It’s happened again. On June 3, Brit songbird Adele was forced to cancel nine US tour dates due to a nasty bout of laryngitis. “I’m really frustrated. I was hoping with a weeks rest I’d be better to sing again straight away,” she said at the time. “However there is…
Originally, the Crossfade staff was hyped as hell to party with R. Kelly. We Google Mapped the perfect route to Revolution Live. We packed our survival kit (change of clothes, condoms, pee poncho, etc.) for a night with the slow-jammin’ pervert. And we put in our official press credential request…
We here at Crossfade spend most of our time doing stuff like looking for legit work at Miami Beach megaclubs, making it rain with C. Breezy at the strip club, or waging guerrilla warefare on Biscayne Bay at the AAA. But now and again, we get this undeniable urge to…
Aside from being crazy stupid musical geniuses, R&B pop star Chris Brown and nimrod rapper Gucci Mane have a lot in common. For example, they’ve really got a way with the ladies. By which, of course, we mean that both C. Breezy and Radric Davis have been involved in unfortunate…
Back in the day (circa 1950), every person on Planet Earth was panicked about the impending apocalypse. The Soviets were hoarding warheads like bottles of vodka. The United States government was stacking ’em up like Coca-Cola. And in the interest of “national security,” our nation’s very best physicists and other…
In the hot-as-balls summer of 2009, three dudes from New York City — rappers Himanshu “Heems” Suri and Victor “Kool A.D.” Vazquez, and hype guy Ashok “Dapwell” Kondabolu — banded together under the vaguely ominous moniker Das Racist, made some beats, spit some rhymes, smoked way too much weed, and…
The great dance clubs of contemporary Western Civilization were built for drugged-up 20-year-old kids who can party all night, sleep 45 minutes, wake up at 6 a.m., go to work, punch out, start drinking on an empty stomach in the early evening, and then slip right back into manic dancing…
Whether two-steppin’ toward a birthday party, second line parade, or jazz funeral, New Orleans’s Hot 8 Brass Band always keeps it big, bad, and brassy. But over the years, the Hot 8’s battled through plenty of tough times. Three members — Jacob Johnson, Joseph “Shotgun Joe” Williams, and Dinerral Shavers…
Bryan Ferry at the Fillmore Miami Beach September 29
Hot 8 Brass Band at the Stage Miami September 29
Forward Motion Records’ one-year anniversary concert at Revolution Live September 29
Black Star’s Mos Def and Talib Kweli With Jay Rock, Black Bobby, and DJ D-Up Presented by Rock the Bells Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Better Than: Most Tuesdays on God’s great spaceship, Earth. Time travel can be a really good time. Especially when you’re talking about taking…
On September 21, 2011, at 11:08 p.m. in Jackson, Georgia, a death row inmate named Troy Davis, convicted 20 years ago for the murder of off-duty Savannah policeman Mark MacPhail, was executed by lethal injection. For decades, though, Davis, his supporters, and many justice advocates had proclaimed the prisoner’s innocence…
He’s a rapper. He’s a scholar. He’s the next candidate for the President of Hip-Hop. In just a couple of hours, Miami-via-D.C. rap mastermind, Square Biz label boss, and Harvard grad Larry Harris Jr., known on the streets and in the studios as Black Bobby, will be holding down the…
After months of teeth-grinding twists and turns, shadow games, and last-minute scheduling changes, the local 305 division of the Trece Army is finally gearing up for Calle 13’s Entren los Que Quieran tour. So synchonize your atomic watches, bust out your night-vision goggles, and fill your canteen. The invasion is…
According to Yelle’s official Safari Disco Tour forecast, party music peeps all over Planet Earth — specifically Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain, France, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Colombia — are about to get swept up in a perfect storm of French electro, fun times, and poppy weirdness. In the…
When it comes to being unhinged party animals, even the most debauched cool kids can’t compete with their dogs. Hipster pets are the wildest creatures on Earth, indulging every beastly urge (running naked in the streets, pissing in public, sniffing buttholes, having strange sex in the park, slurping psychedelic green…
Peter Bjorn and John All You Can Eat Tour Bardot Miami Friday, September 23, 2011 Better Than: Fancy food and show tunes. All hopped up on carbohydrates, squeezed into their best mature and sexy hipster gear, and still stuffed full of gourment grilled cheese, several hundred music-and-munchie fanatics flocked to…
Almost exactly 12 months ago, Miami music scene veteran and Dreaming in Stereo frontman Fernando Perdomo founded his very own label, giving it the most appropriate moniker — Forward Motion Records — that he could conjure up. “The label is very aptly named,” Perdomo says. “It’s all about small victories…
Wracked with unbelievable hunger in anticipation of Peter, Bjorn, and John’s All You Can Eat tour stop at Bardot, we here at Crossfade have spent a totally ridiculous chunk of time fantasizing about tuneage and food pairings like “Young Folks” and Seared Foie Gras, Encrusted With Pop Rocks; “Nothing To…
Trey Songz at King of Diamonds September 24
Peter Bjorn and John’s All You Can Eat tour at Bardot September 23
