Yo, beat freaks! It’s time again to break out your Ultra/Miami Music Week 2011 bingo cards. Only 12 hours ago, we here at Crossfade filled our very first square by spotting a guy with the Ultra logo shaved into the back of his head at Juicy Beach. And already we’re…
See the full 23-photo Pretty Lights at the Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow. It’s Miami Music Week! How do we know? ‘Cause Denver party dude and record label boss Pretty Lights (AKA Derek Vincent Smith) confirmed it last night at the Fillmore Miami Beach, shouting: “It’s Miami Music Week! That’s what…
Stumbling straight off the hot, hard streets of the Bay Area’s grittier easterly half, Oakland’s Bare Wires is a group of three guys — Matthew, Nathan, and Brian — who look like pretty ’70s stoners and make a sound they describe as slop pop. If the threesome’s new-ish song “Don’t…
On October 19, 1963, a potential heir to the throne of best rapper alive was born in the Bronx. His name was Keith Matthew Thornton. And after an incubation period of 25 years, the kid became a crazy lyrical chemist who called himself Kool Keith. Starting out as one-fourth of…
Yeah, it’s easy to feel like a freaking superhero when you’re rolling fast, hard, and free. You might even look pretty awesome. But just wait till the next morning. Last night, Dutch DJ and crazy rave-y ringmaster Laidback Luke brought his Super You & Me party to LIV — not…
He combed his hair, bought a week’s supply of Binaca, rented a tux, scored a corsage, and blew up a giant freaking balloon. And now dapper DJ, experimental electronic producer, and avowed Sunday Schooler Frivolous (AKA Daniel Gardner) would like to celebrate Ultra week and the release of his new…
It’s been only about three months since beloved local quirk-pop queen Rachel Goodrich left you, me, and the Magic City for the big, bright floodlights of La La Land. And already we miss her so much. We watched helplessly as Rachel picked out her favorite records, stuffed her suitcase, and…
Ultra Music Festival: A simple 15-act itinerary for March 25 to 27
Ultra week party picks for March 24 to 27
You’ve slept. You’ve showered. You’ve done a little bit of pre-drinking while dancing naked around your apartment. You’ve finally slipped into some clean clothes. And now you’re starting to feel like the time is right to strip down again and sacrifice your Ultra week virginity. So why not head to…
Let’s be prepared, beat freaks. There is absolutely no reason to wait till we’re trapped at the bottom of a 1000-foot k-hole to start planning our Ultra Music Festival itinerary. So before digging out our dosage, stripping down to our rubber underwear, and temporarily leaving behind these human husks we…
What’s a crack reporter over at the Miami Herald to do when the newswire stops spitting out 700 words’ worth of cheap and easy automatic copy every couple of minutes? Read and regurgitate a tabloid rag called New Times, obviously. If, like us, you buy the Herald’s bloated Sunday edition…
You were lazy. You were broke. You were stupid. And now you’re standing ticketless and bereft outside Bicentennial Park, peering enviously at all those beaded, drooling pookie heads as they bask in the Day Glo wonder of this year’s totally sold-out Ultra Music Festival. Sure, in a desperate, last-ditch stab…
You really, really, really want to spend the night at Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel. But how do you even find the place? Well, you could always try to track the synthy cinematic overload of the club-killing triumvirate’s superhit single “One” to its source. However, here’s another (admittedly fictional) way:…
We don’t like to admit it. But sometimes we here at Crossfade screw up. The most recent example: In an item on the Pretty Lights Showcase from last week’s special New Times Miami Music Guide 2011, we stated that Derek Vincent Smith’s party at the Fillmore Miami Beach had “sold…
See the full 20-photo slideshow of Lauryn Hill’s Moving Target Intimate Playdate at Grand Central. Lauryn Hill’s Moving Target Intimate Playdate Series Grand Central Sunday, March 20 Better Than: Hill’s Saturday set at Jazz in the Gardens. At 1:45 a.m. on Sunday, Crossfade broke the news about Ms. Lauryn Hill’s…
See the full 22-photo Jazz in the Gardens slideshow. Jazz in the Gardens With Ms. Lauryn Hill, Charlie Wilson, Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, Al Jarreau, Layla Hathaway, and Others Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens Saturday, March 19, 2011 Better Than: Hanging out with Kenny G in the bushes…
See Crossfade’s recap, pics, and vids from Lauryn Hill’s Moving Target Intimate Playdate show at Grand Central. Just 30 minutes ago, Ms. Lauryn Hill wrapped her only officially announced Miami set of the weekend at the first night of Jazz in the Gardens music festival. After 15 songs, including deeply…
Boomers, halt! There’s no need to spend the next 29 hours swaddling yourself in a million chiffon scarves or feathering, highlighting, mousseing, and teasing your hair in deference to Witchy Stevie and ol’ Rod the Bod. Tomorrow night’s Heart and Soul Tour nostalgia session starring Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart…
Mr. Luther Campbell has always had some pretty radical ideas. Of course, he was once part of that filthy little hip-hop trio called 2 Live Crew, which earned him and his homies serious heat from the American Family Association for supremely sexed-up lyrics like: “Girls always ask me why I…
Uncle Luke’s Hot Cakes at Finnegan’s River March 26
Nervous Records party at the Clevelander March 27
