Crossfade remembers exactly where we were when we first saw the video for Beyoncé’s mammoth nu-Girl Power single, “Single Ladies.” We were at home, on the internet. Similarly, we were at home and on the internet (this is what we do, you see) when we first saw Beyoncé’s latest video…
It’s embarrassing to admit, but Crossfade isn’t any closer to deducing the identity of the “anonymous owner” threatening to release a sex tape featuring ’90s West Coast gangsta rap martyr Tupac Shakur. Our drive to apprehend the culprit is insatiable. And while constantly refreshing the internet’s most tawdry gossip sites,…
Spooky Miami is a four-part series featuring supernatural, paranormal, and otherwise unexplained phenomena throughout Dade County.The Biltmore Hotel was the hotspot in sunny South Florida in the ’20s and ’30s, hosting celebrities, royalty, and U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt.Despite it’s rise as an early-Miami oasis, two events in the building’s…
The mashup is a decadent, triumphant symbol of the digital age’s too-deep pool of influences. Before the internet, you had to save your pennies and hunt down sounds (and information about them) like a bounty hunter. Before electricity, you straight up had to wait until someone with an instrument came…
The Script at the Fillmore October 7
KEN Mode, the Atlas Moth, and Shroud Eater at Churchill’s Pub October 9
Pop music doesn’t have to be supersmart. It’s for out-of-control bouts of shouting, makeout sessions, and screaming along with when traffic on 826 is moving in slow-mo. But Miami DJ-producer Joseph Espinoza (AKA Jesp) thinks that pop should be both fun and intelligent. In fact, his dabbling in ostensibly serious…
Ever since yesterday’s announcement of a Tupac Shakur sex tape featuring the rapper broing down with Digital Underground bandmates, a blunt, and a blowjob, Crossfade has been going certifiably insane trying to figure out the identity of the anonymous source planning to comercially release this X-rated vid. To say there…
Newsfeeds were a’blazin’ Sunday afternoon with word that long-exiled cult TV favorite, Arrested Development, would be making a grand return. Alongside the show’s cast at a New Yorker-organized “Bluth Family Reunion” panel and Q&A, creator Michael Hurwitz confirmed that a final season would be seeing the light of day, followed…
Even though it’s been 15 years since quintessential West Coast gangsta rapper and Death Row Records artist Tupac Shakur was tragically murdered, ‘Pac still manages to release about an album a year. Of course, these compilations are mostly sloppy, unnecessary greatest hits packages. So … Are you sick and tired…
“We don’t just throw beer pong parties,” says Pong Time Productions’ Doran Joseph. The 21-year-old Miami native describes the binge-drinking-slash-sporting events he hosts with collaborator Igor Argiba (also 21 and from Miami) as “electric.” The five parties they’ve thrown thus far — four at Little Haiti’s Churchill’s Pub and one…
Big Bad Brass Party with The Hot 8 Brass Band The Stage Miami Friday, September 30, 2011 Better Than: Kenny G’s greatest hits. There’s nothing like a hot horn section. And last night at The Stage as part of a three-night residency, Hot 8 Brass Band proved that axiom true…
Just when you thought “How To Love” — Lil Wayne’s big nasty ball o’ cheese ballad and lead single from his dismal Tha Carter IV — couldn’t get any worse …. Tween-pop sensation and women’s jeans fanatic Justin Bieber has recorded his own remix of Weezy’s corniest track ever. The…
The Fillmore Miami Beach is the Magic City’s go-to room for artists with mid-size audiences. So while The Script may not have the same voracious following in South Florida as it does in Europe and South America, the “celtic soul” pop-rock group may feel more at home at the American…
Miami is going to be underwater one day. When the first tidal wave flicks down skyscrapers like shoe flies, people will stand with their mouths drooping vacuously, their wide, empty-eyes staring at the devastation in disbelief, and say to themselves, “Why didn’t we see this coming?”Until The Big One, we’re…
[jump] The project drew from an eclectic array of South Florida rock acts, with proper nods to punk, indie rock and various psychedelic iterations. The classical-style rendition of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” by The Baby B-Strings and KDK-12’s abstract “Endless, Nameless” are the most exciting contributions to the collection because…
Lately, Nicki Minaj has been all about them chicken wangs Back in August, the Young Money diva showed up to a Good Morning America photo shoot decked out like the prom queen in a John Hughes movie, and waving around a mighty fine, golden brown chicken leg. Then this past…
“Metal is alive and kicking down here,” says Jean Saiz, guitarist and co-growler for guttural sludge trio Shroud Eater. Her endorsement of Miami’s assorted, metal-derived, extreme music comes with the clarification that recent activity — like the rise of Shroud Eater’s practice space b/w metal clubhouse venue, Beezelbub’s Cave (Miami’s…
This past summer, Miami has been overtaken by a Sketchy revolution. No, the streets haven’t been overrun by freaks, perverts, and all around weirdos. Not anymore so than usual, anyway. Instead we refer to a nightlife-and-internet uprising that draws (sorry) from a much more traditional notion of sketch — that…
A little casual, late-night browsing of Esquire’s website (no, we don’t only read Perez and TMZ) led to quite the startling discovery: The cologne-drenched men’s magazine has named two of Miami’s favorite dives, Jimbo’s and Churchill’s Pub, to its list of The Best Bars in America 2011. This list’s curious…
Picture a big, hairy motherfucker — long in front, long in back, and long neck hair too — with a denim vest loaded with patches, a jug of whiskey, and a crossbow. He’s rocking out to some righteous tunes while sucking on a righteous doobie. The question: What’s on the…
Grunge gandpappy Chris Cornell has announced his first-ever solo acoustic tour, stopping at the Fillmore Miami Beach on November 6. Cornell is most noted for his work with early Sub Pop signees Soundgarden. But he was also a member of 2000s supergroup Audioslave, alongside Rage Against The Machine members Tom…
