Stephen Marley

MySpace Secret Show: Marley Bros.

Blue Crush

An independent record store finds its own level

Q&A with CuCu Diamantes

CuCu Diamantes' solo debut CUCULAND is at once a breath of fresh air and a nostalgic whiff of a more glamorous time.  It shimmers with the glitz and glamour of an era when catching a show meant dinner jackets and hair tonic, evening gowns and diamonds.  But it also bares its teeth and bite ... More >>

Diamond Girl

Cuban-born songstress CuCu Diamantes shines on a new album.

Ascending the Throne

Stephen Marley takes

Stephen Marley

Mind Control (Tuff Gong/Universal)

Who the Cap Fit

Has the Bob Marley Festival lost some of its spark?

Only Natural

The Marleys carry on their father's mission -- as they see it

Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley

Halfway Tree (Motown/Ghetto Youth)

Erykah Badu

Mama's Gun
Motown

Natty Dread Learns to Rap

Rastas and b-boys find common ground in Marley's legacy

Rotations

Bob Marley tribute, Mark Lanegan

Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers

Spirit of Music

Rotations

Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow

AEG Live Announces $10 Ticket Deal For The Blazed and Confused Tour on August 1

Not to be totally outdone by all of Live Nation's various and sundry discount deals of late, rival concert promotions titan AEG Live is announcing its own special deal. It's good on this Friday, only, for one show -- the Blazed and Confused tour date on August 1 at Bicentennial Park in Miami. The sh ... More >>

Clearing Up the Blazed and Confusion: Yes, Mickey Avalon and Snoop Dogg Are Still Performing in South Florida on August 1

via myspace.com/mickeyavalonGutter-glam rapper Mickey Avalon plays SetThe Miami date of the Blazed and Confused Tour, originally scheduled August 1, was officially canceled a few days ago, but there was a lot of confusion in the aftermath. (This previous Crossfade post about it definitely devolved i ... More >>

Q&A with Mickey Avalon at Set This Saturday, August 1

Ever the teller of cinematic stories drawn inspired by his own dark life experiences, listening to Mickey Avalon's music is like watching a movie with your eyes closed -- part Drug Store Cowboys, part Wonderland with some Boogie Nights (you know the parts), and a little Trainspotting mixed in for go ... More >>

Concert Review: Mayday!, Goodie Mob, and Nas at the Arsht Center, February 5

Photo by Manny HernandezSpecial guest Stephen Marley joins Nas onstage at the Arsht Center.​Mayday!, Goodie Mob, and NasThe Arsht Center, MiamiFriday, February 5, 2010 Better Than: BET's SOS Haiti benefit concert that took place earlier the same night, right up the street at the American Airlines ... More >>

Q&A With Andrea Echeverri of Aterciopelados, Playing Grand Central Tomorrow, June 10

​Sure, socially conscious artists are prevalent in Spanish-language music. But few acts have committed themselves so completely to fighting for the greater good than Aterciopelados, whose zeal for placing social and political causes right before the public's eye is legendary.The band's most recent ... More >>

Colombia Musica

​Sure, socially conscious artists are prevalent in Spanish-language music. But few acts have committed themselves so completely to fighting for the greater good than Aterciopelados, whose zeal for placing social and political causes right before the public's eye is legendary.The band's most recent ... More >>

Buju Banton Trial Starts As Singer Testifies He Didn't Mean To Visit Warehouse Full of Coke

​Buju Banton, it seems, has a gaping, cavernous mineshaft of a hole to dig out of in federal court in Tampa: the feds have hours of taped conversations with the reggae star talking about cocaine, quoting detailed worldwide prices for cocaine, and even visiting a warehouse and sampling a few kilos ... More >>

Buju Banton Wins Ruling For Release

​Reggae star Buju Banton, who faces a February retrial on a criminal charge of conspiring to buy cocaine from an undercover police officer, could soon be released from Tampa jail. He has been locked up for the past 11 months. On November 4, Federal Judge James S. Moody Jr. denied assistant U.S. At ... More >>

