See the cut for a free download of A Totally Non-Ironic TBD Party Mix. When you shake ass to Salt-N-Pepa’s superfun 1986 sex song “Push It” while guzzling a gallon’s worth of rubyfruit jungle juice shots, you better really, really, really freaking mean it? Otherwise, don’t even bother showing up…
As if Sunday School for Degenerates wasn’t already a crazy-ass concept, Made Event’s decided to dial up the wonk to an an almost unsafe level. Step One: Expand the deviant dance marathon from 24 to 36 hours. Step Two: Book Richie Hawtin, Tiga, Adultnapper, and a ton of others. Step…
If folk wisdom can be believed, a Latin person’s blood runs two or three degrees hotter than the normal core temperature of 98.6 fahrenheit. This condition is called la pasión and it explains why the American Airlines Arena becomes a 19,000-person sweat lodge every time someone like Marco Antonio Solis…
For those street heads whose chronic-sucking, crip-walking heyday is 15 years behind them, Queens-born Puerto Rican rapper Victor Santiago Jr. will forever be known as Noreaga. Partnered up with fellow NYC product Kiam Akasi Halley (AKA Capone), Santiago co-owned the East Coast rap game for a solid minute in the…
Did you waste three hours of your life watching the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards last night? Well, congrats … You got almost 15 minutes of genuine entertainment out of the deal. For one, Bieber took a beating at the hands of Best New Artist Esperanza Spalding. For another, Snooki stalked…
See the full 24-photo Flogging Molly slideshow. Flogging Molly Seventh Annual Green 17 Tour 2011 With Drowning Men and Moneybrother Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday, February 12, 2011 Better than: A gallon of Guinness. Even though it’s a big boozy band of seven Irish punks, Flogging Molly is always on time…
Have you seen the very meta, ’80s-referencing music video for Dragonette and Martin Solveig’s hyperactive retro-house collabo track “Hello”? If not, see the cut immediately. All the dudes look like Bjorn Borg and all the ladies look like Christie Brinkley. The premise: Solveig (DJ Mag-ranked number 47) and fellow funky…
Despite its girly name, the Pinker Tones is a 100-percent male band formed in 2001 by two dapper dudes from Barcelona, Salvador “Mister Furia” Rey and Alex “Professor Manso” Llovet. Also, if you’re expecting some kind of sonic cutesiness befitting pink, you’re off the mark again. There’s nothing especially twee…
If you’re among the fortunate few whose acid-soaked inner child hasn’t been snuffed by a billion boring days at the office, then Rachel Goodrich’s twisted, jaunty tune “Light Bulb” should still fill your skull with all kinds of weird and wacky hallucinations. “You know, I like to take a dark…
Have you sold your Serta, gutted your bedroom, and turned it into an elaborate shrine to the magic of percussion by erecting an exact replica of Rush beatkeeper Neil Peart’s 360-degree drum kit? Or do you prefer to bang on a beat-up trashcan? Either way, go join Roofless Records’ Percussion…
After stocking Sunday School for Degenerates with 30 stellar DJs such as minimal mastermind Richie Hawtin and then another 10 including Guy Gerber, Heidi, and Jesse Rose, Made Event’s gotten busy bringing the bang to its other Ultra week engagement, the Anjunabeats party at Ice Palace Studios. As always, trance-y…
Indeed, Crossfade’s 24-hour Swedish House Mafia watch continues … Back in December, we announced that Masquerade Motel would be returning to Miami for some serious Ultra week excess. Then we blasted the lineup (Calvin Harris! A-Trak! Eight More!) across the interweb. And now here’s the latest news: The club-killing triumverate…
See the full Yann Tiersen slideshow. With S. Casey Presented by the Rhythm Foundation Grand Central Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Better than: Just a Wednesday night soundtrack. With his first three albums — 1995’s La Valse Des Monstres (The Monster’s Waltz), 1996’s Rue des Cascades (Road of Waterfalls), 1998’s Le…
Growing up in suburban White Plains, New York, during the early ’90s, Matisyahu (born Matthew Paul Miller) was a pretty average teenage kid. He watched a lot of MTV. He listened to De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest. And he smoked weed. The son of liberal, social worker…
For a certain kind of music snob, there’s nothing more annoying than all that saccharine radio-pop stuff called bachata. At best, it’s elevator muzak. At worst, it sounds like a sad baby wailing over a karaoke tape full of stuttering guitar, bongo, and maracas. But there are millions of people…
Whoa, have you heard Nicki Minaj’s remix of “Hold You,” the sexy hit single by smooth reggae dude Gyptian? If the answer is no, then you are way, way, way behind the game (and potentially celibate) ’cause this lusty, little tag-team track totally dominated the Summer 2010 baby-making season. Oozing…
If you can believe it, there was a time, i.e. back in the day, when a female with a microphone could be cute, dirty, sexy, funny, and smart. This was before Lil Kim and the boom of the MC slut. And back then, the undisputed rap scene queens were the…
Hey noiseniks, it’s time again to subject your auditory system to those 72 hours of awesome sonic abuse known as International Noise Conference. As always, Rat Bastard and Laundry Room Squelchers will be helming the whole thing with backup from a sprawling roster of 100-plus gear freaks and brutal geeks,…
Can you imagine roadtripping through the hot gothic guts of Florida with a bunch of crazy old limey metalheads and one skinny zombie named Eddie the Head? Well, the members of Miami metal crew Black Tide are doing more than just dreaming about a lost weekend among hard rock royalty and the…
Dear devout fans of Miami’s college radio jocks: You did it! You gave two of our raddest local broadcasters a Woodie. Well, almost. Yesterday, WVUM 90.5 FM and FIU’s Radiate FM both advanced to the final pool of 25 nominees in the furious fight to win this year’s MTV Woodie…
Let’s blame too much coffee and a raging case of ADD. This morning, Crossfade gave WVUM props for its MTV Woodie nomination and urged you all to vote for the Voice. We failed to notice, however, that another one of Miami’s awesome college radio stations, FIU’s Radiate FM, had also…
We here at Crossfade wanna give WVUM 90.5 FM a Woodie. And you should too. Last week, the Voice of the University of Miami scored a nomination from MTV for America’s best college radio station. And while the pool of potential winners has already been slashed down to 50, the…
