Granted … Lil Wayne ain’t no Nelson Mandela. He only spent 11 months in prison (not, you know, 27 years) after getting busted on his tour bus for “attempted possession of a weapon” (not, you know, attempting to free the people of South Africa from the horrors of Apartheid), but…
Planning to attend the Metal Cruise of Heaviness Pre-Apocalyptic Party? Well, it has already been anecdotally established that there’s a shit-load of medical dangers associated with habitual headbanging, e.g. massive migraine, unholy whiplash, brutal back spasms, slurred speech, and brain bleeds, not to mention chronic fucking gnarliness. But just to…
How do we here at Crossfade typically spend our Saturday nights? Drunk and half-naked at the club, scamming complimentary booze coupons, shaking our fat asses to neo-freestyle, and shouting stupid stuff like, “No panties on the dance floor!,” while holding our nose and fake puking. The point: Our Broward-Palm Beach…
Just 13 days ago, Ice Cream’s Thomas Kennedy, Justin Anthony Rivers, Roy Neil Hunter, Joel Gutman, and Alex Lashley dumped us like an old girlfriend with herpes, released their new album Good (which is “really good”), and announced plans to flee Miami for New York City. But before Thomas, Justin,…
It lingered in the background at nearly every one of our backyard barbecues last year — Givers’ up-tempo debut record, In Light. Nestled alongside the Black Keys’ El Camino, Fleet Foxes’ Helplessness Blues, and Cults’ self-titled effort, the record even earned a spot on our arbitrary Best Of 2011 list,…
Being the frontman of one of the biggest bands on the planet can be a real pain in the sesamoid bone and flexor tendon. Just ask Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis. The porn ‘stachioed rocker recently underwent surgery to treat a bum foot, the result of “multiple” injuries. And…
In 1967, The Beatles released their sprawling Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band concept album, a dense wallop of cutting-edge experimental production techniques, schizophrenic survey of genres, and, most importantly, the psychedelic youth movement’s most prominent statement. Really, the whole record, from start to finish, was about getting faded. And…
UPDATE Mansion and Deadmau5 have just announced a two-night reopening party for January 20 and 21. Log onto mansionmiami.com and the nightlub’s site has been scrubbed clean, except for a shocking three-word statement in big, bold red letters: “MANSION IS CLOSED.” That same mysterious message also went out over Mansion’s…
Near-tragedy and heroism have become synonymous with EDM-theme cruises, both around Biscayne Bay and abroad. On Saturday morning, the MSC Poesia ran aground in the Bahamas and sent beat freaks aboard the Holy Ship! cruise into panic mode as death seemingly knocked on their portholes. In 2010, Biscayne Lady captain…
We here at Crossfade provided plenty of advance warning that West Palm fuzz rockers Surfer Blood would be jamming out to “Miranda,” a single off last year’s Tarot Classics EP, during last night’s episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. But maybe you came down with a real nasty case…
It was in a 1974 Dodge Dart that Q-Tip and his Tribe Called Quest brethren took a four-minute cross-country trek with “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo,” the second single off the group’s 1990 debut, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. Now 22 years later, both car…
Chalk Dirt EP (Dubporn Records) You need look no further than Crossfade’s picks for Miami’s Ten Best Local Albums, EPs, and Mixtapes of 2011 to see that the 305 is rife with diverse homegrown sounds. But it’s not often that we hear the kind of eclectic electronic fusion offered by…
If y’all ballers been counting down with The Boss, you ain’t alone. All motherfuckin’ day, the internets, Twitters, and Facebooks been totally wilding out over the release of Rick Ross’s new Rich Forever mixtape. The hashtags (#RickyRozay, #RichForever, #MMG) been flying like AK spray. And earlier, The Boss himself said,…
OMG! Surfer Blood’s gone late night! About 15 hours ago, West Palm Beach-based Surfer Blood sent out an ecstatic tweet to their 6,894 fans announcing a January 9 appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Several minutes ago, Crossfade’s inbox was hit with a press release confirming the good news…
Dancing like a star can be dangerous. The proof: Miami’s own R&B crooner Jason Derulo fractured his neck practicing acrobatic tumbles for his Future History world tour. Derulo could have been paralyzed, but luckily avoided that fate. His tour, however, is canceled for the moment and Derulo (real name Jason…
When last year’s edition of Winter Music Conference took place at the Miami Beach Convention Center, it added to an already confusing year due to the “misunderstanding” with Ultra Music Festival. Before that, it was held at mid-Beach resorts like Eden Roc in 2010 or the Miami Beach Resort &…
Before there were 8-tracks, cassette tapes, compact discs, or MP3s, vinyl ruled Miami. Throughout the 1950s, Dade County’s coin-operated juke boxes were run by the Mafia. Old-school Minneapolis gangster Sam Taran was a key figure. He and his cronies set up shop in every hotel lobby, shine shack, whorehouse, and…
Browsing Swedish House Mafia’s social media pages is kinda like trying to decode the ravings of schizophrenic fist-pumper on bad acid. Earlier this week, we here at Crossfade mentioned that Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso “will returning to Miami for another shot of late-March madness,” otherwise known as Masquerade…
Nick Cannon has fallen ill and he’s “fighting to recover from a mild kidney failure,” according to wife Mariah Carey. The singer posted a picture on her website of the America’s Got Talent host inside an Aspen hospital rocking a blue beanie and general look of discontent. Carey — who’s…
If you say you’ve never bought an album because it had a sweet cover, you’d be a giant, fake-cool liar. The saddest part of downloading music isn’t just the demise of the music industry. It’s that we no longer get to enjoy amazing cover art or oddly personal liner notes…
Drug addiction? Check. Liver transplant? Oh yeah. Hepatitis C? Big deal. At 64 years old, Gregg Allman’s been through a lot of shit. But for the Nashville-born, Georgia-based Southern rocker, slowing down is not an option. Last January, Allman released his first solo album in 14 years, Low Country Blues,…
After two kids, a decade-long courtship, and zero NBA championships, LeBron James has finally asked high-school sweetheart Savannah Brinson for her hand in marriage. Having turned 27 years old approximately 24 hours earlier, King James manned up, took a knee, and proposed to Brinson during New Year’s Eve dinner at…
