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Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

The hot weather is here. And South Beach summers are all about naked shoulders, bare backs and sweet, sweet music. So go get your epic party on at one, two, or all six of these steamy SoBe soirees. Some big names are coming to the beach, raining down trance, electro, and deep house. The forecast ev ... More >>

Shakey Graves on the Thrill of Writing a Great Song: "Holy Shit, I Made This?"

There's something inherently blue collar about working on cars. Grease stains. The inescapable smell of motor oil on calloused hands. Engine grit collecting under already dirty fingernails. The cigarette breaks. Similarly, there's something inherently blue collar about Alejandro Rose-Garcia, the ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival Announces North American Tour, Headlined by Fedde Le Grand

Ultra Music Festival is goin' on tour, beat freaks. So if you don't have the massive cash stash for a road trip to the flagship in the MIA (or enough frequent flyer rewards points for a jet ride to Ultra Europe in Croatia), just rendezvous with the UMF crew, Fedde Le Grand, and Sultan Ned Shepard ... More >>

The Movies to Know From Sundance -- and the Year Ahead

Rat Bastard's International Noise Conference: Insane 135-Act Lineup, Celebrates 10 Years

According to the Internet, a ten year anniversary is to be celebrated with diamonds. Because "a marriage that lasts ten years is as durable and beautiful as a diamond."Now, "durable" and "beautiful" may not be the first words one associates with Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra's annual International N ... More >>

Willie Nelson Announces 2013 Tour Dates, Coming to South Florida With Merle Haggard

The "Red Headed Stranger" and the "Okie From Muskogee" ride again. That's right ... Ol' Willie Nelson -- the pot-smoking, braid-wearing, hippie-loving outlaw country legend -- just announced some new 2013 tour dates. He's bringing his son Lukas, young gun Jamey Johnson, and the rest of the Nelson ... More >>

The Federal vs. Haven: Big Texas Showdown in the MIA

While Miami is best known for palm trees swaying among neon-lit avenues, Texas is probably most famous for cattle, oil, lots of excess...and old fashioned duels to the death.Read Also:- Haven's Isaac Grillo Wins Inaugural Ultimate Miami Bartender Award at Magic City CasinoThat vision apparently has ... More >>

50 Reasons Why Miami Is Better Than Every City on Bloomberg's 50 Best Cities List

Bloomberg Businessweek recently decided to count down the top 50 best cities in America, and Miami doesn't even make their list.They even based their rankings on attributes like leisure activities (including bars, restaurants, and sports teams), and clean air. So, you'd think we'd at least make it o ... More >>

Fiona Apple Busted for Hash and Weed Near the Mexican Border

Hashish will make a lady do some crazy shit. Like give her new album a 23-word title. Say, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do. Or maybe even make a run for the Mexican border while carrying "Criminal" amounts of cann ... More >>

Passion Pit Cancels Summer Tour Dates, Still Playing South Florida on October 23

Two weeks of tour dates have just been canceled by Passion Pit. And the reason: Frontman Michael Angelakos needs "to take the time to work on improving [his] mental health." So far, most of the tour remains intact, including Passion Pit's South Florida show at the Hollywood ArtsPark on October 23. ... More >>

Best Coast's Guide to Local Eats Across America

A growing band's got to eat unless it wants to worry its mother sick. Fortunately, as Best Coast wiggles its way towards Grand Central on July 10, the duo is eating all sorts of strange stuff and telling you about it. We normally hear from Best Coast's silent half, Bobb Bruno, about as often as fro ... More >>

Chico Trujillo, Chilean Party Band, Making Miami Debut at PAX on June 13

Between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean on that long, narrow strip of South American land named Chile, there are hundreds of excellent fiestas going down. And nine men collectively known as Chico Trujillo claim to be providing "the soundtrack to every Chilean party from Santiago to Valparaiso." In ... More >>

Gotye Announces 2012 North American Tour With Miami Concert on October 7

Despite the fact that Gotye had two solo LPs under his belt before releasing last year's Making Mirrors, it wasn't until the Australian released a xylophone-heavy track that he became a household name. This week, "Somebody That I Used to Know" became the year's biggest hit, comfortably spending it ... More >>

Peanut Butter Wolf's "Not Going to Stop Releasing Hip-Hop," Playing Bardot on March 29

​Legend has it that a dollop of peanut butter will turn a wolf into a monster. Similarly, a nominally priced monthly fee will turn you into a monster music collector, like Peanut Butter Wolf and his new digital music subscription. The San Jose, California native, who broke onto the hip-hop scene ... More >>

