When we here at Crossfade tried out for Trina’s official “Red Bottoms (Long Heels)” music video last month, we tried to stay as positive as possible, thinking, Who gives a shit that we can’t actually dance? It’s fucking on! Needless to say, we couldn’t cut it and we cried our…
Early Sunday afternoon, we here at Crossfade reported that First Avenue boozing spot and music venue Transit Lounge had been “gutted” and shuttered over the weekend. Unlike Transit’s near-demise in April, employees and regulars received no advance notice. There was no official explanation. And after several attempts to contact him…
It’s been three days since the Occupy Miami movement massed at the foot of Bayfront’s Torch of Freedom and marched on Stephen P. Clark Government Center, pitching tents, staging sidewalk sit-ins, and generally fucking with business as usual. Last night, the occupiers joined forces with local grassroots crew Bredcrumbs to…
Calle 13 Entren Los Que Quieran Tour With Mr. Pauer The Plaza at the American Airlines Arena Saturday, October 15, 2011 Better Than: Storming the border with a boombox on blast. Over the last six months, we here at Crossfade have been rabidly anticipating the arrival of Puerto Rican rappers…
Whether rooted in memory or myth, every overgrown kid’s got a secret, idyllic spot hidden deep inside themselves. And even if it’s a total illusion, we all cling to the hope of fleeing to this private paradise. Space Between Words’ new video for “Things Children Do,” directed by Radioboxer’s Jota…
Back in April, there was very bad news: Beloved Brickell live music venue Transit Lounge announced that it would be closing its doors due to the threat of imminent foreclosure on 729 SW First Avenue. “I am deeply saddened that it has come down to this,” said Transit owner Will…
Looks like the Bawse should’ve stayed under doctor’s supervision. At approximately 12:55 p.m. this afternoon, a Delta flight carrying Rick Ross was grounded in Fort Lauderdale when the rapper suffering a seizure. He was immediately treated by EMT and taken to the hospital. Less than four hours later, the Maybach…
Just a few hours ago, Rick Ross suffered a seizure aboard a commercial flight from Fort Lauderdale to Memphis. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing and EMT performed CPR on the Maybach Music boss before rushing him off to the hospital. Originally, Ricky Rozay was scheduled to…
If you wanna pop your “Bon Bon” on the Beach with Pitbull for free, you’re gonna have to pay your way by running 13 miles over a period of several hours in sweltering, heatstroke-inducing SoFla heat. The deal: On Sunday, December 11, Mr. Worldwide will be giving a performance on…
Flute Salad is fun, easy, and delicious! Wanna whip up a big bowl? Well, here’s the recipe: “This dish consists of a healthy portion of green leafy hip-hop and a huge handful of sliced ‘strong women of the ’90s,'” explains Flute Salad co-creator and frequent Crossfade contributor Liz Tracy. “It’s…
Newsflash! Turns out that network TV execs’ massive hard-on isn’t limited to sitcoms starring rappers. Apparently, they find whiteboy rap-rockers supersexy and crazy funny too. Last week, we here at Crossfade chuckled about the fact that former Rollin 20s Crip, gangsta rapper, and proud daddy Snoop Dogg had landed a…
If you listened real close when Outkast rapper Big Boi (AKA Antwan Patton) disembarked from a cruise ship at 1:35 p.m. on August 7 and got busted by Miami-Dade K-9 cops while carrying three kinds of contraband (MDMA, Ecstasy, Viagra) and “drug paraphernalia,” you could almost hear the cell door…
He’s a redheaded remix wizard from Manchester and his name is Star Slinger. Over the last couple of years, the Slinger’s reworked about a billion tracks by big indie names like Broken Social Scene, Washed Out, Deerhunter, Toro y Moi, and Childish Gambino. And now he’s dropped his debut single,…
Big Brass Juke at the Stage October 14
Ladytron at Grand Central October 15
The Calle 13 countdown has reached T-minus 9 days. Soon, the local 305 division of the Trece Army will herald the arrival of its commander-in-chief René Pérez Joglar, AKA Residente, and sergeant-at-arms Eduardo José Cabra Martínez, AKA Visitante. We will descend upon Downtown Miami. And we will pack into the…
You’d do anything to sit atop The Throne, curled up in the resplendent million-dollar laps of His Hovatastic Majesty Jay-Z and King Kanye. But there’s no way that you, a poor and humble pauper, could ever gather enough gold to pay for a $276.50 ticket to the royal duo’s November…
Y’all wanna hit Dadeland Mall for a pretty-pretty sesh with country-pop princess Taylor Swift? OK, good! Just tell that screeching, hysterical 12-year old girl inside you to shut up, simmer down, and stop puking with excitement ’cause there’s a catch … Ms. Swift won’t actually be making an in-person appearance…
Ultra Music Festival is an insanely intense sensory experience. Three days of ecstatic raving, bro-on-bro PDA, and other miscellaneous forms of debauched misbehavior alongside all your fave DJs and 150,000 beat freaks rocking goggles, glowsticks, furry boots, yarn hair, and sweat-soaked novelty t-shirts. Believer it or not, though, there’s another…
Get ready to guzzle a bottle of cheap bourbon, howl about love, loss, death, and redemption, and smash a saxophone into shrapnel ’cause Juke founder and frontman Eric Garcia (AKA Uncle Scotchy) tells us, “Miami’s favorite dirty blues band is going big” and adding a hot shot of fat brass…
Das Racist at Grand Central October 9
Junior Boys at Bardot October 6
