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Ten Best Music-Related Things Under $10 to Do in Miami This Weekend

If you're anything like the average American, you spend at least 40 hours a week slaving away in a cubicle. Yep, you work hard. But chances are you play even harder. And you friggin' deserve it. The good news is you don't have to blow all your hard-earned cash on beer, parties, and debauchery. All ... More >>

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

It's finally here! Record Store Day (and cough, 4/20) is right around the corner. And that means tons of great acts are ready to get down and dirty with all y'all Miami music lovers. Whether you're looking for rock, punk, hip-hop, jazz, synth-pop, booty bass, or Latin, there's the perfect party wi ... More >>

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

Lots of really stellar talent is hitting stages all across Miami this week. No matter what you fancy -- hip-hop, dreamwave, math rock, experimental, country, or just plain pop -- you can find it right here in your hometown. Representing the freshest talent from all corners of the country, here ar ... More >>

Ten Best Music-Related Things Under $10 to Do in Miami This Weekend

April Fool's Day may have past, but it's no joke that you're still broke. Now that the weekend is here, you wish you would have spared all that cash you spent on trying to fool your significant other into thinking you had a sex change - it was a horrible prank idea from the start, but hey, that's wh ... More >>

Gato y Disco WMC 2013 Lineup: Azari & III, PillowTalk, Tensnake, and More

"Before Adam and Eve, God created disco and cats -- God was Spanish, of course," say the Young Hearts. Sounds like the kind of God who could have created Miami -- America's tropical, hedonistic disco Garden of Eden.Disco cats are the concept behind Gato y Disco, Young Hearts' exclusive WMC event and ... More >>

Project Pat and Raider Klan at EVE Miami, January 18

Project Pat EVE, Miami Friday, January 18, 2013 It was a rap show. So in the tradition of rap shows, EVE was turned into a battleground state for real and/or true hip hop. And Project Pat -- Three Six Mafia affiliate and Juicy J's real-life brother -- was the guest of honor.

Project Pat: "Miami is Where I Get the Bean From," Performing Live at EVE

Crunk, where'd it come from? You'd be a fool to believe that it's a modern phenomenon. In fact, scripture says that God herself was so tired of building an entire planet in just six days that she spent the seventh "Smokin' Out" with Project Pat and learning 'bout crunk music. Or something like ... More >>

Ten Best Music-Related Things to Do in Miami This Week Under $10

Look ... It's not like we're broke because we have a "serious drinking habit." Or because we're "lazy and just didn't manage to make it into work on time." OK, that's a lie. But still, even with only $10 in our pockets, we here at Crossfade wanna party. Thank god that there are all these dirt ... More >>

25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

Halloween is that time of the year when it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... See als ... More >>

Poolside on EDM, the Los Angeles Scene, Pacific Standard Time, and Fine Wine

Perhaps not since the Beach Boys has a musical act been as evocative of Southern California as Los Angeles production duo Poolside. The title of the pair's 2012 debut album -- Pacific Standard Time -- gives it away. And the sun-kissed laid-back disco grooves are pure Californian leisure -- a perfec ... More >>

Ten Best Halloween Parties in Miami

Halloween is a holiday for sluts and children. And we here at Crossfade don't really care about kids. Miami does it super big, and there are only about a bajillion Halloween-themed parties this weekend. But because you can't go to everything, we've boiled our music and party guide down to the ten m ... More >>

Un_Mute Miami's Third Anniversary Parties: Mathias Kaden, Matthias Tanzmann, Martinez

There wasn't much of an underground techno scene in Miami until certain forward-thinking collectives started sprouting up at the tail end of the 2000s. One of them was Un_Mute Miami, a party brand that's become synonymous with cutting-edge electronic dance music over the last three years. "I've a ... More >>

Miami Rapper Lex One Launches Phood Stamps, a New "Recession-Themed Party Celebrating Public Assistance"

Break out the EBT, homie. 'Cause tonight at Eve, Miami rapper and Get That Paper Son label boss Lex One will be launching Phood Stamps, a new party that he describes as a "recession-themed event celebrating public assistance." And "just like food stamps, this will be a monthly thing." "It's no jok ... More >>

Top Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week Parties for Sunday, March 25

​Check out Crossfade's daily WMC and MMW party guide -- plus the fifteen best parties. The King Rat says, "This is The End." In less than 24 hours, Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival will be over. The clubs will close. The uhntz-uhntz will fade. The sticks will ... More >>

Top Five Second Saturday Art Walk Parties in Miami

​Art sucks. Get drunk. Music sucks. Dance harder. The lights are too bright. Turn them all off and let the bass drown your body till your heart rattles in your ribcage. Throw your phone against the ground, quit paying your internet bill, never trust a wireless modem, and check out these five Se ... More >>

Miami's top ten underground rap and hip-hop acts

Miami's Top Ten Underground Rap and Hip-Hop Acts

​New Yorkers still think they run hip hop. Canadians say, "It ain't dead. It lives in the North." L.A. radio plays more Pitbull than we do. Houston is still leaning off a never-ending cup of codeine. NOLA's doing it in the dark. Philly, Detroit, and Chi-Town are mad because it's winter. In Miami ... More >>

Juggalos, Rebecca Black, and Three Other Crappy Music Cruises We Hope Never Set Sail

​Why are music cruises all the rage? Is it some kind of reactionary Great Recession diversion for those few who can actually afford it? Back in February, Miami's young-adults-in-leather-jackets got a taste of the open seas with the garage rock-themed Bruise Cruise. Atlanta scuzzballs Black Lips w ... More >>

