Kanye West’s ex-girlfriend and Wiz Khalifa’s current girlfriend Amber Rose was struck by lightning on Saturday night at Cameo. The 28-year-old bald supermodel was in Miami over the weekend with Wiz and she was spotted sporting a lighting bolt face tattoo.. TMZ broke the story, questioning whether or not the…
”Playing in Cuba was more than just a gig,” says postcolonial and quirky acoustic songstress Sol Ruiz. “It was spiritual. It brought meaning to my existence.” In keeping with the passionate reverence she expresses toward performing music in the ancestral homeland that she has long been barred from visiting, everything…
Hard, the long-running Los Angeles club night and electronic music festival, made its Miami debut during WMC 2010 with a pool party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. We called it out for being a lite version of Hard’s notoriously heavy throwdowns. Now we won’t try take credit for it. (Actually,…
Ever since the internet turned every last drip-drop of intellectual property into the featured item at an ever-extending, all-you-can-download digital buffet, nobody’s even sure if concepts like “underground” or “mainstream” exist anymore. But Chicago electro-hop diva Kid Sister straddles the line like the best of them. After cutting her chops…
No doubt, those ¡Mayday! homies ain’t afraid to hustle. As we here at Crossfade reported last Thursday, the 305’s raddest hip-hop collective is already prepping for Tech N9ne’s Hostile Takeover tour, an insane sked of 90 shows in 99 days with Machine Gun Kelly, Krizz Kaliko, Prozak, and Stevie Stone…
Late last week, the Crossfade staff (as well as our siblings over at County Grind) received a truly terrifying press release from Revolution Live reps. The all-caps subject line screamed, “SLEIGH BELLS [AND DIPLO] CONCERT CHANGES LINE-UP!” And like most bad news, this message was accompanied by another 39 exclamation…
Miley Cyrus is proving she’s a gangster, a down-for-whatever type of Disney-princess-gone-wild. Over the weekend, the 19-year-old daughter of country music legend Billy Ray Cyrus went down on a massive cock cake during boyfriend Liam Hemsworth’s birthday party at an L.A. club. Photos obtained by TMZ show Miley seductively posing…
If Tiësto is the Led Zeppelin of Electronic Dance Music, a title bestowed upon the Dutch DJ by 1,400 beat freaks who took our recent poll, what does that make Steve Angello? He’s one-third of EDM royal family Swedish House Mafia, the only crew powerful enough attempt an Ultra upstaging…
When Crossfade read this week’s edition of Luke’s Gospel, entitled “2 Live Crew Is Reuniting Because Our Fans Want To Shake That Booty,” we got, like, “Me So Horny!”-level excited…
With the first month of 2012 dead and gone, it’s time to take a survey of up-and-coming South Florida music and maybe try to predict what the rest of the year has in store. This is not a best-of list. Nor is it a complete appraisal of South Florida’s expansive…
Tiësto? Ha, more like “Tiësticle,” as Ashley Swanson put it. It was a seemingly collective tone among outraged Crossfade readers who took to New Times’ official Facebook page and voiced their adamant displeasure with our poll. We asked, “Is Tiësto the Led Zeppelin of Electronic Dance Music?” Within minutes, comments…
Read ex-Crossfade contributor and new music editor Liz Tracy’s love letter to New Times Broward-Palm Beach readers on countygrind.com. I love Miami. I’ve been writing about it and living it for years. But last Friday, I told Miami New Times music editor S. Pajot that I would soon be leaving…
The results are in; Tiësto is the Led Zeppelin of electronic dance music. According to EDM fans, that is. An overwhelming majority of beat freaks responded to yesterday’s poll, over 68 percent of whom sided with The Joint Hard Rock’s William Conn and agreed that the Dutch DJ is to…
Let’s get high with a hobo. Grand Central Park’s having its proverbial cherry popped tomorrow night with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and inaugural concert by bilingual alt-electro group Elastic Bond. The five-acre, multi-use recreation space was designed to generate a pedestrian-friendly environment in Overtown. But when the Bond hits the stage…
Bold beats and even bolder statements — that’s the product of Tiësto’s new web series, In the Booth. From his arena shows to outdoor festivals, college tour and beyond, the online, HP-backed and Intel-sponsored reality mini-series is yet another example of how EDM has gone mainstream. In the Booth premiered…
It’s not easy being a musician in Vice City. The geographical challenge alone is enough to make any band go crazy. Miami may never be called a musical epicenter. But when Radioboxer’s Jota Dazza put out the call for fellow musicians to take part in the Florida Music Get Together,…
Back in the hot and sweaty summer of 2011, local rap crew ¡Mayday! set out on an 82-city blitz across the United States of America and Canada alongside the band’s boss, Tech N9ne, and the rest of his Strange Music fam. That cross-country trek was called the All 6’s and…
Admittedly, we were nervous about Jacuzzi Boys’ upcoming European tour. But we quickly changed our tone when Hardly Art assured us it’d be a land-based trek. Phew, what a relief. European tours can be a real bummer. Shitty guides recklessly leading you into dangerously shallow waters, shoddy safety regulations …..
When notorious rap provocateur, noted man of the people, and New Times columnist Luther Campbell told the Young Money crew to either give back or get out of Miami, pop-hopper Drake Aubrey Graham tried to act tough. He shot back at Campbell with “The Motto,” spitting a lame diss that…
Meet Brass Knuckles, a three-man production team that moonlights as a live electronic band. Repping the 305 to the fullest, Danny D’Brito, Tony Livadas, and Anthony Pisano have played all the biggest venues while also producing their own reoccurring party, Electrik Circus, at Grand Central. Over the last three years,…
As that big, burning ball in the sky (you know, the sun, man) completes its crazy circular trip throughout the zodiac along the eliptic (that’s, like, a “year” in square speak), we here at Crossfade are prepping Major Mushroom’s Interstellar Psychedelic Love Bus (our hand-painted 1966 Volkswagen Kombi) for another…
Art sucks. Get drunk. Music sucks. Dance harder. The lights are too bright. Turn them all off and let the bass drown your body till your heart rattles in your ribcage. Throw your phone against the ground, quit paying your internet bill, never trust a wireless modem, and check out…
