The Black Eyed Peas

Ultra 2013 Starts Now! And EDM Has Conquered Miami, America, the World

Electronic dance music has conquered Miami. And America. And the world. For more than three decades, it had remained a mostly underground phenomenon, epitomized by illegal raves held beneath highway overpasses in the UK or after-hours parties thrown in downtown Detroit's abandoned warehouses. But o ... More >>

Overtown Music Project's Supper Club: Feed Your Soul Friday

In an effort to bring to bring nightlife back to the historically black center of Miami, the Overtown Music Project has teamed up with Jackson's Soul Food for the first installment of their Supper Club, It will include soul food, drinks and jazz (with a bit of blues). "There hasn't been a nighttime ... More >>

Lollapalooza 2012: Four Reasons EDM Is the New Summer Music Festival Staple

See also "Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012" -- plus "Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Wigs, TEED," "Day Two: Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Twin Shadow, and Others," and "Day Three: Jack White, Sigur Ros, Florence The Machine, and Others." With every year that passes, it feels li ... More >>

EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing

Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around fans are more sa ... More >>

Ten best acts at Ultra Music Fest 2012

From legendary Germans to French superstars, we're stoked about this year's fest.

David Guetta at Ultra Music Festival March 25

Ultra Music Festival 2012's Top Seven Artists Under 25: Avicii, Skrillex, and Five Others

​​The EDM game is tough. Before you get the big dollars, you've got to pay your dues and take a few hits. So it's no surprise most of these heavy hitters are well into their 30s or even older. But over the last couple of years, there's been a youth invasion of the scene. And suddenly, some of ... More >>

David Guetta, Dance Music's Pop Ambassador, Playing Ultra Music Festival on March 25

​​A few years ago, David Guetta was just another house music DJ who was huge in Europe and not nearly as well known here in the United States. Then came 2009, the year that the Parisian (one of France's top DJs since at least the late '80s) released his fourth album, One Love, and produced "I ... More >>

Boys Noize Announces Winter Music Conference Party at Mamushka's Miami

​Damn you, leap year! This extra day nonsense is really starting to piss us off. With so much to look forward to in March, the thought of February 29 holding us back is killing us. Especially ever since we found out that Boys Noize is throwing a WMC party at Mamushka's Miami. The Hamburg-born, B ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012's Ten Most Exciting Acts

​Coachella's lineup got announced on Monday. And personally, we were underwhelmed. But it got us thinking how excited we are for Ultra Music Festival 2012. Sure, Deadmau5 may think the number of headliner acts on the bill is horrible. But we have to disagree with you, Zimmerman. We haven't been ... More >>

Butt Cleavage & Sex Costumes: Five Suggestions for Madonna's Super Bowl Halftime Show

​Pop music should have no place in professional sports. But for reasons we'll never understand, the National Football League has a hard-on for Top 40 music. After a string of solid rock acts, the NFL butchered halftime with the Black Eyed Peas last year. And rumor has it, they're ready to do it ... More >>

Mark Knight at Space May 14

Five Crap Pop Hits Worse Than Rebecca Black's "Friday"

Is Rebecca Black really pop music's worst offender?​Six million of you have already endured it. Gawker asked if it was "the worst music video ever." Meanwhile, foreign press like The Sydney Morning Herald wonders why it has overtaken the Japanese earthquake and tsunami devastation on Twitter.Of co ... More >>

Premio Lo Nuestro at American Airlines Arena February 17

Drunkeness! Wardrobe Malfunctions! Jesus! Five Crazy Predictions for Premio Lo Nuestro

Paulina Rubio gonna get crazy at Premio Lo Nuestro.​Premio Lo Nuestro is here once again. Now it's not exactly the Latin Grammys. But PLN is Univision's next biggest night in music. And there'll be beef between reggaetoneros, more fake boobs than can be found in all of Colombia, and a few celebs ... More >>

Five Super Bowl Halftime Moments That Totally Sucked

Steven Tyler and Britney Spears ... That totally sucked.​We know you're gearing up for the big game this Sunday. Maybe you're actually washing your Ben Rapistburger jersey for the first time all season, or polishing your cherished wedge of cheesehead. Whatever you're doing, you're getting pumped ... More >>

Ludacris at SoBe Live on new year's day, January 1

Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" and Four More Dance-Pop Remakes That Will Make You Puke

Can you imagine the maggots in Gaga's beef brassiere?​Dance remakes of pop hits are the bane of civilization. It's bad enough that we have to put up with an endless supply of shitty Top 40 originals, mashups, and remixed remixes by the likes of David Guetta and the Black Eyed Peas. But do we als ... More >>

King Mango & Will.I.Am Wear Blackface in Shameless Attempt to Resurrect Careers

Forbidden, fruit.​Bumped out of the spotlight, local icon King Mango and hip hop superstar Will.I.Am have resorted to shamelessly donning blackface in order to resurrect their flagging careers.Critics say the move has set African-Americans and mangos back "1,000 years." "Will.i.am. wearing blackfa ... More >>

