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

Why hello there, Friday! We've been waiting for you all week. And now that you're finally here, we're throwing a two-day bash especially for you, one that consists of music, concerts, and booze. The best part? It won't cost us more than 10 bucks. In your honor, Friday, here are the ten best musi ... More >>

Fred Falke on Daft Punk's Return: "An Adrenaline Shot Into Mainstream EDM"

If any label has best harnessed the international hipster appeal of electronic music and indie rock, it's definitely been Paris's Kitsuné. Founded in 2002 as both a record and fashion label by Gildas Loaëc and Masaya Kuroki, Kitsuné seems to have been able to sustain its momentum despite the fi ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets for Carly Rae Jepsen's BleauLive Concert at the Fontainebleau?

Call Mom Maybe. In honor of Mother's Day weekend, multi-platinum pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, the superswank Fontainebleau Miami Beach, and its BleauLive performance series will be answering "the wish in a well" of Jepsies and their momsies with fun, brunch, manicures, pedicures, blowouts, and even a ... More >>

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

"Everybody's working' for the weekend." Oh, Loverboy, you may have been wrong about a lot of things, but were you right about that.The weekend is finally and you can't let it go to waste because before you know it, it will disappear as quickly as Loverboy and the rest of the '80s faded away.That doe ... More >>

Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

Deep house fans should be excited about this week's South Beach party madness. The tides are really turning, and it seems like the house revival is real and crashing upon our shores. But that's not to say we're heading into a week without nasty, in-your-face, raw energy. And trance fanatics can rej ... More >>

iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party 2013 Lineup: Pitbull, Ke$ha, Afrojack, Icona Pop, Krewella

You thought last year's iHeartRadio pool party was, like, the Ultimate. After all, Flo Rida stripped down for the crowd while Enrique and Adam Levine humped out the hits. All the wasted white girls got wasted. And even tatted-up bros felt the love. But just wait for the 2013 edition of iHeartRadio ... More >>

Ten Reasons the Grammys Actually Didn't Suck

We're experiencing a lot of weird feelings right now. We're not exactly sure how to cope with these emotions. But they say the first step to getting over your problem is admitting you have one. So deep breath ... Here we go. We actually enjoyed the 55th annual Grammy Awards. OMG, please don't ju ... More >>

The XX at Fillmore Miami Beach February 5

The XX's Four-Part Guide to Modern Romance

Modern musical romance is tough. We've got Taylor Swift dating the whole world and putting their faults on blast. We've got Katy Perry and Ke$ha teaching us the ways of meaningless, drunken sex. Then we've got Drake and Lil Wayne blabbing all about having a kept woman, perpetually sprawled out on ... More >>

Dumbest Shit in Music 2012!

Let's face it. The world of music is a really dumb place, and we should know. Here at Crossfade, we spend the majority of our time sifting through the deserted wasteland of pop culture, and it ain't lookin' too good out there. This year felt like a particularly dumb year too. Maybe it was all this ... More >>

Y100's Jingle Ball at the BB&T Center December 8

Y100 Jingle Ball Lineup Confirmed: Justin Bieber! Flo Rida! Psy! Definitely!

Nobody balls harder than the Y100 Jingle Ball. Earlier this week, we here at Crossfade posted a leaked copy of the annual holiday concert's 2012 talent roster. The rumored superstars: Justin Bieber! Flo Rida! Psy! Ke$ha! Enrique Iglesias! One Republic! Fun.! Afrojack! Zedd! And six other superawe ... More >>

Flight Facilities on Disco, Lies, and Shitty American Pop Stars

The Flight Facilities dudes make funky, chilled-out disco for a hip, EDM-loving generation. That's what we know about them for sure. Everything else -- where they're from, who they are, how they got their name -- is subject to change depending on who you ask. That's because they're more interested ... More >>

Y100's Jingle Ball 2012 Lineup Leaked: Justin Bieber, Flo Rida, and Psy ... Maybe

