Break out your vinyl copy of Candy Girl and get your “I Love JIG” tees. ‘Cause Jazz in the Gardens, everyone’s favorite mature-and-sexy Miami music festival, just announced its initial 2013 lineup, starring New Edition (with Bad Bobby Brown!), Earth Wind & Fire, Charlie Wilson, and a few other jazz-y…
It was cold outside in the summer of 1998. And she said, “Baby, it’s 3 a.m., I must be lonely.” Yeah, it’s been 14 fucking years and we still can’t get that fucking song outta our heads. Neither, apparently, can Rob Thomas and Matchbox Twenty. Because the ’90s Orlando-bred alt-rockers…
Despite once being “an essential mid-20th century] stopover on the Southern tour circuit for legends like Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat King Cole,” Miami was never a straight-up jazz town. Our city’s always been more about the crooners, salsa, disco, booty bass, freestyle, street rap, and electronic dance music…
When Swedish House Mafia’s Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello announced their career-ending One Last Tour, saying goodbye to 26 cities across every continent, we here at Crossfade lamented, “Miami’s not included.” But we also doubted “a group who had a huge hit called ‘Miami to Ibiza’ and makes an…
A$AP Rocky and the Mob LongLiveA$AP Tour With Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown, and Ab-Soul Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, November 8, 2012 Better Than: A Ziploc bag packed with “Purple Swag.” Shit was thick, homie. Weed smoke wafting around the lobby of the Fillmore Miami Beach like some kinda slightly skunky…
Too. Much. Awesomeness. Bro … We here at Crossfade are getting exhausted by all this UR1 Festival excitement. But they just won’t stop! And today, the UR1 peeps debuted the fest’s official trailer, revealing the FSOBV1 Bass Arena roster, which includes Flosstradamus, Crizzly, Tittsworth, six other low-end party pros, and…
The feud between Miami’s Raider Klan and NYC’s A$AP Mob continues … As we here at Crossfade have previously pointed out, Raider capo SpaceGhostPurrp and Mob boss A$AP Rocky were once homies. They spent time together, smoking blunts, ripping up studios, and dropping some collabo slabs. But then they started…
Welcome to SoBe. A strange and beautiful seaside oasis where it’s considered perfectly normal to spend one’s entire life wandering barefoot and half-naked through the streets and across the sands in pursuit of fallen coconuts and horny tourists. Other “normal” South Beach behavior: Auditioning for Internet porn on a street…
Welcome to Club H&M. Any business on Miami Beach (bar, restaurant, clothing store, strip club, doggy nail salon, etc.) has gotta have that VIP vibe. Even when you are “Hennes and Mauritz, one of the world’s largest fashion retailers known for offering high fashion at affordable prices.” And that’s why…
If, like us, you’re a helpless party addict … Then you probably spend almost every evening at the bar, club, or casino. So obviously, you’re shot on dinero, dude. And there is no better word in the English language than free. We all love stuff that doesn’t come with conditions,…
Primus 3D Tour at the Fillmore Miami Beach November 10
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The UR1 revelations will not stop. From Kanye West and Lou Reed to Ghostland Observatory, Reboot, Dan Deacon, Animal Collective, Jane’s Addiction, and Lenny Kravitz’s abs … This already awesome Art Basel Miami Beach week fest just keeps getting better. And that isn’t about to change with today’s announcement of…
Searching for the Afterman? Well, take a break … ‘Cause everyone’s favorite prog-rock supergeeks, Coheed and Cambria, have just announced a winter 2013 tour! And while we could all continue puzzling oh-so-intensely over the latest installment — Afterman: Ascension — in C&C’s sprawlingly conceptual multi-volume Armory Wars comic-book-and-concept-album opus …..
Whether unloadin’ uhntz-uhntz at Ultra Music Festival or gettin’ totally Jacked on South Beach, this Dutchman always comes equipped with his own MIA club crew, including “the tall guy with the weird glasses and the big afro.” But like all true party pros, Nick Van De Wall (AKA Afrojack) is…
Democracy kicks serious culo, bro. So yesterday, we here at Crossfade spent approximately four hours sizzling in the South Florida sun while waiting at the ass-end of a 23,000-person queue and enduring the screeching taunts of psychotic eight-year-old Republicans with signs that shouted, “Our Navy Seals Begged for Help and…
As sexy hit machine Lenny Kravitz might say: “Come On Get It.” Now, if the UR1 Festival’s two-day love-in with Kanye West, Lou Reed, Jane’s Addiction, The Offspring, Fun., Slash, Santigold, and 50 other sizzling superstars wasn’t already the steamiest gang scene ever planned for Art Basel Miami Beach week…
Plenty of pervs (including certain particularly twisted members of the Crossfade staff) would probably pay for the pleasure of being punched, kicked, and slapped in public by Latin pop sexpot Paulina Rubio. But not her former male assistant, Mr. Felipe Restrepo Betancur. This guy’s suing Ms. Rubio for allegedly beating…
In the immortal words of hip-pop visionaries Loving My Friends and Others, more commonly known as LMFAO: “We’re in Miami, bitch.” In fact, we here at Crossfade are drink-all-day, play-all-night, party-rocking freaks who spend every Thursday-through-Sunday getting wasted in the megaclubs, wearing Vans, and stumbling in the sand with a…
Six Best South Beach Club Parties, November 1 to 4
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