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Ten Most Played-Out EDM Songs

Some songs just never die. You could run them into the ground at 100 mph, but they'll be right there around the corner, waiting to be dropped in the very next set you hear. Some of them have been around for decades. And some of them are new, but feel as old and used as a middle-aged whore. In a w ... More >>

Rap's Top Ten Struggle Songs

Hip-hop is the music of the people, and the sound of grumbling bellies sets the beat. In the game of life, it's eat or be eaten, and only the hungriest survive to tell their story. Songs about struggle are a cornerstone of the genre. Brooding tales of desperation often become heralded classics. Eve ... More >>

Generation Wild Got V-Day Crazy With Deniz Koyu and Danny Avila at LIV Miami

Generation Wild Tour With Deniz Koyu, Danny Avila, dBerrie and Mikael Weermets Thursday, February 14, 2013 Better Than: Speed dating for a Valentine's companion. Did the youth of Miami prove they party hardest? Last night, the Generation Wild Tour made its stop at LIV for a crowd of eye-contact e ... More >>

Janet Jackson and Six Other Secret Celebrity Muslims

Just when you think you know someone, because they've literally grown up in the public eye, you find out that they're one of four wives to an Arab millionaire and a secret Muslim! Well, that's what the National Enquirer is saying about Janet Jackson in its latest cover story. And you know the 'Quir ... More >>

Neil Young Swears Off Reefer! Top Ten Musical Potheads Who Came to Abstain

In the lead up to the release of his autobiography, Neil Young sat down with the New York Times Magazine for a meaty, tell-all interview. Our favorite morsel? According to the rock 'n' roll legend, he's quit smoking marijuana once and for all! Neil isn't the first celebrity musician to give up the ... More >>

Santigold at LIV's Dirty Hairy party November 30

Santigold and Wale Booked For Dirty Hairy's Art Basel Bash at LIV November 30

​Bribe the bouncer. Buy a dozen bottles. Get a job behind the bar. We here at Crossfade will personally do whatever's necessary to get our art-addicted asses past the velvet ropes at LIV on November 30. But you should probably just keep it legit and buy a pair of tickets. Right. Fucking. Now. ... More >>

Wiz Khalifa at Sunset Cove Amphitheater July 15

David Guetta Releases New Video With Flo Rida, Talks Hip-Pop Crossover

Photo by Nabil Elderkin​Turn on any Top 40 or urban radio station these days and it's clear there's been a massive sonic sea change. Gone from the biggest hits are the old trunk-rattling, snare-heavy, often Middle Eastern-inspired beats that dominated the mid 2000s. In their place is unabash ... More >>

Kid Cudi Show at La Covacha Is Fake According to the Cudman's Tumblr

​It was almost exactly seven weeks ago during Miami Music Week when glossy flyers advertising a gig by Kid Cudi at La Covacha started showing up all over the city, tacked to telephone polls, tossed in the gutter, and being used at the Vagabond as coasters for Colt 45s. The show was being promoted ... More >>

Catch Up With Kid Cudi and His Emo-Synth Hipster Hop at La Covacha May 20

​Kid Cudi loves Miami so much. In 2009, he threw a free party on South Beach with Santigold. And then he came back on New Years Eve to help ring in 2010. It's been a while, though. So to make up for lost time and make sure his experience is authentically "MIAMI," he'll be performing next week ... More >>

Caligula Brings the Wobble for The Corruption Mixtape

​The wobbly bass line is just as important to dupstep as analog sounds were to French electro-house. So you can't fault Caligula, the local dynamic duo of Obi Tawil and Mike Larson, for always featuring it prominently. However, with The Rise EP, which was released in March, Tawil and Larson ... More >>

Lollapalooza 2011 Announces Lineup With Eminem, Girl Talk, DFA 1979, and 122 Others

​It's time to start planning your road trip to Lollapalooza land 'cause King Perry Farrell just released his 125-name guestlist for this August's three-day Grant Park extravaganza. And if you don't wanna be left at the gate, crying and clawing the dirt like a pauper, you better buy a full-weekend ... More >>

Common's Lecture on The Effects of Hip-Hop on Modern Society at FIU

Photo by Liana Lozada​ On Wednesday, February 9, FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus got a little taste of Chicago rapper and actor Common. The speaking engagement was titled "The Effects of Hip-Hop on Modern Society." But it took the form of a motivational speech on achieving individual greatness. Common ... More >>

Ratatat's "Drugs" Video: Creepy Smiles, Threesomes, and More!

​Okay, we get it, Ratatat: You're way experimental. The New York-based duo has toured with even - cooler - than - they - are bands like Daft Punk, Interpol, CSS, and Mogwai, and their synth-heavy, guitar-laden beats sound a lot like an updated version of a '60s psych band.We thought they couldn't ... More >>

Vampire Weekend Teams Up with Kid Cudi, Best Coast for a New Converse Collaboration

You'll probably recognize Vampire Weekend's keyboardist/guitarist and backup vocalist Rostam Batmanglij in the video above, where he talks to Converse about his musical beginnings. You can catch him along with the rest of the band on October 13 with Beach House. But if you can't wait that long, Batm ... More >>

Donnis

XXL Magazine Top 10 Freshmen Winner Donnis Performs at LIV, June 30

Donnis is definitely a member of the Class of Kid Cudi, Drake, and company, a performer who's neither commercial "rapper" nor obscure lyricism-obsessed "MC." And still, thanks to a shrewd, intelligent-pop sensibility, the Atlanta resident appeals to both urban hipsters and girls who just wanna shake ... More >>

Can't Make it to Bonnaroo This Weekend? Catch the Action Live on YouTube and NPR

If a trek to Tennessee for Bonnaroo just wasn't in the cards this year, we have two ways for you to catch the Music and Arts fest from the comfort of your South Florida digs. First, the three-day arts and music festival is hosting a YouTube page with exclusive live webcasts from June 11 thr ... More >>

Ford Commissions Borscht to Make a Zombie Film About a Car

Jason LeivaShhh, it's just a few flesh wounds.​If mega-corporations insist on jamming their brands down our throats, then please let them continue doing it with a culture chaser. Recently, Heineken brought Miami a free Cold War Kids concert and a few months back, Diesel gave us a gratis performanc ... More >>

David Guetta's New Track and Video With Fergie AND LMFAO: the Dance Music Apocalypse?

Alright, so at the beginning, Crossfade didn't have anything particular against David Guetta. We admired his particular brand of Gallic panache, and his unabashed goal in taking dance music back into the pop realm. We drunkenly got excited about "Love is Gone" more times than we would now care to ad ... More >>

David Guetta, Kid Cudi's Miami-Shot "Memories" Video Premieres

Apparently, French DJ/producer/clubland killjoy David Guetta and once-respectable, now-mild-douchebag MC Kid Cudi filmed a video in Miami -- and pretty damn near our offices. Thankfully, it was for the Guetta song "Memories" which is nowhere near as annoying as "Sexy Bitch." In the video, Guetta and ... More >>

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New Year's Eve Miami: Kid Cudi at Wet at the W South Beach

"I'm a Facebook prophet/ I told all the girls that I'd be the hot shit." Thus sings Kid Cudi on "Soundtrack To My Life," the uninflected voice of a generation that grew up staring at monitors for hours and spends nights cycling through social networking websites. Embodying the hipster-hop aestheti ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Kid Cudi's "Day 'N' Nite," Remixed by Parable

Local rapper-producer Parable​Whenever the web seems to have reached its peak of weirdness, the whole thing whirlpools into entirely new dimensions of the bizarre, revealing secret worlds where you can watch celebrity breakdowns streamed live, read first-round NBA draft picks suicide tweets, or ev ... More >>

Getting Rowdy With Rusko at White Room Saturday

Rusko: The face of dubstep.​If dubstep was a kingdom, then Rusko would surely be its king. The British born, L.A. transplant has been damaging speakers worldwide with his hard hitting beats. But limiting him to the genre of dubstep would be underestimating the 23-year-old. He easily mixes electro, ... More >>

Q&A With Cage, Playing at Revolution on Saturday

No one would ever accuse Chris Palko, the New York rapper who goes by Cage, of coming across as warm and cuddly. From the beginning of his career on the circuit, he's mined his own set of personal traumas for musical gold. He's long discussed his fucked up childhood to end all fucked up childhoods ... More >>

Concert Review: Diesel U:Music Tour with Santigold and Kid Cudi at Paris Theatre, November 17

Photo by Ian WitlenMiami, she goes hard. Santigold performing at the Paris Theatre in Miami Beach.​Click here to view more photos from this show.Diesel U:Music Tour with Santigold, Kid Cudi, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, Jemina Pearl and DJ Mom JeansTuesday, November 17, 2009Paris Theatre, Miami Bea ... More >>

Diesel U:Music with Santigold, Kid Cudi November 17 at Paris Theatre

Santigold: She's a lady.​Last time Santigold (a.k.a., Santi White, formerly Santogold) was in Miami, she played at Ultra Music Festival back in March. Unfortunately, she was relegated to an early slot on the first day of the festival, so she played to a sparse crowd. We missed her set all together ... More >>

Wednesday Blog Watch: More on Alligator Alley's Closing, Fresh Basil Crew Wakes Up, and More

via freshbasilcrew.comCop this new mix from Sweet Dick Vega on the Fresh Basil Crew blog.*While Crossfade attended the Friday-night edition of Alligator Alley's closing party, Mood Vane went to the Saturday-night jam, featuring Stonefox. Check out a couple photos, a bittersweet recap, and a little l ... More >>

Another Huge DJ Booking For Broward: Sharam at Gryphon This Saturday

via myspace.com/sharam​Sharam Tayebi - known to the dance community as just Sharam, for short - first made a name as half of the progressive house duo Deep Dish. As an individual producer, though, Sharam's style has sort of been the yang to partner Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia's ying. While the Dubfir ... More >>

Purple Popcorn

MP3 of the Day: Shut It Down Mixtape by Pitbull and Logan de Gaulle

​Last week, you totally blew it, missing the jumpoff for Dade County hustler Pitbull's impending album Rebelution. (I mean really ... Where is your civic pride? The guy carries the keys to our city.) You missed a backdoor taste of club bangers like "Calle Ocho," "Hotel Room Service," and "Krazy" - ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: "Fountain of Youth" by Purple Popcorn, Playing White Room This Friday

​The local hard rock-rap band Purple Popcorn does, in fact, rock, but has gotten most of its recognition from stomping all over pop hip-hop. In the early days of its formation two years ago, the band pummeled both Soulja Boy's "Crank That" and Chris Brown's "Kiss Kiss," and in so doing added some ... More >>

Theophilus London at Rokbar May 19

Ben RowlandTheophilus London: 2009's Kid Cudi?Just when I thought the hipster-hop genre was dead, in comes up-and-coming Brooklyn MC Theophilus London to save the day. London has been on the cusp of breaking it big for that last year or so and has received plenty of accolades from publications likes ... More >>

WMC Preview: Q&A with Nick Catchdubs

photo by Ian MeyerSo you wanna be a hotshot DJ with your own hip record label? It's not as easy as you might think. But it can be done. And if you're Nick Catchdubs of Fool's Gold, it can be dynamite! New Times caught up with the ever-explosive head-spinner on the eve of another Winter Music Confere ... More >>

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Saturday Night: Candyland 13 at SoHo Studios

Photo by Logan FazioCandyland 13Soho Studios, MiamiSaturday, December 27, 2008Better Than: I expected.The Review:Culture and other similar promotions groups, in an effort to shrug off the nasty mainstream perceptions of the Nineties dance scene, like to call their large-scale events music festivals. ... More >>

Over the Weekend - Crookers, Rufus Wainwright and Coldplay

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