The Case Against Aventura (the Group), Playing Hard Rock Live Next Tuesday and Wednesday

photo by Omar Cruz​Regular Crossfade contributor, Christopher Lopez, has never made any bones about his inherent distrust of bachata boy band Aventura. But now that the group's playing a two-night stand at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood next Tuesday and Wednesday, he felt it was time to explain h ... More >>

Justin Bieber Concert Tickets Could Be Yours, If You Win This Fantourage Video Contest

CC by 2.0, via Kerosene Photography on Wikimedia Commons​Justin Bieber is officially the world's most tireless teenager, with his current My World Tour recently extended through the end of the year. Although he's already scheduled to play South Florida on August 5, at the BankAtlantic Center in Su ... 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 >>

Ultra Music Festival grows again in 2010

The New White Stripes Rock Doc Screens Tonight at Sweat

​Fans of all that is red, white, and black don't have to wait for their White Stripes rock-doc to arrive in the mail. In honor of the limited-edition box set release, Under Great White Northern Lights, Sweat Records is holding an official screening of the film tonight, Tuesday, March 16, at 8 p.m. ... More >>

Top ten worst pop lyrics of 2009

Kwanzaa's Coming. Eat It Up!

U.S. Airforce via wikimediaech. Sgt. Jennifer Myers (above), 66th Air Base Wing noncommissioned officer in charge of the Military Equal Opportunity office, demonstrates a Kwanzaa ritual where she lights a candle in the Kinara. photo by Christopher Myers​ Kwanzaa, celebrated from December 26th - J ... More >>

David Guetta

F*@(&ck Him, He's Famous: David Guetta at Mansion This Saturday

​After eluding the annals of popular dance music for practically ever, France finally got with the program in the late '90s thanks to a quirky little duo by the name of Daft Punk. It didn't take long after that for France to grow its own crop of DJ superstars, the prime example of which is David G ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Mednas, Miami's internationalist house man

Head Spins: DJ Mednas (With MP3s!)

via myspace.com/djmednas​Miamians take a rightful pride in our reputation as the northern-most capital of South America. But if we're ever going to truly be considered a world-class city, it'll be because of cats like DJ Mednas. Mednas, who derives his moniker from a mix-up of his given name, ... More >>

Luke Goes Boom on the Ones and Twos

GLAAD Gets Involved in Perez Hilton-Will.i.am. Slap Fight

Sometimes when you make a post about something, you feel indebted to blog about any major updates in the story. Other times, you find a picture so marvelous you need to find any excuse to use it. So here we are continuing our coverage of Perez Hilton v. Will.i.am: Boom Boom Pow-gate '09. Of course, ... More >>

Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Moving Units is a new column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to see past top sellers.Top Sellers for the week of June 15-19Courtesy of Deathcabforcutie.comDeath Cab's "Open Door EP" made Sweat's top 5 this weekUncle Sam's Music, Sou ... More >>

Countown to Freestyle Invasion II: Q&A with Judy Torres

via myspace.com/judytorresTo read yesterday's interview with Johnny O, click here. Judy Torres is the singer of the freestyle hits "No Reason to Cry" and "Please Stay Tonight." She is currently a radio host on WKTU 103.5 in New York City. And there is no doubt that she is the Queen of freestyle ... More >>

Post-Easter Regression: The Triple-Pork Sandwich. With Peeps.

Peeps' Last Meal My friend Peggy Jean was in town over the Easter holidays. Peggy Jean is a real Southern cook, which means that just about everything she makes calls for many pounds of butter, cartons of heavy whipping cream, half and half, bacon fat, salt, and variations on the theme of sugar (tur ... More >>

Hands up for Fedde Le Grand

Must-See Acts on Ultra's Lineup

Ultra Vivid Wow!

The massive two-day festival remains a homegrown labor of love by two South Florida locals.

Full Ultra Music Festival Lineup Revealed

So in addition to yesterday's news of the unexplainable choice of booking the Black Eyed Peas for next month's Ultra Music Festival, the final phase of the lineup has been announced. Notable additions include Rinton, Rye Rye, Surkin, Para One and Shiny Toy Guns to Day 1, and MSTRKRFT, BT Laptop Symp ... More >>

Q&A with Fedde le Grand

Put your hands up for Fedde le Grand. Everyone knows Fedde le Grand, the Dutch DJ/producer who burst onto the mainstream dance scene with "Put Your Hands Up For Detriot." It was one of those tracks everybody easily loved. It had awesome hook, dirty beats, and an outrageous climatic peak. But with ... More >>

Come Get Funky With Obama

Various Artists

Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur (Warner Bros.)

Sergio Mendes

Timeless (Concord/Hear Music)

Feeder Bands

Assault 'n' Prepper

A reckless cop goes undercover as the Underclassman

Marilyn's First

Latin or American?

La Ley rocked, Julieta charmed, and the Beastie Boys reminded us who really runs the VMAs LA

Pure Hearted

DJ Snowhite is more than just a pretty face

True Rhymes

Night & Day

November 5 - 11, 1998