Krewella at LIV December 12
Krewella at LIV December 12
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Showing 9571 - 9592 of 26091Trina Sued for $50 Million After No-Show at America’s Next Top Rapper
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…
Moksha Art Fair 2012 Music Lineup: Toubab Krewe, Sounduo, Elastic Bond, Beatmachines
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…
Ben UFO on Dubstep: “Now It’s a Huge Global Movement, I No Longer Feel a Part of It”
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 Announces New Year’s Eve 2013 Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach
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…
Matt & Kim Talk Basel and Cuteness: “Our Music Isn’t About Swing Sets and Lollipops”
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…
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Miami Bass Super Fest: A Four-Part Guide to Booty Duty, From 69 Boyz to JT Money
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…
Miami’s Jonny Cruz Talks Drum ‘n’ Bass, My Favorite Robot, His New Label, and Basel Week
Puerto Rico is not necessarily known as an electronic dance music hotbed, but the island did spawn one Jonny Cruz, a DJ-producer who has started making waves on the international tech-house scene these last couple years. It helps that Cruz is a card-carrying member of the artist collective behind hotly-tipped…
Flying Lotus and Zola Jesus Cancel on Windish Agency’s Basel Party
Bad news, Baselites. If you were stoked about seeing tripped-out experimental pop-hop producer Flying Lotus during Art Basel Miami Beach … It ain’t gonna happen. After the hugely anticipated UR1 Fest got postponed, we here at Crossfade — just like you, FlyLo, Zola Jesus, and Dan Deacon — made plans…
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Fleetwood Mac “Never Break the Chain,” Announce 2013 Reunion Tour
Cancel whatever plans you’ve already made for Saturday, June 8, 2013, because Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks are getting the band back together. Fleetwood Mac announced a 34-city North American reunion tour yesterday, curbing any and all Rumors that “The Chain” had been broken. “This band…
DMX Doesn’t Understand How to Google: “There’s Too Much Stuff!”
DMX’s first two records, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot and Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, were released in 1998, the same year Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google. But if you ask the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” rapper to Google Google on a laptop, his…
DJ Khaled and Lil Wayne’s “Bitches & Bottles”: The Most Expensive Vodka Commercial Ever
If we’ve learned anything from 30 Rock, it’s that product integration is the future of successful American capitalism. This is a lesson that’s been wholeheartedly embraced by the modern rap community. So obviously, when DJ Khaled and Lil Wayne get together, it’s all about pushing daddy Birdman’s GTVodka — the…
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Sweat Records Wins $140,000 Knight Grant as $2.8 Million Goes to Local Arts Projects
Where local, state, and federal funding of the arts falls short, non-profits like the Knight Foundation are there to step in and help creative folks fully realize their dreams and influence society. Yesterday, as part of the Knight Arts Challenge, the Knight Foundation divvied up $2.8 million to fund 34…
DJ Tennis Talks Dark Pop and Basel Life and Death Label Showcase
Life and death. Mortality. Pretty heavy subject matter for dance music, right? But then, it’s not really conventional dance music that’s being put out by the Life and Death label. This is heady, brooding, emotional stuff. It might be carried by that uhntz-uhntz beat, but it will bend your mind…
Jahfe for the People: Words of Wisdom From Sasha Sanon
Jahfe is the greatest reggae band in South Florida. When the group’s in show mode, it gigs about 17 nights a month at venues throughout the tri-county area. The crew also tours internationally, playing some of the biggest festivals around the world. And Jahfe takes the sound of Miami everywhere…
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Soul Clap on New Label, Basel Launch Party: “Soul Clap Records Is the Next Logical Step”
Soul Clap loves Miami. And we can’t lie — we love them right back. These past couple years, the Bostonian boogie specialists have made the 305 their home, and they even wrote their debut album EFUNK down here, as we told you back in March. Now local and international fans…
Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, and Taylor Gang Smoke Out the University of Miami, December 1
Wiz Khalifa 2050 Tour With Juicy J, Chevy Woods, Lola Monroe, Tuki Carter, and Berner BankUnited Center, Miami Saturday, December 1, 2012 Better Than: Ridin’ slow through your hood puffin’ on endo, bumpin’ Wiz in the trunk. Rap game Steven Tyler. That’s the first thing that came to mind as…
Chris Brown Reactivates Twitter Account, Smokes Weed with Rihanna
Breezy’s back! After about a week without degradation and demoralization at the rate of 140 characters or less per insult, Chris Brown has reactivated his Twitter account. And he’s on the hunt for a new woman to textually batter. Brown originally fled Twitter on November 25 after promising to “shit”…
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Lee Fields and The Expressions with Ketchy Shuby at The Stage, December 1
Lee Fields and The Expressions With Ketchy Shuby Presented by Sweat Records and M.O. The Stage Miami Saturday, December 1, 2012 Better Than:Ray starring Jamie Foxx; Watching re-runs of Soul Train on YouTube; and Barack Obama singing Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” at the Apollo Theater. This past Saturday night,…
Story’s Epic NYE 2013 Week: Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Tiesto, Deadmau5
Story Nightclub, the newest premiere party destination on South Beach, hasn’t even opened its doors. And yet this joint has already announced an absolutely epic end-of-year lineup. The new hot spot, formerly Amnesia, is going in on 2013 mad hard, pushing a full week of non-stop superstar DJ action. Seriously,…
Psychic TV Announces Basel Week Concert at The Vagabond Miami CANCELED
CANCELED Psychic TV will no longer be playing at The Vagabond Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach week. However, Merchandise is still currently slated for the show. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson) is a trailblazing freak. Since the late ’60s (following the founding of COUM Transmissions, the performance…
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DJ Laz Does Peachfuzz! Da Pimp Wit Da Limp’s Top Five Latin Booty Bass Bangers
It doesn’t matter who you are today so long as you never forget who you were back in the day. And in Crossfade’s case, that was a horny 14-year-old chamaco trying to dry-hump a fine Cubanita at Hot Wheels to the sounds of DJ Laz-produced Miami bass while her abuelita…