A memo from Uncle Luke to all y’all haters who seem to think the hip-hop industry should institute some sorta superstrict mandatory retirement policy … Screw you. That shit’s ageist. In today’s edition of Luke’s Gospel, entitled “Jay-Z, Eminem, and Rick Ross Are Never Too Old For Rap,” New Times’s…
For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn’t even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna’s 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who’d be totally willing to blow their entire…
Known to fanatics and followers as the High Duke of Dance or simply PVD, professional party starter Paul Van Dyk (born Matthias Paul) is a total beat-freaking legend. Over the last two decades, he’s uhntz-uhtnz-ed all across the globe, unleashing five stellar slabs of electronic tuneage, Rock-ing the Vote with…
In the hot, sweet summer of 1990, Donna the Buffalo guitar guy Jeb Puryear and his bandmates invited a few musical friends and 1,500 fans to Ithaca, New York’s State Theater for the first-ever Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival. At a time when the rest of the country was still wearing…
C’mon, y’all! For many shining moons, Boise Bob and his Backyard Band have been rockin’, rollin’, and ramblin’ down from Hallandale to Little Haiti’s Churchill’s Pub for late nights full o’ hootin’, hollerin’, and gobblin’ “Possum Meat.” And let’s not forget … Anytime you were broke and busted, Bob and…
Bruise Cruise 2012 with Fucked Up, King Khan & the Shrines, Thee Oh Sees, and others February 10-13
Miami rap crew Mayday!’s new album Take Me to Your Leader releases March 27
Exactly 26 days ago, Hard’s Holy Ship! electronic music cruise packed Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Fatboy Slim, Rusko, Diplo, A-Trak, dozens of other professional party starters, and 3000 beat freaks onto the MSC Poesia for a full weekend of uhntz-uhntz-ing across the high seas. And yes, there were a couple of…
Yes, King of Diamonds stripper Tip Drill has been experimenting with politics lately, crashing MSNBC talk show Morning Joe on Monday and then helping New Times analyze the Florida Republican Primary. But tonight, Ms. Drill will return to her true area of expertise, putting aside a possible presidential bid to…
Whenever O’Grime’s L.Rey and Nikolais Javan ain’t too busy playing video games and enjoying domework, they’re cranking out absurd and amazing rap vids dedicated to stuff like strippers ass-smashing Nachos Supreme, the handsomeness of Miami Heat center Udonis Haslem, or “#Planking On Yo Bitch.” And their latest shot of audio-visual…
After being brutally rocked ‘n’ rolled for seven hard, sweaty, superintense hours at last year’s Bruise Cruise kickoff party, everyone was totally exhausted. Eyes were bleary. Hair was messed. Mascara was smeared. It was basically an all-night, non-stop garage-y gangbang. And as we said in our post-show recap: “Most Bruisers…
Ahoy, hipsters! Welcome to the second annual Bruise Cruise Festival, “a three-day tropical rock extravaganza” set to sail outta the Port of Miami and straight for Nassau, Bahamas, like some kinda dream ship for cool kids in search of a Spring Break that doesn’t suck. The passenger list: You and…
On Monday morning, we here at Crossfade ate a half-stack of hotcakes, smoked a skinny post-meal blunt, and tried to imagine what it’d be like to celebrate a birthday if we were The Boss. We fantasized about counting massive stacks of cash, snagging a nice long midday snooze in an…
The rap game is all about grind. Just ask local six-dude rap crew ¡Mayday! After scoring a deal with Kansas City spitter Tech N9ne’s Strange Music label last year, Bernz, Wrekonize, Plex Luthor, Gianni Ca$h, L.T. Hopkins, and Nonymous took off with their new boss on the All 6’s and…
Listen up, all y’all porn-y playas. Go party with sex professional, adult entrepreneur, and genuinely sweet chick Cherokee D’Ass tonight. She’ll be droppin’ her famously fat, 47-inch booty at Little Haiti’s Take One Cocktail Lounge while DJ Black Holiday cranks out the XXX soundtrack. Now don’t feel weird about introducing…
Back in April 2012, Odd Future honcho Tyler the Creator “woke up with a sweaty dick,” announced an East Coast tour, and snubbed Miami. But that was the last motherfuckin’ time that those little OFWGKTA creeps would tell the 305 to go fuck itself. Or not … Last night, Tyler…
Rick Ross’s Birthday Bash at Amnesia Miami January 29
Jimmy Buffett at the American Airlines Arena January 28
No doubt, those ¡Mayday! homies ain’t afraid to hustle. As we here at Crossfade reported last Thursday, the 305’s raddest hip-hop collective is already prepping for Tech N9ne’s Hostile Takeover tour, an insane sked of 90 shows in 99 days with Machine Gun Kelly, Krizz Kaliko, Prozak, and Stevie Stone…
Late last week, the Crossfade staff (as well as our siblings over at County Grind) received a truly terrifying press release from Revolution Live reps. The all-caps subject line screamed, “SLEIGH BELLS [AND DIPLO] CONCERT CHANGES LINE-UP!” And like most bad news, this message was accompanied by another 39 exclamation…
Exactly 14 days ago, Ultra Music Festival 2012 sold out. And the wailing of sad, ticketless beat freaks could be heard in dark, lonely nightclubs all around the globe. But then the fest offered its oh-so-disappointed children some consolation, announcing a whole series of official Miami Music Week events, including…
Are you a sporadically employed adult (i.e. 18 or older) who likes to spend his or her spare time (mornings, afternoons, late nights, etc.) wandering around South Beach, stripping down, oiling up, and shaking ass? Well, Winter Party Festival needs your help. The annual six-day LGBT extravaganza, AKA “the hottest…
