See also “Shakira’s ‘Addicted to You’ Video May Result in Sex Rehab.” A couple of weeks ago, Shakira walked away with four Billboard Latin Music Awards, including Female Artist of the Year in both the songs and album categories, all despite the fact that her last record, Sale el Sol,…
Quirky, sexy, and cool, St. Vincent’s Annie Clark may just be the Zooey Deschanel of rock ‘n’ roll, i.e. she’s adorable, she’s legitimate, and she’s totally impossible to avoid. Yesterday, St. Vincent was named by Spin Magazine as the 93rd best guitar player ever. And today, we here at Crossfade…
Time flies. It’s been nearly three years since Michael Jackson died at the hands of Conrad Murray, the result of too much propofol and respiratory arrest. From concerts to network specials, Jackson’s death triggered a seemingly endless stream of posthumous tributes. None, however, came in carbonated beverage form … Until…
This year’s Ultra Music Festival was great, but one performance left us sad and wanting. M83 was scheduled to perform an hour-long set on the second day, but due to some technical difficulties, the audience was given a bittersweet two song performance. It was probably one of the best, if…
Early this morning, Rihanna watched two women simulate cunnilingus. And according to the Barbadian superstar, her “daddy would be proud.” At 5:02 a.m., Ri-Ri tweeted a picture of herself at a New York City strip club holding a stack of dollar bills while making it rain on a couple of…
Betty Wright should need no introduction, especially in Miami. The lifelong 305 resident has been making records in South Florida since 1956 when she sang on an album from her family’s gospel band, Echoes of Joy, at age two. A veteran solo act by her late teens, Wright became one…
After shocking South Florida last month by suddenly resigning from his longtime morning-show gig at Power 96, Latin booty bass pioneer and 22-year radio vet DJ Laz (born Lazaro Mendez) insisted that he was “going to take the boat out for a little while” and spend more time with his…
Who’s ready to get dressed up like a six-foot Rastafarian puppet, suck down some lukewarm Corona, and absolutely not do any drugs while cruisin’ across the Atlantic Ocean aboard the MSC Poesia? That’s right … We’re talking about Jam Cruise, every South Florida hippie music junkie’s favorite floating vacation. This…
Read Crossfade’s Q&A with DJ Laz: “I’m Not Leaving Miami for Los Angeles, It’s Like Having Two Women.” El Heat le metieron tremenda paliza a los Knicks last night. But the big news in Miami wasn’t the Heat’s offense. It was DJ Laz’s decision to leave his beloved city for…
Read Crossfade’s Q&A with DJ Laz: “I’m Not Leaving Miami for Los Angeles, It’s Like Having Two Women.” Sandwiched between Detroit and Seattle, Miami ranks a depressing 12th among the largest radio markets in the country, according to Arbitron’s spring 2012 rankings. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is second only to New…
Read Crossfade’s Q&A with DJ Laz: “I’m Not Leaving Miami for Los Angeles, It’s Like Having Two Women” — plus our interview with SBS’s Jesus Salas: “DJ Laz ‘Needed a Bigger Platform to Grow.” Less than a month after DJ Laz “decided to move on and explore other professional opportunities,”…
It only took about 400 days, but Lil Wayne’s $20-million “Lollipop” legal drama has finally been settled. Last year, producer Darius “Deezle” Harrison filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records for unpaid royalties from sales of Weezy’s 2008 Grammy-winning album, Tha Carter III, and…
Check out Crossfade’s complete list of winners and losers at last night’s Billboard Latin Music Awards. The Billboard Latin Music Awards picked up where it left off last year. With Pitbull. Rising from the stage and seeming to struggle with his microphone, Mr. Worldwide opened the show with a two-song…
Check out Crossfade’s list of highlights and lowlights from the Billboard Latin Music Awards 2012. Three hours. Three long hours of fake tears, fake tits, and fake singing. It’s the nonsense that we sit through so that you don’t have to. Admit it, you didn’t watch last night’s Billboard Latin…
Shuffling through Record Store Day release bins this past Saturday left us feeling empty. Sure, we picked up some fine RSD stuff and supported local business. But all we really wanted was a Van Halen seven-inch. Wait! What’s that? If we buy Van Halen’s A Different Kind of Truth after…
Timothy NorrisDrum roll, please… Individual results may vary.We’ve just rolled out a new and improved calendar of Miami concerts. Our online music listings are now sortable by artist, venue and price. We’ve also got a raw, unadulterated, alphabetical list of upcoming shows in the drop-down menus on the righthand side…
It was about as unexpected as a Chinese sinkhole — a hip-hop heavyweight and, well, a former heavyweight. Last night, Rick Ross and Mariah Carey, together in a Miami recording studio with Jermaine Dupri and DJ Khaled. “Rozay and MiMi,” Ross tweeted at around 1 a.m. Attached to the late…
For years, everyone has told me, “You guys gotta play it, man! Juke would be perfect.” We’re talking about the annual Wanee Festival, a three-day, 30,000-strong, hippie jam extravaganza in Live Oak, Florida. It mostly specializes in “bluesy” acts like The Allman Brothers. And this year, my band finally went…
The Miami Beach Senior High Rock Ensemble is a storied local institution. Founded in September 1972, this program has allowed student musicians to travel the country and the world, playing as far away as Chicago and New York, as well as Japan in 2001. The ensemble has won award after…
Perhaps the third time’s the charm? When the Identity Festival set out on its inaugural summer tour across the United States last year, Miami was left out after the threat of a hurricane that never hit. Organizers tried to reschedule the show at a later date. But it proved too…
Mariah Yeater, remember the name? She’s the chick who allegedly took Justin Bieber’s virginity backstage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and gave birth to the pop singer’s only child nine months later. She filed a paternity suit, became the key suspect in a statutory rape investigation, and subsequently lost…
Drug addiction, alleged spousal abuse… That’s all behind him. Ever since Whitney Houston drowned in a Los Angeles bathtub, Bad Bobby Brown’s been able to focus on the important stuff like fighting a DUI charge in California and hitting the road with his Boston-bred R&B group, New Edition. The 43-year-old…
