Miami’s Memorial Day Weekend 2014 Party Guide

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…

QuESt on Almost Quitting Rap

“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…

Miami’s Ten Best Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend

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…

Ten Best Girl Bands Ever

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…

Wood Tavern Owner Opening Benchwarmers Sports Bar

“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…

Miami’s Ten Best Underground Rock Venues of All Time

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…

Ten Best Memorial Day Weekend Parties in Miami

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,…

South Beach Clubs Closing for Urban Beach Week

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…

Win Free Tickets for Brand New at Fillmore Miami Beach

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…

“Twerking,” “Dubstep,” and Other Dumb Music Words in the Dictionary

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…

Ten Best Miami Rap Anthems Ever

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…

Miami’s Memorial Day Weekend 2014: Ten Best Parties

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

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…