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Drake, Miguel, and Future Announce 2013 North American Tour, Coming to Miami

As Drizzy Drake himself likes to brag: "Started from the bottom, now we're here." Just a year and a half ago (even after the radio rap glory of his sophomore album, Take Care, and massive singles like "The Motto"), the YMCMB member was still "drinkin' with his people" in mid-sized venues. But "no ... More >>

Metric Headlining Bud Light Music First Tour's 50/50/1 at Fillmore Miami Beach

"50 concerts, 50 states, one day" ... Just a couple of weeks ago, we here at Crossfade announced that Bud Light Music First tour would be coming to Miami. Other cities had already gotten their headliners, including Kendrick Lamar and The Hold Steady, for "Bud Light Music First's grand finale, 50/ ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar and Karmaloop's College Tour Kicking Off at Florida Atlantic University

When Kendrick Lamar throws a college kegger, there's gonna be "Swimming Pools" filled to the brim with drank. Everybody'll be wilding out like they're "A.D.H.D." And Karmaloop, eMuze, and Neff Headwear will be footing the bill. This Thursday, Kendrick and Karmaloop's Verge Campus Tour 2013 kicks of ... More >>

Beyonce Announces Mrs. Carter Show World Tour 2013, Coming to Miami on July 10

Bey is back. After a publicity tour touting her hot post-Blue Ivy bod on the covers of dudely mags like GQ (and despite scandalizing America by lip-syncing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Obama's inauguration), Beyonce made her big return last night at Super Bowl XLVII. She rocked a supertight, swe ... More >>

Rick Ross Shooting: Rapper Hires 24-Hour Armed Security Team

Not long after becoming the target of a foiled drive-by murder plot, Rick Ross issued a musical warning seemingly directed at his would-be assassins: "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe." "Wishing death on you niggas, we never see eye to eye," Ross roars on the track. "Somehow I pray for you niggas at the ... More >>

NKOTB, Boyz II Men, 98 Degrees' The Package Tour, Giving It to South Florida on June 22

If you've been "Hangin' Tough," down "On Bended Knee," just hoping to be touched by "The Hardest Thing" ... The wait is over. 'Cause three of America's favorite 30- and 40-something boy bands -- New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, and 98 Degrees -- are finally hooking up for a 28-show summer road ... More >>

Rick Ross Gets Death Threats from Gangster Disciples, Cancels MMG Tour Dates

The Bawse is wanted. Just two days after a triumphant hometown throwdown at the Fillmore Miami Beach with his Maybach Music crew, Rick Ross has received death threats from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples, a street gang founded on Chicago's South Side in the '60s by David Barksdal ... More >>

Rick Ross's Remaining MMG Tour Canceled

The Bawse just canceled the last six shows of his MMG Tour. Earlier today, we here at Crossfade mentioned that two dates in North Carolina got nixed after Ross received death threats from Gangster Disciple members. But now representatives of Maybach Music Group tell us that all concerts till Decem ... More >>

Pitbull Joining Barack Obama in South Florida on Sunday

Dale! Pitbull may be Mr. 305 (where the vast majority of his fellow Cuban-Americans are voting for Mitt Romney), but he'll be stepping into the 954 on Sunday to join President Obama at a major pre-election rally.

Taylor Swift Announces Red Tour, Coming to Miami on April 10

Taylor Swift's new album Red has been flying off the shelves before it even hit them. In fact, Billboard has basically guaranteed that it'll come out on top of the charts with an estimated 1.1 million units sold by week's end. So all y'all are probably walking around humming her latest single, d ... More >>

Nicki Bitches Out Mariah: "I'm Not F#$%ing Putting Up with Her F#$%ing Highness"

All is not well on the set of American Idol. More evidence that Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey despise one another was revealed last night after a video of the two Idol judges bickering like two drunk Hialeah chongas at an Ale House was leaked onto the Internet. According to TMZ, Nicki and Mariah ... More >>

