It’s been 18 days since DJ Shadow got kicked off the decks at Mansion Miami for playing “too future for all of y’all.” And it’s been a week and a half since the South Beach nightclub offered its “sincere apologies to DJ Shadow and his fans for his set being…
Society’s inexplicable obsession with Justin Bieber cost a man his life in Los Angeles. And the Biebz says a lack of “meaningful legislation” is to blame. According to CNN, a paparazzo, whose name has not been released, was struck by oncoming traffic as he attempted to walk across Interstate 405…
Fiscal Cliff? Boring. But celebrity baby announcements? Now that’s what we call news. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are having a baby! Last night, the 35-year-old rapper channeled his inner Ricky Ricardo, dedicating part of his Atlantic City concert to his “Perfect Bitch” and her childbearing hips. “Stop the music…
This Chrismahanukwanzika, Drake did something really, really crazy. He walked into a Walgreens. And it must have been the first time since late November 2011. Because the “greatest ever” rapper just realized the commercial giants of the world have been stacking cake all year by marketing his hashtag swag word…
Pop gossip. Most of us want to believe that we’re too intelligent and cultured to be fascinated with such gutter-trash information, but the reality is we all love to sniff the dirty underwear of the stars. Whether it’s a child star blossoming into a full-fledged sex symbol, a battered woman…
We here at Crossfade imagine this was the conversation, which must have taken place on Deadmau5’s couch while cuddling adorable kitty cats. “Baaaaby, I want to go to Ultra this year,” said Katt Von D, all tatted and pretty and in some tank top. “But shnookums, Ultra Music Festival and…
“I’ve waited a long time to play here. But they said this shit’s too future for all of y’all.” That’s how DJ Shadow said goodnight to clubbers at Mansion on South Beach after getting kicked off the decks last Saturday. For the second time in 2012, the Opium Group-owned nightclub…
Ever done the Swamp Stomp? And nah, dude, it ain’t a muddy-ass dance. We’re talkin’ about the totally homegrown 2,000 person-strong music festival that “started as a killer backyard barbecue with a bunch of bands and booze and a few friends in 2007.” It’s always the most “badass, rockenest, craziest,…
These days, Fat Joe ain’t so fat. But he owes an obese (or is that obscene?) amount of back taxes to the IRS. According to a press release from the Department of Justice: “Joseph Cartagena, the rapper popularly known as ‘Fat Joe,’ pleaded guilty [in New Jersey] today to two…
The World Music Awards just got canceled. Only two days before the scheduled 2012 edition at Marlins Park, WMA organizers have nixed the show, blaming “visa issues” and — absurdly — the Newtown shooting. “We are sorry for any inconvenience,” the official statement reads, “but this decision had to be…
UPDATE The World Music Awards just got canceled and exposed as a con. But WMA organizers are blaming “visa issues” and the Newtown shooting. That $515 million ballpark in Little Havana that Miami-Dade taxpayers helped build for Major League Baseball’s biggest joke, Jeffery Loria’s Miami Marlins, is finally being put…
Ever wonder “what it sounds like when Miami teams up with Hawaii”? Well, Cris Cab did. So he made a new track called “The Fire.” “Felt like dropping some music for you all,” the local pop-hop crooner announced via Facebook today. “This one features The Green from Hawaii and produced…
What’d y’all do on your 20th birthday? If it was anything like ours, you spent 45 minutes waiting for a table at some generic hibachi restaurant, and the three days thereafter puking up shellfish. If you’re B-list pop royalty, however, you spent the big two-oh mean muggin’ and feelin’ on…
Holy Fucking Ship!! The three-day activities and music schedule for the most massive EDM cruise was just released. And now our pants are a little heavier. There are some returning favorites, like A-Trak’s DJ lessons and Dillon Francis’s mini-golf tournament. There will be wet-dream back-to-back sets, an ’80s prom night,…
Heavy bass, ear-shredding distortion, booty beats, syrupy synths, and prime rhymes. Even though the 305 is a sunny city, it’s definitely got a weird, dark, and dirty side. So while this year’s top local releases were often sexed-up and fun-obsessed, they were also experimental, X-rated, drugged-out, deeply gritty, and unrepentantly…
LeBron James is so #ballswag on the court, he can pop a molly and sweat it out like his first name was Trinidad. In fact, Trinidad James and King James have a lot in common. The rapper gives it up to them “hipster bitches.” The basketballer rides the Miami critical…
Kat and Joel, sittin’ in a tree, T-W-E-E-T-I-N-G…. Experts say that the best marriages are those rushed into after only three months of on-again, off-again dating. Especially when they’re shoved down others’ throats via obnoxiously adorable Instagram photos and nauseatingly cute tweets. So, over the weekend, Joel Zimmerman (AKA Deadmau5)…
The show must go on, even in times of grief. And DJ Shadow was prepared to do just that this past Friday at Mansion, the day America lost 20 innocent school children and six brave educators following the horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. “The challenge for…
Who throws a shoe table? Honestly! It appears that “The Beautiful People” of Switzerland reacted rather violently to an “Irresponsible Hate Anthem” issued by Antichrist Superstar Marilyn Manson during his recent trip to Basel. Promoting his latest record, Born Villain, the former South Floridian freak performed at St. Jacob’s Hall…
¡Ay Cojones! Justin Bieber’s balls are safe. Phew. However, Canada’s most popular pair of 18-year-old pop nuts came mighty close to soaking in some sick fuck’s mason jar full of formaldehyde. Police say that convicted murderer and rapist Dana Martin hired Mark Staake and his nephew Tanner Ruane, two men…
The Bawse might not be worried. But the Chicago Police ain’t takin’ chances. After receiving death threats last week from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples, Rick Ross rolled up to the 99 Jamz studio to shrug off any beef with the GDs as “one sucka that got…
The Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame’s official mission: “To educate, preserve, honor and celebrate the legacy of the greatest Latin songwriters from all over the world and their music in every genre.” Founded by a Grammy-winning pair of writer-producers — multimillion-selling Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee Desmond Child (Bon Jovi,…
