If you’re too drunk to pay attention to the superdepressing dirty-beach-bum-on-a-bender lyrics, Jimmy Buffet’s “Margaritaville” might seem like some perfect little paradise where nobody works, the tequila is always free, and every afternoon is spent lazily “nibblin’ on sponge cake” and “watchin’ the sun bake.” But that’s bullshit. The place…
Wanna know how Crossfade spent the weekend? Well, we met the Mau5 at Mansion on Friday, ogled “a half-naked girl covered in fake diamonds,” didn’t do drugs, partied till morning, and then went back the next night for another shot of sweaty club rats, bottle service, electro-house tuneage, totally involuntary…
When Crossfade read this week’s edition of Luke’s Gospel, entitled “2 Live Crew Is Reuniting Because Our Fans Want To Shake That Booty,” we got, like, “Me So Horny!”-level excited…
Say “Happy B-Day!” to The Boss. On Saturday, January 28, 2012, Miami rapper, superhefty hustler, and Maybach Music impresario Rick Ross (born William Leonard Roberts II) turns 36 motherfuckin’ years old. We imagine the Big Man intends to celebrate the day of his birth by waking up late to count…
When Mansion suddenly and mysteriously revealed that it was “CLOSED,” were you among the SoBe clubbers wracked with shock (“What?!?!”), anger (“WTF? So pissed”), and sadness (“Mansion will be missed!”) over the unexpected extinction of your favorite glossy party spot? Then you must’ve been superstoked when the Opium Group megaclub…
See the full 30-photo Sebadoh at Grand Central slideshow. Sebadoh With Jacuzzi Boys and Plains Grand Central, Miami Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Better Than: “Brand New Love” on a boat. Less than 24 hours before setting sail aboard the first-ever Weezer Cruise, totally essential alternative trio Sebadoh decided to visit…
Back in the hot and sweaty summer of 2011, local rap crew ¡Mayday! set out on an 82-city blitz across the United States of America and Canada alongside the band’s boss, Tech N9ne, and the rest of his Strange Music fam. That cross-country trek was called the All 6’s and…
Metal Cruise of Heaviness Pre-Apocalyptic Party at Grand Central January 22
When notorious rap provocateur, noted man of the people, and New Times columnist Luther Campbell told the Young Money crew to either give back or get out of Miami, pop-hopper Drake Aubrey Graham tried to act tough. He shot back at Campbell with “The Motto,” spitting a lame diss that…
Chilly. Brainy. Still sexy. Dressed like a superstylish Italo-disco dude who drives a Delorean, dances alone to Madonna, and dates his vintage synths, Johnny Jewel is the coolly smooth operator at the center of the Italians Do It Better family, not to mention indietronica crew Glass Candy and sophisticated pop…
Just the other day, we here at Crossfade were trying to find a way to console the poor beat freaks who’d failed to buy, buy, buy tix to Ultra Music Festival 2012 before it totally sold out. But then Ultra itself mended broken electro hearts, saved beat-freaking dreams, and restored…
Do you enjoy art, fashion, film, and music? If the answer is no, you probably aren’t human. But if the answer is yes, you should go buy tix for Miami New Times’ Artopia 2012, “an event,” according to the official Facebook page, “that promotes art for people.” There’s gonna be…
As that big, burning ball in the sky (you know, the sun, man) completes its crazy circular trip throughout the zodiac along the eliptic (that’s, like, a “year” in square speak), we here at Crossfade are prepping Major Mushroom’s Interstellar Psychedelic Love Bus (our hand-painted 1966 Volkswagen Kombi) for another…
UPDATE Check out the lineup, date, and location for Ultra Music Festival’s launch of its Ultra Live concert series. Less than two weeks after announcing its Phase One lineup (Avicii! Tiësto! David Guetta! Kraftwerk! New Order! Skrillex! 86 others!), Ultra Music Festival 2012 was already shouting about being “90% Sold…
Granted … Lil Wayne ain’t no Nelson Mandela. He only spent 11 months in prison (not, you know, 27 years) after getting busted on his tour bus for “attempted possession of a weapon” (not, you know, attempting to free the people of South Africa from the horrors of Apartheid), but…
Planning to attend the Metal Cruise of Heaviness Pre-Apocalyptic Party? Well, it has already been anecdotally established that there’s a shit-load of medical dangers associated with habitual headbanging, e.g. massive migraine, unholy whiplash, brutal back spasms, slurred speech, and brain bleeds, not to mention chronic fucking gnarliness. But just to…
On Tuesday, mansionmiami.com read: “MANSION IS CLOSED.” Fans freaked out (“WTF? So pissed”) and South Beach haters rejoiced (“Finally!!! That club was garbage”) while others just shrugged. But we here at Crossfade suspected that the Opium Group nightclub was simply pulling a practical joke on the clubbing public, shuttering temporarily…
How do we here at Crossfade typically spend our Saturday nights? Drunk and half-naked at the club, scamming complimentary booze coupons, shaking our fat asses to neo-freestyle, and shouting stupid stuff like, “No panties on the dance floor!,” while holding our nose and fake puking. The point: Our Broward-Palm Beach…
Just 13 days ago, Ice Cream’s Thomas Kennedy, Justin Anthony Rivers, Roy Neil Hunter, Joel Gutman, and Alex Lashley dumped us like an old girlfriend with herpes, released their new album Good (which is “really good”), and announced plans to flee Miami for New York City. But before Thomas, Justin,…
Sebadoh at Grand Central January 18
Even before buying tix for Bruise Cruise 2012’s two-day kickoff bash at The Stage Miami, booking a tricked-out cabin adjacent to the 24-hour self-serve ice cream bar, or stuffing an inflatable tote bag with emergency hipster-at-sea supplies, each and every Bruiser’s gotta put together a perfectly waterproof cruisin’ plan. So…
UPDATE Mansion and Deadmau5 have just announced a two-night reopening party for January 20 and 21. Log onto mansionmiami.com and the nightlub’s site has been scrubbed clean, except for a shocking three-word statement in big, bold red letters: “MANSION IS CLOSED.” That same mysterious message also went out over Mansion’s…
