The UR1 revelations will not stop. From Kanye West and Lou Reed to Ghostland Observatory, Reboot, Dan Deacon, Animal Collective, Jane’s Addiction, and Lenny Kravitz’s abs … This already awesome Art Basel Miami Beach week fest just keeps getting better. And that isn’t about to change with today’s announcement of…
The biggest Bawse in the rap game is taking over the Fillmore Miami Beach. And he’s bringing his best buddies with him. Miami’s phattest hustler, Ricky Rozay, is gonna tear the roof off that bitch and make all the hos scream when his Maybach Music Tour rolls through South Beach…
If you’re ever in Amsterdam, cop a slab of paper-flat hash, palm the sheet, and breathe hot air on it. Once the sheet becomes pliable, load it up with OG Kush, roll it like a blunt, and smoke up till society melts. That’s what Cypress Hill’s B-Real calls “the giggle…
Listen … DJ Khaled has been a prominent member of Miami’s hip-hop community for years, making dope albums, collaborating with the nation’s best artists, laying down fat beats on 99 Jamz, and giving the air horn a reason to exist. So we think it’s time that the MIA gave back…
Obama wins everything. Game of horseshoes in the backyard? Obama wins. Beer Pong with the Prez? Barack is the champ. Play HORSE at the neighborhood park? Victory to the O-man. Rock, paper, scissors? Freestyle cypher? Shot slamming? Uno? Dominos? Breath holding? Lap swimming? Tecmo Bowl? Mario Kart? Staring contest? Obama…
He’s got a “Fucking Problem” that’s a hit, and one that isn’t. But A$AP Rocky isn’t letting unlicensed samples ruin the LONGLIVEA$AP tour. “It’s just so hard to get things cleared, because you got to find people to clear samples,” Rocky said during a recent radio interview. The MC’s debut…
We did it America! Whether you’re superstoked or running to your local Walmart to stock up on guns, the people have made their voice heard, and we will have four more years of President Barack Obama. It took a lot of hard work and dedication from many to get here…
That Francisco Franco was a real buzzkill, eh? Not only was Spain’s authoritarian dictator responsible for over 200,000 deaths in the first two years of his 39-year reign, the son of a bitch barred Joan Manuel Serrat from performing in 1968’s Eurovision Song Contest and made sure that Joaquín Sabina…
Yes, Soulja Boy showed off his pretty-boy bone on Tumblr. But, uh, it was an “accident.” The platinum-selling, dance-craze-starting, go-dumb rapper posted a picture of his swaggy weiner the other day, and Perez Hilton snagged an NSFW version before it was deleted. Because we know you’re as perverse and voyeuristic…
Searching for the Afterman? Well, take a break … ‘Cause everyone’s favorite prog-rock supergeeks, Coheed and Cambria, have just announced a winter 2013 tour! And while we could all continue puzzling oh-so-intensely over the latest installment — Afterman: Ascension — in C&C’s sprawlingly conceptual multi-volume Armory Wars comic-book-and-concept-album opus …..
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…
