Will the world end in 2012? Probably not. Historically, apocalypse predictors are kooks. But there’s always an infinitesimally tiny chance that they’re actually right this time. So when the Doomsday Clock clicks to midnight on December 30, beginning a frenzied 24-hour countdown to the New Year (and possibly the end…
Read Crossfade’s recap of Skrillex at the Fillmore Miami Beach. On Saturday night, the Mothership made its final official stop, setting down in the middle of South Beach like some sorta interstellar party bus. But after filling the Fillmore and fucking with everyone’s auditory systems for a few hours, Skrillex…
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. Maybach Music Group Self-Made, Vol. 1 (Maybach) Don’t no one got grind like The Boss. When it comes to the post-gangsta rap game, Rick Ross…
Welcome to Miami. Here, you can’t be the kind of music snob who only listens to The Velvet Underground & Nico, Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and Pitchfork’s current playlist on repeat. Sure, all that stuff is awesome. But when you’re running wild in the streets of the 305, the…
At the height of her late-’90s and early-2000s exile from the weird world of popular music, there were rumors (and even media reports) about ex-Fugees frontwoman and queen diva Ms. Lauryn Hill living out of a massive Miami hotel room with her hubby, Rowan Marley (yes, a son of Bob),…
Break out your biggest bag of OG kush. Burn a bunch of superdoobies. And board your private Gulfstream for the MIA. Earlier today, NOLA rapper and marijuana connoisseur Curren$y announced (in tandem with his own Jets International and local event-slash-video production company Dope Ent) that he’ll be spending New Year’s…
The time has come to take a trip with local Latinotronica crew Elastic Bond. But you can’t show up without supplies. You’ve gotta pack a bag. You will need (1) a stash of premium psilocybin; (2) a sturdy pair of sunglasses with sparkly starbursts embedded into the lenses; (3) a…
Fedde Le Grand’s North America Takeover Tour at LIV December 17
MonstrO at Churchill’s Pub December 16
Miami postpunk band Beings releases posthumous seven-inch single “Social Creep” on Discosoma Records
Meet Steve Lawler at Wall Lounge for a pre-NYE party on December 28. Check out Crossfade’s full New Year’s Eve 2012 guide. Dance music sucks. House music rules. Just ask British rave legend and Viva Music label boss Steve Lawler. “Dance music is not the same as house music,” Lawler…
Is a Matisyahu without a beard like “A King Without a Crown”? Yesterday, in a sudden move that shocked every member of Planet Earth’s Hasidic reggae community to the etsem (or bone for all you non-Hebrew speakers), everyone’s favorite Jewish emcee, Matisyahu (born Matthew Paul Miller), shaved off his famous…
Totally contradicting Western civilization’s standard calendar, New Year’s Eve now lasts a lot longer than just one night. Especially on Miami Beach. In this land of endless neon and fake boobs, NYE has become a seven-day holiday weekend packed with stupid hats, stupider behavior, and absolutely insane admission fees. You…
Over the last 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…
The Herd just got a little thicker. Two weeks ago, the Virginia Key Grassroots Festival — a SoFla spinoff of Ithaca, New York’s Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival, organized by mountain music crew Donna the Buffalo — released its initial 25-act lineup, starring socially conscious hip-hop collective Arrested Development, Del McCoury’s…
What’s overly emotional Young Money rapper Drake doin’ right now? Well, if the cover of his recently released sophomore slab, Take Care, were a candid snapshot of Drizzy’s private life, you’d think homeboy spent his days and nights locked alone in his billion-dollar mansion like Al Pacino in Scarface, sipping…
If, like Crossfade, you are a serious drinker who loves to let loose, glug a couple of cocktails, and get responsibly wasted, we say: “Raise that Henny, son!” Now believe it or not, there is an international community of cognac connoisseurs called the Hennessy DJ Collective and our own DJ…
Are you kidding? Kenny effing G! Wow, we here at Crossfade can’t wait for the 2012 edition of Jazz in the Gardens. The hair will be long, luxurious, and kinky. “The Moment” will be sweeter than a soprano on a sugar high. And there’s gonna be so much smooth sax…
The Boss lives extra big, son. In fact, according to a recent profile in GQ, Rick Ross smokes ten big, fat blunts per day. He scarfs “fried cheese bread, artichoke dip, roasted chicken with sides, and three pieces of key lime pie” for fucking dinner. He records a dozen hits…
The corridors of William McKinley High are a long fucking way from Calle Ocho, chico. But today, Entertainment Weekly reported that Pitbull is “being courted” by the producers of Fox’s Glee to play the older brother of Santana (Naya Rivera), a newly out and proud lesbian cheerleader. And all we’ve…
Sure, it’s called the beautiful game. But occasionally, like local band (and rabid football fanatics) Lil Daggers will tell you, soccer’s just straight-up sexy. Sometimes, out there on the field in a sweaty pair of those short shorts, shit can get so hot that even the most talented and experienced…
Even though cranky American music snobs like Crossfade might dismiss Chris Martin and Coldplay as foreign providers of “safe and sentimental sonic wallpaper,” there’s no denying that this Brit pop-rock crew stands to inherit the proverbial arena whenever U2 and Radiohead finally shuffle off the scene. With seven Grammys and…