Charlie Crist Says Obama "Saved Florida": Republicans Fume, Democrats Shrug

Last night, Charlie Crist completed his nasty two-year break-up with conservatives. When he strolled onto the DNC set in Charlotte, the Republican establishment he once belonged to collectively winced. Then it watched the former Florida governor openly praise President Barack Obama."But even as the ... More >>

Three Lessons Democrats Can Learn From the RNC

DNC 2012: Julian Castro Speech Makes for Some Awkward Signs

Republicans are pros at pandering. When they come to Miami, they always appear at Versailles Café and rage about the Cuban regime. And, of course, they held their convention in Tampa last week in an effort to court curmudgeonly Florida voters.Democrats? Not so much. They are sure to have lost some ... More >>

DNC 2012: Three Lessons Democrats Can Learn From Republicans' Florida Fiasco

For the first time in decades, all of America can finally agree on something: Clint Eastwood has gone completely batshit insane. This was the real legacy of last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, where the 82-year-old actor pretended to interview President Obama (AKA an empty chair) on ... More >>

Matt & Kim Announce 2012 Lightning Tour With Fillmore Miami Beach Show on October 14

To quote adorable guy-girl indie poppers Matt & Kim: Oooh-oooh-oooh-woo, oooh-woo, oooh-woo ... Just a few minutes ago, the perpetually psyched tag team ("Matt plays keys! Kim plays drums!") announced their 38-date Lightning Tour via Twitter, expressing an overwhelming level of excitement with ... More >>

Gwar Announces Fate or Chaos Tour: "Taking on History's Biggest A#%hole ... God Himself!"

Ever rocked so hard that you blacked out, puked last week's hot lunch, and woke up 666 hours later feeling like your skull just got fucked in outer space by a gang of so-called interglactic mutant overlords? Well, then you've probably never purchased tickets for the disgusting, otherworldy freaksho ... 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 >>

Justin Beiber Announces Believe Tour, Wrapping Up in Miami on January 26, 2013

OK, Justin Bieber may be an uneducated twerp-derp who barely graduated high school. But damn, he's traveling all over the world and making more money every day than we'll ever see in our entire freaking lifetime. And just to run this fact in our face, the Biebster brat just announced his Believe t ... More >>

Orlando is America's Smuttiest City; Miami Only 12th

Miami may be a leader in producing web porn, but when it comes to watching porno we don't even come -- ahem -- close to some of Florida's other big metro areas, apparently. Men's Health ranked America's biggest porn consuming capitals, and Miami only came in twelfth. Orlando, meanwhile, is apparentl ... More >>

LMFAO and Far East Movement Announce "Champagne Showers" (and Other Strange Sex Acts?) for Party Rocking 2012 Tour

Fuck the haters. Like, literally. In public. With an oversized inflatable banana. While wearing just a blazer and zebra-print speedo. In addition to laughing their effing asses off, screeching "I'm in Miami Bitch," and doing non-stop "Shots" of Viagra-infused booze, LMFAO's Redfoo and Sky Blu have ... More >>

Kiss and Mötley Crüe Announce "Biggest, Baddest Rock Tour," Playing Cruzan Amphitheater in July

​When he's not pushing Dr Pepper or exposing his Family Jewels on A&E, Gene Simmons rocks silly makeup and platform shoes as the legendary lead singer of Kiss. Similarly, when he's not dubstepping aboard Holy Ship! or steering megayachts with his penis, Tommy Lee beats the skins for arena rock ... More >>

Art Wynwood brings Basel in February

Madonna Announces 2012 World Tour With Miami Concert

​For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn't even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna's 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who'd be totally willing to blow their ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers Postpone 2012 US Tour, Reschedule South Florida Gig

​Being the frontman of one of the biggest bands on the planet can be a real pain in the sesamoid bone and flexor tendon. Just ask Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis. The porn 'stachioed rocker recently underwent surgery to treat a bum foot, the result of "multiple" injuries. And regrettably, ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers Announce Full 2012 US Tour Dates With SoFla Show on January 20

