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. Pitbull Planet Pit (Sony) If you grew up in Miami, it’s absolutely impossible not to like Pitbull…
With all the talk of Occupy this and Occupy that, people have been a little hesitant to flaunt their wealth in 2011. Richer, please! It’s time to put that P.C. bullshit to bed and ring in the New Year as your great-grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, would have wanted. You know,…
Miami’s best albums, EPs, and mixtapes of 2011
Miami’s five best Christmas parties
Miss Jewish South Florida 2011: Babes and matzo balls
Candyland 2011 at Revolution Live December 23
Elastic Bond at Bardot December 23
Max Vangeli and AN21 at LIV December 26
Highlonesome at Propaganda December 26
Steve Lawler at Wall Lounge December 28
Welcome to the southernmost tip of the Floridian peninsula, otherwise known as the land of Purple Christmas. Now if you’ve never celebrated the high holidays in Miami, here’s the deal: We don’t decorate trees. We cut ’em down and smoke ’em. And this year, the fine folks at local nightlife…
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. Betty Wright With The Roots The Movie (Ms. B Records/S-Curve Records) Betty Wright’s status as the queen of Miami soul has never been in question…
For Crossfade, Holiday spirit consists of little more than a pair of reindeer boxer shorts and a couple of gag gifts. Decorating? That’s an upper-middle class game, the type of shit you find in gated communities ’round suburbia. It’s for people with way too much free time on their hands…
High atop the list of shit that South Florida doesn’t need is another tool. The Tri-County Area is littered with them. But come early February, four more will make a pitstop in west Broward. Though Maynard James Keenan and his cronies haven’t released an album in over five years, the…
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. Danny Daze Your Everything/Fall Away From Love EP (Hot Creations) Despite the 305 being a transatlantic house and techno mecca during WMC, we hadn’t really…
A decade ago, Tracy Young broke out in a big way when she mixed songs for the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna. At the time, we were all psyched here in Miami since Young was a resident of our beat-heavy city. Young no longer lives in South Florida, but she…
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. Mr. Pauer Soundtrack (Fabrika Music) After tirelessly toiling away for nearly two decades, Venezuelan-born DJ, producer, and all-around contributor to Latin culture, Toto Gonzalez, broke…
Every once in awhile, a bar opens that bridges scenes. Its appeal is universal. Whether you’re into Moose Juice or PBR, Pitchfork or Porsches, this is your common ground. And Wood Tavern is that bar. Recently, the cosy Wynwood spot opened its doors for private gatherings and Art Basel events,…
Being gay in Miami is hard to match. The weather’s gorgeous. The nightlife is amazing. And the pool parties never stop. However, an exodus to Wilton Manors up in Broward has left the gay bar scene in Miami on the decline. “Part of it has been a migration more than…
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. Spaceghostpurrp Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6 (Self-Released) Spaceghostpurrp (AKA Muney Jordan) is a dark ass, blaspheming, postmodern motherfucker. Tracks off 2011’s Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6 (or Blackland Radio…
Tiësto. Unless you’ve lived under a soundproof rock since the mid ’90s, you know that this Grammy-nominated Dutch beat maker is one of the biggest electro acts of the modern dance era. He’s been crowned world’s best DJ a staggering three times consecutively. Dude’s a light-eyed BPM pimp, the 40th…
Fact: You don’t need to go inside of any building to party this New Year’s Eve on South Beach. You can get wild, weird, and wasted in the middle of Ocean Drive. Another fact: You can’t buy beer inside a store on South Beach after midnight. No matter what day…
