Wisin & Yandel

Last Night: Wisin Y Yandel at the American Airlines Arena

Over the Weekend - SummerFest, Wisin & Yandel, Irie Golf Tournament and Laidback Luke

The Reggaeton Bible?

Shooting Stars

Wisin & Yandel aim for crossover staying power.

A Good Rap

Reggaetoneros Wisin and Yandel have conquered Miami; now it's on to the rest of the nation

Aluminum Can Omen

The movie about Jimbo’s place is hipper than thou, and Studio A suffers

Nonapparent Servitude

A splashy new eatery north of downtown, then reggaeton on Lincoln Road

Unfinished Business

Reggaeton icon reclaims her attitude

Latin-Urban Ambassador

DJ Frankie Needles takes on the airwaves

Wisin y Yandel

Pa’l Mundo (Universal Machete)

CD Reviews

Pa’l Mundo (Universal Machete)

Raperos Rule

As rap recedes on the U.S. mainland, reggaetón rises on the enchanted island

Wisin y Yandel

As rap recedes on the U.S. mainland, reggaetón rises on the enchanted island

2009 Urban Latin Music Conference in Miami, This Weekend

Tony Dez, performing at ULMC 2009​Do you swoon like a schoolgirl at the mere mention of Wisin y Yandel's names (even though you're not one)? Are you anxiously awaiting Aventura's upcoming Miami show with your Romeo T-shirt already ironed? Can you frequently be seen driving around town with your wi ... More >>

Bilingual pop group Aventura plays the American Airlines Arena Saturday

Tony Dez, performing at ULMC 2009​Do you swoon like a schoolgirl at the mere mention of Wisin y Yandel's names (even though you're not one)? Are you anxiously awaiting Aventura's upcoming Miami show with your Romeo T-shirt already ironed? Can you frequently be seen driving around town with your wi ... More >>

Pop and indie figure high on this list of the year's best Latin albums

Tony Dez, performing at ULMC 2009​Do you swoon like a schoolgirl at the mere mention of Wisin y Yandel's names (even though you're not one)? Are you anxiously awaiting Aventura's upcoming Miami show with your Romeo T-shirt already ironed? Can you frequently be seen driving around town with your wi ... More >>

Premio Juventud, This Thursday at BankUnited Center

​Award season may be well behind us, but then, Univision doesn't really know the meaning of the word "season" does it? After all, between the Latin Grammies, Lo Nuestro, Juventud and possibly a few others we're forgetting, they seem to air one a week. Still, this one--Premio Juventud, for thos ... More >>

Enrique Iglesias honors his Miami upbringing with a new bilingual album

​Award season may be well behind us, but then, Univision doesn't really know the meaning of the word "season" does it? After all, between the Latin Grammies, Lo Nuestro, Juventud and possibly a few others we're forgetting, they seem to air one a week. Still, this one--Premio Juventud, for thos ... More >>

Miami Heat's Carlos Arroyo Releases Reggaeton Single

​NBA players attempting to make a second career out of music aren't exactly anything new. It's been tried before--repeatedly--and often to catastrophic results. Consider San Antonio Spurs' 2009 second round draft pick DeJuan Blair's appearance on the P.O.P. (Chicken and Young Meez) track, "2 Hard ... More >>

Miami Heat's Carlos Arroyo releases a reggaeton single

​NBA players attempting to make a second career out of music aren't exactly anything new. It's been tried before--repeatedly--and often to catastrophic results. Consider San Antonio Spurs' 2009 second round draft pick DeJuan Blair's appearance on the P.O.P. (Chicken and Young Meez) track, "2 Hard ... More >>

Cosculluela Talks the Latin Grammy Street Party and Working With Wisin y Yandel

​Reggaeton has pretty closely mimicked the rise to prominence of hip-hop. It started early in the streets of Puerto Rico, a rougher, edgier version of the club bouncers you hear today and it was known then simply as "underground." But the mixtapes and guerrilla-style bootlegs of early pioneers has ... More >>

Wisin & Yandel Present Their New Album on Sunday in Miami, Live on mun2 and mun2.tv

​Wisin & Yandel, otherwise known as El Duo de la Historia, have certainly lived up to the nickname. Roughly translated, it marks them as the greatest duo in history. They've blazed new trails throughout their career, first in the reggaeton world, and then branching out into the urban and pop ... More >>

Ricky Martin Pops Studio Tr3s' Cherry and Makes Our Ears Bleed

Getty Images​Ricky Martin, Crossfade's favorite author, recently performed in front of about 200 people at a special mini-concert for an upcoming MTV Tr3s series called Studio Tr3s. We were lucky enough to be at the studio for the production, and saw firsthand how a bicultural, bilingual variety s ... More >>

