Partying is serious business. Just ask Life and Death, the Berlin-slash-NYC-slash-Miami dance music collective. For the third straight season, L&D is teaming with PL0T to throw an Art Basel Miami Beach bash. But for the 2014 edition, they’ve also recruited the party pros at Poplife. Meanwhile, among the underground DJ/producer…
“I CANNOT WAIT!” Oh yes, all caps and exclamation points… That’s how excited Taylor Swift is about her 1989 World Tour. Another reason Ms. Swift is stoked: The 24-year-old record sales machine just released 1989, her fifth studio album (named, obvi, for the year of her birth), and it’s already…
Shockingly and suddenly. Just an hour ago, Wood Tavern owner and Wood Tavern Group founder Cesar Morales announced that he is shutting down both of his most recent nightlife ventures, Bizerq and Benchwarmers. Located in the former Soho Lounge building at 175 NE 36th St., Morales’ club and sports bar…
Break out the party favors. And hide your grandmas. ‘Cause it’s almost time for Fool’s Gold Day Off. Last year, this annual Art Basel Miami Beach week get-down brought out 305 legend Trick Daddy and nearly the entire Fool’s Gold crew for thousands of rap fans, hipsters, and arty partiers…
“This is a music festival that can truly call itself jazz.” For a second-consecutive season, Miami Beach Jazz Festival founder Carmen J. Cartiglia has indeed assembled a fine lineup of modern masters. Last year, celebrating the inaugural edition of the fest, he tapped headliner Michelle Coltrane, the only daughter of…
Does Pitbull’s “Timber” make you wanna murder? Are you effin’ fed up with fake DJs like Paris Hilton getting paid $1 million per night? Time to play Ghosts ‘n DJs, a new, retro video game from a Spanish electronic music producer named Dr. Kuch. The mission… Rid mankind of all…
Her skull was fractured. And her leg was broken. However, beyond those basic facts, the seriousness of security guard Erica Mack’s injuries, sustained during a gatecrashing incident at Ultra Music Festival 2014, was unknown. At least until yesterday, when Mack spoke for the first time, after seven months of silence,…
On Friday, March 28, 2014, Erica Mack, a 29-year-old security guard working Ultra Music Festival was critically injured when she was trampled by a stampeding horde of gatecrashers. “I suffered two fractures in my skull. A temporal fracture and a fracture at the base of my skull,” she tells Crossfade,…
It was midnight. Just hours till Tobacco Road’s last call ever. After almost 102 years, 626 S. Miami Avenue’s final beer and a shot would be served at 5 a.m. on a Sunday morning. But like the Road’s owner Pat Gleber said: “That’s only officially. We have to stop selling…
On opening day of Ultra Music Festival 2014, security guard Erica Mack was trampled by a gatecrashing mob that rushed the festival’s fences. She sustained a skull fracture and broken leg. And seven months later, she is still going through rehab for her severely injured lower limb. That’s why, as…
Iggy Pop isn’t a big fan of shirts. For casual hangouts, he arrives totally topless. On dressier occasions, the 67-year-old Godfather of Punk prefers a nice suit jacket over an unbuttoned blouse, flying open to reveal his rippled, bronzed torso. But what about those semiformal affairs, like last night’s launch…
Only three days till Tobacco Road closes. But today, a news conference was held at the almost-102-year-old club to reaffirm that “Miami’s oldest bar will live on.” As reported by Crossfade seven months ago, the Road’s staff, led by General Manager Joel Rivera, plans to raise money and move to…
“Ooh-ahh.” Whether you were a kid sitting down to cartoon time or a middle-aged perv prowling late-night TV for phone-sex ads … We all just couldn’t stop singing that orgasmic Mattress Giant jingle: “If you’re looking for that ooh-ahh feel, come to Mattress Giant/When you want that ooh-ahh deal, we’ve…
Suffering From Success is a lifelong condition. And last night DJ Khaled checked into Aventura Hospital because, as the title track off his most recent album explains, “The price of fame, shit real.” Though the actual cause of the big man’s visit remains a mystery, his stay might have been…
“Oh, hey, I wasn’t listening …” Well, we were just saying that English folkie Ben Howard is winding his way toward the Fillmore Miami Beach for a midwinter stop in the subtropics. This Brit Award-winning, Mercury Prize-nominated singer-songwriter will soon venture across America for the I Forget Where We Were…
“In some ways, yes. In some ways, no.” That’s how Capital Cities’ Ryan Merchant feels about his and bandmate Sebu Simonian’s so-called “overnight success.” As he pointed out to Crossfade a few months ago, the duo’s biggest hit, “‘Safe and Sound’ was put out in 2011, so it actually feels…
After nearly 102 years, Tobacco Road is closing. It’s been seven months since longtime owner Patrick Gleber told Crossfade that Miami’s oldest bar would soon be shuttering its doors. (The Road property was bought for $12.5 million by real estate developers in 2012.) And at the time, he said: “The…
It’s been a mere 13 hours and 30 minutes since the latest edition of III Points, Miami’s music, art, and tech fest, wrapped up. And yet… it’s already time to start planning the next arty party. After all, there’s just seven weeks and a few days till Basel madness seizes…
St. Vincent Fillmore Miami Beach Monday, October 6, 2014 Better Than: Doing the Automaton Shuffle alone. “Hello to all of you men and women out there,” said St. Vincent, welcoming a few thousand art-rock acolytes to the Fillmore Miami Beach last night. “And,” she added, after a pregnant pause, “all…
III Points, three days. The second annual edition of Wynwood’s music, art, and tech fest has finally made the big reveal of its 2014 music sked. Day by day. Hour by hour. So snatch up some last-minute tix. And check the cut for III Points’ music set times. See also:…
“Maybe it was crazy. But we believed.” Out of nowhere in the summer of 2013, Miami’s David Sinopoli and Erica Freshman unveiled their vision for something called III Points, a sprawling three-day festival that aimed to unite our city’s disparate creative communities — and perhaps even help forge the future…
Belle & Sebastian Fillmore Miami Beach Sunday, September 28, 2014 Better Than: Staying home, to paraphrase everyone’s favorite Glaswegian sextet, and playing with yourself. “We were here! Where were yooou?” Last night, the five guys and a gal of Belle & Sebastian finally graced a stage in the Sunshine State…