Thanks to the Internet, nothing is a secret. Were you drunk leaving a club this weekend? That little gem is probably on some bouncer's Instagram as we speak. Are you sexting your nanny? A screenshot of that will be on Facebook in no time unless you give her a raise. And if you leave an importa ... More >>

20 Worst Pop Hits of the Last 20 Years

Happy Birthday, Nielson! The SoundScan system just turned 20. And although it's probably on its deathbed, Billboard is celebrating the watermark with a series of chart-topping lists. The latest release: The top 100 pop songs since the system's implementation, back in '92. Some Miami-bred musicians ... More >>

MTV VMAs 2012: Seven Things That Sucked and Seven Things That Didn't Totally Suck

See also "MTV Video Music Awards 2012's Big Winners and Even Bigger Losers." Last night, America's pop culture elite came together in Los Angeles to celebrate almost 30 years of Moonmen. It was the 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards, and it coulda been worse. For one, Chris Brown and Drake didn't ... More >>

Fashion Freakouts at the MTV VMAs 2012

See also "MTV Video Music Awards 2012's Big Winners and Even Bigger Losers" -- plus "MTV VMAs 2012: Seven Things That Sucked and Seven Things That Didn't Totally Suck." The red carpet is where fashion lives, and the MTV Video Music Awards are where people let their freak flags fly. Put the two toge ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Social Network LittleMonsters.com Is a Weird Internet Toilet Stall

Lady Gaga is a monster. Having successfully dominated the social spheres of Facebook and Twitter, Mother Monster has launched an egocentric networking haven all her own. A combination of Pinterest, Reddit, and '90s AOL chat rooms, LittleMonsters.com allows Gaga fans to share their shitty memes, Ga ... More >>

Glee's Five Worst Covers ... So Far

Glee has managed to piss off yet another singer. After the show's recent cover of "Somebody That I Used to Know," breakout artist Gotye expressed his frustration with the cast's rendition of his song. "They did such a faithful arrangement of the instrumentals, but the vocals were that pop Glee styl ... More >>

Tensnake, Fred Falke, and Cheap Beer at Mamushka's Pyramid Club

​It's a question that really comes into focus during Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week. If the end game of  capital-D Dance music is supposed to be getting everybody grooving together, why are there so many divisions? Why do some DJs always end up playing for the bottle-service c ... More >>

Dance Moms Comes to Miami With Routines Based on Chongas, Snowbirds and the Marlins (We Hope)

​Cultist is getting its jazz hands ready; Dance Moms are in our midst! Lifetime has ordered a Miami-based spin-off of its hit show about talented torjeting tykes and their snide-remark-spewing stage moms that will be appropriately titled Dance Moms: Miami.In lieu of Abby Lee Miller, the show will ... More >>

Fashion Freakouts 2011: Top Ten Pop Star Style Mishaps of the Last Year

Ke$ha totally freaked out in 2011.​The past 365 days have been packed with some seriously questionable pop star looks. Sure, most of them have been perpetrated by Lady Gaga and whatever little monster dresses her. But Ms. Germanotta isn't the only one who's played the fashion game and lost mis ... More >>

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists at Churchill's Pub, October 30

​Ted Leo and the Pharmacists With Deaf Poets and Pujol Churchill's Pub Sunday, October 30, 2011 Better Than: Bobbing for apples in the rain It's been a weird Halloween, right? And not the good kind of weird. Last Halloween, after an extended series of poor choices, a candy raver dominatrix wit ... More >>

Five Male Pop Star Offspring We Wanna See Play in the Lingerie Football League

Paris Jackson is down with the Lingerie Football League. But what about her bros? As her father's manslaughter trial continues to wallow in spectacle, celebrity, and drug abuse, the 13-year-old Princess of Pop (that is, Michael Jackson's daughter), Paris Jackson, has announced a new partnership wit ... More >>

