See Crossfade’s top ten 4/20 parties in Miami. In the days before ganja, Planet Earth was a boring expanse of mountains, flatlands, and water. But on the fourth day, there was weed, and it was good, and after 20 hits off the burning bush, man was hungry, and he filled…
Skrillex is on a speedboat flying through the Biscayne Bay. He’s on his way to commit mass murder at Ultra Music Festival where he will kill beats and cause a massive dubstep bloodbath. For now, he’s just another cracker tourist on the water in Miami. But soon, his massive legion…
Oye, burnout! Did you know that 4/20 isn’t just a day for getting stoned? It’s also that time of year when millions of human beings all around the world light a plant on fire at the same time, fewer people get killed, and more food is cooked. Yes, the world…
Sex. Doin’ it. Gettin’ it on. The horizontal lambada. The naked bacon dance. Making love. Banging. Boning. Smashing. The baloney pony. Whatever you wanna call it, at least 80% of the world’s population is doing it, or thinking about doing it, right now.Dr. Sonjia is too. The UM professor, AIDS…
The French spliff, or marijuana cigarette, is sprinkled with tobacco, topped with hash, and rolled into a weedy cone. It is smoked while drinking wine or coffee, looking cool, and thinking French artistic thoughts. It is usually followed by a warm croissant; sex with a moody, dark-eyed beauty; and a…
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On Magrudergrind’s Crusher EP, there’s a track called “Heaviest Bombing” about writing graffiti. It fades from grindcore brutality into a hip-hop breakdown, ends in a squall of screeching feedback, and then jumps back into violent chord changes for the next song. That shit’s pretty cool. And the Washington D.C. band…
The cool sea breeze whipped through the North Beach Bandshell on Saturday night as Afro-Latin rhythms bounced off the circular wall of the oceanside, outdoor venue. Colombia’s Quantic Sound System and NYC’s Pedrito Martinez Group rang in the Heineken Transatlantic Festival’s 10th anniversary with complex yet infectiously danceable beats…
Twerk Team Miami loves a big juicy ass shaking to some music. But these ass aficionados wanted to go bigger. So they’ve taken the concept of the booty-shaking video, and added elements like storyline and a cinéma vérité shooting style that uses filmic outdoor locations in Miami’s urban core. Their…
Haitian dance band Tabou Combo has come a long way since starting out as Los Incognitos in Petionville, Haiti, in 1968. After moving to New York City in the ’70s, Yvon “Kapi” Andre and the rest of the group has ignited disco floors from Gabon to Miami with its dancetastic…
Cuban hip-hop flows will never stop flooding Miami’s shores. Take Mr. Haka, who came to the United States around the turn of the millenium, bringing the sounds of Camagüey with him. In 2004, he released an album titled El Legendario. He achieved some regional and national success with it. And…
Professional hip hop lyricist Parable MC only spent three months out of the last year in Miami. The rest of the time he was working events across America as an MC for hire. He was on a side stage at the Superbowl, and working at a Lil Wayne concert too.But…
Governments create human killing-machines by robbing them of sleep. Yogis deprive themselves of it for spiritual enlightenment. Electronic collective NoSleep305’s Dni replaces it with music, and runs wild eyed beat-freak party marathons on pure, maniac adrenaline. The information security dude spends all day outsmarting data-thieving Chinese hackers, and all night…
Eyehategod’s first song at Churchill’s opened a portal to hell. The whole club was transported to a world of fire and brimstone, demons and evil. And you thought the bathrooms were bad before. For an hour-and-a-half, the New Orleans sludge combo kept Miami so far underground, we actually saw the…
What happens when you introduce a Cuban basketball star to weed, percussion, and the Marley family?You get Johnny Dread, a rasta music ambassador since 1987 when he started playing drums in the band Copacetic with lead singer Julian Marley. Their album “Ghetto Rock” hit number-seven spot on Billboard’s reggae charts…
The members of New Orleans sludge metal band Eyehategod don’t worship Satan. They don’t kill virgins, hang them upside down over a tub, and wash themselves in blood. They don’t dance inside circles of fire during full moons at midnight. They don’t castrate babies, put hamsters in blenders, or microwave…
Eyehategod at Churchill’s Pub in Miami March 31
The Philadelphia 76ers haven’t been to the NBA Finals since 2001, and they haven’t won a championship since 1983. They’re all washed up, but their city still stinks. They’re has-beens, and it’s been so long that nobody remembers why they “had been” in the first place. They’re one of the…
There’s a boatload of reasons to visit the Global Cuba Fest at the North Beach Bandshell, and none of them involves that old guy with the beard who likes to smoke. For one, the kids are gonna love the musical comedy Once Upon a Time in the Caribbean, which features…
Something like 90 percent of all Internet traffic is generated by searches for porn, so it’s no surprise that New Zealand indie band the Naked and Famous gets so much web traffic from organic search hits. Sure, they’ve displayed uncanny pop ability since starting out at art school in Auckland…
