Sunset Strip

Rapper Pimp C Found Dead

Throwback Tuesday: New York Dolls

Dining Aria

Ely the kid: Countryman Joe as ramblin' hero

Joe's Garage Ely's never there. He's on the road.

Mötley Crüe Returns to South Florida with the Last Vegas, at the Hard Rock Next Tuesday

Tuesday night at the Hard Rock, L.A. glam-metal heroes Mötley Crüe bring their grown-up and toned-down debauchery, while their searing Sunset Strip sound remains intact. With infinitely underrated guitar god Mick Mars, enigmatic songwriting bassist Nikki Sixx, genre-defining vocalist and aging p ... More >>

Mötley Crüe

Tuesday night at the Hard Rock, L.A. glam-metal heroes Mötley Crüe bring their grown-up and toned-down debauchery, while their searing Sunset Strip sound remains intact. With infinitely underrated guitar god Mick Mars, enigmatic songwriting bassist Nikki Sixx, genre-defining vocalist and aging p ... More >>

Agent Sparks

Tuesday night at the Hard Rock, L.A. glam-metal heroes Mötley Crüe bring their grown-up and toned-down debauchery, while their searing Sunset Strip sound remains intact. With infinitely underrated guitar god Mick Mars, enigmatic songwriting bassist Nikki Sixx, genre-defining vocalist and aging p ... More >>

Escape the Fate

Tuesday night at the Hard Rock, L.A. glam-metal heroes Mötley Crüe bring their grown-up and toned-down debauchery, while their searing Sunset Strip sound remains intact. With infinitely underrated guitar god Mick Mars, enigmatic songwriting bassist Nikki Sixx, genre-defining vocalist and aging p ... More >>

The Tides Has Turned

Clean, simple, and beautiful Mediterranean food washes into South Beach

Strange Fruit

Take that, Anita Bryant! The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is reclaiming the orange

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Gnarls Barkley

Take that, Anita Bryant! The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is reclaiming the orange

Velvet Gold Mine

Take that, Anita Bryant! The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is reclaiming the orange

I See Hawks in L.A.

California Country (Western Seeds)

Incredible Video Vixen Moments in MTV History

California Country (Western Seeds)

Raw Metal

Old rockers offer soundtracks for sleaze

Negro Modelo

After blackface, gay-baiting, nervous breakdowns, and Aryan brotherhood, Turbonegro reclaims the States

Dancing for Dollars

You've seen them at the clubs. Flamboyantly costumed, gyrating up there on a platform. Chances are good they're working for Pamela Canellas.

Start Me Up

Billboardlive promised to change the face of music in Miami. Six months later, we're still waiting.

Pop Goes MAM

From the man who put words to canvas and called it art, Ed Ruscha gets a Miami retrospective

Comedy Central

Spike Lee takes a fresh and gloriously unpolished look at black stand-up talent

Porn to Sell

Product placement comes to adult videos ... hey, watch where you put that thing!

Rotations

Product placement comes to adult videos ... hey, watch where you put that thing!

Rotations

Product placement comes to adult videos ... hey, watch where you put that thing!

Doggie Bag Blues

Product placement comes to adult videos ... hey, watch where you put that thing!

They're All Crazee Now

Product placement comes to adult videos ... hey, watch where you put that thing!

Rotations

Product placement comes to adult videos ... hey, watch where you put that thing!

