Go Hard. That’s right … Destructo (AKA Los Angeles DJ, producer, and superpromoter Gary Richards) is comin’ back to the 305 for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week with another absolutely epic edition of Hard Miami. Just like last year, Destructo and crew will be unloading two consecutive days…
Whenever we here at Crossfade manage to slink out from behind our grimey laptops, take a shower, slip on some clean jeans, escape the office, and empty our bank accounts, there’s only one reason … A hard-core, seven-day beach party. These are the six best club parties on South Beach…
The beat-freaking season has officially begun … Today, Robbie Rivera revealed the nine-act Phase One lineup for Juicy Beach, his annual Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week throwdown on the sweaty ‘n’ sexy sands of South Beach. Uhntz-uhntz-ing into Nikki Beach Miami on March 21, Robbie will be will…
“The sun is shining, the breeze is softly blowing, and we’re thinking of you.” Those far-out good vibes come courtesy of your friends at the Virginia Key Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance, who’ve just announced the 2013 lineup for their second annual South Floridian celebration of Cajun, country, blues,…
On April 19, 2002, Alice in Chains lead singer Layne Staley’s body was found in a Seattle apartment by his mom, dad, and city cops. According to the autopsy, he had OD-ed on a combination of heroin and cocaine approximately two weeks earlier. Most grunge fans and rock observers assumed…
Free-spirited? Supersexy? “Hungry for hedonism, music and an extraordinary lifestyle”? Welcome to Generation Wild, a “unique concept tour,” according to the official hype, “ready to explode in a city near you.” The beat-freaking lineup: Awesome “Bong” bro Deniz Koyu, the 17-year-old Spanish EDM phenom Danny Avila, house blog fave dBerrie,…
As usual, the City of Miami commission meeting convened at 9 a.m. today. Amid discussion of telecommunication contracts and waste management, our municipal pols will also decide whether vice chairman Marc Sarnoff was correct when he called Ultra Music Festival fans a “urinating, defecating … throwing up” mob of “kids…
Why does SoBe get such a bad rap, bro? Sure, it’s crawling with rich douchebags in button-down dress shirts. And the parking sucks. And the drinks are ridiculously expensive. But it’s also home to formerly law-breaking Frenchmen, $10 underground minimal techno throwdowns, and the Mustache Revolution. Just check out this…
Why does SoBe get such a bad rap, bro? Sure, it’s crawling with rich douchebags in button-down dress shirts. And the parking sucks. And the drinks are ridiculously expensive. But it’s also home to formerly law-breaking Frenchmen, $10 underground minimal techno throwdowns, and the Mustache Revolution. Just check out this…
The “Red Headed Stranger” and the “Okie From Muskogee” ride again. That’s right … Ol’ Willie Nelson — the pot-smoking, braid-wearing, hippie-loving outlaw country legend — just announced some new 2013 tour dates. He’s bringing his son Lukas, young gun Jamey Johnson, and the rest of the Nelson family down…
Contrary to Marc Sarnoff’s alarmist claims, EDM fans aren’t all “kids on some sort of mind-altering drug” with a fetish for “urinating, defecating, or throwing up” on the streets of Downtown Miami. Just take Irvine Welsh, the 54-year-old Scottish author of Trainspotting and 11 other books. He’s been a strident…
Who wants to party with Porter Robinson, score some awesome swag, and enjoy a one-on-one hang sesh? Well, you don’t have to flee a pack of wolf-like beasts, sprint through some creepy forest, jump off a cliff into unknown waters, swim past a long-lost underwater city, and then free fall…
He’s gotten “head on the unmade bed” in the Chelsea Hotel. He’s smoked a million cigarettes. And he’s written dozens of perversely profound songs about love, sex, religion, and other dangerous habits. But over a period of several years leading into 2004, Leonard Cohen was also robbed of approximately $9…
Despite Ultra Music Festival’s annual $79 million contribution to the local economy, City of Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff believes the “event will be disruptive to the local business community and area residents due to noise, nuisance behavior of festival goers, and grid lock traffic.” After all, as he fear-mongered during…
Ballin’ like a Bawse … That’s how Rick Ross typically spends a Monday in Miami. But tonight, big homie’s gonna be bowlin’ like a Bawse on South Beach, poppin’ bottles and spikin’ footballs in the VIP, all in honor of the BCS national championship game between the Notre Dame Fighting…
“Fuck… my… life.” Those were among the last words of a 22-year-old MC named Freddy E. (born Frederick Eugene Buhl) who published 16 distraught Twitter updates in 107 minutes on Saturday, January 5, before killing himself. Among the speculated motives for Buhl’s suicide: A breakup with Toronto rapper Honey Cocaine…
Is Rick Ross a gangsta? Well, he’ll be playing one on cable television. An omnivorous student of gangland myths, the larger-than-life rapper is finally taking his flair for the dramatic to the small screen, joining the cast of Starz’s Magic City, a late-1950s crime drama set in Rozay’s real-life hometown,…
The BCS national championship game goes down tonight. Over the weekend, though, this four-day football frenzy blitzed South Beach as dance-hoppin’ fanatic Flo Rida, country-poppin’ shit-kicker Dierks Bentley, crowd-hypin’ DJ Irie, and pep-stepping Fighting Irish and ‘Bama devotees swarmed the sands for the Discover Championship Fan Experience. Just check the…
Three reasons Ultra Music Festival 2013’s gonna be epic, beat freaks. 1. The EDM megafest has expanded from three days to two whole uhntz-uhntz-ing weekends. 2. Swedish House Mafia and Deadmau5 are gonna be the primary party starters. 3. The just-announced Phase 1 linuep, including 13 extra DJs, 13 additional…
Wanna party like a BCS champ? On Monday evening, the 2013 Bowl Championship Series comes to Miami when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Alabama Crimson Tide hit the gridiron at Sun Life Stadium to do battle for college football’s 2013 national title. In the meantime, though, we all…
Has the apocalypse been averted? Or are the end days still upon us? The Mayans’ calculations may have been a lil’ off. But Miami hip-hop crew ¡Mayday! remains convinced that the Armageddon is imminent. Specifically, a rotting plague of walking corpses hungry for human flesh. And the ¡Mayday! plan for…
Kat Stacks says: “Freedom baby.” That’s right … The supergroupie and former Tootsie’s Cabaret stripper (who scored 2010/11’s Best 15 Minutes of Fame by claiming to have humped the entire Young Money crew, Soulja Boy, Bow Wow, and basically every other rapper who ever rolled through Dade, Broward, or Palm…
