Following his nasty, shocking split from America’s favorite Latina ice queen, salsa-pop singer and semi-serious actor Marc Anthony’s been in the news a lot. Of course, when we say news, we mean that his bony face has been splashed all over tabloid rags, celebrity gossip websites, and supposedly reputable entertainment…
Even as night falls, you’ve gotta keep it business casual. Just ask masters of smoothness David Macklovitch and Patrick Gemayel. Better known as Dave 1 and P-Thugg of Chromeo, these electro-funk freaks will teach your amateur ass all about the finer points of staying sexy, keeping it fresh, and making…
Now and again, the average music fan needs to escape the humdrum realities of daily life by fleeing to some alluringly exotic locale (say, uh, Pensacola), sucking back loads of intoxicants (only legal shit, of course), and vibing out to a cross-genre clusterfuck of awesome tuneage at a really rad…
Hey, you totally out-of-control choral music fanatics! Turn down that hyper-climactic fugue for a second and listen up … Local ensemble Seraphic Fire, fronted by artistic director and conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley, just released its version of Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, a fresh slab of quasi-classical awesomeness. And already,…
Between 1974 and ’78, America’s youth got hooked on a truly putrid form of faddish dance music called disco. The shirts were sickeningly shiny. The pants were excruciatingly tight. And Miami’s own KC (born Harry Wayne Casey), along with his Sunshine Band, provided the soundtrack for this sweaty, polyester-clad shuffle…
There’s nothing better than strapping on your Speedo, soaking up some rays, and getting a little tipsy in the plunge pool at “an appropriately oriented hotel” like Lords South Beach while oily bods and beach balls fly around willy-nilly. As Lords itself proclaims, that’s the kind of “fun, posh, friendly,…
In March, the Langerado Music Festival announced its return after a long two-year abscence, exclaiming, “the wait is officially over.” Backed by Florida’s Boros Entertainment and Austin’s C3 Presents, there was hope that Langerado could avoid being sunk — as it had in 2009 — by “‘sluggish ticket sales,’ and…
Yesterday afternoon, we here at Crossfade got word that DJ Benton Galgay’s Eclectic Electric party with Möthersky and Snakehole (originally scheduled for last night) was going to be postponed till October. Why? The Electric Pickle had been suddenly (though temporarily) shut down by the City of Miami Department of Fire-Rescue…
Ever fantasized about hiring Pitbull to be your friend for a weekend? Well, dreams come true! And all you gotta do is pay $399 per night. If your holiday weekend is still a giant gaping three-day block of nothing, the Fontainebleau Miami Beach is offering three very special Voli Labor…
If you ain’t a total b-ball junkie, you might not know there’s a 19-year-old Lithuanian phenom named Jonas Valanciunas who’s been going hard in the paint, snatching down rebounds like Moses Malone on steroids, and dunking with impunity on the entire motherfucking European continent. But on June 23, 2011, homie…
Sure, we here at Crossfade were fully aware that White Stripes, Raconteurs, and Dead Weather mastermind Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis) was a proud son of the Motor City. But we never expected that he’d come crawling out of the clown closet in full Juggalo regalia (Faygo-stained XXXL t-shirt,…
Have you’ve seen (or, well, heard) Nine Types of Light? It’s the new-ish album by Brooklyn’s TV on the Radio and it’s so blindingly brilliant that if a weak-eyed, sensitive-eared indie kid such as yourself isn’t very, very, very careful (i.e. UV-shield sunglasses and silicone), he or she could end…
Zeds Dead at the Fillmore Miami Beach September 2
Miami’s best Labor Day 2011 parties: Young Money, Uncle Luke, Gucci Mane, and the King of Diamonds
The awesome promise of sea-faring adventure with Thee Oh Sees, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, DJ Jonathan Toubin, the Soft Pack, the Dirtbombs, and Neil Hamburger should’ve been enough for you to grab your sunglasses, stuff your hipster junk into a banana hammock (or perhaps a palm tree-print bathing suit), and…
When a homie loses his life in the streets, there are all kinds of ways to honor his memory. You could say a prayer. Get a tattoo. Empty a 40 oz. bottle of Olde English on his grave. Organize an annual celebration of his enduring legacy. Write a musical tribute…
Stumbling upon Perez Hilton’s most recent video post about Kim Kardashian, we exclaimed, “Sweet, another sex tape!,” removed our pants, and hit the play button. For the first 23 seconds, we were really digging it. Sweaty and scantily clad with a face full of smeared makeup, there’s Kim K., dressed…
Newsflash! South Beach is a cesspool of Sodom and Gommorrah-style excess! While most Americans are collecting pennies from public fountains, replacing the ground beef in their Hamburger Helper with cat food, and crapping their pants in fear of the dreaded double-dip recession, SoBe residents (and the superrich jetsetters they schmooze,…
Thanks to a raging bitch named Irene, the Identity Festival’s originally scheduled Miami stop got canceled. Or, as the official ID Fest statement said: “Due to the potential effects of Hurricane Irene, the Thursday, August 25 date of the Identity Festival presented by Skullcandy is being postponed. Details regarding a…
Just a few days after Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against Pitbull for disparaging her name on summer hit “Give Me Everything,” Mr. Worldwide announced plans to perform the song at the MTV Video Music Awards. It was a subtle way of saying, “Suck it, bruha.” Then last week, Pit…
When Miami isn’t being threatened with monsoon rains, catastrophic flooding, and 180-mph winds by monster-sized hurricanes raging through the hot summer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, it’s a nice place to have a pool party. On the last day of every weekend, Ryan Evans, Ruen, and an entourage of cabana…
As federally mandated by the United States government, the first Monday of every September is set aside for the celebration of the unionized labor movement and all of the lives lost in the workforce’s never-ending war with The Man. Of course, we’re talking about Labor Day. And all across the…
