Usher (Entertainer)

Usher Marries Pregnant Girlfriend

The Party Crasher - Trick Daddy Rocks Santo

Usher Grows Up on His Latest Album

Wade Deep

Best of 2004

Networking

Chris Brown

Usher

Here I Stand (LaFace/Sony BMG)

Lesbian Nation

Girls, grrrls, and more gyrls

Slick of It All

Ne-Yo wants to bring back real R&B unfiltered by hip-hop

Various Artists and

Bow Wow

Jermaine Dupri Presents . . . Young, Fly & Flashy, Vol. 1 So So Def/Virgin

Wanted Sony Urban Music/Columbia

BEST PARTY OF THE YEAR

MTV Video Music Awards

Here Comes the Drums

Songstress Amerie and producer Rich Harrison are reinventing the art of R&B

Iron & Wine

Woman King Sub Pop

Number One with a Fragment

Hip-hop dominates the charts but the resurgence in modern music is propelled by its subgenres

On the Down-Low

Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming and dig this year's buried black-music treasures.

Trend-Spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote.

Usher, Kanye West

In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote.

Lean Back

Many searched for the summer banger, but only Fat Joe's Terror Squad claimed the prize

Let It Burn

At this year's MTV VMAs, Usher is a major constellation in a universe far removed from ours

Gothic Haze

Night crawling in the underland

New Conrad Miami Executive Chef Jonathan McCann Holds "Taste Above All Else" for Re-Launch of Atrio Restaurant & Wine Bar

Conrad MiamiNew logo, new menu and concept​Conrad Miami is no longer chefless. Executive Chef Jonathan McCann fills the four month void at its signature restaurant Atrio, since Michael Gilligan exited in the spring to join the W Hotel South Beach. McCann now oversees the Brickell luxury hotel's in ... More >>

New Blair Waldorf -- uh, Leighton Meester -- Single is By Miami-Based Producer/Songwriter Rico Love

The Miami-based, 26-year-old Rico Love is quietly becoming one of the industry's most sought-after R&B and pop arrangers and songwriters. Starting out in his early 20s as a rapper in Atlanta, he got his real boost when, as a performer, Usher signed him to his J Records imprint. And while working ... More >>

Loco Dice and Anja Schneider Play Space on Saturday

The Techno Loft at Space has consistently delivered the goods since launching earlier this year, showcasing some of the top techno talent from around the globe with a special emphasis on the Berlin sound. Saturday, December 19 continues the trend with a stellar double booking featuring Berlin techno ... More >>

Loco Dice and Anja Schneider

The Techno Loft at Space has consistently delivered the goods since launching earlier this year, showcasing some of the top techno talent from around the globe with a special emphasis on the Berlin sound. Saturday, December 19 continues the trend with a stellar double booking featuring Berlin techno ... More >>

BankAtlantic Center Gets Justin Bieber Fever August 5

It's safe to say that the crowd that attended Taylor Swift's sold-out BankAtlantic Center show earlier this month will be identical to the Justin Bieber faithfuls coming out August 5. Don't know about Usher's shaggy-haired, Canadian protege already? Ask your 15-year-old sister/daughter/cousin and we ... More >>

Around the Voice: Dum Dum Girls' Past Gets Unwrapped

I Will Be reluctant to answer questions about my past​Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications' music sections. Just for kicks. Here's last week's entry.Owl City has a song called "Hello Seattle" and Seattle Weekly likes that fact.The story b ... More >>

Bill Clinton Expected to Draw a Constellation of Young Stars to UM this Weekend

Courtesy of Clinton Global Initiative UniversityBill Clinton at the first Global Initiative University at Tulane in 2008.​University of Miami will be hosting former President Bill Clinton's third-annual Global Initiative University meeting this weekend, and while Clinton will be attracting the ove ... More >>

Nightlife Review: Club Play Memorial Day Weekend 2010 Party with Amber Rose, Mario, Cassie, and More, May 28

