If you’ve been paying any attention to Crossfade’s occasional pre-show coverage of the MTV Video Music Awards, you’ve no doubt taken note of the fact that we consider Music Television to be a soul-sucking celebreality wasteland and its marquee annual event, the VMAs, to be a total joke that only…
See the full 30-photo Jacuzzi Boys’ Glazin’ Record Release slideshow. Jacuzzi Boys Glazin’ Release Party With Loose Stools, Snakehole, and The Jameses Churchill’s Pub Saturday, August 27, 2011 Better Than: Pricey perspiration therapy at a hippie health retreat. Getting drunk. Eating cheap. Forgetting to take our vitamins. We’re pretty much…
We here at Crossfade had massive plans to spend last night swagging out with Metro Zu, O’Grime, and Chalk at The Stage. And if you paid close attention to the party scenario laid out in last week’s epic interview with the Zu crew and the O’Grime guys, you know that…
If you’ve got good memories of getting drunk on the cheap, dancing in the dark, and ripping off your clothes at the old Buck 15 at 707 Lincoln Lane, then you’ll be stoked that the momentarily homeless South Beach party spot has already locked down a new location. The street…
When ex-teenage drama queen and current courtroom fixture Lindsay Lohan dropped a silly lawsuit against Pitbull last week, citing “disparaging” and “defamatory” lyrics from his song “Give Me Everything,” we here at Crossfade called her out for trying to score an easy payday. Pit, meanwhile, kept his head. And as…
Smokin’ and drankin’ under blacklight is just another day on the motherfucking job for Metro Zu. And last week, between discussing the art of swag with us and whipping up a “Fuck the Hurricane!” flyer for tonight’s Crossfade music series show at The Stage, the Zu crew’s Lofty, RubenSlikk, Freebase,…
Who’s Zed? He’s dead. His brains got blown out by bass. And two Toronto dubsteppers named DC and Hooks pulled the trigger. Coming together in 2009, after an earlier collaborative project called Mass Productions went kaput, the Zeds Dead dudes have been stretching the limits of dubstep for almost three…
Lucenzo at Grand Central August 27
Metro Zu and O’Grime for the Crossfade music series at the Stage August 25
What do you get when a mike mangler named Pitbull humps the Miami Sound Machine? A barking, buzzing remix of “Wepa.” Last week, we here at Crossfade unleashed our Martian chonga for Otto Von Schirach’s mega-mix of the first single off the impending Gloria Estefan album, Miss Little Havana. Of…
Mogul BFFs Jay-Z and Kanye West must be pretty pleased with themselves. After so many late nights spent studying one another’s awesomeness in the Roc Nation executive penthouse, Jay and Ye’s collaborative vanity project, Watch the Throne, has played out precisely as planned — selling 613,000 copies, kicking ass for…
Download “Agua de Poço” for free from spamallstars.bandcamp.com. It is rare. But now and again, mystics and other wanderers will stumble upon a hidden place where the water is naturally sweetened by psychotropic substances. These are Mother Nature’s fonts of inspiration. Normally, you’d only find such secret spots amid the…
According to the National Hurricane Center, there is a nasty bitch with one eye named Irene who’s gonna come crashing through “the Southeastern…Central…and Northwestern Bahamas” today. She’s a “category three hurricane.” She’s whipping up winds of 115 mph. And she’s pissing “1 to 3 inches” of rain on any fool…
Listen to all 10 tracks off Glazin’, out August 30, at spin.com. Want three really good reasons you shouldn’t miss Jacuzzi Boys’s Glazin’ album release bash at Churchill’s Pub this Saturday? OK, (1) There will be wine and whiskey; (2) You’ll get to party with a band Crossfade likes to…
There are plenty of foolish admirers — still under the spell of 2009’s hypnotic art-pop album Lungs — who wouldn’t mind sacrificing themselves to the sea for Florence Welch. The red-headed siren has got that ethereal yet dangerous thing going on. And her new track “What the Water Gave Me”…
It is officially time to Check Yo’ Ponytail. Yesterday, the L.A. party collective — Iheartcomix’s Franki Chan, Media Contender’s Danny Johnson, and Zane Landreth — announced that it’ll be dragging its monthly Echoplex open-genre explosion across the country on a 10-city road trip up the West Coast, over to Chi-Town…
After the news of Lindsay Lohan’s lame-ass lawsuit against Pitbull leaked across the interweb late last week, it didn’t take too long for Mr. Worldwide to respond. No, he didn’t talk shit via Twitter. He didn’t toss off an expletive-filled Facebook rant. And he didn’t organize a mass album burning…
For the last five months, the local 305 division of the Trece army has been stuck on high alert, awaiting the arrival of its commander-in-chief René Pérez Joglar, AKA Residente, and sergeant-at-arms Eduardo José Cabra Martínez, AKA Visitante. It all started on April 7 when Crossfade relayed a Calle 13…
Go RSVP for the Crossfade Music Series via Facebook and invite all your homies and hoochies. Whatever the haters may say, we here at Crossfade aren’t just a gang of mindless party people. We are also pop philosophers. And lately, we’ve been asking ourselves some pretty deep questions, like, “What…
Now that she’s all grown up and unemployed, former teen movie star and fake blonde Lindsay Lohan has been desperately scrambling to find a reliable revenue stream. (You know, so she can continue to support her nasty peroxide habit.) And apparently, after a whole lotta scheming with a top-notch legal…
Forget Gaga, Katy Perry, and all those other hot pop bimbos. We here at Crossfade have just discovered a totally local blonde bombshell named Marlon Alarm. We came across the self-described “singer/songwriter/artist” just as he was heading down down a random backalley in Little Havana to get stuffed into an…
Our very own weirdo genius Dino Felipe is getting ready to hit the road. And he needs our help, i.e. $$$. Hence, a Kickstarter campaign. At the end of September, he and his sidekick This Heart Electric (AKA Ricardo Guerrero of “Miami Venues Suck Dick” fame) plan to load their…
