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Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2012: A Daily Party Guide

​Check out today's top WMC and MMW parties -- plus Crossfade's fifteen best parties. Honestly, if you're gonna survive 96 hours of Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival, then your emergency EDM supply kit will need to include a gas mask, goggles, a bikini and/or bana ... More >>

Fifteen Best Parties at Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2012

​Maybe you're planning to spend the entire weekend performing glowstick tricks at Ultra Music Festival. Or enjoying the lavish amenities at Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Hotel. Or bleep-bloop-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Biscayne Lady. But if not, you need a beat-freaking plan. In total ... More >>

The Overthrow Taking Over Mamushka's For MMW, Making it Hard 2 Leave Next Sunday

​During WMC 2010, White Room (currently Eve) was the unofficial DJ VIP room. Except, it wasn't really VIP. DJ and fans easily hung out side by side. It was the only place were the average partygoer could find him or herself talking with some of the best EDM and DJ acts. It's where we talked Annie ... More >>

Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week's 15 best parties March 22 to 25

Check Yo' Ponytail tour at Grand Central November 5

Franki Chan Talks Iheartcomix, Party Plans, and How to Check Yo Ponytail

​It is finally time to Check Yo Ponytail. For the last 11 days, Iheartcomix's Franki Chan, Media Contender's Danny Johnson, and Zane Landreth have been streaking across the country -- L.A. to San Fran, San Diego, Denver, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and NYC -- with Spank Rock, Big Freedia, and ... 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 >>

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 >>

Spank Rock Talks His New Album, WMC, and Hooking Up With Boys Noize

​Spank Rock's debut full length, 2006's YoYoYoYoYo, paired the frantic tempo and raunchy sensibility of Baltimore-style club music with the shimmering glean of indie electro-pop and the impressively elastic flow and sharp diction of MC Naeem Juwan. The album painted a perfect picture of the raunch ... More >>

N.E.R.D. to Kanye to Odd Future: five key moments in hipster-hop

Five Key Moments in the Chronology of Hipster Hop

Tyler the Creator: Is he the über-hipster hopper?​There is no escaping the young-and-vulgar West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future. There was a brief incubation period on the internet. But ever since performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the group has been everywhere: SXSW, Coachella, and ... More >>

Mobroder Releases Miami Vice-Inspired Clip for "Rush"

Is that you, Tubbs? Not, it's Mobroder!​We love Miami-inspired music and videos. So it's hard for us not to get behind Mobroder, the Italo-disco side project from Spank Rock, Blu Jemz, and DJ Hoff that seems hell-bent on creating the perfect Magic City soundtrack. (Mobroder's Twitter lists its loc ... More >>

Boys Noize Records at Sunday School 2011, March 26

Miami Noize! courtesy of Boy Noize Records.​We are waiting until after the full 36-hour rager known as Sunday School: The Lost Weekend to give our verdict. But after stopping by last night (this morning, really), Sunday's climax seems promising. We arrived early in the night to find it a little ... More >>

Sunday School for Degenerates 2011 Adds Guy Gerber, Heidi, and 23 Others UPDATE

Troy Pierce just enrolled in Sunday School.​As if Sunday School for Degenerates wasn't already a crazy-ass concept, Made Event's decided to dial up the wonk to an an almost unsafe level. Step One: Expand the deviant dance marathon from 24 to 36 hours. Step Two: Book Richie Hawtin, Tiga, Adultnapp ... More >>

Sunday School for Degenerates 2011 Lineup: Richie Hawtin, Tiga, Adultnapper, and 27 Others

Photo by Angela MazurRichie Hawtin headlines Sunday School's 2011 lineup.​Four weeks and a few days ago, we here at Crossfade notified all party perverts that Made Event's Sunday School for Degenerates would be expanding its deviant dance marathon from 24 to 36 hours. At the time, there was no of ... More >>

Heard the Rumor Bar Is Closing? Well, It's 100% Not True, According to OHWOW's Al Moran