​Headliner Market Group's Memorial Day Weekend 2010 PartyHosted by Amber Rose, Allen Iverson, Mario, and CassieWith Music by DJ Clue and Stevie J.  Club Play, Miami BeachFriday, May 28, 2010Better Than: Staying at home based on stereotypes about Memorial Day Weekend in South Beach. First ... More >>

Lose the Pen, Grab the Mike

​Headliner Market Group's Memorial Day Weekend 2010 PartyHosted by Amber Rose, Allen Iverson, Mario, and CassieWith Music by DJ Clue and Stevie J.  Club Play, Miami BeachFriday, May 28, 2010Better Than: Staying at home based on stereotypes about Memorial Day Weekend in South Beach. First ... More >>

Top 10 Moments of the BET Awards 2010: Chris Brown, Drake, Rick Ross, and More (With Video!)

We love music awards season this year, largely thanks to Twitter -- the real-time discussion and dissection of the county's pop-stars makes for an entertaining way to spend a few hours "working." (Plus, some of you all on our Twitter feed, at @Crossfade_SFL, are hilarious).Anyways, we glued ourselve ... More >>

Q&A: 99 Jamz's DJ Entice Has Clearly Already Won

Via Myspace / NLPGimages.com​Known for taking up your airwaves everyday at 5:00 PM for WEDR's Drive At 5 mix, DJ Entice has been a South Florida mainstay for many years now. He caused a little bit of chaos a couple weeks ago when he exclusively premiered the unofficial, yet street-official Miami ... More >>

Three New Pitbull-Featuring MP3s: "Gimme a Bottle" and Two More

photo via Fox Fuse​Before Lil Wayne went away, as they say, he was the omnipresent rapper. Lil Wayne was on everything, to the point that when our sister paper the OC Weekly ran this (what seemed obviously) satirical story saying he would collaborate on a High School Musical soundtrack, peopl ... More >>

Mixtape Of The Week: DJ EFX - Studio Session

​DJ EFX has been heavy on the South Florida mixtape scene and definitely left a mark on creating highly demanded instrumental mixtapes - as well as "Best Of" mixtapes. And more recently over the past couple years, EFX has been driven in the "Music Video DVDs" market that not a lot of people dive ... More >>

Miami's Mogul-in-the-Making Rico Love Announces New Record Label

​You may not know Rico Love by name -- yet. But if you've so much as flipped on a radio playing any kind of hip-hop, R&B, or pop in the last year, you know his music. The 27 - year - old songwriter / composer / arranger / producer is the mastermind behind a host of inescapable recent Top 40 st ... More >>

Rico Love and Usher at the Division 1 label launch November 5

​You may not know Rico Love by name -- yet. But if you've so much as flipped on a radio playing any kind of hip-hop, R&B, or pop in the last year, you know his music. The 27 - year - old songwriter / composer / arranger / producer is the mastermind behind a host of inescapable recent Top 40 st ... More >>

Photos: Usher, Fat Joe, and More at Rico Love's Division 1 Label Launch Last Night

photo by Anthony Mendolia​Despite forecasts of economic and music industry gloom and doom, for the talented and lucky the good times still roll. So it went that last night's launch for songwriter/producer Rico Love's new label, Division 1, was a relaxed but still definitely upscale affair. ... More >>

Usher, Jim Jonsin, Busta Rhymes, and the Runners at Red the Steakhouse

Usher Has Got a Message For Lil Wayne.​Usher. Just about every woman in the world wants to be his wife. And there Prunk TV was, standing next to him, as we both leaned against a wall on the rooftop of Red Steakhouse in Miami Beach. The party had just begun. Lord Usher was wearing dark expensive ... More >>

Boy meets man: Justin Bieber plays the American Airlines Arena December 18

Usher Has Got a Message For Lil Wayne.​Usher. Just about every woman in the world wants to be his wife. And there Prunk TV was, standing next to him, as we both leaned against a wall on the rooftop of Red Steakhouse in Miami Beach. The party had just begun. Lord Usher was wearing dark expensive ... More >>

