Get Hard ’cause it’s almost time to cruise. Nine months ago, Crossfade reported that the Los Angeles party posse, electronic music festival, and touring club event run by Gary Richards (AKA Destructo) was planning to take its electro steez to the high seas aboard the MSC Poesia, sailing out of…
Late last night, rumors concerning the demise of Mamushka’s Midtown began filtering through the local scene via shocked status updates, email blasts, and half-drunk texts. On the venue’s official Facebook page, a few members of Miami’s music and boozing community started eulogizing the hangout in a mix of English, Spanish,…
The Herd is stampeding toward SoFla. Almost 22 years ago, East Coast fusion rockers Donna the Buffalo led a mass gathering of its friends, fellow bands, and followers — nicknamed The Herd — to Ithaca, New York for the inaugural Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival. In the intervening decades, this annual…
Bust out your top hat and tails, Basel-ites. For the fourth consecutive year, chi-chi Parisian nightclub Le Baron will be hosting its Art Basel Miami Beach week pop-up party at the Delano Hotel. As the photo evidence from last year’s opening night attests, this ultraexclusive arty party always attracts a…
Man, no one loves to give away massive amounts of cash like the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Last night, the foundation held its annual Knight Challenge Grant award ceremony, dropping a $2.9 million jackpot on 31 local South Florida arts organizations, including the Bas Fisher Invitational, Coral…
Have you seen local psych-garage crew Lil Daggers’ new music video for “Dead Golden Girls”? Well, according to the Dagger dudes’ official post-shoot press release (you know, a single sentence and animated GIF of good ol’ gluttunous Garfield, issued via Tumblr), the vid was shot in a “fucked up fire…
Over the weekend, Miami Seaquarium was swarmed by Care Resource’s friends and supporters for the 2011 edition of annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser White Party. As always, the dress code was “white.” But this year, bare chests (both bearishly hairy and totally depilated), sexy suspenders (usually preventing flashy underwear from falling down),…
When disco-pop dude Penguin Prison isn’t dancing or doin’ time, he’s apparently waddling over to Occupy Wall Street to shoot music videos, shout down the bankers, and express solidarity with the Ninety-Nine Percent. His new vid is called “Don’t Fuck With My Money.” And just like Mr. Penguin, we live…
Check out Crossfade’s blogs on other awesome Basel week events like YACHT, Salem, James Murphy’s Special Disco Version, Yelle, and GZA. It might seem like a really rad idea to spend the next four days scorning sleep, sucking down free shots, and shuttling at top speed between endless arty parties,…
Is this really the end of Judas Priest? Apparently, it’s not. According to lead screamer Rob Halford, the Epitaph Farewell Tour is merely the band’s last non-stop worldwide trek before he and his metal minions enter semi-retirement. Still, though, as we here at Crossfade have shouted lo’ so many times,…
Your real prom was a total fucking nightmare. The dress (or tux) sucked. Your date was late. There was no limo. You got busted trying to steal a bottle of Sambuca, some porn, and a marijuana cigarette from your older brother’s stash. You smelled bad. You looked worse. You drank…
Behold Black Friday! No doubt, the day after Thanksgiving belongs to the Devil. The sun becomes a black hole. Unrepentant gluttons suffer atop overflowing toilets. And endless legions of zombified shoppers stalk the malls and big-box stores in search of awesome deals that might set them free from Satan’s eternal…
Santigold at LIV’s Dirty Hairy party November 30
On the night of Thursday, December 1, 2011, a waxing crescent moon will be hanging, dead and icy, in a jet-black winter sky as the souls of a thousand damned witches scream for mercy while being burned at the stake inside an abandoned house totally consumed by fire. And it’s…
BleauLive Presents Ricky Martin at Fontainebleau Miami Beach November 24 to 27
Jacuzzi Boys’ homecoming show at Churchill’s Pub November 26
Trina: Hip-Hop’s Diamond Diva
Russell Faibisch: Ultra Hip
Over the last couple weeks, we here at Crossfade have become total Spotify addicts. Our habit began last week after learning that the free on-demand music service had teamed up with Midtown’s Ricochet Lounge to put together a Basel week concert lineup that’s packed with more superstar names than most…
What were you doin’ the night before Dinosaur Jr. alum and indie demigod Lou Barlow announced that his highly emotional side project, Sebadoh, would be visiting Downtown hipster superclub Grand Central for a pre-Weezer Cruise concert on January 18, 2012? Well, Crossfade was having the weirdest dream about bein’ at…
From the day that he was born in 1939, Clarence Reid’s been a filthy-mouthed motherfucker. Now notorious for pornographic pop song satires like “Suck Around the Clock,” “All Fucked Up,” and “Whole Lotta Fuckin’ Goin’ On,” Reid’s childish antics weren’t any less XXX. As we write in New Times’ Miami…
To actually understand the scope of Ultra Music Festival’s evolution over the last 14 years, just ask Ultra cofounder and CEO Russell Faibisch about the fest’s early days. “Back in the late ’90s, it started as a small nightlife event,” Faibisch tells New Times in this week’s Miami People Issue…
