Despite once being “an essential mid-20th century] stopover on the Southern tour circuit for legends like Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat King Cole,” Miami was never a straight-up jazz town. Our city’s always been more about the crooners, salsa, disco, booty bass, freestyle, street rap, and electronic dance music…
You are the company you keep. Or so reads a self-righteous bumper sticker on the back of a Prius. And by that logic, Miami’s SpaceGhostPurrp is definitely not “a good nigga” like NYC’s A$AP Rocky. “I’m a good nigga, and a lot of people fuck with me and then leave…
Toronto electronic dance music outfit Azari & III reek so much of style that it’s disgusting. Pure unadulterated chic wafts off flamboyant vocalist-frontmen Fritz Helder and Starving Yet Full. And it oozes from the group’s intoxicating cocktail blend of classic house and electro. Azari & III exploded onto the international…
When Swedish House Mafia’s Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello announced their career-ending One Last Tour, saying goodbye to 26 cities across every continent, we here at Crossfade lamented, “Miami’s not included.” But we also doubted “a group who had a huge hit called ‘Miami to Ibiza’ and makes an…
Wearing little more than a bad decision (read: underboob Iris tattoo) and a black, unzipped leather jacket draped over her bare shoulders, a nearly naked Rihanna will grace the cover of GQ’s Men of the Year issue. According to the magazine, “men straight lost their minds over” Rihanna in 2012,…
Stone Temple Pilots are widely considered one of the most prolific rock groups of the 1990s. The band has sold about 40 million records, released over a dozen top ten singles, and even won a Grammy for “Plush,” 1994’s Best Hard Rock Performance. Similarly, Velvet Revolver won Best Hard Rock…
Oh, no! Did you guys hear the news? Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are no longer pop’s cutest power couple. The adorable pair just called it quits, which is standard fare for an artist making the transition from boyish heartthrob to sexy man-ass. But if Crossfade’s totally fabricated timeline is…
House rose from the cracks of Chicago’s warehouse disco scene to be a global force in music. But just because billions of ears dig this stuff and it changed pop history … Sometimes, it still sucks. As proof, we here at Crossfade dug up some examples of how stupid it’s…
What does Kanye West have in common with every other man on the planet who is not having sex with a Kardashian? Exactly … He thinks they’re all boooring. West was photographed straight snoozing at a London nightclub this past weekend as girlfriend Kim Kardashian gossiped about God-knows-what with some…
Madonna is a dirty, old lady. And though she wasn’t always old, the Queen of Pop has been a hot and proud taboo-smashing slut from birth. Even before becoming famous, Ms. Madonna Louise Ciccone was making thought-provoking egg porn. She’s also burned through an insanely long line of famous and…
Kitsuné Club Tour With The Twelves and Oliver Grand Central, Miami Friday, November 9. 2012 Celebrating ten years of next-level hipster productions, French electro-indie fusion label Kitsuné launched the Club Tour, throwing happy birthday parties for itself all over the country. On Friday night, we here at Crossfade got the…
A$AP Rocky and the Mob LongLiveA$AP Tour With Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown, and Ab-Soul Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, November 8, 2012 Better Than: A Ziploc bag packed with “Purple Swag.” Shit was thick, homie. Weed smoke wafting around the lobby of the Fillmore Miami Beach like some kinda slightly skunky…
Too. Much. Awesomeness. Bro … We here at Crossfade are getting exhausted by all this UR1 Festival excitement. But they just won’t stop! And today, the UR1 peeps debuted the fest’s official trailer, revealing the FSOBV1 Bass Arena roster, which includes Flosstradamus, Crizzly, Tittsworth, six other low-end party pros, and…
Look … It’s not like we’re broke because we have a “serious drinking habit.” Or because we’re “lazy and just didn’t manage to make it into work on time.” OK, that’s a lie. But still, even with only $10 in our pockets, we here at Crossfade wanna party. Thank god…
What really matters in life? Is it family? Is it power? Is it success in your career? No, it’s tit buoyancy. At least, that’s what Rihanna will be most concerned when she reaches her nifty 50s. The Barbadian sex goddess recently sat down for a revealing yet playful on-screen interview…
The feud between Miami’s Raider Klan and NYC’s A$AP Mob continues … As we here at Crossfade have previously pointed out, Raider capo SpaceGhostPurrp and Mob boss A$AP Rocky were once homies. They spent time together, smoking blunts, ripping up studios, and dropping some collabo slabs. But then they started…
To say the web ties worlds together seamlessly with invisible streams of data would be a gross understatement. So New Times is celebrating Miami’s greatest with our first annual South Florida Web Awards. We’ve scoured online media from news, to arts and culture, to food and music, and Twitter and…
Welcome to SoBe. A strange and beautiful seaside oasis where it’s considered perfectly normal to spend one’s entire life wandering barefoot and half-naked through the streets and across the sands in pursuit of fallen coconuts and horny tourists. Other “normal” South Beach behavior: Auditioning for Internet porn on a street…
“I was there before reggae,” says Monty Alexander, speaking of his native Jamaica, in a way that’s perfectly balanced between humble admission and matter-of-fact declaration. “I was playing in the studios of Kingston Jamaica, with the masters of Jamaican music, The Skatalites, before they were The Skatalites. I played for…
For U.S. citizens, traveling to Cuba can be a tremendo dolor en el culo. Unless you’ve got special permission from the friggin’ Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, your ass is either flying into Havana under the radar through either the Bahamas or Canada. On the bright side, we…
Welcome to Club H&M. Any business on Miami Beach (bar, restaurant, clothing store, strip club, doggy nail salon, etc.) has gotta have that VIP vibe. Even when you are “Hennes and Mauritz, one of the world’s largest fashion retailers known for offering high fashion at affordable prices.” And that’s why…
Rick Ross loves chicken. In fact, homie can eat a whole bird, a couple side dishes and three pieces of pie in a single sitting, and he also owns a couple of Wingstop eateries ’round the country. So naturally, if you invite him to perform at Bojangles, there best be…
