Six Best Parties on South Beach This Weekend

Hey! It’s Thursday! The weekend is (almost) officially here, and it’s time to break out the dancing shoes, hemorrhage that wallet, and get nasty as you want to be. There will be all kinds of EDM in the streets of SoBe this weekend, from deep, soulful house to flashy electro-pop…

Ricochet Miami Closed, Being Sold to the Owners of Baru Urbano

“For me,” Ricochet mastermind Alan Roth tells Crossfade, “the nightlife business has been an incredible ride. “What I’ve been able to see and do and the life it’s given me, I’m grateful,” he says. “I’ve been able to buy the houses that I own because of nightlife.” But now he’s…

Bomba Estereo on World Music and TransAtlantic Fest: “We Used to Look North; Now the Anglo World Is Looking at Us”

Traditions are kept alive by constant change. The roots music of the 21st Century is being created as much with electric guitars, sequencers, and laptops as with drums and flutes. That’s one of the ideas behind the Rhythm Foundation’s Heineken TransAtlantic Festival, whose 2013 headliners include Argentine-Uruguayan electro-tango group Bajofondo…

SunFest Tickets Are Half Off Today!

Nowhere else in the universe will you be able to yell the words “I want you to want me!” along with Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander, while covered in paint, except at this year’s SunFest. The Saturday lineup features both the band that sung “Surrender” and the world’s largest paint party,…

Rapper Kenneth “Nu Money” Casilla Shot and Killed in Miami

Sitting in a car with two unidentified men near NW 152nd Street and Sixth Avenue in the parking lot of an apartment complex, Kenneth “Nu Money” Casilla was murdered. According to Miami-Dade Police Department (via NY1), the Brooklyn-bred, Miami-based rapper and Rich Mafia crew member was shot and killed at…

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

April has just begun, and no doubt you fell for some embarrassing news clip about Daft Punk’s album release being canceled or a zombie apocalypse — wait, never mind. But rest assured that the good music in this post is not a lie, trick, or gimmick. These incoming jazz musicians,…