You’re stranded on the Beach, a little wasted, and too broke to afford the limo service. But shit … You wanna keep this party going all the way till 5 a.m. in the freaking morning. The solution: Grand Central Express, a free shuttle service that will zip back and forth…
Back when a president called Clinton ruled the White House, a band called Harry Pussy lorded over Miami’s tiny noise rock scene. The explosively experimental unit first emerged in 1992 when guitarist Bill Orcutt and drummer Adris Hoyos decided to cause general musical mayhem for no real reason besides their…
Club promoter and artiste extraordinaire Aholsniffsglue has a heart of gold. He’s constantly thinking of ways to help the community. His motto: “You can talk about how bad things are. Or you can step up and do something about it.” It’s this attitude that got him in the party-making business…
Shortly after moving into our swanky new offices at 4500 Biscayne, Crossfade saw the potential for a concert series. The premise was simple: Musicians come into our editorial suite and perform on a plush white couch overlooking the Ivax building’s parking garage. We film the performance, post the vid on…
By now, if you’re a dirty rock ‘n’ roll lover, you should know all about the Furious Dudes, a local band that proudly carries the torch of heavy-hitting, feedback-laden punk rock thrash as originated by scene stalwarts like FWA, the Fuck Boyz, and Load. Like us, you also might’ve heard…
Due to a constantly aching heart, UK pop star Leona Lewis is always singing about stuff like romatic disappointment, relationship trainwrecks, moving on. While they’re not the freshest topics, she still manages to give it a little oomph and combine powerful, soulful vocals with a catchy beat so that her…
The man behind Miami-based record label 10K Islands, Will Suter, is a full-time business man. He’s also a part-time jetsetter. “I technically live in Washington, D.C.,” he explains. “But I also stay in New York and Miami.” It seems almost impossible to run a label — organizing distribution, publicity, and…
The holiday season is a great time for music — Latin music in particular. Nothing says it’s the holidays in SoFla better than a nice little salsita, maybe something by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico or Jose Feliciano. But glaringly absent from this season’s playlists is La Universidad de…
If you’ve never made the trip, there’s only one way to enter Candyland: Get a group of festively costumed friends together, drop a tab and a little gamma-hydroxybutyrate, spin some drum ‘n’ bass (or maybe dubstep, if you’re under 21), and then dial up the nostalgic ’90s quotient. Soon a…
As opposed to rap-phobic product pushers like Hennessy, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is totally stoked that peeps be name-droppin’ its shit. In October, company spokesman Jeff Miller told Fortune that his employer was “thrilled” to hear Far East Movement’s “Like a G6” referencing the G-650 aircraft, even amid lines about sucking…
Can you believe there was a time when Pitbull (AKA Don Armando Christian Pérez) couldn’t even get his party jams played on Power 96 (WPOW-FM 96.5)? Back in the day, OG supporter and booty-bass legend Luther Campbell asked the radio station’s jocks to slip some of Pit’s early records into…
Virginia Woolf once said, “All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn… for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.” Had Woolf been a teen with a ‘zine in the late ’70s or early ’80s, she might have said…
You can joke about Justin Bieber’s lesbianism all day. But the Biebz reigns supreme. Powered by asexual androgyny and cotton-candy songcraft, his music has infected tween girls, their mothers, and even, in extreme cases, their fathers. You could be next. Seriously, if JB didn’t look (and sound) like an adorable,…
Ladies and gentlemen, crushed-out tweens, and cyber bullies: Let it be known that the voice of Justin Bieber, he of the carefully coiffed mop-top and lightly soulful, sweet-as-a-juice-box soprano, has finally begun to change. Call it the crack heard around the world — the most scrutinized advent of puberty since…
Mike Mineo’s not your average guy — unless your average guy has lived like Jack Kerouac, succumbing to wanderlust and setting out on the road right after high school. His debut album Eccocentricity wanders a little too. A marriage of folk, pop-rock, soul, and even some jazz, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter’s…
What are we calling that period between March 22 and 28? Ultra Week? Miami Electronic Music Week? We need to come to a consensus so we don’t get too confused. Just the other day, Crossfade announced Swedish House Mafia’s party happening opposite Ultra, and now British trance trio, Above &…
After 20 years, DJ-producer Josh Wink still hasn’t lost sight of what originally got him started in the EDM game — his passion for the music itself. It’s taken him from stints in the early ’90s as a rave DJ, through his “Higher State of Consciousness” chart-crushing heyday, and now all the…
Alex “Gucci Pucci” Bethune (pronounced ‘goochie-poochie’) is an elusive individual. He usually stays behind the scenes. But as the longtime manager of the one and only Rick Ross, he’s definitely among the hip-hop industry’s power players. Wherever Mr. Ricky Rozay happens to be, Gucci’s never too far behind. And quietly helping…
Everybody enjoys free drank, right? Well, Amway North America, a one-time “seller of household cleaner” and current pusher of cosmetics, is getting into the energy drink game with a “sparkling orange” product called XS Naranja Blast that’s loaded with “B-vitamins and key amino acids.” It sure sounds healthful. But here’s…
Finally, an excuse for all you oversensitive indie types to stop being so emo and leave the bedroom for a few hours … Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes are coming to Miami! In approximately 77 and a half days, the band will kickoff its first tour in three years at…
Every fifteen years or so, the adult film industry gives birth to a porn star whose talents go beyond anal DP. Back in the ’70s, booby queen Annie Sprinkle fucked for money during the day while staging pseudo-feminist performance art at night. And then a decade later, infamous underager Traci…
The publicity team behind Drake’s South Beach takeover has provided new details about his big New Year’s Eve bash. The Young Money rapper will start the evening off poolside at WET and he’ll perform there shortly after midnight while DJ Irie, Phresh, and Blaze handle the decks. Then the party…
