It’s all over, folks. For now. After the release of her album Sun, multiple trips to the hospital, trainwrecks on tour, an angry response to Crossfade’s concert review, and an all-caps Tumblr warning … Cat Power (AKA Chan Marshall) has finally postponed the remainder of her current tour. It’s a…
Following the birth of his daughter, Blue Ivy, rumors that Jay-Z was stripping the word “bitch” from his vernacular began surfacing earlier this year. However, “the story that he wont use the word bitches anymore since having the baby is B.S.,” TMZ founder Harvey Levin tweeted in January. “He never…
Death to the Sun is not only Miami’s best rock fest for the new, the hip, and the off-kilter. The annual farewell-to-summer local music bash, hosted by This Heart Electric’s Ricardo Guerrero, is also one of the most controversial events spawned from the Biscayne Corridor’s art-party music scene. Last year,…
Pop music celebrities are sex-drenched, weapon-obsessed, drug-addicted, angry, deranged, and sometimes criminal. In short, they’re unconventional, always-entertaining personalities who may or may not have politically valid opinions. But let’s face it, celebrity endorsements are cultural collateral, and politics is bloodsport. Here are the top ten musical endorsements in this presidential…
DJ-producer Morgan Geist has no special qualms about you calling his sound retro. After all, his work as Metro Area with Darshan Jesrani boasts unmistakable strains of vintage disco, P-Funk, and ’80s synth-pop. But when it comes to his latest incarnation as Storm Queen with vocalist Damon C. Scott, Geist…
Whether unloadin’ uhntz-uhntz at Ultra Music Festival or gettin’ totally Jacked on South Beach, this Dutchman always comes equipped with his own MIA club crew, including “the tall guy with the weird glasses and the big afro.” But like all true party pros, Nick Van De Wall (AKA Afrojack) is…
Democracy kicks serious culo, bro. So yesterday, we here at Crossfade spent approximately four hours sizzling in the South Florida sun while waiting at the ass-end of a 23,000-person queue and enduring the screeching taunts of psychotic eight-year-old Republicans with signs that shouted, “Our Navy Seals Begged for Help and…
Maybe we’ve been a little too hard on Nicki Minaj. She’s just a girl from Brooklyn who rose to fame on the bubbly buoyancy of a plastic ass. Over the past two years, she’s paved the way for women with fake bodies in recording booths across America — nay, Planet…
Miley Cyrus already ate the whole cake. But now a porn company wants her to try XXX star Jessie Andrews too. Sex.com media director Martin Ellison has reached out to Cyrus’s reps about getting the Disney-turned-dubstep sexpot into a soft-core porn remake of the “Decisions” music video, according to TMZ…
For three consecutive autumns, local musician and promoter Ricardo Guerrero’s annual end-of-summer local showcase — Death to the Sun — has ranked among South Florida’s best festivals for contemporary and/or experimental rock music. Just shy of reaching half a decade (and more than a couple months after the actual end…
Has anyone seen Molly? Have you checked the strip clubs or the mean streets of the inner city? Have you asked around the Louis store? Have you checked ATL, MIA, and NYC? It used to be that wide-eyed and sweaty raver kids ruled the molly scene. And basically, they still…
Hibernus Mortis may be South Florida’s greatest death metal band of all time. And a big part of that has to do with a long tenure as South Florida’s only death metal band. While the Sunshine State’s Gulf Coast can tout a robust history of Cookie Monster deathcries and bangover-inducing…
As sexy hit machine Lenny Kravitz might say: “Come On Get It.” Now, if the UR1 Festival’s two-day love-in with Kanye West, Lou Reed, Jane’s Addiction, The Offspring, Fun., Slash, Santigold, and 50 other sizzling superstars wasn’t already the steamiest gang scene ever planned for Art Basel Miami Beach week…
Nouvelle Vague Presented by the Rhythm Foundation Grand Central, Miami Friday, November 2, 2012 Better Than: Watching a punk and/or new wave band cover Bossa Nova standards. When French musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux sat down and drew the blueprint for Nouvelle Vague, we bet they had a “Eureka!”…
Two years ago, if you told us cute little Hannah Montana would chop off all her hair and make a sexually explicit song with dubstep producer and porn star enthusiast Borgore, we would have LOL-ed in your face. But not only has Miley Cyrus and Mr. Gore recorded a song…
If Mitt Romney smoked a joint, nothing would happen. Because robots can’t get high. But Crossfade’s backing Obama. Like most Americans, we’ve smoked marijuana. And we’re not afraid to admit it. We also recently spoke to B-Real of Cypress Hill about why weed’s a good thing, why voting is important,…
Hulk Hogan and Kanye West walk into a bar…. No, seriously. The Hulkster and Yeezy spent Halloween together at LIV, where Kayne’s girlfriend, Kim Kardashian, was celebrating her 32nd birthday dressed as Catwoman. Adhering to the couple’s superhero costume pact, West rocked a convincing Christian Bale-era Batman suit. However, he…
You’re dead. But that doesn’t mean you can’t earn big bucks. Shit, croaking could be the best career move ever. Forbes recently broke down this year’s most paid, most dead celebrities. And six of those ultra-wealthy, superdeceased folks are in the music business. Nothing’s gonna stop them from selling hit…
Bobby Peru. Special Request. Hip Therapist. Wooly. Those are just a few of the guises that UK DJ-producer Paul Woolfoord has assumed over the years. And his sound is just as elusive as his artistic identity — straddling house, techno, UK hardcore, and bass. Nevertheless, in spite of his sonic…
Before the show, Steve Aoki tweeted, “MADRID!!!!! HOLA! IM HERE IN YOUR CITY! READY TO PARTY WITH U! SOLD OUT TONIGHT! WOOHOOO!” But Halloween went bad in the Spanish capital, where Aoki’s concert ended in tragedy after three women died in a post-show stampede. Spin reports that paramedics were called…
Backed by DJ Eric B’s expertly sampled soul-funk-R&B ejaculations, late ’80s rapper Rakim was a true hip-hop innovator who broke from the first wave’s Mother Goose rhyme schemes and party-shout vocal delivery. The duo is regarded as one of the all-time greats. Rakim sans Eric B? That’s a slightly different…
Plenty of pervs (including certain particularly twisted members of the Crossfade staff) would probably pay for the pleasure of being punched, kicked, and slapped in public by Latin pop sexpot Paulina Rubio. But not her former male assistant, Mr. Felipe Restrepo Betancur. This guy’s suing Ms. Rubio for allegedly beating…