Five Attractive Strange People Working for Tips at SXSW

​Paying homeless people $70 a day to serve as human wifi hotspots is a bizarre way to make a buck, but it's indicative of the hustler's spirit at South By Southwest this year. Folks are grinding hard and employing increasingly-gimmicky measures to make money. But there's more to it than that. Lik ... More >>

Nine Noisiest Acts at International Noise Conference 2012

Photo by Bleeding PalmJust wait till you hear the racket Rat Bastard has planned for this year's I.N.C. ​Some people really get their panties in a twist over noise music. Every year, producer-musician Rat Bastard throws his globally acclaimed International Noise Conference at Churchill's Pub. And ... More >>

Jacuzzi Boys Headed to Europe for 26-City Tour

​Admittedly, we were nervous about Jacuzzi Boys' upcoming European tour. But we quickly changed our tone when Hardly Art assured us it'd be a land-based trek. Phew, what a relief. European tours can be a real bummer. Shitty guides recklessly leading you into dangerously shallow waters, shoddy sa ... More >>

Grimes Announces Visions Spring 2012 Tour With Miami Show at Bardot on March 8

​Question: What do you get when a girl who lives by the motto, "its not about the program its about what you do with ur brain," gets her hands on Garage Band? Answer: Grimes (nee Claire Boucher), a 23-year-old bedroom dweller, witch house dabbler, and dark electro wizard from Montreal, whose sel ... More >>

Radiohead Kicks Off U.S. Tour in Miami on February 27

Photo by Sebastian EdgeRadiohead​Radiohead just released the first 10 dates of its 2012 US tour and we couldn't be any happier. Thom Yorke and his mates from Oxfordshire will be kicking things off at the American Airlines Arena on Monday, February 27. Since releasing its eighth studio album, The ... More >>

Coolhaus Ice Cream Sandwich Truck Comes to Miami

​Olive oil, rosemary, and basalmic-glazed fig with mascarpone cheese. They sound like dinner, but they're actually ice cream flavors made by Coolhaus, the architecturally-inspired ice cream sandwich food truck with unorthodox flavors, which debuts November 17. "The spirit of the food truck is ca ... More >>

Adele Cancels Entire US Tour Due to Vocal Cord Hemorrhage, Including Miami Concert

​It's happened again. On June 3, Brit songbird Adele was forced to cancel nine US tour dates due to a nasty bout of laryngitis. "I'm really frustrated. I was hoping with a weeks rest I'd be better to sing again straight away," she said at the time. "However there is absolutely nothing I can do bu ... More >>

The Rapture's U.S. Tour Stops at Grand Central October 17

​When we last saw the Rapture, it was at Nocturnal, of all places, alongside the Miami Heat's DJ Irie and electro icon Felix Da Housecat. Odd lineup? Definitely. It was one of those liquor-sponsored events that took over the 11th Street nightclub on a weekday for the sole purpose of creating "br ... More >>

WVUM 90.5 FM Gets an MTV Woodie Nomination for Best College Radio Station

​We here at Crossfade wanna give WVUM 90.5 FM a Woodie. And you should too. Last week, the Voice of the University of Miami scored a nomination from MTV for America's best college radio station. And while the pool of potential winners has already been slashed down to 50, the cuts will continue to ... More >>

We Wanna Give Radiate FM a Woodie Too!

​Let's blame too much coffee and a raging case of ADD. This morning, Crossfade gave WVUM props for its MTV Woodie nomination and urged you all to vote for the Voice. We failed to notice, however, that another one of Miami's awesome college radio stations, FIU's Radiate FM, had also been named a ... More >>

Paul Rudd on playing himself, Party Down, and Dinner for Schmucks

Farewell Fling

305 Live: Local Hip-Hop News from Pitbull, Jigg, Ghostwridah and more

Photo by David "Dro" Rosario​Two of the biggest selling Latino hip-hop artists join forces for the sake of good music. Legendary rap group Cypress Hill has tapped Miami's own Pitbull to join them on their new single "Armada Latina". They recently shot a music video for the vintage sounding song an ... More >>

SXSW: Meatist and Crash Kings Agree to Agree on Salmon

Photo by Bradford SchmidtCrash Kings' bassist Mike Beliveau​We're lucky to have bands like LA's Crash Kings for a lot of reasons. Their kick-ass, self-titled debut album is filled with rocking power-pop -- in the absolute best sense of the term -- tunes that are undeniably great. ​Plus, they're ... More >>

305 Live: Local Hip-Hop News from Brisco, Mayday, Jovi Rockwell, and More

David "Dro" Rosario​--Rick Ross is on course to bring in his fourth studio album Teflon Don very soon. This past Wednesday we posted the official pre-album mixtape. Well yesterday, Ross' official first single for Teflon Don hit the net. It's a relaxed tune called "Sweet Life" that features John Le ... More >>

