Can you believe these extremely irresponsible music fans (read: hippies!) who think it’s “radically groovy, man” to buy reduced-price tickets to some floating freak fiesta (say, the Jam Cruise on January 9), stuff their luggage full of dangerous drugs (e.g. marijuana) instead of extra underwear (uh, gross), and then proceed…
Miami’s ten best New Year’s 2012 parties
B.B. King at Arsht Center January 4
Cee Lo Green at the Orange Drive Music Festival Dec. 30-Jan. 1
Matisyahu at Kravis Center December 29
A$AP Rocky’s Purple Christmas at Grand Central December 29
Just before Christmas, Chanukkah, and Kwanzaa hijacked our editorial focus, we here at Crossfade checked up on the annual Jazz in the Gardens music fest. And unfortunately, we were kinda bummed. We referred to the lineup as “lackluster.” We complained about Kenny G’s saxophone sucking. We called for some divas…
Shit … We thought the Miami Heat was an $80-million professional basketball team. Turns out, though, The Big Three and company is actually a crappy boy band. Just check out King James, D-Wade, and Big Bosh’s new music video, set to Kanye West’s weenie anthem “All of the Lights,” and…
Over the last 365 days and nights, we here at Crossfade spent about a billion fucking hours in the club. We battered our brains with booze, drugs, and temporal lobe-exploding decibel levels. And consequently, we can’t remember shit. Luckily, though, we had the foresight to have an entire team of…
Forget your personal trainer, chartered accountant, and life coach. We here at Crossfade are the highest authority on how to spend New Year’s in Miami. And we say: “This is no time for moderation!” Go live out the dying days of 2011 in a totally out-of-control cyclone of rabid, unfettered…
Big news, beat freaks. After months of teases, hype, and promises that it “will be bigger than last year,” there’s finally been a major development in the ongoing saga of Ultra Music Festival’s 2012 lineup. Of course, we here at Crossfade have spent the last few weeks scouring the web…
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. Yes, we here at Crossfade continue to sit, unwashed and sweaty, at our laptops. Like a 150,000 other beat freaks all around the globe, we are…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. O’Grime O’Grime EP (Self-Released) Over the summer, swag tag-team O’Grime — Nikolais Javan and L.Rey Reyes — spit, giggled, and screamed onto the 305’s street-level…
Oh, Christmas! It’s that feel-good time of the year that’s filled with good friends, close family, pretty lights, big trees, strong egg nog, huge yule logs, nice carols, sweet hymns, odes to Jesus, and all kinds of “Ho, Ho, Ho”-ing from a fat guy with a big, white beard who’s…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Rachel Goodrich Rachel Goodrich (Yellow Bear Records) Loving Rachel Goodrich hasn’t always been easy…
Steve Lawler at Wall Lounge December 28
Max Vangeli and AN21 at LIV December 26
Elastic Bond at Bardot December 23
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Welcome to the southernmost tip of the Floridian peninsula, otherwise known as the land of Purple Christmas. Now if you’ve never celebrated the high holidays in Miami, here’s the deal: We don’t decorate trees. We cut ’em down and smoke ’em. And this year, the fine folks at local nightlife…
Wanna know the truth about New Year’s Eve? Well, it ain’t the kickoff to a fresh, 365-day fiesta full of fun and promise. Quite the opposite — this end-of-year holiday is your absolute last chance to overspend and overindulge before suppressing your natural urge to party, quitting the bottle, stopping…
