The year was 1973. Legendary music journalist Ben Fong-Torres lands a sit-down interview with then 43-year-old Dick Clark at his Malibu home. After snacking on berries dipped in brown sugar and topped with sour cream, the self-described “naive, long-haired inquisitor from San Francisco” on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine asks…
There’s a dead body on the beach so full of bullet holes that the ocean can’t keep up with all the blood that’s pouring out. Life is ugly, life is beautiful. And Ziggy Marley’s latest album, Wild and Free, finds the lifelong singer-songwriter mining themes like ego, money, and karma…
It was about as unexpected as a Chinese sinkhole — a hip-hop heavyweight and, well, a former heavyweight. Last night, Rick Ross and Mariah Carey, together in a Miami recording studio with Jermaine Dupri and DJ Khaled. “Rozay and MiMi,” Ross tweeted at around 1 a.m. Attached to the late…
It’s a fine line between pure genius and utter insanity. Many musicians have made a career out of toeing that line. Or, uh, totally jumping it and never looking back. As it turns out, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. And since batshit crazy people don’t care what month it…
Thanks in no small part to a certain House Mafia, Sweden is becoming synonymous with electronic dance music to the mainstream masses of the world. But if there’s one artist who’s truly repping his country, it’s DJ-producer and label magnate John Dahlbäck. He’s been pumping out his own brand of…
For years, everyone has told me, “You guys gotta play it, man! Juke would be perfect.” We’re talking about the annual Wanee Festival, a three-day, 30,000-strong, hippie jam extravaganza in Live Oak, Florida. It mostly specializes in “bluesy” acts like The Allman Brothers. And this year, my band finally went…
The Miami Beach Senior High Rock Ensemble is a storied local institution. Founded in September 1972, this program has allowed student musicians to travel the country and the world, playing as far away as Chicago and New York, as well as Japan in 2001. The ensemble has won award after…
How does the new generation of Regional Mexican acts feel about genre trends, violence, and online promotions? Will Pitbull’s Dr. Pepper print campaign beat out Daddy Yankee’s Western Union ads for a Music Marketing award? These are just some of the topics that are being discussed at this year’s Billboard…
Perhaps the third time’s the charm? When the Identity Festival set out on its inaugural summer tour across the United States last year, Miami was left out after the threat of a hurricane that never hit. Organizers tried to reschedule the show at a later date. But it proved too…
Steve Aoki is the DJ equivalent of Shamu. If you’re in the first ten rows, you’re gonna get splashed. It used to be that you only had to worry about some sweat and a champagne shower. Of course, though, Aoki’s gotta keep raising the ante. So there’s a good chance…
Mariah Yeater, remember the name? She’s the chick who allegedly took Justin Bieber’s virginity backstage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and gave birth to the pop singer’s only child nine months later. She filed a paternity suit, became the key suspect in a statutory rape investigation, and subsequently lost…
See Crossfade’s interview: “J. Nics on Miami Rap, The Tribute, and The Product: ‘Southern Niggas Ain’t Slow.'” It’s always great to see a hard-working local artist’s hustle blossom into much-deserved national attention, and that’s definitely what’s happening right now with rapper J. Nics. The Miami Gardens-raised MC adds another notch…
See LA Weekly’s complete Coachella coverage — the top moments from Friday, April 20, four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips’ Biggie Smalls “hologram, and the five best things from Sunday, April 22. It couldn’t all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasant weather at Coachella 2012…
Nearly a million people have seen Iggy Azalea’s “Pu$$y.” About 4,000 really liked it. But it left a sour taste in about 770 others’ mouths. “No words,” says YouTube user Serbsaint. “I hope she dies from bleeding of the asshole.” Meanwhile, non-fan Slimjim90tj quips, “I bet those beef curtains flap…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. Simply put, Deaf Poets won Sweatstock 2012. There was crowd chatter before the show about how well the band’s two-person brand of rough, throat-shredding garage rock would translate to an outdoor stage. And it took a couple of songs for Deaf Poets…
Glee has managed to piss off yet another singer. After the show’s recent cover of “Somebody That I Used to Know,” breakout artist Gotye expressed his frustration with the cast’s rendition of his song. “They did such a faithful arrangement of the instrumentals, but the vocals were that pop Glee…
Photo by Timothy NorrisSee LA Weekly’s complete Coachella coverage — plus the top moments from Friday, April 20 and four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips’ Biggie Smalls “hologram.” By the third day of Coachella’s second weekend — the sixth and final day of this year’s festival –…
Drug addiction, alleged spousal abuse… That’s all behind him. Ever since Whitney Houston drowned in a Los Angeles bathtub, Bad Bobby Brown’s been able to focus on the important stuff like fighting a DUI charge in California and hitting the road with his Boston-bred R&B group, New Edition. The 43-year-old…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. Just before Haochi Waves began their set, drummer and vocalist Juan Fernando Oña popped his head into the Churchill’s Pub patio bar to announce that his band was about to start playing. This crew is a modified version of its three members’…
Sandwiched between Usher on May 18 and a “special Thursday” performance by the future American Idol champ and runner-up on May 31, Pitbull has been added to the mainstream list of musical acts tackling the Today Show stage as one of several participating in the year’s Toyota Summer Concert Series…
See Crossfade’s full 53-photo slideshow from Sweatstock 2012. If there’s a Miami musician who’s best suited to accompany early afternoon drinking on a rainy day, it’s Jesse Jackson. Driven inside Churchill’s Pub by the rain, Miami’s favorite melancholy scruffster played a set pulled from his approximately nine billion songs, accompanied…
Photo by Meranda CarterSee LA Weekly’s complete Coachella coverage — plus the top moments from Friday, April 20 and five highlights from Sunday, April 22. Saturday at Coachella meant tributes, tributes, tributes. From Levon Helms to Biggie, everyone got a shout-out. In between all that, some nasty partying and a…
