Earth, Wind & Fire

Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds at Jazz in the Gardens March 16 and 17

Babyface on Current R&B: "We've Gone for the Trend... Just Keep Giving the Same Thing"

From jamming with funk forefathers to helping break New Jack Swing and cofounding legendary '90s R&B label LaFace Records with partner Antonio "L.A." Reid, the man known as Babyface has spent three decades creating and shaping pop music. Now 53, Kenneth Edmonds is working on a new album by Are ... More >>

World Music Awards Canceled, Exposed as a Con, Blaming "Visa Issues," Newtown Shooting

The World Music Awards just got canceled. Only two days before the scheduled 2012 edition at Marlins Park, WMA organizers have nixed the show, blaming "visa issues" and -- absurdly -- the Newtown shooting. "We are sorry for any inconvenience," the official statement reads, "but this decision had t ... More >>

Ne-Yo and Monica Added to Lineup for Jazz in the Gardens 2013

Got your "I Love JIG" tees? Well, looking deliver on their promise of an "an all the way live weekend," Jazz in the Gardens and mayor Oliver Gilbert have just added human "Stress Reliever" and pop-hop loverboy Ne-Yo as well as R&B diva Monica (AKA "Miss Thang") to JIG's 2013 lineup. Check the ... More >>

Full Lineup and Set Times for SunFest 2011 With Cee Lo Green, MGMT, and Others

Worship with Cee Lo at SunFest.​Read Crossfade's print feature on Taking Back Sunday at SunFest 2011. Throughout history, humans have worshipped the sun in strange ways, often involving mass orgy and human sacrifice. Our ancestors really knew how to party, huh? Well, yes ... But it's now the 2 ... More >>

Bigg D: The Next Music Mogul

Local Motion: Nothing Rhymes With Orange and Goran Rista

Blast From the Past: Coke, the late, great Miami band

Local Motion

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Saturday Night: Holy Ghost! at The Vagabond

Holy Ghost Saturday, December 13, 2008 The Vagabond, Miami Better than: 100% of the godless ultra-commercial dance crap polluting the Beach.  It's past midnight and I'm at the Vagabond sipping my whiskey straight and waiting for Holy Ghost! to start their DJ set in the main room. It's my ... More >>

Down Home Southernaires

Negro en Bicicleta (Floridita 1800 Records)

Running on Faith

Eric Clapton hits the Hard Rock with Robert Randolph!

Earth, Wind & Fire

2007 Music Year in Review

It's all in the stars.

Eternally Ailey

BEST LOCAL BAND/MuSICian OF ALL TIME

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Smooth Sax Played Hard

Boney James finally gets his funk on

Rotations

Bring on the Cubans!

The Castro government is marketing music, and the whole world is buying. Except Miami.

Rotations

Bone Poem

The world's great thinkers agree: There's no band harder than Fishbone