There will be an epic DJ battle during Winter Music Conference 2013. But this one won’t be fought behind the decks. It’s going down on the basketball court. Yes, the Red Blue Classic on March 19 is WMC’s inaugural DJ basketball game — a chance for enthusiasts of the sport…
Strippers are stars. Just ask 305 rapper and Rick Ross collaborator Ice Billion Berg. Like any straight-up gentleman with a lifetime platinum membership at the gentleman’s club, he’s got mad respect for the inner strength, physical prowess, and work ethic of the average exotic dancer. “It’s a way a lot…
Y’all ready to get your HARD on? It’s beginning to look a lot like springtime. And as such, electro bangers will soon drown out every other noise Miami generates in a 24-hour period — construction, traffic, chusmeria — as part of the March tradition known as Winter Music Conference and…
Who in the 305 “want[s] to get up close and personal with your favorite #RizinStar artist?” Well, sorry. It ain’t gonna happen ’cause the Rizinstar Tour with Travis Porter, Kirko Bangz, Ca$h Out, and others has nixed its show at the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami. The venue…
Beware the Ides of March. No, not because someone’s planning to stab you in the back à la Brutus. But rather because this year’s Winter Music Conference kicks off on March 15, meaning you have only about three weeks of fake tanning sessions, CrossFit classes, and detoxing left until you’re…
Skeptical until about 46 minutes ago, we just learned there is, in fact, a God. And while it took her several years to answer the one prayer that we’d been repeating every night for the past 1,460 days, Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona is finally returning to Miami. The veteran crooner…
Some say “happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.” But in reality, happiness is a three-night cruise with Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas at the helm. For the first time ever, the 2004 People’s Choice Awards selection for Favorite Musical Group is hitting the high seas aboard the Carnival…
Now going on its sixth year, Flying Circus has emerged as one of the foremost mid-week Winter Music Conference parties. Back in 2011, Luca Saporito of UK DJ-production duo Audiofly reminisced with Crossfade about the fateful day in 2008 when he teamed up with SAFE Miami to launch the party…
MC Yogi grew up in the rough world full of drugs, gangs, pimps and hoes in the Bay Area. At around 18 years old, he discovered yoga, and later applied his new philosophy on life to making hip hop. Today, he’s independently sold over 100,000 albums. And this weekend, he…
Comedy’s in a weird place right now. It’s seen a mass middlebrow resurgence of sorts, after inside-baseball podcasts and Louis CK’s artsy crit-baiting TV show. And it’s also seen new backlash, after Tosh.0’s rape jokes revealed that hecklers can be as much the victims of comedians as the other way…
Punxsutawney Phil is quite possibly the worst friggin’ groundhog weatherman in the world. Not only did the Pennsylvanian woodchuck predict an early spring about a week before a massive snowstorm ravaged the Northeast, Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day co-star also failed to mention that at least one part of Miami is…
In the shadows of a cocaine skyline, in the bitter freeze of winter, with fewer than a legion of supporters, and a raging douchenozzle hellbent on destruction … The seven samurai of Fishbone gathered by the river, armed for battle, and unleashed a sonic boom of future funk on the…
Murs Road to Paid Dues Tour With Fashawn, Prof, DJs Foundation and Fundo The Stage Miami Friday, February 15, 2013 On February 10, 2004, when Kanye brokered the peace deal between the benzes and the backpacks at Camp ‘Ye-vid, Murs stayed in the trenches looking at that bridge like it…
Danny Daze is a superstar DJ. After spending years grinding out five-day work weeks in the MIA, this local EDM mastermind finally broke free with “Your Everything,” a major club banger that officially turned him into a big fucking deal. He’s relocated to Spain. And he’s become a fixture on…
Two weeks ago, Robbie Rivera kicked off the beat-freaking season by revealing the nine-act Phase One lineup for Juicy Beach 2013. The roster was already loaded with Mr. Rivera, Bob Sinclar, Cosmic Gate … But the Juicy crew still promised more “all star talent to be announced in the coming…
Generation Wild Tour With Deniz Koyu, Danny Avila, dBerrie and Mikael Weermets Thursday, February 14, 2013 Better Than: Speed dating for a Valentine’s companion. Did the youth of Miami prove they party hardest? Last night, the Generation Wild Tour made its stop at LIV for a crowd of eye-contact enthusiasts,…
It’s the worst feeling in the world; you’ve washed the blood off your hands and packed the corpse in the trunk when, all of a sudden, you and your accomplices find a heavily bandaged wheelchair-bound man on the side of the road. Exposed only by a small hole in the…
With Made Event’s longstanding Sunday School party going kaput before Winter Music Conference 2012, revelers were deprived of a properly epic closing party. But then SAFE Miami, Embrace Miami, and Liaison Artists came to the rescue with their first annual installment of Last Resort at Villa 221, the most buzzed-about…
Ultra Music Festival is goin’ on tour, beat freaks. So if you don’t have the massive cash stash for a road trip to the flagship in the MIA (or enough frequent flyer rewards points for a jet ride to Ultra Europe in Croatia), just rendezvous with the UMF crew, Fedde…
The northern English city of Leeds is a real hotbed of electronic dance music. A few talented natives we’ve chatted with in the past include Simon Baker, Paul Woolford and Death on the Balcony. And another illustrious act hailing from Leeds is Audiojack, the DJ-production duo of Jamie Rial and Rich…
In almost month, Ultra Music Festival will kick off its six-day marathon of EDM madness in Bayfront Park and with it bring a slew of electronic acts to Miami, some of which you can catch pretty often at Miami-area nightclubs and others that rarely (if ever) make Magic City cameos.We…
The current state of the game isn’t strong. Back in the late ’90s, stagnant rap got a righteous kick in the gonads from the whole “backpack” movement. Now in the 2000s, the hip-hop scene has become rife with repetitive ring-tones and IQ-lowering catch phrases. And there ain’t much opposition out…
