Happy Ash Wednesday, y’all! Christians are just 46 days away from the celebration of their 1,979th Easter, commemorating the day when Jesus Christ allegedly resurrected from the dead and escaped his post-crucifixion resting place. The countdown begins ceremoniously with the imposition of ashes on the forehead and a vow to…
The United States of America is totally addicted to the white stuff. Strung out, fat, unfocused, cranky, fiending — we are a nation of shrubby slaves to the cane, cube, and spoonful whose bodies (and minds) could never be called beach-ready. But there’s a cure for our sucrose-, lactose-, and…
UPDATE Originally scheduled for February 29, Guns ‘N Roses has changed the date of its Miami concert to March 5. Break out your sweatiest bandana and stankiest pair of ripped jeans … It’s time to get “intimate” with Guns N’ Roses again. Just three and half months ago, the Axl…
Can you handle The Whole Love? ‘Cause Wilco’s ready to give it to you. Earlier today via wilcoworld.net, the Chicago alt-country crew announced its intention to lay the “Art of Almost” and “Standing O” on six cities across the Southeast U.S., including stops in states like Arkansas, Alabama, Mississipi, Florida,…
Rihanna celebrated her 24th birthday yesterday by dropping “Birthday Cake (Remix),” a sadomasochistic collaboration with abusive ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. At just under four minutes long, “Birthday Cake (Remix)” is an uncomfortable trek into the former lovers’ highly volatile and incredibly kinky personal lives. We learn that Chris Brown “wants to…
Read Crossfade’s full feature on this Friday’s Reggae Jam with Third World and Inner Circle. Indeed, those righteous riddims are the cure. As legendary Jamaican reggae crew Third World has been preaching for decades: “It’s time for the world to/Try Jah love/The only love that can bring peace is/Jah, Jah…
Hank III may be satan’s favorite grandson. His daddy was a cactus, his momma was a bear trap, and he was born with his boots on in a river full of moonshine. At age 11, he ripped out his own throat and cooked it over a forest fire. The next…
Jesus loves electronic dance music. The bearded one with the ripped abs totally answered our prayer to have just one more day with Swedish House Mafia at the Masquerade Motel. A second day — Saturday, March 24 — has been announced. At 10 a.m. today, tickets for Day Two of…
Though obviously rooted in the beat matching and live mixing of the disc jockey, the mash-up, as we know it today, is a distinctly 2000s phenomenon that revealed itself at the very beginning of the decade. The modern blueprint for expertly splicing together two songs (often from sources so disparate…
Art and politics can make strange, confusing bedfellows. German playwright (and all around Commie) Bertolt Brecht would tell you that unless your work directly protests the global capitalist hegemony by alienating the buorgeois theatre-going audience, it amounts to little but titillation for the ruling classes. On the other end of…
Everyone in North Florida is straight freaking out about this band Hundred Waters and its otherworldy indie sound. Having just released a six-song EP, ironically titled EP, the group’s being hailed as the best thing to hit the mean musical streets of Gainesville in a long time, and one of…
The folks over at MTV News are the tits when it comes to milking arbitrary blog coverage for web hits. In December, Music Television’s news team assembled a March Madness-like bracket system to countdown Britney Spear’s 30 best videos. Over 1 million people voted and crowned “I’m A Slave 4…
Prior to his untimely death last March, “G-Funk’s most melodic homie” had several “hoes in different area codes.” And on at least one occasion, he and his “Bad Girls” kept it “G-A-N-G-S-T-A” by shooting a homemade porno. According to TMZ, there is a Nate Dogg sex tape that’s being “shopped…
Dubstep is officially one of those genres that started out as one thing, ended up another, and now nobody can tell if music (as a whole) is even good. Maybe it’s great? But it’s probably terrible. With Skrillex’s pop canonization by the Grammys, there isn’t a lone old-timey basshead who…
If there’s one party during WMC week that truly encapsulates the transatlantic tech-house zeitgeist, it’s Leftroom vs. Culprit at Treehouse Miami Beach on March 21. And that’s because the party showcases two of the scene’s most hotly tipped labels from (literally) both sides of the pond — the UK’s Leftroom…
The world’s greatest sea-bound rave has sold out a full year from its next scheduled sailing date. Just last month, Hard’s Holy Ship! hit the high seas for its maiden voyage, carrying Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Fatboy Slim, Diplo, A-Trak, and 3000 bikini-ready party people to the Bahamas and back. And…
It only took two hours for the inevitable to happen … Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel tickets sold out and opened a scalper floodgate. But don’t blow your paycheck just yet. Inside sources tell us that Swedish House will release another batch of tickets in the near future. So keep…
It’s Friday and we here at Crossfade wanna fuck. Er, we mean dance. And that’s why we’re humping over to Flute Salad at Lester’s tonight. From 8 till 10 p.m., there’ll be free drinks for the females. But don’t get it twisted … This little fuck dance party, hosted by…
Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel is a go, and tickets for the two one-day event went on sale about an hour ago. Update: The event has sold out its first batch of tickets. But rather than going down on the sands of South Beach as it did last year (or…
Beware, beat freaks! The raving masterminds behind Ultra Music Festival have already colonized and conquered Downtown Miami in the name of electronic dance music, annually deploying an entire army of furry-booted troops and uhntz-uhntz-ing explosives experts to terrorize Biscayne Boulevard condo owners with three days of non-stop beat bombs. And…
Yesterday, Crossfade reported on prolific pop/rap producer Scott Storch’s recent arrest for cocaine possession in a Las Vegas hotel. The story was simple: Homeboy didn’t want to pay his bill (probably because he spent all of his money on coke) and when the cops rolled up they found a few…
Holy cold front, bro! It was mad frigid this week. Like, 50-degrees. WTF, Mother Nature? C’mon, we live in Miami, not Antarctica. So glad it’s getting back to normal, socks and sandals-type weather. It couldn’t happen at a better time. As y’all know, it’s President’s Day Weekend. And even though…
