If you wanna pop your “Bon Bon” on the Beach with Pitbull for free, you’re gonna have to pay your way by running 13 miles over a period of several hours in sweltering, heatstroke-inducing SoFla heat. The deal: On Sunday, December 11, Mr. Worldwide will be giving a performance on…
Flute Salad is fun, easy, and delicious! Wanna whip up a big bowl? Well, here’s the recipe: “This dish consists of a healthy portion of green leafy hip-hop and a huge handful of sliced ‘strong women of the ’90s,'” explains Flute Salad co-creator and frequent Crossfade contributor Liz Tracy. “It’s…
Rick Ross suffered a seizure aboard a flight today, and the plane was forced to make an emergency landing. Miami’s larger-than-life rapper was flying from Fort Lauderdale to Memphis when the 35-year old lost consciousness, according to TMZ. Paramedics quickly started to administer CPR once the plane landed. The celebrity…
Earlier this week, New Times caught up with Vito Roccoforte, drummer of the influential New York dance-rock act the Rapture. After some five years largely out of the American spotlight, the Roccoforte and crew are back with a new album, In the Grace of Your Love, and a headlining tour…
Newsflash! Turns out that network TV execs’ massive hard-on isn’t limited to sitcoms starring rappers. Apparently, they find whiteboy rap-rockers supersexy and crazy funny too. Last week, we here at Crossfade chuckled about the fact that former Rollin 20s Crip, gangsta rapper, and proud daddy Snoop Dogg had landed a…
Tequila, Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac, and Brooklyn coffeehouse singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins … It sounds like the beginning of a joke. But no, it’s the basis for the inaugural Cabo Wabo Tequila Off The Record webseries, where “up-and-coming” music artists pair with wash-ups to shill hooch. In this dark, weird…
Some DJs were raised with all the spoils of Western capitalism, weaned on Tower Records and Top 40 radio. Others, like Uros Umek, grew up in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War era, cut off from the West and deprived of even basic commodities like music on vinyl. For…
America’s 9.1 unemployment rate got you down? Yeah, we’re pretty bummed about that shit too. But at least the weekend’s here, and there’s plenty of stuff to do that’s under $10. Treat yourself to a free Surfer Blood concert, or maybe tackle $0.99 beers at Miami’s oldest bar. We don’t…
If you listened real close when Outkast rapper Big Boi (AKA Antwan Patton) disembarked from a cruise ship at 1:35 p.m. on August 7 and got busted by Miami-Dade K-9 cops while carrying three kinds of contraband (MDMA, Ecstasy, Viagra) and “drug paraphernalia,” you could almost hear the cell door…
We all know Whitney Houston likes to keep it, um, reckless, and her latest flare-up is the direct product of the R&B siren’s disregard for safety and basic public decorum. The big to-do? Ms. Houston made a fuss on a Delta Flight from Atlanta to L.A. over the buckling of…
He’s a redheaded remix wizard from Manchester and his name is Star Slinger. Over the last couple of years, the Slinger’s reworked about a billion tracks by big indie names like Broken Social Scene, Washed Out, Deerhunter, Toro y Moi, and Childish Gambino. And now he’s dropped his debut single,…
Every weekend, you finish work, catch dinner and drinks with friends, catch some more drinks, and maybe some pills at the club … And before you know it, you’re waking up Sunday morning (uh, afternoon) and you’re passed out under a car. On Halloween, it’s pretty much the same deal,…
The first tidal wave of artists joining Mr. Worldwide on his Club 305 Cruise has been announced, and it’s fucking huge. Electro master and commander Paul Oakenfold is joining Pitbull aboard Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas, and so is Miami native Flo Rida. Together, these three locos are gonna…
“It’s bingo, sort of, but not like you’ve seen it before. We made up our own rules, because we don’t know how to play ACTUAL bingo. This is Rebel Bingo. It’s not nice and it’s not fair. Do not bring your grandma.” That’s the way the cryptic press release for…
Norwegian party rockers Turbonegro get down like their lives depend on it. And next Tuesday night, Churchill’s Pub will host the latest edition of its monthly cover shows with a tribute to the denim demons themselves. You can expect lampshades worn like helmets, drinks hurled like grenades, and miserable corner-of-the-room…
Comfortably nestled in the Mid-City District of New Orleans, the historic Tremé neighborhood is one of America’s loudest. Jazz music thrives in this 0.69-square-mile patch of NOLA land, especially at Kermit Ruffins’s house. A brilliant composer, accomplished trumpeter, pot connoisseur, and masterful barbecuer, Ruffins grew up in the infamous Ninth…
Did Winter Music Conference organizers concede defeat? Not exactly.The largest US conference devoted to electronic music is expanding to 10 days in 2012. From March 16 to 25, WMC 2012 will take over Miami in what promises to be an endless array of events that combine music, fashion, and, yes,…
The Rapture at Grand Central October 17
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at Culture Room October 19
Ladytron at Grand Central October 15
Calle 13 at the American Airlines Arena October 15
Anoraak and Teen Daze at Bardot October 13
