitbull's "Bon Bon"), it's not like the Florida junior senator' ... More >>

Joe Preston: A Brutal Five-Part Guide, From Earth and Melvins to Thrones

You know something's up when legendary South Florida-slash-Gainesville metal group Floor is playing a local show and it's not even the band we're most excited about. We love Floor, its signature metallic hum, and bright pop flourishes. But this weekend, that beloved heavy-tuneage outfit will share ... More >>

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