Taylor Swift’s new album Red has been flying off the shelves before it even hit them. In fact, Billboard has basically guaranteed that it’ll come out on top of the charts with an estimated 1.1 million units sold by week’s end. So all y’all are probably walking around humming her…
Back in Black 2012 With Dirty South, Paul Van Dyk, Funkagenda, Crystal Method, LA Riots, and others Space, Miami Saturday, October 27, 2012 Better Than: Partying in 75 mph winds. Hurricane Sandy really fucking blows, man. She totally messed up our Halloween plans. We were going to shake our ass…
Anyone who’s followed the musical adventures of Fernando Perdomo knows that he’s never met a musical icon that he doesn’t admire. Or so it seems … We don’t really know which musical icons he’s actually met. But judging from his wealth of influences, it’s likely he knows several spiritually, if…
King Pubert says, “BOO!” Com Truise, Poolside, and Bonde do Rolê EVE, Miami Saturday, October 27, 2012 The decentralization of Halloween (that is, when the All Hallow’s Eve actually falls on a weeknight and nobody knows when to party) makes an already surreal holiday that much weirder. Instead of one…
With the holidays and Art Basel right around the goddamn corner, it’s starting to heat up in the ol’ South Florida nightlife department. Take this weekend, for instance. There’s too much to do! It would be totally impossible to have all the fun that’s being offered this weekend. So we…
Candye Kane is a tough chick from Cali who came up playing country, blues, and rock on the L.A. punk scene in the ’80s at the same time as she stripped to pay the bills. Later, she became a porn star, beat an abusive relationship, and survived cancer, all while…
In Space, no one can hear you scream. Also, when you party in Space, you stay a lot drier than being out in a hurricane. So it’s pretty much the perfect place to move this Saturday’s Back in Black fest since Sandy insists on being such a downer. That’s right,…
It’s been a hell of a year for James Teej. The Toronto-based producer has been busy burning up international dance floors as one-third of My Favorite Robot, while curating some of the international tech-house charts’ most forward-thinking releases on the act’s eponymous label. But Teej is a veteran of the…
The band that MySpace built is doing something their favorite social media site never could … Coming back! That’s right, the adorably spunky Matt & Kim have rescheduled their canceled October 14 show at the Fillmore Miami Beach. It seems the bright and bubbly pair caught some kind of sickness…
Lil Wayne suffered a mid-flight seizure on Thursday afternoon, causing his private jet to make an emergency landing in Texas. The 30-year-old rapper was immediately transported to a local hospital where, according to TMZ, he was treated for several hours and ultimately released at 6 p.m. central time. The story…
For a musician who once seemed to be everywhere at once, Fernando Perdomo seems unusually humble, if not by choice, then certainly by necessity. And the launch party for his debut solo album, Home is Wherever You Are actually finds him opening for Omine, one of the many acts signed…
Halloween is a holiday for sluts and children. And we here at Crossfade don’t really care about kids. Miami does it super big, and there are only about a bajillion Halloween-themed parties this weekend. But because you can’t go to everything, we’ve boiled our music and party guide down to…
Hey, honey, would you like to have sex? No, not tonight. I’d rather listen to Meatloaf. Yeah, we’ve never said that either, but turns out a lot of Spotify listeners think “Bat Out of Hell” is more enjoyable than actually orgasming. And that’s not all the streaming platform uncovered with…
Perhaps not since the Beach Boys has a musical act been as evocative of Southern California as Los Angeles production duo Poolside. The title of the pair’s 2012 debut album — Pacific Standard Time — gives it away. And the sun-kissed laid-back disco grooves are pure Californian leisure — a…
According to every wave of punk rock, the genre has been dying since it was born. Crossfade disagrees. We firmly believe that, despite decades of embarrassment and confusion, only now is punk rock truly reaching peak appropriation within popular culture. Case in point: CBS has announced a new sitcom named…
Yo, what is going on with Dr. Dre? We’re worried about him. He’s exhibiting some strange behavior; even his closest friends seem to think he might be losing it. He’s almost never seen or heard from, just holed up inside his California studio, in his epic castle-mansion, making beats and…
Look, if there’s any part of you that thinks you might be interested in catching BAD 25, Spike Lee’s two-hour celebration/behind-the-scenes history of Michael Jackson’s 1988 Bad LP, then seriously, get to it. This is a bliss-out. The performance footage alone is thrilling, and Lee has augmented it with archival…
Halloween is that time of the year when it’s acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow’s Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside… See also:…
Russell Simmons on President Obama, Politics, and Hip-Hop
Black Moth Super Rainbow at the Stage October 30
The Dwarves at Churchill’s Pub October 27
George Clinton at Revolution Live October 25
