Ten Best Apocalypse 2012 Parties in Miami

OMG, you guys. Please shut up with all these awful statuses about “holy crap da Mayans” and “whatchu think gon’ happen tomorrow” and “evolved consciousness ftw” and “damn I better wear my sexy undies cause Ima fuck tonight end of world #swag.” We here at Crossfade gotta get drunk just…

Not Your Bubbe’s Ball

Looking for a nice Jewish girl to bring home to mom for Hanukkah dinner? Well, you do that, but then come out and get freaky with the rest of the party people at this year’s MatzoBall at LIV (4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach) this Monday. Brought to you by the…

Holy Ship!! 2013 Announces Set Times and Full Cruise Schedule

Holy Fucking Ship!! The three-day activities and music schedule for the most massive EDM cruise was just released. And now our pants are a little heavier. There are some returning favorites, like A-Trak’s DJ lessons and Dillon Francis’s mini-golf tournament. There will be wet-dream back-to-back sets, an ’80s prom night,…

EDM’s Ten Best Tracks and Albums of 2012

EDM was bigger and badder than ever this year. Lady Gaga went on tour with electro-wunderkind Zedd. Skrillex won three Grammys. Shit, even the American Music Awards created an EDM category. Of course, this also means a lot of garbage is being produced. But thankfully, there are still loads of…

Six Best EDM Riders: From Deadmau5 to Pauly D and Diplo

If Crossfade were a superstar DJ, we wouldn’t perform a single show without four cases of cherry vanilla cola, two bottles of Black Label whisky, a picture of our mom, a pink umbrella, and a drumming monkey. That’s not even too bad. Just take a look at the ridiculous requests…

Worst Songs of 2012: Lil Wayne to LMFAO

Wow, y’all. Another year has come and gone. But what do we have to show for it? Sure, we had a lot of fun. We discovered a lot of new, hopeful artists and said goodbye to a few favorites. But we also saw the rise of some terrible pop bullshit…

Afro Beat It Up

The dance music scene is overrun with DJs ready to slam the floor and take no prisoners. But sometimes you want to simply relax, groove, and get into the party spirit with some cool beats. That’s where someone like Rich Medinas comes in. For more than a decade, the New…

Cab Service

While the rest of the country wallows in the dregs of winter, Miami lingers in a perpetually sunny summer day. And when every day is a beach day, you can get down to chilled-out island-tinged jams any damn time. That’s the sound Miami local and national upstart Cris Cab brings…

Fashion Freakouts at Basel Castle 2012

Another Art Basel Miami Beach week has come and gone. But while we definitely got our art on and loved every awesome musical act, we couldn’t stop staring at what all those fancy motherfuckers were wearing! What can we say, we here at Crossfade are somewhat shallow. So we headed…

Art Basel Miami Beach 2012: A Six-Party Weekend Guide

Art Basel Miami Beach is officially in full swing. So even though we’ve already hit you with the ten best EDM parties and the fifteen best parties period … The awesome arty parties just won’t stop keep cropping up. And the best thing about these six? Some of them are…