Holiday vacay in the club! In just a couple of weeks, Miami and South Beach will be swarmed with famous rappers, slow jammers, reggae heads, and bad girls wearing bikinis to the beach, bikinis on the streets, bikinis in the VIP. Sometimes known as Urban Beach Week. Also, Memorial Day…
Is the EDM scene kind of played out and boring? Kill the Noise think so, “everything from the guys on the stage to the crowd.” “Pretty much the whole thing, right from the second you walk up to the door, is all a routine that we’ve all been through a…
Microsoft versus Apple. That is one retail rivalry that will never be put to rest. But how does Microsoft win over its customers? By celebrating the grand opening of its eighth Florida store with a free ticket giveaway to see Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, live in concert. See also: Macklemore:…
“I actually wanted to do a mixtape called Iced Coffee back when I was 19,” says QuESt as he drinks an Iced White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks. “Terrible idea. Terrible idea.” The coffee chain’s stores have become temples of freshly brewed ideas for the 22-year-old Miami rapper, who sometimes spends…
It’s Memorial Day Weekend, y’all! And since most of us have three days off, that means we have 72 hours to celebrate the start of a hot and steamy summer and party it up like college frat boys … Meaning on the cheap. Just check out the ten best things…
Holy mother of period-prone angst, you guys. Veruca Salt just got back together and performed for the first time in 18 years on Conan. We were immediately transported to that time when we were 10 and our mom bought us the Eight Arms to Hold You cassette, with the warning…
For over a century, Tobacco Road has made its home at 626 S. Miami Avenue, surviving 13 years of prohibition, Miami’s lawless Cocaine Cowboys days, even the destruction of Hurricane Andrew. But Miami’s oldest speakeasy turned gambling hall turned nudie bar turned drinking den will soon be sold. And it…
As part of Hercules & Love Affair’s original lineup, Kim Ann Foxman helped rekindle the flames of our passion for classic house sounds in the late 2000s. But as a solo producer and DJ, Foxman is showing us house music’s future, and it sounds sexier than ever. Sultry vocal hooks,…
“From the hippest hipster to the loudest fratboy, we’ll all be cheering together.” That’s the tag line for Benchwarmers, a new sports bar from Wood Tavern owner Cesar Morales. This latest nightlife venture from the “Wood Tavern Family of Companies” is slated to begin doing business “just in time for…
Music venues in South Florida have always come and gone with an alarming casualness. Over the last 30-odd years, only one place, Churchill’s Pub, has held the torch for Miami’s savvy underground rock fans. Now that new owners have taken control, an era is coming to an end. And that’s…
Time to grind in the 305. It’s Memorial Day weekend, AKA Urban Beach Week. As usual, South Beach and the mainland will offer a great variety of new and old, ratchet and refined, as well as some straight gangsta lineups. So practice your twerk, get your 26-inch chrome rims installed,…
III Points Festival is back. And promising “68 acts, one warehouse, three days.” Last year’s inaugural celebration of music, art, and technology was by most accounts a success. But some communication and organizational kinks are two things the III Points team is working hard to overcome for its sophomore 2014…
South Beach is ’bout to be mobbed. It’s almost Memorial Day weekend in the 305 (otherwise known as Urban Beach Week), the annual four-day span during which the beach (as well as mainland Miami) gets swarmed by famous rappers, celebrity strippers, and 250,000 party people from all over the Dirty…
What does Miami’s favorite power couple do after they’ve dominated the Latin music charts, snagged more Grammys than you can ever fit onto one shelf, and created an empire of Cuban restaurants? Take their talents to Broadway, of course. Gloria and Emilio Estefan have teamed up with the Nederlander Organization…
As Brand New once mused: “Gave up my body and bed/All for an empty hotel free concert tickets.” This Long Island indie pop-punk crew, known for 2000s emo anthems like “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows,” has recently reconvened after several years of being unsigned and inactive. Now…
As 21st-century culture and technology continue to evolve, so too must our language. Whether you like it or not, all these hashtag buzzwords are part of the greater lexicon. Literally, “hashtag” was added to the dictionary. But it’s not just words like “selfie,” “noob,” or “friend zone.” The musical terms…
The Vagabond is gone forever. But the memories of legendary nights at the downtown Miami club will live on. There was a refreshing lack of pretense; it was all about the music, the people, the night. Everyone from the indie crowd to house thrill-seekers got their rocks off at 30…
Porter Robinson says: “I literally fucking love you.” Actually … He says it a lot. Especially when he’s feeling “so caffeinated” and “over-earnest.” The 21-year-old producer was set to be the next epic thing in EDM. But then he decided to reject “the boring, functional music for DJs,” as he…
Everyone loves Miami. Our food, our people, our beaches. But we here at Crossfade would argue that it’s our music that puts us above the competition. We’ve never tried to steal anyone else’s sound. We keep it 100 with grooves and style of our own. We are leaders in the…
Time to grind in the 305. It’s Memorial Day weekend, AKA Urban Beach Week. As usual, South Beach and the mainland will be offering a great variety of new and old, ratchet and refined, as well as some straight gangsta lineups. So start practicing your twerk, get your 26-inch chrome…
Tamar Braxton Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, May 16, 2014 Better Than: Watching an episode of Tamar & Vince. “People don’t know I can get turnt up and drop it like it’s hot.” That’s the kind of performance the youngest of the Braxton sisters promised to put on for her Tamartians…
It’s been less than a year since Bizzy Crook made the move from Miami to New York. The plan was to expand his exposure in the Mecca of hip-hop littered with talent that departs as fast has it arrived. A few months after the releases of ’84 and ’84: Off…
