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Miami's ten best New Year's 2012 parties

Miami's Twelve Best New Year's 2012 Parties

Soar like a half-naked angel this NYE with Bob Sinclar.​Forget your personal trainer, chartered accountant, and life coach. We here at Crossfade are the highest authority on how to spend New Year's in Miami. And we say: "This is no time for moderation!" Go live out the dying days of 2011 in a ... More >>

Lauryn Hill Announces New Year's Eve 2012 Party at Shelborne South Beach

Photo by Marta Xochilt PerezDrop the ball on 2011 with Ms. Lauryn Hill.​At the height of her late-'90s and early-2000s exile from the weird world of popular music, there were rumors (and even media reports) about ex-Fugees frontwoman and queen diva Ms. Lauryn Hill living out of a massive Miami ho ... More >>

Pitbull Makes GQ's "Least Influential" List, But Not Ours; Meet Miami's Five Least Influential

​​In the December issue of GQ magazine, our hometown boy Pitbull is the only Miamian to make the list of the "25 Least Influential People Alive." Tim Pawlenty claimed the top spot and others on the list with less clout than the Cuban-American rapper include actress Gwenyth Patrow, deposed E ... More >>

Wyclef Jean at Sun Life Stadium, September 3

via Facebook.com/Wyclef​Wyclef Jean Sun Life Stadium September 3, 2011 Better Than: Being president of Haiti. Or at least, that's what Wyclef tells himself. The last Super Saturday concert I went to after a Florida Marlins game at Sun Life Stadium, the lead singer of KC and The Sunshine Band pul ... More >>

Wyclef Jean at Sun Life Stadium September 3

via Facebook.com/Wyclef​Wyclef Jean Sun Life Stadium September 3, 2011 Better Than: Being president of Haiti. Or at least, that's what Wyclef tells himself. The last Super Saturday concert I went to after a Florida Marlins game at Sun Life Stadium, the lead singer of KC and The Sunshine Band pul ... More >>

Wyclef Jean Announced For the Florida Marlins' Final Super Saturdays Concert

​Wyclef Jean is a true renaissance man. His career started with The Fugees. Just think about that fact -- one of the most original, distinct collective voices in hip-hop was only the beginning for this Haitian rapper, producer, and politician. After the trio's second and final album The ... More >>

Elastic Bond, Suenalo and Mr. Pauer Headed to NYC for LAMC July 6 through 9

​July draws near, and with it, one of the biggest events for Latin music in the US. LAMC, or the Latin Alternative Music Conference, is an annual industry powow featuring events of all sorts -- panels, cocktails, and of course, a whole shitload of live shows by some of the badest Latin acts in the ... More >>

Lauryn Hill Announces Last-Minute Miami Show at Grand Central Tomorrow Night

Photo by Marta Xochilt PerezMs. Lauryn Hill at Jazz in the Gardens 2011.​Just 30 minutes ago, Ms. Lauryn Hill wrapped her only officially announced Miami set of the weekend at the first night of Jazz in the Gardens music festival. After 15 songs, including deeply reworked Fugees cuts, old solo h ... More >>

Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, and Ralph Tresvant of New Edition Added to Jazz in the Gardens

Bobby Brown gonna get jazzy.​Last month, Crossfade reported the massive news that Ms. Lauryn Hill would be headlining the two-day Jazz in the Gardens festival at Sun Life Stadium -- and only a few months after the former Fugees frontwoman laid down one of Miami's best concerts of 2010 as part of U ... More >>

Ms. Lauryn Hill at University of Miami November 5

Bobby Brown gonna get jazzy.​Last month, Crossfade reported the massive news that Ms. Lauryn Hill would be headlining the two-day Jazz in the Gardens festival at Sun Life Stadium -- and only a few months after the former Fugees frontwoman laid down one of Miami's best concerts of 2010 as part of U ... More >>

Ms. Lauryn Hill Makes a Rare Appearance at University of Miami Homecoming November 5

​Just like Ms. Whitney Houston, former Fugees frontwoman and diva-of-the-new-millennium Ms. Lauryn Hill was a mind-blowingly successful pop star and actress who freaked out under the pressure of her own fame. But where Whitney disappeared into a billion-dollar mansion and ten thousand hits o ... More >>

Lauryn Hill to Headline University of Miami Homecoming Concert

Photo by Rebecca Smeyne / via Village Voice​After some rumbling that Lauryn Hill could be making a rare live appearance at the Arsht Center turned out to be false, it turns out she's making a Miami appearance after all. The reclusive legend is set to headline this year's homecoming concert at the ... More >>

