See also “Cat Power’s Sun Album Announced, Listen to First Single, ‘Ruin.'” Hell to the yeah! Cat Power is back! After a six-year hiatus, the singer-songwriter otherwise known as Chan Marshall is set to release a new album, Sun, at the beginning of September. And where there is an album…
See also “Ten Raging Punks (And Other Rockers) Who Crashed the Daytime Talk Show Circuit.” Punk rock is more than just a genre of music. It’s an attitude, a lifestyle, a way of carrying oneself in the face of life’s silly bullshit and tired assholes. But if we can define…
See also “Justin Bieber Disses Reading, Writing, Education: ‘I’m Really Not Into That Stuff.'” In the mid-’90s, Prince William’s adorable face was plastered on posters worldwide and then hung above millions of innocent young girls’ beds where they were kissed and admired by tweens who dreamt of one day becoming…
See also “Gunplay: How Miami’s Coke-Sniffin’, Po’ Pimpin’ Maniac Joined Rap’s Power Circle.” Gunplay was consuming so many narcotics while making his aptly-titled debut mixtape Sniffahill in 2008 that he dubbed himself “five-drug minimum” on one of its freestyles. Actually, for meter’s sake, he said it in an abbreviated form…
See also “Rick Ross, Big-Booty Strippers, and 3,000 Ballers at King of Diamonds in Miami (NSFW).” Last time we caught up with Ice “Billion” Berg about the possibility of signing with Rick Ross and Maybach Music, he was just about to drop his Strictly For The Streets 3 mixtape. That…
See also “Vagabond Owner Carmel Ophir Rumored to Be Opening Barfly, New Club in Old Bar Space.” Perhaps the worst-kept secret in Miami’s nightlife scene was what was happening to the space formerly occupied by Bar and PS14. Shortly after the decision had been made, local nightlife sources told us…
See also “Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012” — plus “Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Wigs, TEED,” “Day Two: Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Twin Shadow, and Others,” and “Day Three: Jack White, Sigur Ros, Florence + The Machine, and Others.” With every year that passes, it feels like…
Paul van Dyk has become the latest European to shit on Madonna. In a recent interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur the Berlin-based DJ and producer accused Madge of working well beyond her prime, suggesting that Madonna should’ve hung up her leotard nearly 15 years ago. “I think she should have quit…
Yo, beat freaks. It’s almost time to slow it down and heat things up at Grand Central, because another edition of Miami Moombahton Massive is coming this way. D.C. moombah founders Nadastrom will be topping the bill on Thursday, August 16, alongside local boys Craze and JWLZ. Surely, this is…
House music is currently embroiled in a hot steamy love affair with its own past. Look no further than the lush slow-mo vintage grooves of Scotland’s The Revenge, AKA Graeme Clark. As a master of the disco edit, Clark is keeping the old-school tradition of garage legends like Larry Levan…
“XTC” … The only way to start your beat-freaking day. Of course, we here at Crossfade aren’t advocating early-morning methylenedioxy-methylamphetamine. Just the new entactogenically exhilirating single by professional Berlin-based party starter and label boss Boys Noize, AKA Alexander Ridha. It’s kinda like porn music for Kraftwerkian supercomputers. Also, if you’re…
In the make-believe world of reality television, anything is possible … So long as it’s marketable. Take Teen Mom starlet Farrah Abraham, the 21-year-old aspiring chef-turned-model-turned-author who snuck into America’s collective heart with her charming smile and piercing gaze, who’s looking to capitalize on fame by dipping her toes into…
Ever been “Mind Fuct”? Well, we here at Crossfade lost our cranial virginity circa 2010. It was the end of the Aughts. A ravetastic techno-apocalypse seemed imminent. And the GHB was flowing like pre-coital Gatorade. We were young, innocent, and eager to party. Then suddenly, our temporal lobe was being…
What exactly does Waka Flocka Flame mean when he claims to go “Hard in Da Paint?” Let’s start with what we know … The ATL rapper and Gucci Mane protégé advocates a lifestyle built upon clear, consistent thematics: trappin’, cookin’, slangin.’ And of course, keepin’ the chickens in line. But…
Dude … Why are there so many people here? Every time we go to Churchill’s Pub (or The Electric Pickle or Grand Central or Treehouse or Mansion), it’s such a mission even getting an alcoholic beverage. (Not to mention scamming our way into the back of the band’s van.) Just…
President Obama didn’t mention Band of Horses when he was asked about the music on his iPod during an interview with Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner, but British Prime Minister David Cameron did. In a chat with the Daily Telegraph, Cameron admitted that Band of Horses and Lana Del Rey are…
See also “Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012” — plus “Lollapalooza 2012, Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Whigs, TEED” and “Lollapalooza 2012, Day Two: Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Twin Shadow, and Others.” What have we learned following Lollapalooza 2012? Not only do reunions (Afghan Whigs, Black Sabbath, At…
Madonna’s awfully public exploration of post-menopausal sexuality and her apparent midlife crisis have Elton John flaming mad. “She’s such a nightmare,” John recently said in an interview with Australia’s Molly Medrum. “She looks like a fucking fairground stripper.” According to the Huffington Post, John’s publicity team quickly redacted the comments,…
See also Crossfade’s concert review of Identity Festival 2012 in Miami. We’re getting used to ravers dressed like candy-coated, rainbow-drenched, half-naked furries. Still, the crowd at Bayfront Park’s Klipsch Amphitheater for Identity Festival really upped the ante. While some stuck to the old rave faves, some brazen girls and guys…
See also “Meek Mill’s Announces Dreamchasers Tour, Show at Fillmore Miami Beach on August 13.” “Whenever somebody got a dream,” Meek Mill muses, “they want it to be reality.” Coming up in North Philly during the late ’90s, Mill was still a wiry 12-year-old kid named Robert Williams, hanging out…
See also the full 32-photo slideshow from Rick Ross’s God Forgives, I Don’t Release Party at King of Diamonds. Question: On a scale from Rick to Ross, just how ridiculously baller was the God Forgives, I Don’t album release party at King of Diamonds last night? Answer: Rick Ross…
See also “Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012” — plus “Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Whigs, TEED” and “Day Three: Jack White, Sigur Ros, Florence + The Machine, and Others.” The second day of Lollapalooza could not have been more different than the first. A bunch of noted…
