Few nightclubs can claim to inhabit a building as old as the historic Miami-Dade County Courthouse. But the Meyer-Kiser Building (AKA the Dade Commonwealth Building) has been standing in Downtown Miami since 1925, first as a 17-story structure, later salvaged as a seven-story building when a 1926 hurricane toppled the…
Immortal Technique (AKA Felipe Andres Coronel), the politically outspoken Peruvian-American hip-hop artist, gave Occupy Miami a shout out at his Grand Central show on Tuesday night. He announced that he’d be making an afternoon visit the next day to the campsite where protesters have been living outside Stephen P. Clark…
Ugh. Don’t y’all hate when you’re so deep into the ecstasy of dance music that you forget the name of the city you’re in? Sure, you’ve put your hands up for Detroit plenty of times. But you’re definitely not in Michigan. Maybe it’s Bankok, Hong Kong, or Lisbon? No, pookie…
Last night, the official Facebook for Occupy Miami — the Dade County wing of the international, autonomous financial reform protest movement, Occupy Wall Street — shouted out superlefty MC Immortal Technique (AKA Felipes Andres Coronel) for giving them props while performing at Grand Central. The rapper has been an outspoken…
Admittedly, we here at Crossfade have gotten into the habit of hatin’ on Lil Wayne. We ragged on “How to Love” for months. We insisted on enumerating the top five signs that the Young Money maniac’s finally gone soft. We called Tha Carter IV crap. We sicced rap legend and…
Each and every devoted boozer and fanatical music lover in Dade County’s gotta be jonesing to spend four solid days with 24 soul, funk, hip-hop, blues, and rock bands; tons of loud and dirty tuneage; and endless quantities of straight bourbon, cold beer, and flaming tequila shots, right? Well, here’s…
Remember the first time you smoked pot with your parents? It was probably at a Jimmy Buffett concert, somewhere between “Pencil Thin Mustache” and “Son of a Son of a Sailor.” What you thought would be the absolute worst concert on Earth — an arena full of upper-middle class baby…
When Mariah Yeater accused Justin Bieber of being the father of her three-month-old baby (allegedly the result of a 30-second, backstage sexcapade), the 20-year-old woman unintentionally opened a nasty can of pedophilia. If Yeater and Bieber did in fact share a half-minute romp at the Staples Center last year in October,…
We should be hosting a parade in honor of Churchill’s Pub owner Dave Daniels’s birthday. Like, a bizarro, Little Haiti musical version of Mango Strut with Rat Bastard as the Grand Marshal and kegs of Strongbow lining the streets. But Mr. Daniels is a humble man. So when this local…
After catching a nasty case of seasonal influenza, grunge-y sex symbol, former Soundgarden singer, and current acoustic crooner Chris Cornell was forced to cancel last night’s unplugged gig in Miami. “Due to laryngitis caused by flu, Chris Cornell is unable to perform tonight,” the official Live Nation cancelation announcement explained…
Sleeping in tents and marching the streets with Occupy Miami has been more pleasurable than painful, thanks in part to the protesters’ spirited musical showcases. In contrast to a slew of other more serious events designed to dilate your political mind, the second Occupalooza Music Festival planned for tomorrow evening…
Buried deep in the Comcast Digital Preferred package of premium pay cable, and sandwiched between MTV Hits and MTV Tr3s, channel 140 belongs to that moderately popular MTV sister station known as MTV 2. Peppered with crap television like Guy Code and Bellator MMA Fighting, the network’s an overall waste…
What’s the perfect Friday morning? Wake and bake with your homies, then cruise over to the swap meet, shopping for bargain-bin shades, sucking the water straight from the coconut, and stonerishly staring as the smiling, bright blue inflatable dancing man does his thing. And if you don’t know, now you…
Can you spit faster and farther than any other chump-ass rapper in the 305? Well, homie, WTF are you waiting for? Write a few rhymes, guzzle some energy drank, and go check out the United States of Amerikkka’s baddest battle rap contest, Red Bull Emsee. The Eminem-approved, invitation-only series has…
Considered Miami’s oldest bar, Tobacco Road was once a speakeasy, a gambling den, a gay bar, a strip joint, and blues bar. It has survived Al Capone, Prohibition, the Great Depression, deadly hurricanes, the Mariel boatlift, race riots, cocaine cowboys. And next Friday, Tobacco Road celebrates its 99th anniversary with…
On October 6, booty bass boss, First Amendment enthusiast, and weekly New Times columnist Luther Campbell (AKA Uncle Luke) issued an ultimatum to Weezy’s YMCMB crew and other “freeloading” rappers like them. “I have a message for Lil Wayne, his Cash Money brothers, DJ Khaled, Puff Daddy, and all the…
Not too long ago, Ex Norwegian was one of those Miami bands that everyone had to see play. The group’s debut album, Standby, was amazingly well received. Reviewers would offer glowing praises like explodingsound.com’s “Standby is a stellar pop album that should be widely embraced.” Likewise, the follow up, Sketch,…
Taylor Swift has been banging out big hits since she was just sweet 16. It all began with 2006’s “Tim McGraw,” a love song, not for superstar singer Tim McGraw, but her high-school sweetheart. And ever since, the 21-year-old country-pop princess has played the role of Little Miss Kiss-and-Tell, penning…
The architecture in Helsinki, Finland, is world-renowned. The city’s neoclassical structures and Art Nouveau buildings have been celebrated for their architecturally functional design and aesthetic appeal. Naturally, when the members of an indie outfit from Fitzroy, Australia, needed a name that would capture their collective brand of stylishly synthesized pop…
Do you ever wish you could be in two places at once? Better yet, how about 50 places at once? Sometimes we here at Crossfade get really pissed about the fact that we’re stuck in our cubicle and not traveling to India to write about vegetarianism and Lady Gaga. Or,…
When Chris Glover (AKA Penguin Prison) tells us that he’s never ever been to Miami, we are a bit shocked.Never?”Never.”Considering the 305’s unofficial status as the sixth borough, we tell him he’s probably the only New Yorker who’s never stepped foot in our swampy waters.”You are from Miami?” he asks…
Arguably one of the best parties last year and Best One-Nighter winner for this year’s Best of Miami, Basel Castle returns for another night of awesome music and kickass art at Overthrow Castle. The Overthrow, which seems to have been a little quiet lately, has amassed a lineup that includes…
