It’s that time of year again. And no, we’re not exactly talking about Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week. We here at Crossfade are actually referring to the receipt of Louis Puig’s incredibly detailed semi-annual “tell-it-like-it-is letter regarding EDM.” His latest screed touches upon many subjects,…

From jamming with funk forefathers to helping break New Jack Swing and cofounding legendary ’90s R&B label LaFace Records with partner Antonio “L.A.” Reid, the man known as Babyface has spent three decades creating and shaping pop music. Now 53, Kenneth Edmonds is working on a new album by Aretha…

If, like Crossfade, you’ve ever tried to tweetcast a trip to the Port-a-Potty while waiting all weekend in line to take a pee at Ultra Music Festival … Or attempted YouTube-ing a video of some guy making out with a pile of trash behind the dubstep tent … Or even…

Who will survive Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week 2013? With UMF becoming a two-weekend behemoth and WMC/MMW turning into a ten-day smackdown, the month of March in the MIA has officially become an insane EDM endurance test. And here is the most important rule: Do…

Smoking ganja isn’t just a recreational activity. It’s a righteously stoned ritual. “The more you accept herb is the more you accept Rastafari,” the patron saint of tokers, Bob Marley, explained in a TV interview a few years before his death from cancer in Miami at the tragically young age…

Hold on. Has it really been 23 years since Wilson Phillips knocked Madonna’s “Vogue” off the top of the charts? Yeah. And it’s even been more than two decades since Carnie Wilson, her sister Wendy, and their friend Chynna Phillips called it quits just a couple of years after becoming…

Come for the pretentious, arty stuff. Stay for the booze, Afro-Cuban funk, experimental freakouts, sports jams, drag queens, break dancing, and, uh, more booze. Once a year, New Times throws a big, ostensibly highbrow bash called Artopia. And officially, it’s “an eclectic touch of art, culture, fashion, food, music, and…

And the uhntz-uhntz continues … Last month, the Opium Group dropped its Phase One lineup for Miami Music Week 2013, revealing eight shows at four clubs: Mansion, Cameo, SET, and Mokai. Now almost exactly four weeks later, the clubbin’ conglomerate has unveiled its Phase Two slate, including MMW throwdowns with…

Will JT and Jay-Z be hitting up the MIA? Last week, after Timberlake admitted “[Jay and I] are definitely going to go on tour” while walking the Grammys’ red carpet, we here at Crossfade insisted: “These two dapper dudes gotta make a stop in Miami, right?” And it seems as…

Strippers are stars. Just ask 305 rapper and Rick Ross collaborator Ice Billion Berg. Like any straight-up gentleman with a lifetime platinum membership at the gentleman’s club, he’s got mad respect for the inner strength, physical prowess, and work ethic of the average exotic dancer. “It’s a way a lot…

Who in the 305 “want[s] to get up close and personal with your favorite #RizinStar artist?” Well, sorry. It ain’t gonna happen ’cause the Rizinstar Tour with Travis Porter, Kirko Bangz, Ca$h Out, and others has nixed its show at the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami. The venue…