The American interstate system is a dangerous maze, riddled with death traps and dead ends. Of course, there’s the always-imminent threat of being maimed (or worse) in a fiery, 27-car pileup disaster. But you’re also prime prey for recreational road-ragers, random rest stop ambushes, and catastrophic heart failure due to…
After a quick trip to El Gato Tuerto and a few games of pool at El Primer Molino Rojo, you’re headed for this new music joint called Performing Arts Exchange, or PAX. You’ve got the street address. You’ve Google-mapped it. And you’re cruising down Calle Ocho with the windows down…
The tango has a gloriously twisted history. And Tango Conspiracy, led by Buenos Aires-bred, Miami-based singer, songwriter, and taskmaster Jimena Fama, is only the latest chapter. Invented by ex-slaves and peasants, the tango was born on the banks of the Río de la Plata, a large, triangular body of water…
Beach Boys and Gloria Gaynor at the Fillmore Miami Beach April 14
Bomba Estereo at Grand Central April 14
Sweatstock and Record Store Day at Sweat Records April 16
Can you hear that slow-building beat rumbling through the streets? It doesn’t matter whether you’re downtown, over in the Design District, or holed up in the Grove. There’s no avoiding it … You can feel it in your feet, your knees, and your gut. For the 13th year in a…
We here at Crossfade generally consider ourselves to be gentle, caring individuals with boundless love for our fellow human creatures. So why is it that we find other people’s pain so fucking funny? Especially celebrity pain? Honestly, it’s sick. And right now, we can’t stop crapping our pants over this…
See Sweatstock 2011’s full lineup and set times. Thanks to Napster, Steve Jobs, and the overlords of the Internet, we all live in an increasingly immaterial world where the only acceptable way to package, market, and consume music is the ubiquitous MP3 or some comparable digital audio encoding format. Needless…
A month and a half ago, hyperkinetic copyright prankster and Illegal Art label boss Girl Talk (AKA Greg Gillis) revealed that he was “extending his pheremone-soaked North American spree by scheduling another 38 sweaty encounters, including a gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 19.” Immediately, all the little hipsters…
Are you ready to go psycho with Sweat Records, Panic Bomber, and the other 35 local noise fiends set to invade the Little Haiti record shop, its parking lot, and the entirety of the Churchill’s Pub complex in t-minus five days? Well, we here at Crossfade have already started stashing…
It’s kinda embarrassing. But lately, we here at Crossfade have been crushing on Mr. Ricky Martin (or as we like to call him, Señor Bon Bon) in a hot, gooey, and very public way. This infatuation started ten days ago when we suddenly noticed a throbbing in our pelvic region…
What? Are you serious? Iggy Pop on American Fucking Idol? I thought the apocalypse wasn’t scheduled to swallow us all till 2012. Yet according to Crossfade’s own personal bible, the end of the world would be heralded by five terrifying occurrences: (1) Steven Tyler would fall off a stage in…
With ten Latin Grammys and even a pair of standard gold-plated gramophophone statuettes stashed in the safe, it’s been a solid minute since Calle 13’s Residente and Visitante could be legitimately called underground guerilla rappers. They’re signed to Sony Music Latin. They’re on the cover of Rolling Stone Argentina. They’re…
Check out Crossfade’s previous post for a free download of A Totally Non-Ironic TBD Party Mix. When you’re drunk off your ass on rubyfruit jungle juice and dancing like a fly girl (or guy) in a too-tight thong, the world is a better place. And that’s one reason you should…
If, like Crossfade, you’ve actually attended the annual Exxxotica Expo at the Miami Beach Convention Center (or some comparably antiseptic megavenue in Chicago, Los Angeles, or New Jersey) and not just feverishly daydreamed about it while rubbing your sweaty palms together in the parking lot, you already know that the…
Back in the early ’90s, almost no one — except Pablo Escobar, his fellow kings of cocaine, and their constantly warring cartels — would’ve ever willingly taken a trip to Colombia’s 473-year-old subtropical capital, Bogotá. These days, though, the city is a dense urban hub that’s home to seven million…
Sluggo at Eve April 8
Jacobs Ladder’s Back to Life album release at Churchill’s Pub April 8
Who’s ready to kick off those flip-flops, slurp back some piña coladas, and go disco dancing barefoot on the sands of Kokomo? The Beach Boys will be there. And Gloria Gaynor too. But, um, it’s also gonna cost you $325. C’mon, people. Don’t be so cynical. The big fat pricetag…
To succeed in a world where you’d need a calculator to count all the haters, you gotta have non-stop hustle. Start yourself on the path From the Bottom to the Top by downloading a free copy of the new mixtape-slash-street-guide by hustle consultant and Little Haiti rapper Ball Greezy. Alongside…
It’d be so effing awesome to be Hugh Hefner, right? Well, maybe … We here at Crossfade can’t decide. On the one hand, he’s 168 years old. His spousal support bills have gotta be astronomical. And he just got married again! Plus, Grandpa Playboy is probably only popping 16 little…
