When Santigold called to tell Crossfade that she’d be in town for Art Basel Miami Beach, we squealed with delight like the Disney-fied version of those piglets penned outside Primary Flight. But after about 15 minutes, we got sad, thinking, “Well, she hasn’t hit the Beach since … November 2009…
If y’all ballers been counting down with The Boss, you ain’t alone. All motherfuckin’ day, the internets, Twitters, and Facebooks been totally wilding out over the release of Rick Ross’s new Rich Forever mixtape. The hashtags (#RickyRozay, #RichForever, #MMG) been flying like AK spray. And earlier, The Boss himself said,…
There is nothing not to like about surf rock. “Wipe Out” comes on and our human bodies are hardwired to flail about stupidly, with the pure pleasure of a child. People who don’t like surf are wrong. Sad and wrong. Miami hasn’t had a night to celebrate the genre in…
UPDATE: Download Rick Ross’s new mixtape and get Rich Forever right now! We’re only six days deep into 2012 and Rap Radar is already declaring Rick Ross’s latest digital slab — entitled, appropriately enough, Rich Forever — to be one of “the most anticipated mixtapes of the the year.” As…
OMG! Surfer Blood’s gone late night! About 15 hours ago, West Palm Beach-based Surfer Blood sent out an ecstatic tweet to their 6,894 fans announcing a January 9 appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Several minutes ago, Crossfade’s inbox was hit with a press release confirming the good news…
Dancing like a star can be dangerous. The proof: Miami’s own R&B crooner Jason Derulo fractured his neck practicing acrobatic tumbles for his Future History world tour. Derulo could have been paralyzed, but luckily avoided that fate. His tour, however, is canceled for the moment and Derulo (real name Jason…
Oh, King of Diamonds, the adult entertainment megaplex complete with barbershop, basketball court, and, of course, mountains upon mountains of b-b-booty …. We here at Crossfade love KOD more than anyone else in America. Except, of course, acclaimed international pop-rap superstar Lil Wayne, whose frequent and decadent jaunts to South…
There was a time when Elton John dressed (and acted) like the teenage lovechild of Liberace and Vegas-era Elvis on a helium bender. Bedazzled in silver jumpsuits with his face behind massive sunglasses and his feet stuffed into patent-leather platform moon boots, the fabulously balding Captain Fantastic would screech and…
It’s payday, y’all. Run over to that check cashing shop, pay off your bookie, weed connect, and flat-screen layaway balance. You should have somewhere in the neighborhood of $10.36 left over, enough to get you through the door at Electric Pickle or a domestic six-pack at your favorite minimart. Forget…
B.B. King Knight Concert Hall Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami Wednesday, January 4, 2011 Better Than: A nice, big bottle of chilled Arbor Mist. A half-century ago, Riley “Blues Boy” King and his fine, fat-bodied guitar, Lucille, would make regular wintertime trips to Miami for some rockin’, rollin’, dancin’, drinkin’, and…
Pitbull dropped his directorial debut video for “Latinos in Paris” last week and somehow managed to slip under our Google Alert radar. Together with Dominican rapper Sensato, Armando Perez can be seen bilingual rapping ’round the City of Lights, popping bottles at relevant Parisian nightclubs, and performing live in front…
When last year’s edition of Winter Music Conference took place at the Miami Beach Convention Center, it added to an already confusing year due to the “misunderstanding” with Ultra Music Festival. Before that, it was held at mid-Beach resorts like Eden Roc in 2010 or the Miami Beach Resort &…
Somewhere in this cold, harsh universe, there is a sentient lifeform that gives a flipping fuck about Frank Zappa’s daughter divorcing some bro-ham guitarist from Matchbox 20. But we here at Crossfade just can’t get past the newly hot-to-trot Zappa’s first name: Moon Unit. While Papa Zappa surely struck gold,…
It’s the first weekend of 2012. And after two consecutive weeks of hard holiday ballin’, the $100,000 parties have finally come to an end. Lucky for us, however, we live in America’s playground and there’s always something to do. From hip-hop spots to electro-house megaclubs, the options are endless ’round…
As the dolled-up, sweaty, rip-roaringly drunk revelers counted down the final seconds of 2011, you were standing by the punch bowl (actually, it was a mop bucket) full of vodka water, frantically scanning for your boo-boo, lest you and shawty miss out on that absolutely essential stroke-of-midnight spit swap. But…
Before there were 8-tracks, cassette tapes, compact discs, or MP3s, vinyl ruled Miami. Throughout the 1950s, Dade County’s coin-operated juke boxes were run by the Mafia. Old-school Minneapolis gangster Sam Taran was a key figure. He and his cronies set up shop in every hotel lobby, shine shack, whorehouse, and…
Hard’s Gary Richards on Holy Ship! Electronic Music Cruise January 6 to 9
Miami’s top ten underground rap and hip-hop acts
Jam Cruise 10 with Umphrey’s McGee, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby on MSC Poesia January 9-14
Miami band Ice Cream moves to New York City
The Crystal Ark at Bardot January 5
The Taxpayers at Sweat Records January 5
