Punks and skinheads, get your boots up! Inspecter 7 have been playing ska out of New Jersey since 1992. Later, they broke up and transformed into Hub City Stompers. But now they’re back. They have a new album called Escapes and Illusions. And they are barreling down I-95 in a…
Jamaica is one of the world’s greatest contributors to DJ culture. The original mobile sound systems found in the trenches of Kingston in the 1960s packed megawatt speaker stacks in the back of moving trucks, parked them at various party locations, and battled other crews doing the same to see…
Flume is an Australian kid signed to Mom + Pop Records who’s been lighting up the sales charts with his chilled-out electronica. This week, he’s in town for Hard Miami, a show at Bardot, and a few days off before a North American tour. Here’s what he has to say…
Every year, Ultra Music Festival slashes through the fabric of space-time and opens up a portal into an alternate dimension. Night is brighter than day. Silence is the loudest noise you hear. And bass is the only currency that matters. Here is some of the weird shit we saw on…
There’s so much bass and lasers pumping through downtown Miami, it might break off the mainland and becom a new, free-floating island. That’s thanks to the millions upon millions of dollars that have gone into insuring that Ultra Music Festival 2013 is the most aggressively technological production in the history…
The Weeknd at Ultra Music Festival 2013
Jesse Perez at WMC and Miami Music Week 2013
“Crackhead Katana is what happens when a bunch of stunt guys make a movie,” says Eric Mainade, who directs the sword-wielding drug addict rampaging through Wynwood in the meta trailer for this action-packed short film.If you didn’t see it at the Borscht Film Festival, you can now watch it on…
Paul Oakenfold at Pangaea/Gryphon March 9
Calle Ocho Festival 2013: A Guide to the Many Stages
Little Havana rises with the cock. Sunlight gleams off her concrete hips. She revels in her hot and sticky wetness. As fresh, juicy papaya scents float on palm tree breezes, she burns a sacred herb and swallows a cafecito with a piece of buttered toast. Today is her birthday, and…
Who down with O.P.P.? Everybody. For over 20 years now, Naughty By Nature has been touring the world off the strength of that crossover hit on its first album. Now fully independent, with new album Anthem Inc in stores, and an upcoming show at LIV, we here at Crossfade caught…
Tiny is 7-foot-8, hails from Loughborough, England, plays for the Harlem Globetrotters, and can slam-dunk a basketball without jumping. His teammate Too Tall Hall is 5-foot-2 and might be better than LeBron. Globetrotter basketball, which combines athletic ability, jokes, and drama, also offers the most socially progressive team in the…
R.I.P. to the school kids killed in Little Haiti and Liberty City over the weekend, and respect to their families.Assault weapon shooting sprees are all too common in Miami. And a weekend full of gunfire saw Liberia, Hollywood’s own Young Scrilla caught in a hail of bullets between scenes of…
Daniel “Krave” “El Fresco” Fila is officially in business in Little Havana after a gallery grand opening last weekend that was a resounding success.Located on an artery that leads through Brickell and into the beach, the spot is primed for tourists and locals alike.And with art that speaks to big…
For those who still shoot dope, rob, thieve, and steal to pay the bills, a new series of social expressionist works have exploded in Wynwood.The artist, known only as MXYTSPLYK, has been gluing his visions to the walls of the city and paying tribute to the local characters who populate…
Lotus at Culture Room February 22
Rusted Root as Part of Virginia Key Grassroots Festival 2013, February 21 to 24
In the 1970s, Miami’s Henry Stone and TK Productions sold hundreds of millions of records around the world. Yes, hundreds of millions of records around the world. TK was a humble eight-track studio in Hialeah operated by a close-knit team of musicians and songwriters. The family worked together on each…
MC Yogi grew up in the rough world full of drugs, gangs, pimps and hoes in the Bay Area. At around 18 years old, he discovered yoga, and later applied his new philosophy on life to making hip hop. Today, he’s independently sold over 100,000 albums. And this weekend, he…
In the shadows of a cocaine skyline, in the bitter freeze of winter, with fewer than a legion of supporters, and a raging douchenozzle hellbent on destruction … The seven samurai of Fishbone gathered by the river, armed for battle, and unleashed a sonic boom of future funk on the…
Michael Glabicki is 2 and a half years old. His bloody head is on the pavement. Tiny body still. Pupils pointed skyward. Eyes empty. The car that nearly crushed him has finally stopped moving, but the pain is a beating drum inside his skull. And the gleaming light that shines…