Songz into the New Year

Usher Has Got a Message For Lil Wayne.​Usher. Just about every woman in the world wants to be his wife. And there Prunk TV was, standing next to him, as we both leaned against a wall on the rooftop of Red Steakhouse in Miami Beach. The party had just begun. Lord Usher was wearing dark expensive ... More >>

OMG! Usher Does New Year's Eve With 19,600 of His Closest Homies

Photo by Anthony MandlerUsher Raymond IV flashing his sad-but-sexy face.​Unlike so many other pop lotharios, Mr. Usher Raymond IV didn't opt for some superexclusive NYE party attended only by celebs and their imaginary friends. Instead, the R&B star with the rippling abs decided to take his O ... More >>

Best parties for New Year's Eve 2011

Photo by Anthony MandlerUsher Raymond IV flashing his sad-but-sexy face.​Unlike so many other pop lotharios, Mr. Usher Raymond IV didn't opt for some superexclusive NYE party attended only by celebs and their imaginary friends. Instead, the R&B star with the rippling abs decided to take his O ... More >>

Usher Ends Another Sexy Year at the American Airlines Arena

Photo by Sayre Berman​See the full 25-photo slideshow of Usher at the American Airlines Arena. For the 19,600 lovely females (and their reluctant boyfriends, husbands, brothers, fathers, etc.) who turned Usher's New Year's Eve concert at the American Airlines Arena into a swooning, screaming, swea ... More >>

Keyshia Dior Dishes About Penis Size, Working With Lil Wayne, and Coconut Cîroc

Keyshia Dior!​Keyshia Dior has been in music videos with Weezy, Jeezy, Gucci, Plies, Timbaland, and now ... Prunk! "You can't have a small penis and expect to please your girl," she said. I wiped the sweat from my brow as she continued, "It doesn't have to be big like a donkey. But it needs to be ... More >>

Usher with Akon at BankAtlantic Center April 27

Keyshia Dior!​Keyshia Dior has been in music videos with Weezy, Jeezy, Gucci, Plies, Timbaland, and now ... Prunk! "You can't have a small penis and expect to please your girl," she said. I wiped the sweat from my brow as she continued, "It doesn't have to be big like a donkey. But it needs to be ... More >>

Rico Love Sweeps 2011 SESAC Awards and Wins Songwriter of the Year

Courtesy of Made Communications​As Crossfade has chronicled the career of twentysomething, Miami-based songwriter Rico Love, his star has continued to rise. Last year saw major Billboard Hot 100 success for three songs he penned for Usher's "There Goes My Baby," Nelly's "Just a Dream," and Diddy D ... More >>

Chris Brown, Rihanna, Drake, and Four Other Totally Awkward Award Show Moments

​The BET Awards were held this past Sunday and some really confusing, awkward shit went down in the middle of granting the Viewer's Choice Award. Some fans were invited onstage to announce this year's winner, which at first was Chris Brown. But only a few seconds after Brown received the award f ... More >>

First Bites at Kane Steakhouse: Meat, Sweets & Seaweed

Photo by Riki Altman Duck, duck, duck, steak?Whoo boy. Another steakhouse. Yippee. That's what we thought when we received the invitation from the new Kane Steakhouse's public relations company to come in and chow down. Now we're never ones to turn down a free meal but, really, a new steakhou ... More >>

Black Eyed Peas at Sun Life Stadium November 23

Photo by Riki Altman Duck, duck, duck, steak?Whoo boy. Another steakhouse. Yippee. That's what we thought when we received the invitation from the new Kane Steakhouse's public relations company to come in and chow down. Now we're never ones to turn down a free meal but, really, a new steakhou ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach Parties You Are Not Invited To

FacebookIt's all about the Benjamins, baby. ​Whether you're an affluent jet setter or an artistic street kid, Art Basel Miami Beach and the plethora of satellite fairs, gallery exhibits, and public instillations attached to the four-day festival offer a little something for everyone. For Crossfade ... More >>