​There was a time, circa 1991, when being a funky white boy meant doing whacked-out jumping jacks to the beat of "Suck My Kiss" while wearing a sock on your cock. But these days, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are grown-ass funky white men. The band's founding twosome, frontman-slash-resident hunk An ... More >>

American Values Group Urges President Obama to Address Urban Beach Weekend Chaos

photo by Ivon David Rojas​The events of Urban Beach Weekend certainly have Miami Beach locals talking, but is it really an incident that the President of the United State needs to address? Gary Bauer, president of social conservative group American Values and a former Republican presidential candi ... More >>

Veldora Arthur Knows It Is Always Better in the Bahamas

Veldora Arthur keeps getting paid on the taxpayers' dime while she plans a vacation.​An assistant Miami fire chief who is on paid administrative leave while she awaits trial on federal mortgage fraud charges wants to get away for a while. The Straw Buyer reports the lawyer representing Veldora Art ... More >>

Trinumeral Festival with Big Boi, Blackalicious, and Tokimonsta, October 8 to 10

Basketball Wives: Ochocinco Throws the Worst Parties Ever

​There are a slew of talented NFL players from Miami we usually don't care too much about on Riptide unless they happen to play for the Canes or the Dolphins. Chad Ochocinco is the big exception. He is, after all, the most interesting football player in the world. He's practically a hero to us. Bu ... More >>

NFL Draft Live-Blog, rounds 2 & 3

​Welcome back to our second night of NFL Draft Live-Blogging! Brought to you in 3D!* (*-not really, but everything else is in 3D, so why not). Tonight we'll roll through the second and third rounds, where the Dolphins hold the 40th and 73rd overall picks. Tonight's blog will be more Dolphins-cente ... More >>

Three filmmakers acting homeless get equipment stolen at Miami Denny's

Three Young Filmmakers Going Undercover as Homeless People Get Their Equipment Stolen

This is the photo on the film project's Facebook page. Is it the three filmmakers in their undercover identities?Graduating from college sucks. Drawing penises on your friend's forehead is no longer socially acceptable, everything costs money, and potential employers regard your expensive dipl ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Social Media Club South Florida, November Edition

Richard Tucker of Cruise Deals hearts Miami's social media community.​This month's Social Media Club South Florida was a massive tweetup to wish Social Fresh Cruise guests a warm bon voyage, Miami style. The event took place November 11 at the Doubletree Grand Hotel on Biscayne Bay.Joining the wel ... More >>

Miami Lobster & Shrimp Cakes Cop Carolina Accolade

Klime Kovaceski is from Macedonia, not Miami, but during his years as owner of Crystal Cafe (which was on 41st Street in Miami Beach), the personable chef was adopted as a native son by a large and fiercely loyal local clientele. These former patrons will knowingly smile when they hear that Crystal' ... More >>

The Martinez Brothers Bring Their Soulful Bronx Groove South

The 6 Best Chefs To Leave Miami

Criteria is simple:A great chef who made his or her mark in Miami and then moved on. David Bouley doesn't qualify, as he wasn't actually doing the cooking at Evolution. Carmen Gonzalez of the departed Carmen's might make my top ten, but I don't think of her as being in quite in the same league as th ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of August 14, 2008

"Anyone who claims to play poker for a living in this state is a wannabe, a jerk-off, and, furthermore, a degenerate."

Design the Poster for Counting Crows Tour Arriving in West Palm Beach this October... Bonus: Free MP3s!

Radiohead Tour Announced!! Click Here For Info

Anthony Hamilton

Southern Comfort (Merovingian)

Backbeat Confidential

At Miami's Scratch Academy, students master the fine art of spinning vinyl

The Tammy Show, PTL

Tammy Faye, you never went away!

Dish

Woods Keeps Up the Swing

Comedy Central

Spike Lee takes a fresh and gloriously unpolished look at black stand-up talent

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

Letters

News of the Weird