Over the past 17 years, Romeo Santos and bachata boy band Aventura have won the overflowing adoration of prepubescent girls, their mothers, and 35-year-old guys in white pants who love to dance. In the process, Santos and sidekicks scored a surplus of American Music Awards, Premio Lo Nuestro statues, and…
Wanna lead a blessed existence full of irie vibes? Simply abide these nine Rasta-approved rules of conduct and you shall bask in the radiant glory of the Zion Lion: (1) Grow that ganja; (2) Get dreaded; (3) Praise Jah; (4) Start an Ital diet; (5) Smoke that ganja; (6) Listen…
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll uhntz-uhntz uncontrollably. That’s right … We’re talking about Ultra Music Festival’s 45-minute concert documentary, Can U Feel It: The UMF Experience. With a cast of 200 uber-mega-superstar DJs, lazer-wielding robots, tattooed mice men, half-naked electro groupies, and 150,000 soother-sucking beat freaks, it’s guaranteed to induce…
The United States of America is totally addicted to the white stuff. Strung out, fat, unfocused, cranky, fiending — we are a nation of shrubby slaves to the cane, cube, and spoonful whose bodies (and minds) could never be called beach-ready. But there’s a cure for our sucrose-, lactose-, and…
UPDATE Originally scheduled for February 29, Guns ‘N Roses has changed the date of its Miami concert to March 5. Break out your sweatiest bandana and stankiest pair of ripped jeans … It’s time to get “intimate” with Guns N’ Roses again. Just three and half months ago, the Axl…
Can you handle The Whole Love? ‘Cause Wilco’s ready to give it to you. Earlier today via wilcoworld.net, the Chicago alt-country crew announced its intention to lay the “Art of Almost” and “Standing O” on six cities across the Southeast U.S., including stops in states like Arkansas, Alabama, Mississipi, Florida,…
Read Crossfade’s full feature on this Friday’s Reggae Jam with Third World and Inner Circle. Indeed, those righteous riddims are the cure. As legendary Jamaican reggae crew Third World has been preaching for decades: “It’s time for the world to/Try Jah love/The only love that can bring peace is/Jah, Jah…
It’s Friday and we here at Crossfade wanna fuck. Er, we mean dance. And that’s why we’re humping over to Flute Salad at Lester’s tonight. From 8 till 10 p.m., there’ll be free drinks for the females. But don’t get it twisted … This little fuck dance party, hosted by…
Beware, beat freaks! The raving masterminds behind Ultra Music Festival have already colonized and conquered Downtown Miami in the name of electronic dance music, annually deploying an entire army of furry-booted troops and uhntz-uhntz-ing explosives experts to terrorize Biscayne Boulevard condo owners with three days of non-stop beat bombs. And…
Check out Ultra Music Festival 2012’s Phase 1 lineup. There are only five weeks left till epic levels of uhntz-uhntz turn Downtown Miami into a 150,000-person public orgy! Back in December, Ultra Music Festival announced its initial 92-act roster. And just 14 days later, the fest “completely sold-out.” But this…
Young Money Cash Money Billionaires at Mekka February 17
See the full 20-photo Drake at BankUnited Center slideshow. Drake’s Club Paradise Tour With ASAP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar BankUnited Center at University of Miami Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Better Than: Slightly dirty sweet talk that’s not set to million-dollar beats. Have you ever visited Club Paradise? In the words…
As soon as we scored our credentials (and complimentary swag bags!) from the Bruise Cruise nerve center in the Xanadu Lounge, all members of the Crossfade team raced through the bowels of the Carnival Imagination for the comfort of our windowless interior cabins. Why? Well, we were superhyped to raid…
Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It’s been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, “a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, New Order, and Fatboy…
See the full 68-photo Bruise Cruise 2012 slideshow. After only 243 minutes aboard the Carnival Imagination, it had already been a busy day, chockablock with bruisin’, cruisin’, and boozin’, famous guy sightings, and doing megahits off the pina colada bong while almost tumbling overboard. And the boat hadn’t even left…
See the full 68-photo Bruise Cruise 2012 slideshow. We here at Crossfade are total fucking pros. So while we openly admit to being dangerously dependent upon both (1) the internet and (2) alcohol, it is exceedingly rare that either addiction discernibly screws with our ability to produce high-quality online journalism…
Got your tie-dye tank top, nighttime sunglasses, and ironic water wings? Good. Cause’ less than six hours from right fucking now, the second annual Bruise Cruise will be steaming outta the Port of Miami for a full weekend of “concerts, comedy hours, puppet shows, dance parties, karaoke, dating games, conga…
There was a time, circa 1991, when hip-hop wasn’t all about bling and bitches. Back in the day, the beat dropped and so did some Gil-Scott Heron-inspired wordplay, a call for justice in the inner city, and a shout-out to Malcolm X. Founded by rapper Speech (born Todd Thomas), Atlanta…
Did you know that Young Money Cash Money Billionaire boss Lil Wayne isn’t actually a billionaire? Well, homie … It’s true. Despite squashing his $5.6-million beef with the IRS, slanging 1.92 million copies of Tha Carter IV in this totally shitty economy, ranking among Billboard’s Top Artists for the last…
The Herd has finally landed on the beaches of Virginia Key. It’s been over two decades since Donna the Buffalo’s Tara Nevins and Jeb Puryear “led a mass gathering of its friends, fellow bands, and followers — nicknamed The Herd — to Ithaca, New York, for the inaugural Finger Lakes…
Virginia Key Grassroots Festival with Chaka Khan, Arrested Development, and Donna the Buffalo February 9-12
What does it mean to rock? That is the eternal question. And according to StubHub, “the world’s largest ticket marketplace,” it’s all about a willingness to shell out obscene amounts of money (approx. $130) for resale tix to U2’s 360° Tour at Sun Life Stadium. Earlier today, the “eBay company”…
