Fist-pumping for four straight days inside a 12,000-square-foot spa! Dancing to 169 BPMs in the sushi bar’s zen garden! Slamming tropical cocktails in the mojito bar at 2 a.m. with Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Fatboy Slim, Diplo, A-Trak, and 2000 beat freaks! Over the weekend, the inaugural edition of HARD’s Holy…
Named after America’s favorite fruit-flavored gelatin dessert and a short-lived secessionist African state afflicted by war and starvation, Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher, aliases Occupant, Count Ringworm, Osama McDonald, J Lo) is a punk icon, radical activist, and general shit-starter who fronted San Fran hardcore band Dead Kennedys, founded…
We here at Crossfade provided plenty of advance warning that West Palm fuzz rockers Surfer Blood would be jamming out to “Miranda,” a single off last year’s Tarot Classics EP, during last night’s episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. But maybe you came down with a real nasty case…
See Crossfade’s righteous, nine-part guide to Marley Fest 2012, AKA Nine Mile Music Festival. Get dreaded. Grow some ganja. Climb that mountain. Now known as the Nine Mile Music Festival, this year’s edition of the Bob Marley Movement of Jah People’s righteous reggae fest will be going down — “rain…
In 1984, Lou Barlow started an indie rock crew called Dinosaur Jr. with J. Mascis and a drummer nicknamed Murph. Four years later, after endless tension, a trio of amazing albums, and a ton of alt-guy fights, Lou got kicked out of his own band. That’s when Barlow became almost…
When Santigold called to tell Crossfade that she’d be in town for Art Basel Miami Beach, we squealed with delight like the Disney-fied version of those piglets penned outside Primary Flight. But after about 15 minutes, we got sad, thinking, “Well, she hasn’t hit the Beach since … November 2009…
If y’all ballers been counting down with The Boss, you ain’t alone. All motherfuckin’ day, the internets, Twitters, and Facebooks been totally wilding out over the release of Rick Ross’s new Rich Forever mixtape. The hashtags (#RickyRozay, #RichForever, #MMG) been flying like AK spray. And earlier, The Boss himself said,…
There was a time when Elton John dressed (and acted) like the teenage lovechild of Liberace and Vegas-era Elvis on a helium bender. Bedazzled in silver jumpsuits with his face behind massive sunglasses and his feet stuffed into patent-leather platform moon boots, the fabulously balding Captain Fantastic would screech and…
B.B. King Knight Concert Hall Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami Wednesday, January 4, 2011 Better Than: A nice, big bottle of chilled Arbor Mist. A half-century ago, Riley “Blues Boy” King and his fine, fat-bodied guitar, Lucille, would make regular wintertime trips to Miami for some rockin’, rollin’, dancin’, drinkin’, and…
Jam Cruise 10 with Umphrey’s McGee, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby on MSC Poesia January 9-14
Browsing Swedish House Mafia’s social media pages is kinda like trying to decode the ravings of schizophrenic fist-pumper on bad acid. Earlier this week, we here at Crossfade mentioned that Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso “will returning to Miami for another shot of late-March madness,” otherwise known as Masquerade…
Code red! Trip the alarm! Now dance! We here at Crossfade have just received a superurgent email with a subject line that shouts, “Ultra Music Festival 90% Sold Out! Last Chance To Purchase Tickets!” Now, for all of us who’ve been victimized by corporate marketing scare tactics in the past,…
What’s a bromance? Well, according to the t-shirts worn and tote bags toted by gentleman DJs Brodinski and Gesaffelstein, it’s “a close but non-sexual relationship between two (or more) men, a form of homosocial intimacy.” And just two months ago, this pair of admitted bromantics felt their bond had become…
On New Year’s Eve, Cee Lo Green rang in 2012 by visiting Times Square, hanging out with Carson Daly, and then brutalizing John Lennon’s “Imagine” before a TV audience of millions. It was a disaster. So the next day, he fled south to Miami Beach for the Orange Drive Music…
The lowest point of Cee Lo Green’s year? If you ask most people, it was July 17, 2011, when the ex-Goodie Mob member, “Crazy” crooner, and co-“coach” on NBC’s The Voice got miffed about a concert review by City Pages’ Andrea Swenson and promptly unleashed a can of homophobic whoop-ass…
After two kids, a decade-long courtship, and zero NBA championships, LeBron James has finally asked high-school sweetheart Savannah Brinson for her hand in marriage. Having turned 27 years old approximately 24 hours earlier, King James manned up, took a knee, and proposed to Brinson during New Year’s Eve dinner at…
Read Crossfade’s recap of Deadmau5’s New Year’s Day Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami. With our subtropical region’s usual weeklong winter almost upon us, Deadmau5 and thousands of rabid club rats scurried and swarmed toward the Fontainebleau Miami Beach for a New Year’s Day pool party on Monday. The plan:…
In exactly one day, 20 hours, and 30 minutes, Swedish House Mafia’s Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso will stop being so fucking cryptic and finally reveal the details for the 2012 edition of their Masquerade Motel party in Miami. The inaugural installment of SHM’s semi-annual dance music experience took…
It’s no secret that New Year’s Eve in Miami ain’t cheap. But on a night when Rick Ross was (literally) making it rain money at his $100,000 SoBe bash, the EC Twins were charging $30,000 for 18 bottles of booze at SET, and Afrojack was packing WET with house junkies…
See the full 32-photo NYE 2012: Rick Ross at Cameo slideshow. Rick Ross Rosé Champagne New Year’s Eve Cameo Theatre, South Beach Saturday, December 31, 2011 Better Than: A night when dollar bills don’t fall from the sky. With less than a half-hour till 2012, The Boss entered the building…
Welcome to the Magic City, an amazing land of endless titties, 100-foot brass poles, full friction, free buffets, and VIP champagne rooms that (almost) never close. That’s right … We’re spending New Year’s Eve at the strip club. So grab those crumpled dollar bills stashed under the mattress. Break out…
What’s the best kind of New Year’s Eve porn party? Well, you could always strip naked at your laptop and host a smutty celebration for one by counting down to midnight and popping a nice bottle of spumante as a powdered pair of hairless balls drop on some poor 20-something’s…
