The “Latino Vote,” as the media dubbed it, will almost certainly play a critical role in this year’s elections. But did you ever think that it would be a determining factor at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards? The Viacom-owned network recently announced its five nominations for the so-called “Tr3s…
See also “Top Ten Musical Makeover Stunts: From Miley Cyrus to Justin Bieber and Micheal Jackson.” Miley Cyrus is a terrible troll. We’ve all seen her new haircut. (If you haven’t, then look at it now.) And everyone on the Internet has an opinion, whether they think it’s an awkward…
Gunplay is not one to hold his tongue. The Maybach Music rapper offered so much colorful commentary during the interviews for our recent two-part feature (“How Miami’s Coke-Sniffin’, Po’ Pimpin’ Maniac Joined Rap’s Power Circle” and “Gunplay on His Swastika Tattoo, Starting Escort Agency, Rebranding Himself as Don Logan”), we…
See also “Dan Hosker, Famed South Florida Punk and Holy Terrors Guitarist, Dead at 46.” In 2008, Miami New Times contributor José Dávila wrote a feature story entitled “The Holy Terrors Rise Again,” chronicling the return of a “raging art-punk quartet” that he called “the defining soundtrack for those living…
Usually, Surfer Blood is all about beach-y, positive vibes. On March 31, though, the band’s singer-guitarist John Paul Pitts was booked by the Palm Beach County Sherrif’s Office on a domestic battery charge after a confrontation with his then-girlfriend. As reported this afternoon by Pitchfork, the indie rocker was originally…
See also “Miley Cyrus to Tyler The Creator: “My ‘Barber’ Couldn’t Even Come Close to the F#$% Job That Is Your Face.” So much of today’s music industry is image. But what happens when a pop star totally hates the way that she’s been played out by her PR people?…
Mazel tov! Action Bronson — Crossfade’s pick for best fire-spitting, pasta-cooking mound since Mount Vesuvius — has just signed to Warner Bros. via Vice Records. This year’s Warner company Labor Day picnic is sure to get weird when Action partners up with new labelmate Kylie Minogue for the three-legged race…
See also “Vince Neil Falls at His Vegas Strip Club: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown.” Can you think of anything less arousing than Girls, Girls, Girls, a Vegas strip club where Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil runs around like a horny lil’ piggy smearing his fake tan all over the highly…
The 305 has always been about bumping and grinding to ass-clapping booty bass music. And it ain’t gonna change if homeboy Jesse Perez gets his way. The DJ-producer and dirty mastermind behind Mr. Nice Guy Records has been busy releasing sleazy, bass-infused jacking house grooves on the local scene for…
See also “Dan Hosker: Memorial Services for Local Punk Hero Scheduled for This Friday in Hollywood.” R.I.P., Dan Hosker. Back in May, Hosker — a famed South Florida punk who’d done guitar duty in legendary local crews like Harry Pussy, The Holy Terrors, and Laundry Room Squelchers — was involved…
See also “R. Kelly Announces Love Letter Cruise, Sailing From Miami on October 1, 2012.” The R. Kelly Love Letter Cruise is cancelled. Almost exactly eight months ago, we here at Crossfade encouraged “you and your boo [to] visit some of the most exotic ports of call in the Caribbean…
See also “WMC is back with Ultra but still needs a makeover” and “WMC and Ultra’s complicated breakup.” We’ll admit, we’ve let Winter Music Conference’s organizers have it the last few years. But it’s not because we are choosing sides. We really hope they wake up and realize they need…
Until earlier this morning, the electronic dance music scene lacked synergy. But Ultra Music Festival founder and CEO Russell Faibisch and Ultra Music president Patrick Moxey have since rectified the situation. In a joint statement released by both parties, Ultra Music Festival and Ultra Music (a pair of entirely independent…
“Yo Skrill, College Drop it hard!” Or, uh, something like that … It came out yesterday that Skrillex got all up in the studio with Kanye West, and as far as Skrill knows, he worked on a track that will be West’s “first song” on the follow-up to Yeezy’s 2010…
Just two weeks ago, Joel “Deadmau5” Zimmerman was crowned the rat king of hooded sweatshirts, oversized graphic t-shirts, and flat-bill ball caps when he launched NeffMau5, an exclusive, collaborative clothing line with swag sport punk brand Neff. “The people involved are the people I see at my shows, so it…
Hell yeah, America! We’re going into the final weekend of the 2012 London Olympics neck-and-neck with China in the overall medal count, proving one Olympic sport at a time that the U-S-of-A rocks the shit out of athleticism. Seriously, did y’all catch the women’s gold-medal soccer match? We’re so nasty…
See also a four-step guide on “How To Piss Off the DJ” from Love Hate Lounge’s DJ Self Born. Yo, club rats … The Miami Ink guys have cashed out of Love Hate Lounge on South Beach, leaving DJ Self Born (the guy who started the most successful night, the…
See also “Rick Ross, Big-Booty Strippers, and 3,000 Ballers at King of Diamonds in Miami (NSFW).” Rick Ross is a fucking boss. But y’all already knew. What you may not know, however, is that the Maybach Music MC outsold some of the music industry’s biggest names to claim the top…
See also “Kanye West Calls Kim Kardashian “Perfect Bitch,” Plus Five Other Adorable Rap Pet Names.” Kanye’s a sweetheart. And when he calls someone a “bitch,” it’s cute. In fact, it’s an honor. Yesterday, we mentioned that Yeezy debuted his latest Kim Kardashian love song, “Perfect Bitch,” this past weekend…
See also “Cat Power’s Sun Album Announced, Listen to First Single, ‘Ruin.'” Hell to the yeah! Cat Power is back! After a six-year hiatus, the singer-songwriter otherwise known as Chan Marshall is set to release a new album, Sun, at the beginning of September. And where there is an album…
See also “Justin Bieber Disses Reading, Writing, Education: ‘I’m Really Not Into That Stuff.'” In the mid-’90s, Prince William’s adorable face was plastered on posters worldwide and then hung above millions of innocent young girls’ beds where they were kissed and admired by tweens who dreamt of one day becoming…
See also “Gunplay: How Miami’s Coke-Sniffin’, Po’ Pimpin’ Maniac Joined Rap’s Power Circle.” Gunplay was consuming so many narcotics while making his aptly-titled debut mixtape Sniffahill in 2008 that he dubbed himself “five-drug minimum” on one of its freestyles. Actually, for meter’s sake, he said it in an abbreviated form…
