Hole may be the main attraction at the Fillmore Miami Beach on Friday night, but even Courtney Love’s potential antics may be upstaged by openers Foxy Shazam. A gonzo outfit hailing from the somewhat unlikely locale of Cleveland, the six-piece aims to be “the Michael Jordan of rock and roll,”…
The lawsuit claims drug dealer Rick Ross is being unfairly deprived of profiting off his image, thanks to the popularity of rapper Rick Ross.
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 Sunrise, the new run of dates includes one in Miami proper…
At this point, the video clips from infamous hip-hop escort Kat Stacks are just getting straight-up depressing. (Click here, here, and here to catch up on the latest major chapters of her saga, which include a poisoning attempt at a Burger King, and an attempted public beat-down by two men…
A week ago today, Tr3s — formerly known as MTV Tr3s — celebrated its upcoming relaunch by reviving that great MTV franchise, the Unplugged series. While its parent channel long ago gave up on such strictly, uh, music-oriented programming, its foreign spin-offs, notably MTV Latin America, have taken up Unplugged…
We reported earlier this morning on the passing of industry legend Bill Aucoin, best known as the mastermind for Kiss’ massive success in the ’70s. What the national obituaries fail to mention, though, is that in recent years, Aucoin had re-started an artist management business based in South Florida. Among his…
We were impressed by Grand Central’s quiet bookings of some great Latin alternative acts in upcoming months. We say quiet, because while the Poplife-branded events there get a lot of shine (from this blog included), whoever else is behind the scenes has been scheduling some very interesting performers en español. Recent…
Swazy Styles is one of the more polarizing figures coming out of the local rap scene right now. People either love or really hate his song “Birthday Suit,” a shameless party-rocker which hinges on a sample from the Tetris theme song, of all things. This is a song aimed squarely at females…
Crossfade looooves the Florida Room and its hidden, Art Deco, ’30s-gangster vibe. Sure, the cocktails are expensive but 1) they’re delicious (especially if someone else is buying), and 2) you can always perfect the cheapskate’s art of pre-gaming and then treating yourself to one or two, to be sipped slo-o-o-o-wly. The…
Ever since Gustavo Cerati suffered a stroke this past May 15 after a performance in Caracas, Venezuela, his family has been extremely protective of news regarding his health. Even after he was transferred to a hospital in Buenos Aires on June 7, the only real fact they’ve confirmed is that…
Bill Aucoin, a music industry legend most famous for discovering Kiss, passed away yesterday at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center. A family spokesperson told the Associated Press it was due to complications from prostate cancer. He was 66 years old.While Aucoin didn’t give Kiss the idea for the makeup and…
In the Nicki Minaj vs. Lil Kim war, the Queen Bee hasn’t exactly been acting regal. As the younger femcee’s star has risen, Kim seems to be taking more and more potshots at Nicki. First, there was that incident in early June where she appeared onstage with a Nicki-style candy-colored wig,…
Raheem DeVaughn did not, in fact, win the award for Best Male R&B artist at the BET Awards last night. Also up for the nod was fellow soulful singer Maxwell — but in our heart of hearts, as much as we hoped, we knew neither would win. Each category always…
We were surprised, but excited to see a show announcement pop up in our inbox for a newish venue called the New Vintage Music Hall. For the downtown hipsters, this is not (that’s okay, there are a million shows coming up at Grand Central to keep them occupied.) This place is,…
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 ourselves to the…
Yes, feel old — it’s already been a whole year since Michael Jackson passed on to the great big Thriller cemetery in the sky. We’re a bit disappointed to see, however, that there aren’t too many official local events tonight at which you can celebrate MJ’s life in the way…
New Times loves the Borscht Film Festival and all the slightly off-kilter players behind it. That’s why this year, the paper awarded Borscht Best Film Festival in our Best of Miami Issue. We also gave co-founder Lucas Leyva another nod for Best Local Music Video, for his surprising, Wynwood-centric clip…
Somehow, this gaffe by a one-time freestyle star went unnoticed for over a year until L.A.-based gossip site RadarOnline blew up her spot yesterday. Apparently Gioia Bruno, a singer in popular Miami synth-pop group Expose from 1986 to 1990, was arrested in Broward County in April 2009 for trafficking meth in…
A quick head’s up, to clear any confusion: turntablist wizard Cut Chemist will not perform at Shake at the Vagabond tonight, as New Times indicated this week in print. The show has been postponed at the last minute, but a new, rescheduled date of August 5 is firm, promoters say.Shake is…
Former drug dealer, Los Angeles-based Ricky “Freeway” Ross, has been threatening Miami rapper Rick Ross with a lawsuit for a while. But this past Friday his attorney, Melvin Sharpe Jr., finally filed the paperwork in the Los Angeles federal district court. Crossfade got its grubby paws on the full complaint, and…
The crowd at the recurring TechnoSluts parties is pretty much unlike any other. Think a colorful Venn diagram meeting of that rarefied overlap between candy ravers, cyber goths, bass-heads, and fetish enthusiasts, and you’ll get the vinyl- and hair-fall-filled picture. For the past four years, this loose artistic collective has…
Thirty-year-old English singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum is the latest and greatest in a minirevival of the old blue-eyed crooner tradition. Think, perhaps, a hipper Michael Bublé, with an appreciation for hip-hop and an ability to marry supermodel Sophie Dahl. While Cullum’s originals are thoughtful, smooth, and flexible in genre, he truly…