SXSW: Bradford Schmidt Has a Date With Rogue Wave Today

Bradford took a picture of this poster and said he'd be there, so it's a good bet​Yep, Bradford "The Meatist" Schmidt is in Austin covering SXSW. So far, we know that he didn't catch Motorhead Tuesday night.From what we gather from Bradford's Twitter (@boneinthefan) postings yesterday:Bradford cau ... More >>

SXSW: Surfer Blood Apparently Did Some Awesome Things Today

​Unleash South Florida's buzz band of the moment, Surfer Blood, on Austin, Texas, and the music enthusiasts will follow. Above, we see that New York Times' Ben Sisario is spending just as much time observing the feverish thumb-typing around him as he is the band. We have compiled several notable m ... More >>

Surfer Blood Tweets From Austin, Joins mtvU's Freshman 5

​Twitter confirms that Baywatch fans Surfer Blood have safely arrived in Austin, Texas, for a week of playing for college students and, apparently, enterprising hairdressers at SXSW. Plus, the South Florida studs have joined the esteemed company of B.o.B, Two Door Cinema Club, Anarbor, and Mayer H ... More >>

Miami Ranks 53rd for Young People Looking to Make That Money

Miami's job market don't care about the young folks.​If you're a strapping young lad or lass fresh out of college and looking to plant your foot on the career ladder, Miami is apparently not a good place to start. Believe me -- all I could snag out of college was writing this here blog*, and that ... More >>

305 Live: Local Hip-Hop News from ArtOfficial, Rick Ross, Mayday, and More

ArtOfficial​--Local hip-hop and jazz fusion group, ArtOfficial, released a new song from their new project, The Payback, which is set to release on April 23rd via free download. The song they released is actually the title track that is also called "The Payback" and features New York City's K. Spa ... More >>

Miami Beach Doctor Duped Out of $15K by Man Posing as a Maxim Model

via Maxim​Aren't there enough aspiring swim suit models on Miami Beach looking for a sugar daddy? So how did one Miami Beach doctor get duped into thinking he was having an internet fling with a former Maxim model only to find out that he was actually trading pictures and having phone conversation ... More >>

Shows at the Freedom Tower and the Moore Space explore strife and displacement

Okay Mountain Corner Store at Pulse Art Fair Is Effin' Hilarious

Jacob KatelInside the Okay Mountain Corner Store.​ The Okay Mountain Corner Store, now appearing at Pulse Art Fair (1400 N. Miami Ave., Miami), is possibly the greatest artwork ever conceived, an exercise in total hilarity, and really fuckin' funny.The store is the creation of the Okay Mountain ar ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: The Top Ten Guitarists Right Now

Buddy Guy plays the Arsht Center.​Blues badass Buddy Guy -- along with Big Easy piano man Dr. John -- performs Friday at the Knight Concert Hall at the Arsht Center. A huge influence on Eric Clapton and countless others, Guy continues to elate audience members with his guitar heroics at the g ... More >>

Miami Police Chief Timoney Wants in on Immigration Reform

In this week's New Times, we report new statistics showing how President Obama's "Secure Communities" program pulls Miami cops into the deportation game. The program, which runs anyone booked into any Miami-Dade County jail through a national Homeland Security database, has already flagged 8,407 ill ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: "Sugarfoot" by Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Opening for the New York Dolls Tomorrow Night at Culture Room

Black Joe Lewis, the elusive, effusive frontman of, well, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, boasts only one studio album to his credit. And already, the myth-making has commenced -- because, really, how could such an otherworldly blend of punk-fueled raw soul come from an ordinary human?Lewis pi ... More >>

Coalition Of Immokalee Workers Declare Tomato Pickers Victory in Florida

image via ciw-online.org The Coalition Of Immokalee Workers, a Florida farmworkers union known for taking on the "big 4" fast food giants, winning, and garnering higher wages because of it, has just marked another milestone. Two Florida farms that specialize in growing and selling or ... More >>

Clutch and The Sword

Q&A with the Sword, Playing at Culture Room on Friday

Metal Rules

My iPhone says Buckcherry is worthy of rocking with the Crüe.

Miami's Best Albums of 2007

Suicide Blonde picks 'em.

Back on the Sun

Curt and Cris Kirkwood reunite the Meat Puppets

Humbert

News of the Weird

Boogie Nights, Business Days

Rubber Sold

It takes more than headshots and agents to get a part in a TV tire commercial. You've got to have The Look. Mine, I'd say, falls somewhere between amused and confused.