Poe Boy’s princess Brianna returns with another freestyle that offers a look into her lyrical prowess. She chooses the instrumental from one of the hottest street records in the country: Rick Ross’ “B.M.F.” that currently has the mixtape and club circuits in a craze. Ross’ original version opens up with…
Click here to view photos from Black Kids at the Vagabond.Black Kids With Pop Glow The Vagabond, Miami Friday, July 2, 2010 Better than: Dancing in your underwear a ‘la Tom Cruise in Risky Business — hey, we know you’ve all done it. The Review: The first room at the…
Click here to view photos from Hole at the Fillmore Miami Beach.HoleThe Fillmore Miami BeachFriday, July 2, 2010Nobody can blame Courtney Love of being fake and insincere. She always wears her emotions on her sleeve, a rare trait in rockstars these days. Love is dying breed of iconic stars that…
Here in Miami it feels like a new club is born and dies every week. Regardless, the party-hopping frenzy continues when a new neighbor takes over the lost one. Here are some new paint jobs and fixer-uppers to get your party panties rattled up. Lux1439 Washington Ave., South Beach The…
If you could go back in time, would you kill Stalin before he ruined the communism? Do you live in a state of perpetual war against all that sucks? Is your total commitment to the cause what keeps you going everyday? Want to help create an entertainment industry in Miami…
-Hip-hop fans can officially relax now that Rick Ross and company have released the Kanye West collabo track from Teflon Don titled “Live Fast, Die Young”. The track features Kanye on the second verse as well as on the production side.Recorded in Hawaii not too long ago, the song finds…
Given its stellar lineup, we couldn’t pass up a shout out to the Novitech Recordings launch party scheduled at the Clevelander on Friday, July 9. The event will be headlined by internationally acclaimed artists Steve Duda and Deepchild. Novitech is a new digital-only label, the brainchild of two emerging like-minded…
This week, West Coast news agencies had a field day thanks to all the hoopla caused by this past weekend’s Electric Daisy Carnival, which took place at the Los Angeles Coliseum and its immediate surrounding grounds. The event is billed as North America’s largest rave, with over 185,000 attending the…
Whatever. Taking on acts from alternative hip-hop, post-hardcore, and the vilified emo only brought Epitaph more success and more whiny cries from its old punk fan base. Boo-hoo-motherfucking-hoo, ya big babies! Gurewitz did set up plenty of sub-labels (ANTI-, Hellcat) that have kept peddling that Southern California sound. But the…
We love a good lawsuit just as much as the next person, but we never thought we’d utter these words: Drake is being sued by Playboy? The rapper — who caused riots in New York City just a few weeks ago when he scheduled a free concert with Hanson at the…
Who loves summer time? I know I do. Sure, it’s hotter than hell in SoFla these days (next time they’ll listen to you, Al Gore), and with a humidity index of, like, 975, opening the front door is practically like taking a shower, only in your own sweat. But it’s…
It’s always a good feeling when a local band comes back to us. You’ve probably heard Black Kids’ first hit single “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You” in one variation or another, and now they’re doing a statewide Florida tour to test out their never-played-in-public…
Nightlife photographer Merlin Bronques has made a career of documenting debauchery. These days, party photogs are a dime a dozen, but Bronques’ photo site, lastnightsparty.com, is still a pioneer of the art form. He is able to capture not only the people who inhabit the nightlife, but also able to…
Hole may be the main attraction at the Fillmore Miami Beach on Friday night, but even Courtney Love’s potential antics may be upstaged by openers Foxy Shazam. A gonzo outfit hailing from the somewhat unlikely locale of Cleveland, the six-piece aims to be “the Michael Jordan of rock and roll,”…
It’s still bigger than hip-hop for Dead Prez. Just listen to their new Miami Beat Wave produced track “This Is Life,” with lyrics like, “In your chromosomes, buried in your DNA, is somebody that’s waiting to get free today. Either man up or you could take the easy way, ain’t…
Every now and then on the local scene we get some like-minded individuals joining their strengths symbiotically for a greater good. We here at Crossfade think that rock and roll fits seamlessly into that arena of greater goodness, and we’re big fans of this particular group of guys individually.We’re now…
When we hear the words “Material Girl” we think of the obvious: the Marilyn Monroe-inspired music video above. Yes, Madonna will always be synonymous with this song — but now she’s named her new Junior’s clothing line, co-created with daughter Lola, “Material Girl” as well. We’re not so sure how…
Head Spins: Scott Blankenship
Let’s face it, folks: Rock bands are boring nowadays. No one wants to go out on a limb — musically, live, or in the press — for fear of an ever-dwindling music-buying population turning its back on the band. Luckily for us, God has given the world Foxy Shazam. Guided…
These brainy Orange County, California post-hardcore dudes have been slogging it out for more than a decade, and though their mid-’00s major-label stint didn’t quite attract My Chem-grade crowds, Thrice is still making passionate, meaningful music. Last year’s Beggars even wisely dialed down the prog-punk trimmings that bogged down the…
Lightning Bolt is a two-piece band from Providence, Rhode Island. In the past 12 years, Brian Chippendale (drums) and Brian Gibson (guitar) have released four chaotic, spazzy art-metal albums that are metal only in the loosest way. Lightning Bolt songs are like crazy, wounded wildcats: dangerous and unpredictable, with jagged…
I was raised on Latin music, and work around it for a living. So I might as well be the one to address the elephant in the room. It’s big, it’s gray, it smells like an entire farm’s worth of shit, and it’s eating all the peanuts. Enough is enough,…