Get Sleazy With Dirty L.A. Rapper Mickey Avalon at LIV October 5

Photo by Mark the Cobra Snake via facebook.com/MickeyAvalon​"Live fast, die young, and look good in your grave" is Mickey Avalon's motto. He's got that brash, absurd, and sleezy L.A. white rapper style that attracts a party crowd serious about their trucker hats and lipstick-stained, cut-all-up ... More >>

Ke$ha Got $leazy and $keezy at Klipsch Amphitheater, August 7

Photo by George MartinezKe$ha fondles her gearbox.​See the full 36-photo Ke$ha at Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park slideshow. Ke$ha's Get $leazy Tour With LMFAO, and Spank Rock  Bayfront Park August 7, 2011 Better Than: Campbell's Tomato Soup on a hot day. At about the moment when K ... More >>

Fashion Freakouts at Ke$ha's Get $leazy Tour

Photo by George Martinez​​No doubt there was plenty of $leaziness going on at the Ke$ha show last night. We're talking drunk dudes, wasted moms pulling down their tube tops, people with crunchy hair booty dancing on their seated friends. It was a little bit of a shit show. The way that people w ... More >>

Ke$ha, LMFAO, and Spank Rock at Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park August 7

Spank Rock's New Video Mixes David Lynch With Sesame Street

​It's been five years since Philly-based MC Spank Rock's last full-length record. And if the first two singles from his highly anticipated new album are any indication, the record is sure to reflect half a decade of dilligent writing, rewriting, mixing, remixing and mastermind-level tinkering. ... More >>

Ten Pop Topics That Need a Beavis and Butt-Head Bunghole Ripping

MTV.comYou might remember Beavis and Butt-Head as the greatest minds of Generation X. The adolescent twosome took a hard look at '90s music videos. They were thoughtful cultural commentators who said "huh, huh, huh" a bunch.The goofy duo are returning to television this October. And creator Mike Jud ... More >>

Six Greatest Weirdo Pop Queens of All Time

Last.fmRolling Stone created a Queen of Pop Index, ranking the top 16 female pop recording artists of the last two years by examining, according to them, "album and digital song sales, Hot 100 rankings, radio airplay, YouTube views, social media, concert grosses, industry awards, and ... More >>

Five Electro Dudes With Secret Hardcore Kid Pasts

Sleigh Bells' Derek Miller is an ex-punk. Who else?​This weekend, while you're spending Memorial Day sipping a fruity mixed drink and fist pumping to the newest Ke$ha dubstep remix, take a good long hard look at the DJ. Yeah, lots of ravers and club kids have full sleeves. But there's a good chan ... More >>

Who Wants a Free CD Full of Katy Perry, Pitbull, and Wacka Flocka Flame Hits?

NOW That's What I Call Pop Appeal!​If you're the kind of weirdo who still owns a "compact disc player," then you're probably also the kind of weirdo who still listens to "commercial pop radio." Well, amazing news for you! We're giving away two new CDs from the ubiquitous NOW compilation series. ... More >>

IDMA 2011 Nominees Announced and Crossfade Picks the Winners

James Murphy deserves an IDMA or two.​Every year, coinciding with Winter Music Conference, the International Dance Music Awards (IDMAs) recognizes those who make electronic music great. Sure, it's not exactly the Grammys or MTV's Video Music Awards. But dammit, it's a homegrown awards show and tha ... More >>

Fizz explores Coke appeal at Coral Gable's New Theatre

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The Best (and Worst) of the VMAs -- with Some Miami Touches

Photo by Getty ImagesChelsea Handler as a Lady Gaga-esque house​We were expecting quite the spectacle at this year's MTV Video Music Awards. In lieu of last year's Taylor Swift acceptance speech interruption, Kanye's apologetic tweets, and her tweets suggesting she was going to interrupt him this ... More >>

The MTV VMAs Get Artsy with Black and White Faux Doc Videos; Include Eminem, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and More -- Which is Your Fave?