​Late last night while scooping the spam out of Crossfade's constantly clogged inbox, we spotted a shocking subject line: "Bar Is Closing." WTF? It's been barely a year since OHWOW's Aaron Bondaroff and Al Moran ran a blitz on the 2009 Basel scene by remaking the former PS14 space into a near-rep ... More >>

Art Basel's best bands and DJs

Amanda Blank and Sweatheart Bring the Miami Meat Tour to Art Basel

Make a mess with Amanda Blank and Sweatheart.​Electro-alternative pop beats and female rap vocals aren't normally lumped together. But for the better part of five years, Philadelphia's Amanda Blank has effortlessly combined the two worlds in her hipster-approved dance music. In 2006, the 20-some ... More >>

Spank Rock Feeds His Serious Need for Speed at Grand Central This Thursday

Spank and rock! Rock and spank!​If there's one dude who fully deserves to be an honorary citizen of our hot, clubby, coked-up little paradise, it's booty bass and bathroom sex enthusiast Naeem Juwan Hanks, otherwise known as Spank Rock. Even though he was bred in B-More, the kid's like Uncle Luke ... 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 >>

Juiceboxxx, Puppy Hearts Playing at The Guest Lab March 27

Juiceboxxx​Last time Milwaukee hipster hop MC Juiceboxxx performed in Miami, he got everybody sweating at Poplife. This time he returns to the city in the midst of Winter Music Conference along with Puppy Hearts.The 23-year-old is on the road in support of his debut mixtape, Thunder Zone Volume On ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Jay-Z, Tegan and Sara, and Spank Rock

Spank Rock at MansionPhoto by Justin Namon/Red Eye Productions​Philadelphia MC Spank Rock played a rather odd booking at Mansion Friday night. We are used to seeing the man perform in downtown venues not South Beach megaclubs. Click here to view the full slideshow.Jay- Z at BankAtlantic CenterPhot ... More >>

Anything But Blank

Philly MC Amanda Blank plays two Miami Beach shows December 2

Poplife Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary

The long-standing local shindig went down at White Room.

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Mad Decent, Turntable Lab and IHEARTCOMIX to Take Over O.H.W.O.W. For WMC

Diplo returns to Miami for WMC.Just got word that Our House West of Wynwood will be hosting a party during Winter Music Conference. The Allapattah gallery hasn't been open for long, but it's quickly becoming a favorite. It's already hosted numerous parties, include a string of them during Art Basel ... More >>

Q&A with Prince Terrence of Heartsrevolution

Heartsrevolution perform at The Vagabond Sunday.When Scion's Kitsuné CD release party comes into The Vagabond Sunday, Brooklyn duo-turned-trio Heartsrevolution will be doing a rare live performance in Miami. Crossfade spoke with the band's newest member Prince Terrence about the band's full-length ... More >>

Diplo Talks Hollertronix, Mad Decent, and the Future

Over the Weekend - Freezepop, Delvin & Darko, Bella Dona and Steve Angello

Can you believe it? Winter Music Conference is only five weeks away! We are already putting together our WMC Guide, which at this point seems a little, er, overwhelming to say the least. So many parties that we are having a hard time deciding what to do when the week finally arrives.So while we plan ... More >>

Thursday: XXXChange at PS14

There hasn't been much word going around about this, but Spank Rock DJ XXXChange will be spinning tomorrow at PS14 for the bar's Happy House party. Also on the bill are resident DJs Jonathan Brody, Carlos Llanos, C. Mora and Benton.If you either love or hate the current wave of hipster-hop, XXXChang ... More >>

Top Hip-Hop Albums of 2008

In '08, rap didn't always equal pap.

Top Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should be ... More >>

Throwback Tuesdays: 2 Live Crew - "Me So Horny"

Madonna's "Four Minutes" Release Party

CD Review: Various Artists, Well Deep

2007 Music Year in Review

It's all in the stars.

Spank Rock pulled from Best Buy

Concert Review--KRS-One at Studio A

Let Her Bang

The female sibling of Flosstradamus’s J2K comes into her own as a sharp-tongued MC

Snap to It

Comeback kids, rhymin' Limeys, and songs about partying defined Hip-Hop Nation in 2006

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