When Miami throws an end-of-year blowout, it’s guaranteed that everyone is going home broke. And drunk. And accompanied by some creepy-sexy stranger who’ll ask for money in the morning. So if you wanna wake up in 2013 with empty pockets, a booze-damaged brain, and a bed full of hot mess,…
Each year ’round the holidays, Crossfade readies itself to receive an influx of letters from Miami-Dade County hip-hop heads asking the one question that plagues rap fans around the country: What should we stuff our favorite rapper’s stocking with this year? Well, rather than replying to each letter individually, we’ve…
Pop gossip. Most of us want to believe that we’re too intelligent and cultured to be fascinated with such gutter-trash information, but the reality is we all love to sniff the dirty underwear of the stars. Whether it’s a child star blossoming into a full-fledged sex symbol, a battered woman…
Fang With No Fraud, Powerhouse, To Be Hated, Out of Sorts, and FWA Presented by Idle Hands Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, December 22, 2012 Better Than: An Xmas weekend spent with anything besides loud abrasive music and old friends, reminiscing about those who are no longer here, in a sea…
We here at Crossfade imagine this was the conversation, which must have taken place on Deadmau5’s couch while cuddling adorable kitty cats. “Baaaaby, I want to go to Ultra this year,” said Katt Von D, all tatted and pretty and in some tank top. “But shnookums, Ultra Music Festival and…
It’s gonna be a Story … Next week, South Beach’s latest nightlife spot will be opening at 136 Collins Avenue (i.e. the space that used to be Opium Garden and Prive and then Amnesia Miami) with an absolutely epic NYE 2013 lineup. All week, Avicii and Tiësto wil be bro-ing…
“I’ve waited a long time to play here. But they said this shit’s too future for all of y’all.” That’s how DJ Shadow said goodnight to clubbers at Mansion on South Beach after getting kicked off the decks last Saturday. For the second time in 2012, the Opium Group-owned nightclub…
DJ-producer Danny Daze is an international player now, zigzagging around the global party circuit and throwing down at all the hotspots from Los Angeles to Ibiza to Melbourne. But for Danny, it all started in Miami — the place he still calls home. Back in March, he reminisced with Crossfade…
New Year’s Eve is the high holiday of unacceptable behavior suddenly becoming acceptable. Because, well, you were fucking wasted. And just imagine if the next day nobody was going to be able to hold you accountable for your despicable life choices. Sounds kind of ideal, right? Well, you might not…
The S.S. Coachella returned safely Wednesday morning after a relatively wobbly night’s sail across the Caribbean Sea. The voyage was a success. The boat didn’t sink, and constant forced Purell-ing kept us all from contracting tropical illnesses or just the flu from our diseased shipmates. Three days, 400 meals, 30…
Ever done the Swamp Stomp? And nah, dude, it ain’t a muddy-ass dance. We’re talkin’ about the totally homegrown 2,000 person-strong music festival that “started as a killer backyard barbecue with a bunch of bands and booze and a few friends in 2007.” It’s always the most “badass, rockenest, craziest,…
These days, Fat Joe ain’t so fat. But he owes an obese (or is that obscene?) amount of back taxes to the IRS. According to a press release from the Department of Justice: “Joseph Cartagena, the rapper popularly known as ‘Fat Joe,’ pleaded guilty [in New Jersey] today to two…
OMG, you guys. Please shut up with all these awful statuses about “holy crap da Mayans” and “whatchu think gon’ happen tomorrow” and “evolved consciousness ftw” and “damn I better wear my sexy undies cause Ima fuck tonight end of world #swag.” We here at Crossfade gotta get drunk just…
The World Music Awards just got canceled. Only two days before the scheduled 2012 edition at Marlins Park, WMA organizers have nixed the show, blaming “visa issues” and — absurdly — the Newtown shooting. “We are sorry for any inconvenience,” the official statement reads, “but this decision had to be…
Most people we met on the S.S. Coachella had never been on a cruise. Like us, they were probably not so sure what to pack or how to dress for three days of awkwardly saying “Hi!” to their favorite bands on a floating building at sea. But like the festival,…
Damian Lazarus’ Crosstown Rebels is a world-class dance music institution by now — a regular shoo-in for best international label on yearly polls like Resident Advisor’s, and a permanent presence on the global scene through its myriad transatlantic artist bookings and formidable Get Lost and Rebel Rave lineups. It follows…
UPDATE The World Music Awards just got canceled and exposed as a con. But WMA organizers are blaming “visa issues” and the Newtown shooting. That $515 million ballpark in Little Havana that Miami-Dade taxpayers helped build for Major League Baseball’s biggest joke, Jeffery Loria’s Miami Marlins, is finally being put…
Miami’s Top Albums, EPs, and Singles of 2012
Miami’s Six Best Holiday Parties, December 20 to 26
Punisher Talks EDM, Gender Stereotypes, and Moving to Miami
Mr. Nice Guy Records’ Second Anniversary at Mansion December 20
SkaPocalypse at Talent Farm Studios December 21