Tony Dize Finds the Money on the Dance Floor at La Covacha This Saturday

​Few reggaeton artists possess the suave flow required to believably move from spraying gasolina to romancing the masses. But Tony Dize doesn't consider himself a mere reggaetonero. He's "the melody of the streets," a ponytailed Don Juan who harmonizes, rap-sings, and straddles the line between ... More >>

Tony Dize at La Covacha April 2

​Few reggaeton artists possess the suave flow required to believably move from spraying gasolina to romancing the masses. But Tony Dize doesn't consider himself a mere reggaetonero. He's "the melody of the streets," a ponytailed Don Juan who harmonizes, rap-sings, and straddles the line between ... More >>

Interview Wisin y Yandel for MTV Tr3s, Eat Subway

Artists' Myspace​Forget paying your dues as a music blogger, or even majoring in a relevant art like creative writing, breaking into the entertainment industry has never been easier. MTV Tr3s and Subway are looking for "unique personalities to join Wisin y Yandel on tour" as "guest correspondent ... More >>

Billboard Latin Music Awards 2011: Winners, Losers, and Relative Unknowns

Pitbull got robbed at the Latin Billboard Awards!​That little chico Pitbull got robbed last night at the BankUnited Center on the campus of the University of Miami. And the entire world watched it happen. Well, maybe not everyone. But the people who saw Telemundo's broadcast of the Billboard ... More >>

Billboard Latin Music Awards 2011: A Quick Recap Full of Stargazing, LOLZ, and Mr. 305

Victor GonzalezInside the Latin Billboards​Broadcast live across the globe to 70 countries, the Billboard Latin Music Awards were billed as música Latina's biggest night. Show hosts promised we'd see more stars at the annual gala than we would in the sky. But then again, Miami isn't known as a st ... More >>

The Hot and Sexy Season Hits the AAA With Luis Miguel, Wisin y Yandel, Maná, and Juanes

Join Juanes for the Hot and Sexy season.​You were probably under the impression that our calendar was divided into only four seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Wrong ... You forgot the Hot and Sexy season. It's that time of the year when the sun reaches peak intensity and people start to ... More >>

Reggaeton Might Be Dead, But Wisin Y Yandel Never Went Away

​For the last few years, there have been people asking: Is reggaeton dead? Or is it just hiding out in the hills of Puerto Rico, waiting for the world's pop music clocks to rewind all the way back to 2006? Sure, this line of questioning might be totally bogus, as it was with rock 'n' roll and punk ... More >>

Wisin y Yandel at American Airlines Arena June 3

​For the last few years, there have been people asking: Is reggaeton dead? Or is it just hiding out in the hills of Puerto Rico, waiting for the world's pop music clocks to rewind all the way back to 2006? Sure, this line of questioning might be totally bogus, as it was with rock 'n' roll and punk ... More >>

Premios Juventud 2011: A Celebrity Tweetcap Starring Ricky Martin, Pitbull, and Tons More!

via univision.comRicky was superpumped for Premios Juventud.​See the full list of winners and losers from Premios Juventud 2011. You already know that Premios Juventud 2011 went down last night in the MIA. It was hard to miss, what with Latin music's best and brightest descending upon our fair ci ... More >>

Premios Juventud 2011 Winners

Pitbull is a winner!​We here at Crossfade spent a sleepless night obsessively stalking all our favorite Latin pop stars via Twitter, Twitpic, Facebook, YouTube and other interwebby means. Why? Yesterday was día de Premios Juventud! And even though we were pretty busy trolling the depths of the ... More >>

Catch Camila's Mexican Soft Rock at the Fillmore Miami Beach October 2!

​OK, on three, blurt out your favorite musical genre. One... Two... Three... Mexican emo soft rock! OMG, we're twins. We'll totally be running into one another at the Fillmore Miami Beach when Camila rolls through town next month. Remember the trio's magical performance at this year's Billboar ... More >>

Camila at the Fillmore Miami Beach October 2

​OK, on three, blurt out your favorite musical genre. One... Two... Three... Mexican emo soft rock! OMG, we're twins. We'll totally be running into one another at the Fillmore Miami Beach when Camila rolls through town next month. Remember the trio's magical performance at this year's Billboar ... More >>

Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, and Prince Royce in Miami, October 22

Photo by Jason Koerner​Enrique Iglesias's Euphoria Tour With Pitbull and Prince Royce American Airlines Arena Saturday, October 22, 2011 Better Than: Penis talk and private snapshots. ​The first thing to note about last night's bachata, hip-hop, and Latin pop love-fest starring Enrique Igleasi ... More >>

Premio Lo Nuestro Predictions, Inspired by Failed Pitbull Interview Attempt

​The never-ending awards show season reaches its apex next week when Univision beams the Premio Lo Nuestro to millions of families all across the Americas. On Thursday, February 16, the Spanish-language network will honor a cross-section of Latin music artists at the American Airlines Arena. Amo ... More >>