A couple of weeks ago, we here at Crossfade were delighted to discover a new vid for the Jacuzzi Boys’ “Glazin’,” starring a bunch of singing vaginas. That’s right, actual female genitals, shaved and dressed up to look like the Boys’ singer Gabriel Alcala, bassist Danny Gonzalez, and drummer Diego…
When he’s not hanging out with Chris Martin and remixing Coldplay tracks (see “Paradise”), superstar Dutch DJ-producer Fedde Le Grand likes to stay busy plotting the final stages of his total takeover of the North American continent. As if superexplosive 2006 hit “Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit” and non-stop…
Cultura Profética don’t mind if you smoke a spliff, bone your chick, or fight oppression while they beat up the speakers at the Bayside Rocks Festival.They record with Bob Marley’s engineer, tour the world spreading conscious music, sing in Spanish, and rep Puerto Rico to the fullest.We spoke to guitarist…
See the full 15-photo Sting at the Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow. Sting Back to Bass Tour Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday, November 12, 2011 Better Than: Getting stung. He faked out the audience three times, once for every decade of his career. And all three times, the crowd’s heavy applause pulled…
When we here at Crossfade heard that Kreayshawn was planning a trip to the MIA (AKA the home of Ricky Rozay), we thought, She better watch her back ’cause she be beefin’ with The Bawse. See, a few months ago, the little Oaktown spitter dissed Ross by calling him fake…
Almost exactly a year ago, local production company and activist organization ROCKAS MVMT summoned the righteousness of reggae and Jah’s blessedness for the inaugural Bayside Rocks music festival, “a full day celebration of cultural awareness and consciousness.” From noon till midnight, soldiers of peace, love, and ganja like Toots and…
In the time (approximately five days) that it took 600,000 YouTube junkies to fire up their MacBook Pros, smoke a fatty, and sing-along to the hot and sticky candy-colored vid for a song trash-talking couture and “basic bitches,” a 22-year-old female rapper from the Bay Area named Kreayshawn became internet…
Ultra Music Fesitval quickly announced (and sold out) early bird tickets. But so far, the fest has given no indication of what else is in store. No acts. No venue. Nothing.However, a reliable source told Crossfade today that a venue announcement is coming very soon. In fact, the festival is…
An astute and insightful cultural seer once observed that the movies are actually mankind’s collective dreams. But what about our freaking nightmares? Well, our fave films can be anxiety-soaked, terror-inducing experiences too. Especially when scored by a deeply twisted noise trio like Miami’s Ballscarf. So November 23 when the lights…
Normally, we here at Crossfade don’t spend a ton of time hanging out at banks. For one, we don’t have much money, hence our weekly scramble to find the best music-related things to do under $10. For another, we’ve been (sorta) brainwashed by the Occupy Miami movement. Also, there’s usually…
The average rainfall in Las Vegas is about 4.5 inches a year, the equivalent of an average afternoon in Miami. However, that number doubles when Marc Anthony and Pitbull team up for a performance at the 12th Annual Latin Grammy Awards show. During last night’s telecast, those two bros performed…
Tinariwen With Sophie Hunger Presented by Rhythm Foundation Grand Central Thursday, November 11, 2011 Better Than: Being exiled from your native land and wandering the desert in search of rock ‘n’ roll. In the past month Grand Central has treated us to eye-crossingingly complex new school prog/math rock courtesy of…
Every Friday, Crossfade scrambles to find you cheapskates the ten best music-related things to do over the weekend under $10. But because we’re feeling extra generous this week (plus we’re suckers for numerology), Crossfade is commemorating the once-in-100-years 11/11/11 occurrence by adding an extra event and an extra dollar. That’s…
Why did all y’all basic bitches and chicken heads blow your entire Arby’s paycheck on too much “Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada”? That’s just bad budgeting. No worries, though, ’cause Crossfade’s got free tix to Oakland emcee Kreayshawn’s live performance at Mansion this Friday. And we’re just giving…
While hardcore has long been colonized by pampered yet meatheaded suburbanites, the original purveyors of NYC’s first wave of punker-than-punk rock ‘n’ roll were actually meatheads from the unforgiving freak show that was pre-Giuliani New York. Violent crime was rampant, public services were seriously underfunded, and Times Square sat on…
A tandoor oven is a charcoal-heated clay cooking device used throughout the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and especially India to prepare delicious meals consisting of dishes such as rice, naan, and scrumptious meats. A knight, meanwhile, is an elite warrior (clad in iron, armed with a sword, and…
For a minute, the entire wired world was asking, “Where the F#@K is Kreayshawn?!” But all that initial hype generated by “Gucci Gucci” has begun to die down. And now, locked into a million-dollar major-label deal, Oakland’s most infamous internet sensation is forced to either duplicate that shit or die…
While the world waits to find out whether or not Justin Bieber is (a) the victim of statutory rape and (b) the absentee father of a three-month-old baby, Crossfade’s busy hypothesizing what the results of a Justin Bieber vs. Mariah Yeater paternity test on Maury might look like. Huffington Post…
Immortal Technique might have been a little late to yesterday’s promised appearance at the Occupy Miami site. But once there, he was very generous with his time. He offered press, protesters, and superfans individual attention and thoughtful commentary. The outspoken, politically active hip-hop artist is visiting Miami to promote his…
We just got off the phone with our bookie. Chasing that Sucker Free paper, Crossfade dropped a fat stack on a four category parlay — Rookie of the Year, Best Crew, Song of the Year, and Who’s Got Next — and $500 in side bets. Tyler, The Creator, Odd Future,…
Few nightclubs can claim to inhabit a building as old as the historic Miami-Dade County Courthouse. But the Meyer-Kiser Building (AKA the Dade Commonwealth Building) has been standing in Downtown Miami since 1925, first as a 17-story structure, later salvaged as a seven-story building when a 1926 hurricane toppled the…
TMZ has got us playing a lil’ game called, Who’d You Rather? Of course, the implied last half of that question is: “…do it with?” And by it, we mean da nasty. Yesterday, the gossip site asked us if we’d rather rub private parts with Led Zep shrieker Robert Plant…