Download DJ Three's Mix and Go Underground at Eve This Sunday

​These days, the term underground gets thrown around a little too easily in the electronic dance music scene. Certainly not all DJs can boast the same sort of authentic subterranean cred as Christopher Milo, AKA DJ Three. It's a relentless comittment to the musical cutting-edge at the expense of ... More >>

Last Night: Mary Anne Hobbs' Road Warrior Tour at the Vagabond

photo by Shaun Bloodworth​Mary Anne Hobbs' Road Warrior TourWith Mary Anne Hobbs, Dr. Strangeloop, Gonjasufi, Lorn, and TakeFriday, April 22, 2011The Vagabond, MiamiBetter Than: Any of the usual stale club music fare going on wherever else!The Review:Okay, we'll just admit that Mary Ann Hobbs is o ... More >>

Ramadanman Talks Bass, Britney Spears, and the Commercialization of Dubstep

​London DJ-producer and Hessle Audio label chief Ramadanman (AKA David Kennedy) was schooled during dubstep's first wave and he has since become one of the most recognized names on the international scene.Last year's invitation to spearhead a new installment of Fabric's prestigious compilation ser ... More >>

Simian Mobile Disco at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day Two, March 26

Photo by Jose D. DuranSimian Mobile Disco at Ultra 2011.​It seems like Simian Mobile Disco has taken a bit of a tumble lately. In shedding their electro-house sound and adopting a darker techno approach, it seems they've lost quite a few fans. We remember a few years ago, in 2008, when the duo ... More >>

ANR Celebrates Stay Kids Release at Eve This Saturday

ANR is getting better with age.​Last year, ANR released its latest album, Stay Kids, via the Something in Construction label. Bad news: It was only released in UK. Where's the stateside love, ANR?The Miami duo are finally showing it when Stay Kids sees its U.S. release this month (March 15 digital ... More >>

Tiga and Diplo Headline Hard Miami at Grand Central March 24 UPDATE

​We already broke the news that Hard was returning to the Magic City -- only this time it's going to be a proper club event at Grand Central on Thursday, March 24. Now the lineup has popped up. And while Simian Mobile Disco in nowhere in sight (not that we expected it, the duo is hosting a party ... More >>

Miami Dubstep Duo Caligula Remixes Rick Ross's "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)"

Photo by miamimayhem.comMiami dubstep duo Caligula.​If you were at Eve a couple Saturdays ago for Jakwob's U.S. tour kickoff, then you might have caught a set from Miami's own Caligula. The Overthrow-affiliated dubstep duo reps our city heavy in the Rick Ross "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)" r ... More >>

Washed Out plays Eve January 21

Washed Out's Ernest Greene Rides the Chill Wave at Eve This Friday

Washed Out's Ernest Greene.​Washed Out's Ernest Greene has a success story that most one-man bands dream about late at night in their lonely studios. He was unemployed, looking for work, living with his parents, and making music in his bedroom before he was suddenly discovered by all the right mus ... More >>

Ludacris at SoBe Live on new year's day, January 1

Lewis Black Cancelled, Jay Leno to Perform at Hard Rock December 30

​The Lewis Black Show scheduled for Thursday night at Hollywood's Hard Rock Live has been cancelled. The grinchy one is ill. That's the bad news.Or maybe it's the good news. Black will be replaced in the 8 p.m. show by Tonight Show veteran Jay Leno. Tickets for the show, which go for anywhere from ... More >>

Amanda Lepore, Justin Bond, and Cazwell Ringing In New Queer's Eve at Lords South Beach

Courtesy of Peace BisquitCazwell and Amanda Lepore​In a recent episode of NBC's 30 Rock, Jenna was sad 'cause she was going to miss out on going to Elton John and Tom Ford's New Queer's Eve. She had broken up with her cross-dressing boyfriend Paul, just as they were planning to go together as ... More >>

Croon with Cheyenne

The Roots, Q-Tip, Eve, and Bobby Brown at the Ice Palace, September 25

Photo by Marta Xochilt PerezMr. Q-Tip.​As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami's Best Concerts of 2010.When Crossfade first stumbled into the Hennessy Artistry party, our biggest interest was the free booze. We were thinking: ... More >>

Hip-Hop Stars Over Miami Politicians In Overtown

​This past Saturday night, Banana Republican witnessed a magical moment in Overtown proving that Miami New Times columnist Luther Campbell has got it right when he says hip-hop has the power to bring people together. A true cross section of Miami's hip-hop lovers came out to Ice Palace Studios to ... More >>

2010 is the year of dubstep

Get Low Turns 10 (Months) Tonight at the Vagabond

Photo by Michael Maryanoff​It's not surprising that Miami, "the city of Bass," would so fondly embrace a form such as dubstep. A heavy mash of UK garage and grime, with roots tracing back to Jamaican dub, the genre is deep and low and perfect for the kinda nights where the action takes place in th ... More >>

Keeping the Dream Alive

Africa Unwrapped

At MAC, "Snap Judgments" breaks from clichés

Puppet Master

Night on Fire

On any given weekend, CocoWalk teems with a young and racially diverse party crowd

Hip-Hop Holiday

In Vogue

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Punk Monk

Paul Bettany gets medieval in The Reckoning

Cut Rate

The intentions outweigh the execution in Ice Cube's Barbershop

Wild Things

The Little Monster at Video Mix takes hip-hop where the media giants are afraid to go

Shake

Clothes don't make the MIA

Into the Night

A Monster Mishmash