Nicki Minaj channels Lucy Ricardo for the VMAs​ The MTV Video Music Awards have morphed into somewhat of a spectacle recently. Some groundbreaking pop culture news is usually broken, some rapper embarrasses a pop starlet, and some cheesy comedian always has a tendency to tell a joke that's borderl ... More >>

Concert Review: Rihanna at American Airlines Arena July 31

Photo by Christina MendenhallRihanna performs at the American Airlines Arena.​Click here to view photos of Rihanna's Miami tour stop.Rihanna with Ke$haAmerican Airlines Arena, MiamiSaturday, July 31, 2010I normally don't make myself a part of any review, but it's important to know that Saturday ni ... More >>

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Debbie Gibson and Tiffany to Co-Star in Mega Python vs. Gatoroid TV Movie

​We thought 80's teen-pop stars were nearly extinct, but apparently they're actually alive and thriving in the Everglades. Or will be anyway. Former pop-stars Debbie Gibson ("Foolish Beat") and Tiffany ("I Think We're Alone Now") will star as rivals in the upcoming SyFy TV movie Mega Python vs Gat ... More >>

Album Review: Uffie Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans

​UffieSex Dreams and Denim Jeans(Ed Banger/Elektra)When French electro label released "Pop the Glock," a bratty club anthem by then unknown chanteuse Uffie, it was the sort of a carefree record that everyone could get into. That was 2006. In four years, Uffie still has a minuscule body of work, fa ... More >>

Travie McCoy Added to Rihanna Tour; Miami Date at American Airlines Arena July 31

via his MySpace​We're not sure exactly what it is, but there's something about Travie McCoy's comical lyrical stylings that just draws us in. He had us at pancakes when the video for "Cupid's Chokehold" first came out in '06 -- and the Katy Perry cameo didn't hurt, either. (As everyone knows, they ... More >>

MP3: There is a New Uffie Single Called "ADD SUV" Circulating

Photo by Tom BeardUffie doesn't appreciate you watching her manicure​As we approach the June 8 release of South Florida native Uffie's debut album Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans, the leakiness will likely turn into a full-on gush soon enough. A radio rip of her electro-heavy upcoming single "ADD SUV" ... More >>

Uffie is back and better! (Ke$ha who?)

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UPDATE: Lilith Fair Finally Confirms West Palm Beach Date, August 10, and Lineup

​As I type this, Lilith Fair's official site is crashing like any web coverage devoted to Tiger Woods' return to professional golf at this year's Masters. And for good reason. The all-female touring festival featuring the likes of Loretta Lynn, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, Tegan and ... More >>

Concert Review: Amanda Blank at Electric Pickle, February 20

Photo by JipsyAmanda Blank and Spank Rock performing live at Electric Pickle.​Click here to view photos from this event.Amanda Blank with special guest Spank RockSaturday, February 20, 2010Electric Pickle, MiamiBetter than: That other white faux hipster hop singer Ke$ha.She may be just some white ... More >>

Reasons Not to Make Fun of the New Lilith Fair, Which Has a West Palm Beach Stop This Year

via lilithfair.comLoretta is betta!​In no particular order:1. Cat Power 2. The Gossip3. Erykah Badu4. Jill Scott5. Metric6. MARY J. BLIGE7. Tegan and Sarah8. Emmylou Harris9. Ximena Sarinana10. Sia11. Chairlift12. Nneka13. Marina and the Diamonds14. Janelle Monae15. La Roux ........and, my persona ... More >>

South Florida Voters and Winners in the Village Voice's New Pazz Jop Poll

​It's January, which means it's time for another edition of the Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop poll of music critics. Yes, it's probably the latest, high-profile wrap-up of the best music of 2009, but it's also the biggest in sheer number of voices -- some 697 voters submitted ballots this ye ... More >>