Some of the perks of Peachfuzz include free entry, sweaty dancing bodies, flyers designed by Pres Rodriguez featuring a different ’90s hip-hop vixen each week, and Raul Sanchez’ huge Yo! MTV Raps video collection. Isn’t that enough to entice you to attend the new-ish weekly night at The Garret? It…
According to Wikipedia (The Free Encyclopedia), the term peak oil refers to “the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline.” Similarly, the concept of peak chillwave is that moment in history during which hazy ’80s…
Ice Cream is a local band with a deliciously sweet name and a curiously exciting sound. But sadly, the five-guy psychedelic rock crew is skipping town for good. After tearing up eardrums across South Florida for the past two years, Ice Cream’s Thomas Kennedy, Justin Anthony Rivers, Roy Neil Hunter,…
You can’t really talk about house music without mentioning “French touch,” the sample-delic filter-heavy style of Gallic producers like Daft Punk, Cassius, and Etienne de Crécy that ruled international airwaves all through the late ’90s to early ’00s. Now Fred Falke may not be the best known of the French…
Often associated with violent street crime, urban decay, and N.W.A., South Central Los Angeles is generally considered a residential wasteland, the type of gritty, big-city neighborhood where dreams die and poverty prevails. During the early ’90s, it was the epicenter of the Rodney King scandal, inspired countless West Coast rap…
Over the last 365 days and nights, we here at Crossfade spent about a billion fucking hours in the club. We battered our brains with booze, drugs, and temporal lobe-exploding decibel levels. And consequently, we can’t remember shit. Luckily, though, we had the foresight to have an entire team of…
Buffalo Brown’s been playing the guitar so long that he can hold his ten fingers in a bonfire, press them in a cactus patch, dip them in bubbling fry grease, hold them on a power sander, and run ’em cross a razorblade without breaking the skin. That’s callous. But the…
Forget your personal trainer, chartered accountant, and life coach. We here at Crossfade are the highest authority on how to spend New Year’s in Miami. And we say: “This is no time for moderation!” Go live out the dying days of 2011 in a totally out-of-control cyclone of rabid, unfettered…
The past 365 days have been packed with some seriously questionable pop star looks. Sure, most of them have been perpetrated by Lady Gaga and whatever little monster dresses her. But Ms. Germanotta isn’t the only one who’s played the fashion game and lost miserably. Maybe it’s just that we’re…
Maybe you spent Christmas night digesting the pig and/or turkey you’d been scarfing down all day. But we spent it dancing off our 20 meals to Questlove’s DJ set at Wall Lounge. Nowadays, even your mom knows about Questlove, thanks to Jimmy Fallon. Yet somehow, the drummer and producer manages…
Every generation lampoons those that came before it. Nothing is easier to parody than the ’60s: the hair, the beads, the vibes, maaan. In the ’70s, everybody’s pants were fucking huge, until their hair got Bride of Frankenstein-huge in the ’80s, thanks to all that blow and yacht rock. Unfortunately,…
Big news, beat freaks. After months of teases, hype, and promises that it “will be bigger than last year,” there’s finally been a major development in the ongoing saga of Ultra Music Festival’s 2012 lineup. Of course, we here at Crossfade have spent the last few weeks scouring the web…
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. Yes, we here at Crossfade continue to sit, unwashed and sweaty, at our laptops. Like a 150,000 other beat freaks all around the globe, we are…
Miami’s club owners and party promoters toil day after day, year after year, planning your nightlife adventures. They give you exciting stories to brag about for decades. And lucky for Miami scenesters, we have a dedicated stable of nightlife overlords who make this city one of the Planet’s most exciting…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. O’Grime O’Grime EP (Self-Released) Over the summer, swag tag-team O’Grime — Nikolais Javan and L.Rey Reyes — spit, giggled, and screamed onto the 305’s street-level…
What’d your Christmas list look like this year? We asked Santa for web hits, a pay raise, and a three-and-a-half foot masseuse on 24-hour standby. Wishful thinking indeed! But a blog can dream, can’t it? Quite frankly, we’re tired of ballin’ on a budget. We want to make it rain,…
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. MiamiMusicWeek.com has announced that Knife Party (a side project involving Pendulum’s Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen) and British duo Chase & Status have been added to…
Oh, Christmas! It’s that feel-good time of the year that’s filled with good friends, close family, pretty lights, big trees, strong egg nog, huge yule logs, nice carols, sweet hymns, odes to Jesus, and all kinds of “Ho, Ho, Ho”-ing from a fat guy with a big, white beard who’s…
Rick Ross. Two words, two syllables, and one hardcore boss. Over that past 12 months, the Maybach Music capo effortlessly managed to make 2011 his bitch, surviving two seizures and a Kreyashawn diss along the way. He expanded his investment portfolio, adding Wingstop franchisee to his resume. And along with…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Rachel Goodrich Rachel Goodrich (Yellow Bear Records) Loving Rachel Goodrich hasn’t always been easy…
Christmas came early indeed. According to a press release sent moments ago to Crossfade, Lenny Kravitz “is pleased to announce dates for his first American tour in five years!” Best of all, dude’s got a gig in the Big Mango. The “nearly 20-city tour” kicks off at New York City’s…
Check out the full 21-photo Wood Tavern Grand Opening slideshow. Cesar Morales wasn’t lying when he told New Times a few months back that he was gauging public opinion in order to create a bar to please the common people. We’re paraphrasing, but he did post questions on Facebook, asking…
