Diabetes, a literal hole in the heart, and severe brain hemorrhaging would almost certainly kill the common man. Poison’s Bret Michaels, however, is not your average Joe. “I feel really great,” Michaels recently told the Columbus Dispatch. “I’m about 90-percent back from the hemorrhage and the heart surgery. I feel…
Maybe all those never-ending rainstorms that soaked South Beach through most of July have finally freaking disappeared. Or, maybe not, and August will be just as flooded by the Sunshine State’s infamous summer showers. But one thing’s certain: Whatever the weather, it’s always cool and sweaty inside SoBe’s clubs. At…
We keep telling ourselves that the Miami Marlins are a second-half team and hoping the Fish will shake their nine-year slump and make a playoff run. After all, we deserve it. Taxpayers spent far too much money building a new ballpark for a team that teeter-totters around .500. Sure, it’s…
Tercer Cielo at James L. Knight Center July 28
Jon Bon Jovi and the Kings of Suburbia at Hard Rock Live July 26
Six Best Club Parties on South Beach July 26-August 1
Vans Warped Tour 2012 at Cruzan Amphitheatre July 28
The music business doesn’t need another “unique artist” who blends “hip-hop, goth, pop, and funk with a rock star flare [sic] and major sex appeal.” So when Padge “Black Madam” Winslowe’s niche music career hit a brick wall, the Philly-based songstress started moonlighting as a purveyor of black-market butt injections,…
From ballads to ballots … Earlier this year, Marc Anthony appeared in a Latinos for Obama video, encouraging Hispanics to back Barack’s reelection bid. And over the last seven months, the soulful salsero has increasingly poured his energy into the president’s reelection bid, shifting his focus from music to politics…
Not only does Rick Ross’s Twitter feed remind us that God Forgives, I Don’t drops next week, it also updates us each time the MC sparks a fat blunt or drops stacks of money on jewelry, strippers, and steak dinners. Even though most of us will never sit courtside at…
President Obama’s in Florida today, campaigning ’round the Sunshine State and asking for money to help fund his re-election run. As y’all know, however, times are rough. And that remaining $10 from last week’s paycheck can either go toward helping POTUS secure four more years in the White House or…
Trina’s a bad bitch. In fact, she’s Da Baddest Bitch. And when you’ve earned that title, you’re granted a virtual get-out-of-jail-free card and the license to do pretty much whatever you please. So, while the rest of us are stuck in an office cubicle, Trina’s off presumably getting high and…
Kendrick Lamar’s performance at Pitchfork Music Festival on July 15 in Chicago was one of the most talked about sets of the entire weekend. And not because it was any better than usual. Despite being young and relatively new to the indie rap game, Lamar’s proven himself to be a…
Who’s got sand in their pants? Even after six weeks of summer, we here at Crossfade can’t stop getting sloppy with South Beach. This month alone, SoBe has hooked up one-night stands with oh-so-sexy, critically acclaimed EDM producers like Tiësto, Funkagenda, A-Trak, and Steve Aoki. And while Ibiza, Spain, may…
Indio, California, has Coachella; Chicago has Lollapalooza; Manchester, Tennessee, has Bonnaroo; and Washington has Sasquatch. All are good music and arts festivals, but the one thing holding them back from being great is frequency — they happen only once a year (two if you count Coachella’s identical lineup on consecutive…
Toadies and Helmet at Revolution Live July 25
LCD Soundsystem’s Shut Up and Play the Hits Release Party at Grand Central July 21
Crocodiles at the Vagabond July 20
Six Best Club Parties on South Beach July 19-25
In Angolan culture, the celebration of life is strongest at death. This ritual is called komba and it takes place seven days after a corpse has been buried. Instead of shedding tears of sorrow, the deceased’s friends and family dance wildly into the night, drinking heavily and eating the dead…
See also “Coachella Music Cruise to Set Sail Out of Fort Lauderdale! See the Full 22-Act Lineup!” After announcing the inaugural S.S. Coachella cruise, festival organizers launched an official facebook.com/sscoachella page to further push the Coachella brand on giddy hipsters ready to drop anywhere between $500 and $9,000 on a…
See also “Internet Trolls Try to Exile Pitbull to a Walmart on ‘the Frozen Alaskan Island of Kodiak'” and “#KeepPitbull305 Fails to Save Mr. Worldwide.” By month’s end, Pitbull will likely become the first Cuban-American to ever willingly hop on a Kodiak, Alaska-bound flight for the sole purpose of visiting…
