Photo by Kevin ScanlonThe Chez Deep drag showcase at Villa 221 last night demonstrated that shaven eyebrows are actually a good fashion move. The small back room — where ambiguously gendered performers threw themselves on the floor, climbed speakers, spit out fake blood, and smooched those in the front row…
Rick Ross With Meek Mill and Wale Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Better Than: A Wednesday night devoted to making nonstop prank calls in which you pretend to be DJ Khaled. See also: -Becoming the Bawse: Eight-Part History of Rick Ross -Rick Ross Officially Recognized as “Bawse of…
Fun fact: “Music makes the world go ’round.” Well, at least according to the official hype for Ultra Europe, the three-day EDM extravaganza from Ultra Music Festival and Croatian partner company Adria MM Productions. Another fun fact: “Music” (and especially “electronic dance music”) makes early-bird tickets disappear. In ten minutes…
Bummed the UR1 Fest didn’t go down during Art Basel Miami Beach week? Well, “as a courtesy to loyal fans and customers,” the “UR1 Music & Art Festival Team” would like to offer some free tix. No, not to its eventual two-day pan-sensory extravaganza. Just four of this weekend’s concerts,…
Art Basel Miami Beach is officially in full swing. So even though we’ve already hit you with the ten best EDM parties and the fifteen best parties period … The awesome arty parties just won’t stop keep cropping up. And the best thing about these six? Some of them are…
MOCA L.A. Beach Party With Lykke Li, Miike Snow, and Peter Björn and John Raleigh Hotel, Miami Beach Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Better Than: A trip to Ikea. There is something to be said about MOCA Los Angeles’ annual Basel bash. Once again, it seemed like everyone in town for…
Art Basel Miami Beach just seemed to work out magically this Wednesday night. Parking was shockingly easy to find. Thank you, dude-looking ladies who left early. You rule! Then I ran into a friend at the Bass Museum who was on the list for the A$AP Rocky party at the…
Grammy-tastic! Last night, amid goofy, sexually tense intergenerational banter between co-hosts LL Cool J and Taylor Swift, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States announced the nominees for its 54th Grammy Awards, airing Sunday, February 10, on CBS. Genre-bending R&B guy Frank Ocean scored with…
Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
Nicolas Jaar, as Part of Music @ MOCA at Mondrian South Beach, December 7
Thurston Moore, As Part of “Kurt,” at Gusman Center December 7
Ten Best EDM Parties During Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
Y100’s Jingle Ball at the BB&T Center December 8
J Alvarez at La Covacha December 8
Sum 41 at Culture Room December 9
Krewella at LIV December 12
Oh, Trina … Da Baddest Bitch has done it again. And by it, we here at Crossfade mean she accepted a bunch of money and then allegedly bailed on a job. Clearly, Trina is just a bossy chick who’s allotment of fucks ran out a good while ago. Now she…
Will you be there when the “Eagle Meets Condor”? That is the question. And hopefully, you’re already answering in the affirmative, clutching a pair of tickets while giddily blurting, “Dude, I totally haven’t missed a Moksha Art Fair since, like, ever.” See also -Fifteen Best Concerts During Art Basel Miami…
Circa 2007, an obscure underground UK sound called dubstep erupted like a volcano. And it left behind a crater flooded with the molten elements of bass music that have since solidified into post-dubstep or future bass. These aren’t so much distinct genres of music, as a generation of producers with…
Drake still loves Miami. Sure, he no longer got a condo up on Biscayne. But he’s still gettin’ brain from some thang. Although, he’s going to let her take a break on New Year’s Eve. Of course, Drake isn’t just going to party on NYE like everyone else. So he’s…
What band suffers an illness, cancels a show, promises a make-up date, but never follows through? Most all of them. But not Matt & Kim. After having to nix a Fillmore Miami Beach gig a few months ago because singer-keyboardist Matt lost his voice while on tour, this perky Brooklyn-based…
Putting together a proper showcase for classic Miami bass music in 2012 has proven to be a tall order. Early this year, Uncle Luke hyped up a 20-date “Lollapolooza of Bass music” that he was planning for the summer, featuring a fully reunited 2 Live Crew and support from DJ…
