For such a tiny book (a 112-page, six-inch square), it sure took a whole team of authors to complete Akashic’s Please Take Me Off the Guest List. The most famous contributor, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, snapped photos of couples kissing, black metal wannabes, and baby rats in toilets…

In the run-up to massive reggae fest Bayside Rocks, Crossfade’s already spoken with Frederick “Toots” Hibbert about the birth of reggae. We’ve also convened with Puerto Rican crew Cultura Profética. (Not to mention, we’ve spent the week revisiting our cache of Marley albums, Marcus Garvey manifestos, and hydroponic ganja.) But…

For days, we here at Crossfade have been tirelessly reporting minute-to-minute developments in arty party music news. Now we’ve got our very own Basel week bash. Two, actually. As one of the seven main sponsors for this year’s fifth annual Fountain Art Fair Miami, New Times is psyched to announce…

It’s time to work it out, bitches. Slip on your sleeveless hoodies and bike shorts, suck some Red Bull, and stretch like a cheerleader ’cause Get Physical label guy and M.A.N.D.Y. member Philipp Jung is back for Basel 2010. You can definitely expect Hamburg, Germany’s DJ Koze (AKA Adolf Noise,…

Never known for moderation, the Overthrow crew wasn’t about to let Art Basel Miami Beach week slip past without plotting some kind of epic descent into nth-level fun and excess. Hence, Basel Castle, a 12-hour carnival of tuneage, booze, games, freakshows, and other odd arty stuff. Already, superfly Brooklynite Theophilus…

Toots and the Maytals at Bayside Rocks Festival November 20

See photos and video from Metric’s Art Basel Miami Beach show. You know, world-famous art is kinda cool. But free beach parties are even cooler. And this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach is again throwing a big, weeklong bash at Collins Park’s Oceanfront pavilion, all masterminded by arty nonprofit Creative…

Despite the virtually non-existent crowd and Iceberg’s no-show, yesterday afternoon’s New Times hip-hop stage was pretty solid. Kicking it off, Ramzez rolled through a rapid-fire set of gritty shit and hard beats. And then, Ghostwridah ran things a little deeper in the same direction. Why didn’t Iceberg make the gig?…

See the full 22-photo Vivian Girls slideshow. Over the weekend, there was this thing called the “Miami Music Festival.” We here at Crossfade chattered about it for days like a bunch of monkeys on speed. Some of you seemed to take notice. Others simply dismissed that noise as schizo babble…

It was the 28th hour of the Miami Music Festival. And out in the Tobacco Road parking lot amid broken beer bottles and oil-stained asphalt, Fernando Perdomo and Forward Motion Records laid down a low-key powwow. The night’s full lineup included Lauren & Alexandra Mann, Lizette Santana, Jill Hartmann, Vic…

See the full 34-photo New Times VIP Party slideshow. Did you make it to New Times’ Miami Music Festival thing at the Stage last night? If not, there could be a few reasons. For starters, it was only open to “Very Important People.” (Boo, right?) Next, maybe you failed to…