If you really want Memorials (and ex-Mars Volta) drummer Thomas Pridgen to define his Bay Area band’s powerfully psych-y, soul-spiked tuneage, you’re almost gonna have to bully him into it. That’s how a plucky music reporter for the Danbury, Conneticut daily News-Times managed to break down Pridgen’s resistance last week,…
Back in the day, circa 1996, the hip-hop world was all about the gangsta rap and busting caps, not the boom-bap and phat flips. Nevertheless, a couple of local b-boys named Richard “Speedy Legs” Fernandez and Steven “Zulu Gremlin” Roybal decided it was time to bring breakdancing back. So they…
Girl Talk at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 19 and 20
2 Live Crew at Exxxotica Expo May 21
Porn and Miami go way, way, way back. All the way to January 1972, in fact, when writer-director Jerry Gerard (AKA Gerard Damiano) and producer Lou Perry (AKA Louis “Butchie” Peraino, son of mob guy Anthony Peraino) brought a young, fat, and very talented little 23-year-old lady named Linda Lovelace…
If, like Crossfade, you’re a total electronic music junkie, you must be going crazy, chewing your lips, and sweating through your DayGlo t-shirt. You just want that uhntz uhntz. And so far, the Identity Festival has been playing plenty of purposefully secretive games, teasing us, screwing with our heads, and…
With only ten days left until the Miami-Dade county mayoral election, the honorable and horny Luther Campbell was running third in polls with ten percent of the action. It was time to hit that shit hard. It was time to rally the freaks. It was time to wild out for…
It was almost exactly seven weeks ago during Miami Music Week when glossy flyers advertising a gig by Kid Cudi at La Covacha started showing up all over the city, tacked to telephone polls, tossed in the gutter, and being used at the Vagabond as coasters for Colt 45s. The…
After a half-week’s worth of happy hours at the Palace, girl-on-girl bowling, traffic jams, and Havana nights, Aqua Girl 2011’s hottest, wettest, and wildest six hours took place this Saturday when the annual lesbian, bisexual, and trangender fest stripped down to its bikini, bling, and best shades for the Aqua…
Read Crossfade’s full feature article “The Spastic Science! Girl Talk Is All About Confetti, Sweat, and Scientific Rigor.” Gearing up for the Girl Talk experience at the Fillmore Miami Beach this Thursday and Friday, we’ve slipped into our wettest jeans, bought a bunch of contraceptives, guzzled a gallon of Red…
Have you ever slipped into a pair of wet jeans, popped a pill, shared drinks with a stranger, rubbed private parts with 4000 people, and danced so hard you blacked out before waking up for another night of the exact same thing? Well, get ready for your first Girl Talk…
Del the Funky Homosapien at Churchill’s Pub May 13
Truth at the Vagabond May 12
Every year when the weather tuns hot, sticky, and superintense, South Beach gets flooded with a million ladies who love ladies for a weeklong rush of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender fun. It’s called Aqua Girl and the parties get started tonight. Expect LGBT mob scenes at the Palace for happy…
OK, so we were joking about the professional part. There are no suits and ties in the Crossfade office. And we don’t carry a briefcase unless it’s full of Four Loko. But we do got jobs! And if you wanna write about music and get paid for it, like Lester…
Miami loves the ladies who take off their clothes for cash. And we also dig cheap shitty tacos at 4 a.m. after we’ve left the titty bar. But for the longest time, we were wondering: Why don’t we have a dirty fucking rap anthem for our sloppy Wednesday-night, cash-wasting, beef-gobbling…
Most professional politicians don’t know how to party. Their idea of “fun” is finger foods, light drinks, and saxophone music. So under normal circumstances, we here at Crossfade prefer partying to politicking, boozing to bargaining, drugging to debating. But Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Luther Campbell is different. As we all know,…
On Friday night, the Fillmore Miami Beach got slammed by an ass-blasting bass party when Zeds Dead invaded the place and hijacked the sound system with the help of Caligula, Juan BassHead, and a whole mob of unhinged rumble junkies. It was the second installment of Live Nation and Embrace’s…
You were probably under the impression that our calendar was divided into only four seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Wrong … You forgot the Hot and Sexy season. It’s that time of the year when the sun reaches peak intensity and people start to take off their clothes …..
Everybody knows that former Vice President Dick Cheney is old, sick, and possibly evil. But is he a pimp? Yes, indeed. And despite the fact that Cheney is a 70-year-old end-stage heart failure case who’s contemplating a transplant while being kept alive by a battery-powered device that helps feed blood…
Look at him now! Yesterday, Chris Brown turned 22 years old. And tonight’s the so-called “Official Celebrity Birthday Party” at Club Play. But if you’re gonna go scream “Happy B-Day!” in the little sparkplug’s face, you can’t show up empty-handed. It’s only good manners to bring a gift. What, though,…
If you wanna be a word nerd about it, truth is a judgement, proposition, or idea generally accepted by the global human community to be factually proven and reality tested. Like, Bass is bad for your health. But it’s good for your ass. Or, Dubstep kills crappy parties. In this…