Buju Banton Is (Sorta) Back! The Dancehall Bad Boy Hits Bayfront January 16

Buju cries for freedom!​When discussing dancehall, there are certain names that come to mind, all coincidentally starting with the letter B, like Beanie Man, Bounty Killer, Buju Banton. For some, those names are sacred. For others, they're curse words. And Buju Banton has definitely experienced h ... More >>

Buju Banton: Dirty Dozen 2010

​Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We're releasing the names one by one ahead of next week's issue, which comes with a full-page illustr ... More >>

Major Lazer and the Marley Family Headline Nine Mile Music Festival March 12

Major Lazer's Switch and Diplo.​Man, Winter Music Conference is only two months away. But while your club kid cousins are off doing the WMC thing, getting loopy on funny drugs and dancing away their inhibitions, you're gonna be sucking on sweet sticky ish and nodding your dreaded head to righteo ... More >>

Ten Photos of Buju Banton and Friends at Bayfront Park Amphitheater

Photo by David MuirWelcome back, Buju.​In just a few weeks, Buju Banton will be back in court, battling those federal cocaine conspiracy charges for a second time. But this past Sunday, dancehall's bad boy and a bunch of his best friends brought some serious Rasta righteousness to Bayfront Park ... More >>

Wanee Festival Announces 2011 Lineup: Allman Brothers, Robert Plant, Ween, and 40 Others

via facebook.com/weenWeen! Ditch the monkey suit and dress like a rabbit on acid.​You will spend almost every day of your life in a monkey suit, tracking the mysterious movements of the market, haunting the office, and hoarding overtime hours. But for the weekend of Thursday, April 14 through Satu ... More >>

Take the Nine Mile Trek to Marley Fest at Bayfront Park Amphitheater This Saturday

Follow Stephen and the rest of the Marley clan to the Nine Mile Fest.​Hidden in the rolling, bright-green Dry Harbour Mountains of St. Ann Parish on Jamaica's north coast, there's a tiny rural village called Nine Mile. You will find it by following the narrow road from Brown's Town and counting ... More >>

Let The Singer Sing

Follow Stephen and the rest of the Marley clan to the Nine Mile Fest.​Hidden in the rolling, bright-green Dry Harbour Mountains of St. Ann Parish on Jamaica's north coast, there's a tiny rural village called Nine Mile. You will find it by following the narrow road from Brown's Town and counting ... More >>

Crossfade's Guide to Day Two at Best of the Best 2011 With Shabba, the Marleys, and Others

Throw it back and ball wit' the Diamond Princess.​Yesterday, Crossfade hooked up a guide to the first day of the Best of the Best fest. We got the mob. We got the grub. And we got the booze. But most of all, there's that block party music with rappers like the Boss Rick Ross and Travis Porter, di ... More >>

Buju Banton Gets Ten Years in Federal Prison on Drug Convictions

Buju Banton's mug shot.​Reggae superstar Buju Banton will spend the next decade in federal lockup, a judge in Tampa ruled this morning. The sentence comes after Banton -- who played to a packed crowd at Bayfront in January and won a Grammy this year -- was convicted of trying to engineer a cocaine ... More >>

Marley Fest 2012 in Miami: Lineup Includes Three Marleys, Burning Spear, Capleton

Meet Stephen Marley and the Movement at Nine Mile.​Get dreaded. Grow some ganja. Climb that mountain. For the 19th consecutive year, the Bob Marley Movement of Jah People will meet in Miami to shake its mane, spark a spliff, and celebrate the immortal legacy of its late leader by jamming right, ... More >>

Buju Banton is innocent

Meet Stephen Marley and the Movement at Nine Mile.​Get dreaded. Grow some ganja. Climb that mountain. For the 19th consecutive year, the Bob Marley Movement of Jah People will meet in Miami to shake its mane, spark a spliff, and celebrate the immortal legacy of its late leader by jamming right, ... More >>