Dread Reckoning

Dub architect, crossover dreamer, music exec, and all-around nice guy, Mikey Dread has kept the reggae fires burning for almost twenty years

Life's a Beach, Then You Die

Dub architect, crossover dreamer, music exec, and all-around nice guy, Mikey Dread has kept the reggae fires burning for almost twenty years

Throwback Tuesdays: Poser - "Give It Up"

Ah, thank Google Alerts for bringing this gem of South Florida music past to our inbox. The Sunset Strip story is one that has been told, but what of bands elsewhere in the country who were plying the same sound? One of these, it seems, was a band called Poser based in Ft. Lauderdale. (Perhaps "po ... More >>

CD Review: Jane's Addiction - A Cabinet of Curiosities

Jane's AddictionA Cabinet of Curiositieswww.janesaddiction.comJane's Addiction is of those bands that, although its members don't especially like each other anymore, wields an influence simply too great to allow the band to stay broken up. The game-changing L.A. quartet that treated alternative rock ... More >>

Be at The News Without Being In The News

I Am Your Villain won’t rat you out.

FYI, It's Tracii Guns' Version of L.A. Guns Playing Culture Room on Friday

via myspace.com/losangelesguns​In the early '80s, the guys of L.A. Guns were proudly members of the dirtier subset of Sunset Strip denizens. Acts like Poison tarted themselves up in blush and aimed for pop crossover from the beginning, but the Guns and their fellow sleaze-rockers were almost more ... More >>

L.A. Guns

via myspace.com/losangelesguns​In the early '80s, the guys of L.A. Guns were proudly members of the dirtier subset of Sunset Strip denizens. Acts like Poison tarted themselves up in blush and aimed for pop crossover from the beginning, but the Guns and their fellow sleaze-rockers were almost more ... More >>

Together Again

via myspace.com/losangelesguns​In the early '80s, the guys of L.A. Guns were proudly members of the dirtier subset of Sunset Strip denizens. Acts like Poison tarted themselves up in blush and aimed for pop crossover from the beginning, but the Guns and their fellow sleaze-rockers were almost more ... More >>

Mark Siffin: Times Square in Miami

via myspace.com/losangelesguns​In the early '80s, the guys of L.A. Guns were proudly members of the dirtier subset of Sunset Strip denizens. Acts like Poison tarted themselves up in blush and aimed for pop crossover from the beginning, but the Guns and their fellow sleaze-rockers were almost more ... More >>

Rokbar Closes After Seven Years

Photo by Ivon David Rojas​An anomaly among nightclubs and lounges in South Beach, Rokbar was a favorite among locals and downtowners who wanted something a bit more authentic than what the area usually afforded. Unfortunately, effective immediately, Rokbar has closed its doors for good."I came onb ... More >>

Rock Of Ages Builds the Sunset Strip in Downtown Miami

The Bourbon Room?​A few years ago, Jason Handelsman wrote: "The outskirts of Miami's Overtown hood are becoming a gentrified version of the Sunset Strip in LA." And now it's actually happened. New Line Cinema is shooting the film adaptation of a hit Broadway musical called Rock Of Ages entirely ... More >>

The Vagabond, Johnny's Miami Expected to Remain Open During Rock of Ages Filming

Photo by Jacob KatelNot an actual club, but a film set for Rock of Ages.​If you haven't noticed yet, a Tower Records has popped up on North Miami Avenue and 14th Street. But before you head over hoping to by the new Britney Spears album, we have some bad news. It's a fake. A little bit of movie ... More >>

15 Photos From Rock of Ages' (Finally Finished) Fake Sunset Strip in Downtown Miami

Photo by Marta Xochilt Perez​Last month, we here at Crossfade noticed that downtown Miami was starting to look a hell of a lot like L.A.'s Sunset Strip. And we took some pictures to prove it. For a very brief moment, we panicked, thinking the Big Money was trying to push all the hipsters off NE ... More >>

Rock of Ages: Eat In The '80s (Photos)

All photos by Laine Doss Sunset Strip via Miami....the bums were really confused today.​You may not have noticed

¡Mayday!'s Bernz Talks Strange Music, Tech N9ne, Weed, Whiskey, and Women

Photo by Derick G​One of the great things about owning a major porn company are the affiliate networks, like Sublime Directory, that advertise the free pics and trailers. They're the perfect place to prominently embed a music video that millions of people a day will see during their cyberquest for ... More >>