See also “R. Kelly Cancels Love Letter Cruise.” Desperate to slow jam at sea with R. Kelly? Sadly, your wettest dreams won’t be coming true. Because Kells’ ocean-bound R&B adventure, The Love Letter Cruise, was recently canceled. But if you’re down to dry hump on dry land, go meet Mr…
See also “Eats Everything Talks UK Hardcore, Bass Music, and New EP on Dirtybird.” Less than 24 hours ago, English electronic dance music junkie Eats Everything (AKA Dan Pearce) chatted with Crossfade about having an incurable case of the munchies, releasing a new slab of superfunky beats on Dirtybird, and…
See also “Steve Aoki Talks Snorkeling in the Keys” — “Steve Aoki Throws a Birthday Cake on the Crowd at Ultra Music Festival 2012.” Eager beat freaks … Have you been fantasizing about a free faceful of cake, champagne, and cartoon titties, courtesy of professional party boy and Dim Mak…
While the rest of the nation is freaking out about the potential effect of a category-two hurricane on the Republican National Convention in Tampa, we here at Crossfade are focused on only one thing … Will any of this week’s awesome parties and concerts get rained out by that evil…
See also Crossfade’s feature story: “Steven A. Clark Is a ‘Superhero’ and He’s Here to Help Save R&B.” What is Future RnB? Well, as Fayetteville-via-Miami singer-songwriter Steven A. Clark once told Crossfade over a croissant sandwich: “It ain’t just, ‘I want to make love to you and make you my…
See also “Dan Hosker, Famed South Florida Punk and Holy Terrors Guitarist, Dead at 46.” In 2008, Miami New Times contributor José Dávila wrote a feature story entitled “The Holy Terrors Rise Again,” chronicling the return of a “raging art-punk quartet” that he called “the defining soundtrack for those living…
Usually, Surfer Blood is all about beach-y, positive vibes. On March 31, though, the band’s singer-guitarist John Paul Pitts was booked by the Palm Beach County Sherrif’s Office on a domestic battery charge after a confrontation with his then-girlfriend. As reported this afternoon by Pitchfork, the indie rocker was originally…
See the full 31-photo slideshow of Meek Mill at Fillmore Miami Beach — plus “Meek Mill on Dreams & Nightmares Debut: ‘The Dream Is Gettin’ Paid for What I Love, The Nightmare Was Makin’ It to This Point.'” Meek Mill’s Dreamchasers Tour With Casey Veggies, DJ Drama, and cameos from…
See Crossfade’s concert review, “Avicii Totally ‘Le7els’ Miami at American Airlines Arena, June 8.” Even though Avicii’s spent the entire summer luring underage uhntz-uhntz addicts to arena raves all across America, he isn’t gonna take a beat-freaking break. Nope … This Swedish DJ, producer, and Ralph Lauren poster boy is…
Oh, Flo Rida loves you. He’s tossing ’round extravagant compliments like, “Your body is so versatile!” And he’s shouting out eroticized orders like, “Back it up! Move this low! Push it on me!” And he’s even stroking your self-esteem with observations like, “You know… Your ass is amazing!” Huh? What?…
See also “Dan Hosker: Memorial Services for Local Punk Hero Scheduled for This Friday in Hollywood.” R.I.P., Dan Hosker. Back in May, Hosker — a famed South Florida punk who’d done guitar duty in legendary local crews like Harry Pussy, The Holy Terrors, and Laundry Room Squelchers — was involved…
See also “R. Kelly Announces Love Letter Cruise, Sailing From Miami on October 1, 2012.” The R. Kelly Love Letter Cruise is cancelled. Almost exactly eight months ago, we here at Crossfade encouraged “you and your boo [to] visit some of the most exotic ports of call in the Caribbean…
It’s been about 100 years since that quintessentially American art form known as jazz music was invented by a mostly nameless gang of raw and adventurous trumpeters, trombone blowers, clarinetists, tuba men, guitar guys, bassists, piano players, and drummers in New Orleans. In the 1910s, though, our Magic City (less…
Meek Mill’s Dreamchasers Tour at the Fillmore Miami Beach August 13
“XTC” … The only way to start your beat-freaking day. Of course, we here at Crossfade aren’t advocating early-morning methylenedioxy-methylamphetamine. Just the new entactogenically exhilirating single by professional Berlin-based party starter and label boss Boys Noize, AKA Alexander Ridha. It’s kinda like porn music for Kraftwerkian supercomputers. Also, if you’re…
Ever been “Mind Fuct”? Well, we here at Crossfade lost our cranial virginity circa 2010. It was the end of the Aughts. A ravetastic techno-apocalypse seemed imminent. And the GHB was flowing like pre-coital Gatorade. We were young, innocent, and eager to party. Then suddenly, our temporal lobe was being…
Dude … Why are there so many people here? Every time we go to Churchill’s Pub (or The Electric Pickle or Grand Central or Treehouse or Mansion), it’s such a mission even getting an alcoholic beverage. (Not to mention scamming our way into the back of the band’s van.) Just…
See also “Meek Mill’s Announces Dreamchasers Tour, Show at Fillmore Miami Beach on August 13.” “Whenever somebody got a dream,” Meek Mill muses, “they want it to be reality.” Coming up in North Philly during the late ’90s, Mill was still a wiry 12-year-old kid named Robert Williams, hanging out…
See also “The Five Ravers You’ll Meet at Identity Fest 2012 in Miami” — plus Crossfade’s interview with Eric Prydz and “ID 2012’s Five Most Exciting Artists.” Life is a beat-freaking party, bro. So even if you’re a half-man, half-unicorn EDM fan who gets stuck all alone at home with…
See also “The 15 Richest Musicians: From Jay-Z to Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Dre” and “Eight Richest Musicians in Their Teens and 20s.” Dear haters … Even though beefcake-y blonde Dutch disc jockey Tiësto is kind of a corporate whore, he’s also a pranksterish dude who enjoys talking shit,…
Weezy is bored. Ever since Lil Wayne got outta the clink after serving eight months on Rikers Island for “attempted criminal possession of a weapon,” he’s been dropping clues about retiring to a life of chillin’ with his kids, writing memoirs, watching 18 hours of ESPN per day, managing his…
See also “Who Wants Tickets for Identity Festival in Miami?” — plus Crossfade’s interview with Eric Prydz and “ID 2012’s Five Most Exciting Artists.” Got your arctic fox spirit hoodie? Sleeveless “Beef Cake” t-shirt? Frosty fake Wayfarer shades? Skyn extra-lubricated condoms? Free Identity Festival 2012 tix? Check, check, check, check,…