Wyclef Jean's Appeal Is Denied, Leaving His Presidential Bid as Dead as the Fugees

​On Wyclef Jean's personal list of "Things That Will Never, Ever Happen" -- including playing a Fugees reunion show with Pras and winning a good taxpayer award from the IRS -- the singer can now add a new entry with some confidence: serving as president of Haiti.The Haitian electoral council ruled ... More >>

Former Fugee Pras Endorses Wyclef's Opponent in Haiti Presidential Election

​In exactly what world are we living when the breakup of a hip-hop group leads to drama in a presidential election? Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti (which seems like a tough job considering he can barely run his charity, career, or personal finances), and now his former Fugees bandma ... More >>

Ten Musicians Better Than Wyclef Jean to Lead Haiti

adanbouzoua via flickrStrumming his way to the presidency?​His heart seems to be in the right place, but Wyclef Jean's political aptitude is tone deaf.  Don't get us wrong, welcoming President Jean to office would be pretty cool, but he might not exactly know how to help a nation that lost 22 ... More >>

Mixtape Of The Week: Ice Berg - Strictly For The Streets 2: Color On Color (Hosted by DJ Obscene & Sam Sneak)

​A little while ago, we posted a track by Ice Berg called "Stop Look & Listen," which was meant to be a teaser for this then-upcoming mixtape Strictly For The Streets 2: Color On Color. On July 4 exactly at midnight, the tape was released, and in minutes garnered hundreds to thousan ... More >>

Report: Wyclef Jean Paid His Mistress $105,000 Through Yele Haiti Charity

​Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti charity has raised millions of dollars since the earthquake in the singer's home country, but numerous allegations have arisen about how the money has been spent and how the charity has been run.Now the Smoking Gun reports Yele paid $105,000 to Zakiya ... More >>

Sofy Encanto and Elastic Bond, Upstairs at The Van Dyke Tonight

​You already know we love Elastic Bond, don't you? I mean, we compared them to the Fugees passed through a cafetera and spiked with psychedelics a few months back. We dubbed them Best Funky Fusion Band Even Your Mom Would Like in our 2007 Best Of Miami. What more do you need to know? Do we really ... More >>

Get Elastic!

​You already know we love Elastic Bond, don't you? I mean, we compared them to the Fugees passed through a cafetera and spiked with psychedelics a few months back. We dubbed them Best Funky Fusion Band Even Your Mom Would Like in our 2007 Best Of Miami. What more do you need to know? Do we really ... More >>

Elastic Bond Plays Transit Lounge for Indie-pendance Day

Don't spend this Fourth of July in a drunken (and perhaps drug-addled) haze. You've been doing that and sitting in the back of your friend's hatchback going oooh and aaah to the fireworks for far too long. Why not try something different, with just as much wow factor. Like what? Well, Elastic Bond p ... More >>

Dave Chappelle’s Playing on My Block, My Block

Don't spend this Fourth of July in a drunken (and perhaps drug-addled) haze. You've been doing that and sitting in the back of your friend's hatchback going oooh and aaah to the fireworks for far too long. Why not try something different, with just as much wow factor. Like what? Well, Elastic Bond p ... More >>

Back to the Old School

Cuban rappers still do it for the passion

Mr. Jean Goes to Washington

Cuban rappers still do it for the passion

Booby Tube Trap

Probable cause got flaws like dirty drawers.

Feel the Sting

Probable cause got flaws like dirty drawers.

Fugees

"Take It Easy" (Sony)

Wyclef Jean

Welcome To Haiti Creole 101 Koch

Basshead

Ice Age

Mind Games

Can hip-hop music be saved? The students of Booker T. Washington High School say yes

Manic Mondays

It's not the work week; it's the party week

Thug Angel

Wyclef goes to church in North Miami

Ol' Black Magic

Santana and Macy Gray combine fusion with platinum

The Arsonists

As the World Burns (Matador)

Kulchur

As the World Burns (Matador)

The Beat Surrender

As the World Burns (Matador)

Kings of Rhyme

As the World Burns (Matador)

Rasin in the Sun

As the World Burns (Matador)

Night & Day

May 14 - 20, 1998

Night & Day

March 26-April 1, 1998

Calendar for the week

March 26-April 1, 1998

Puff Goes the Weasel

March 26-April 1, 1998

Calendar for the week

March 26-April 1, 1998

His Music Rules in Haiti

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones

Rotations

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones

Calendar for the week

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones

Calendar for the week

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones

All the Best

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones

Rhymes of Passion

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones

Rotations

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones