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Rihanna on Getting Hit by Chris Brown: "We Don't Have Those Arguments Anymore"

While an alleged scuffle with Frank Ocean and a highly publicized brawl with Drake suggest otherwise, Chris Brown is a changed man. At least that's what his on-again, off-again girlfriend Rihanna tells Rolling Stone. "I decided it was more important for me to be happy," the singer says in the la ... More >>

Ravi Shankar, Sitar Legend and Norah Jones's Father, Dead at 92

As the music industry's collective heart weighs heavy with news that legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar passed away yesterday, some comfort can be found in tonight's Hurricane Sandy benefit show at Madison Square Garden. When the likes of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, and Bruce Springsteen ... More >>

EDM Becoming a Cirque Du Soleil Production: Five Reasons It's Gonna Suck

The world of EDM is basically one giant circus. You've got Steve Aoki doing acrobatics; David Guetta is running around in clown shoes; and Tiësto's striking Jesus Christ poses as the most self-righteous ringleader ever. But all that's been merely metaphorical until now. Cirque Du Soleil has team ... More >>

Pretty Lights With 12th Planet at the Fillmore Miami Beach, October 2

Pretty Lights With 12th Planet, Sounduo and SuperVision Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Better Than: Pretty Lights has ever been. The man known as Pretty Lights puts on one hell of a show. He's really gotta bring it with that kinda name. And he definitely lives up to the hype. The F ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar at the Fillmore Miami Beach September 27

Forever R&B, With Kelly Price, Dru Hill, Carl Thomas, and Shirley Murdock, at BankUnited Center September 22

Sisqo and Dru Hill Joining Kelly Price for Forever R&B Concert in Miami

He's synonymous with women's underpants, bleached blonde hair, and early 2000s strip club soundtracks. But before Sisqó went solo and opened up about his thong fetish, he was a founding member of Dru Hill. While many feared that "Thong Song" would ultimately crush the possibility of a Dru Hill re ... More >>

RNC 2012: Five Hottest Parties, From Kid Rock to Sarah Palin's Porn Doppelganger!

See also "Ten Most Musical Politicians Ever: Barry Obama, Mitt the Mormon Honky, and Others!" and "DEVO's New Song About Mitt Romney's Dog-on-Roof Incident." There is an old conservative adage that goes something like, "There ain't no party like a right-wing party, 'cause a right-wing party don't s ... More >>

Hit So Hard Rockumentary Is Tediously Paced

Rock of Ages: Corporate Rock Still Sucks

Dick Clark Admits "I'm a Whore": Five Reason We Agree

The year was 1973. Legendary music journalist Ben Fong-Torres lands a sit-down interview with then 43-year-old Dick Clark at his Malibu home. After snacking on berries dipped in brown sugar and topped with sour cream, the self-described "naive, long-haired inquisitor from San Francisco" on assignm ... More >>

Nite Jewel Talks Sushi Joint Shows, Playing for Horny Hippies, and Doing Drugs With Hoarders

Yes, Nite Jewel's Ramona Gonzalez appreciates strangeness. While making her 2008 debut, Good Evening, Gonzalez held recording sessions in her living room as well as a friend's residence. And that's how the songs sounded -- lo-fi, sweet, strange. She applied that same approach to her latest record, ... More >>

Daily party plan for WMC and Miami Music Week, March 22 to 25

Trayvon Martin Case: Did George Zimmerman Whisper a Racial Slur During 911 Call?

It's been almost a month since George Zimmerman tracked down and fatally shot 17-year-old Miami native Trayvon Martin in a Stanford, Florida, gated community, and Zimmerman remains a free man with no charges filed. Today, the state attorney for Brevard and Seminole counties announced that a grand j ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Lettuce Dress and Other Pop News That Won't Change Your Life

Trade you a lettuce gown for that meat dress, Gaga. ​Do you ever wish you could be in two places at once? Better yet, how about 50 places at once? Sometimes we here at Crossfade get really pissed about the fact that we're stuck in our cubicle and not traveling to India to write about vegetariani ... More >>

TV on the Radio Flickers and Flashes at the Fillmore Miami Beach, October 25

Photo by Marta Xochilt PerezTV on the Radio vocalist Tunde Adebimpe.​TV on the Radio With Sorne Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Better Than: Being blinded by Nine Types of Light. On the one hand, this past year's been a really tough one for arty Brooklyn indie band TV on the Radio ... More >>

Meet The Chefs South Of Fifth at James Beard Scholarship Fund Dinner (Photos)

​More than 100 people at Red The Steakhouse were treated to a six-course meal (not including passed Hors d'oeuvres and Prosecco) at a dinner to benefit The James Beard Scholarship Fund.The theme of the dinner was Meet The Chefs South of Fifth, a tribute to the fact that SoFi has become a central h ... More >>

Crimson and Clover

Metro Area's Morgan Geist Talks New Projects and the State of the Recording Industry

​Electronic dance music has splintered off into countless genres and sub-genres over the decades, almost to the point of absurdity. But if there's one consensus among most EDM fans, whether they're self-proclaimed house heads, techno heads, or electro heads, it's that Morgan Geist rules the school ... More >>

Six Sad Songs About Dad Stuff In Honor of Father's Day

via wsilver's Flickr​Whatever you call your male parent -- pops, dad, father, papa, man-whose-seed-enabled-my-existence, the-reason-I'm-so-fucked-up -- and whatever your relationship is with your one or two dads, we all appreciate a good song about daddyness.In honor of Father's Day, which is thi ... More >>

Bob Dylan, America's Greatest Mystic Poet, is 70 Today

​The Minnesota Bard is seven decades old today. He is my hero. He is crazy. He owns -- or owned - a big yacht. His mom knew my grandma in the North Country, where I was born. He was Jewish, Christian, and turned the Beatles on to LSD....Yackity, yackity. You know all the about Dylan. This month Va ... More >>

Lil' Wayne and LeBron James are Apparently Back on Good Terms Again

Lil' Wayne may be the rap world's biggest bandwagon fan (how is a guy who grew up in New Orleans and spends his downtime in Miami Beach such a Packers fan anyway?), but apparently he's now back on good terms with the Heat. All it took was a nod from King James himself. 

Lil Wayne Has Beef with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade

​It wasn't that long ago when you could spot Lil Wayne sitting front row at AAA rooting on Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat (one instance of which was immortalized in cake format), but apparently Wayne is a Heat fan no more. No, he's not pissed about "The Decision" like everyone else, he's just irke ... More >>

Rachel Goodrich Performs at Churchill's Open Mic

​So, Monday night was amazingly cold. There was a lunar eclipse. I needed to get out of my cave. And I got a ride to Churchill's from my Nigerian female friend because I had heard that Rachel Goodrich was going to be performing at the open mic. Soon, I was walking into the Pub and somebody grab ... More >>

Katy Perry and the Y100 Jingle Ball at BankAtlantic Center December 11

Greil Marcus and Alex Ross Teach the Miami Book Fair a Thing or Two About Music

Rock critic Greil Marcus.​Greil Marcus and Alex Rossat the Miami Book FairSaturday, November 20, 2010Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, MiamiBetter than: Watching an Almost Famous meets Ray meets I'm Not There hybrid. Unless you're an avid, anal-retentive reader, you're probably not familiar with ... More >>

Rolling Stoned

MGMT plays the Fillmore Miami Beach October 26

Number One Partier

Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation Play Miami October 26 (Same Night as MGMT)

CC by 2.0, via spiritquest on FlickrExpect a similarly crazy light show from Massive Attack when the group comes to Miami.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Was that enough? Sure, sure, Thievery Corporation just played at the Fillmore not too long ag ... More >>

Plays Well With Others

Top Ten Thursdays: The Top Ten Wonderfully Weird Dylan Performances

Bob Dylan, popular music's ultimate shape-shifter, will release the strangest album of his five-decade career next Tuesday, October 13. Christmas in the Heart, as the title suggests, is a collection of 15 holiday classics. Commenters at RollingStone.com and numerous other sites are -- or at least we ... More >>

Sugar-Coated Squabbles

Anatomy of a Buzz

The Secret Machines ride a wave of good press; can record sales be far behind?

Slow Down

After losing their distribution deal, it's back to the drawing board for Jacki-O and Poe Boy Entertainment

The Ying and the Yang

Is there a method to the madness of Atlanta's most bizarre rap duo?

The Dull and Dreary Nightlife

Where's John Hood when we really need him?

It's a Hip-Hop World

And thanks to hotshot entrepreneur David Mays, it'll soon be returning to Miami Beach

Easy to Slip

A new box set fails to do justice to the legacy of Little Feat

Viva Sandinista!

Is the Clash still the only band that matters?

Better Living Through Chemistry

The Chemical Brothers return to Miami with more block rockin' beats

Kings of Rhyme

Sells Like Teen Spirit

Why the Glory?

Born to Run

The Future of Rock and Roll

We've seen it in a crystal ball and the pictures aren't pretty

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A Land of Both Shado and Substance

Sophie B. Hawkins gives you her sex. Either way. Damn!