Last week, O’Grime — the fresh faces at the front of Miami’s #Swag hip-hop contingency — dropped their new single, “Valanciunas (Big V Lithuanian Hero),” a tribute to Lithuanian sports star and Toronto Raptors draft pick Jonas Valanciunas. As the track details, the South Florida rap wrecking crew admire the…
In March, the Langerado Music Festival announced its return after a long two-year abscence, exclaiming, “the wait is officially over.” Backed by Florida’s Boros Entertainment and Austin’s C3 Presents, there was hope that Langerado could avoid being sunk — as it had in 2009 — by “‘sluggish ticket sales,’ and…
Dear Gloria, Mama, que pena. We forgot your birthday, and that’s unforgivable. And can you believe we even set a reminder on our iPhone? Anyhow, we were shocked to learn you turned 54 yesterday. You still look like that sexy Cubanita from the “Dr. Beat” video. In fact, we think…
Yesterday afternoon, we here at Crossfade got word that DJ Benton Galgay’s Eclectic Electric party with Möthersky and Snakehole (originally scheduled for last night) was going to be postponed till October. Why? The Electric Pickle had been suddenly (though temporarily) shut down by the City of Miami Department of Fire-Rescue…
Ever fantasized about hiring Pitbull to be your friend for a weekend? Well, dreams come true! And all you gotta do is pay $399 per night. If your holiday weekend is still a giant gaping three-day block of nothing, the Fontainebleau Miami Beach is offering three very special Voli Labor…
UPDATE: Eclectic Electric will not be taking place at the Electric Pickle tonight. The party has been postponed. Eclectic Electric … Say it again, eclectic electric. This trippy tongue twister isn’t just the title of Primus song, it’s the name of DJ Benton Galgay’s free and low-key Thursday dance party…
The awesome promise of sea-faring adventure with Thee Oh Sees, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, DJ Jonathan Toubin, the Soft Pack, the Dirtbombs, and Neil Hamburger should’ve been enough for you to grab your sunglasses, stuff your hipster junk into a banana hammock (or perhaps a palm tree-print bathing suit), and…
Somewhere between YouTube, a Canadian rapper named Pat Stay, a competition called Jump Off, and American hip-hop conglomerate Grind Time Now, the world of battle rap was forever changed. Whereas snaps were traditionally served off the top of opponents’ heads, now the raps are written and heavily researched on the…
Stumbling upon Perez Hilton’s most recent video post about Kim Kardashian, we exclaimed, “Sweet, another sex tape!,” removed our pants, and hit the play button. For the first 23 seconds, we were really digging it. Sweaty and scantily clad with a face full of smeared makeup, there’s Kim K., dressed…
Newsflash! South Beach is a cesspool of Sodom and Gommorrah-style excess! While most Americans are collecting pennies from public fountains, replacing the ground beef in their Hamburger Helper with cat food, and crapping their pants in fear of the dreaded double-dip recession, SoBe residents (and the superrich jetsetters they schmooze,…
Thanks to a raging bitch named Irene, the Identity Festival’s originally scheduled Miami stop got canceled. Or, as the official ID Fest statement said: “Due to the potential effects of Hurricane Irene, the Thursday, August 25 date of the Identity Festival presented by Skullcandy is being postponed. Details regarding a…
Identity Festival organizers promised to reschedule last week’s canceled Miami show and they’ve kept their word. The festival is set to try again on September 30 at the Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park.Unfortunately, if you were hoping to check out Cut Copy’s performance at Grand Central, it looks like you’re…
Just a few days after Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit against Pitbull for disparaging her name on summer hit “Give Me Everything,” Mr. Worldwide announced plans to perform the song at the MTV Video Music Awards. It was a subtle way of saying, “Suck it, bruha.” Then last week, Pit…
“We are badass. We are some the freshest people in the country, some of the most colorful, smartest and funniest.” This is how Psychic Mirrors frontman and mastermind Mickey de Grand IV describes Miami. He speaks with serious authority, as he’s been playing music and touring since he was 12…
If you’ve been paying any attention to Crossfade’s occasional pre-show coverage of the MTV Video Music Awards, you’ve no doubt taken note of the fact that we consider Music Television to be a soul-sucking celebreality wasteland and its marquee annual event, the VMAs, to be a total joke that only…
Folky Brooklyn-based crew Grizzly Bear has made quite a name for itself since debuting in 2004 with Horn of Plenty. Meanwhile, our very own Morningwar is also generating some very noteworthy buzz. And only a part of that has anything to do with Grizzly Bear.After all, Morningwar has spent the…
Working with bands such as Angels of Light, World of Skin and, most famously, Swans — not to mention what he describes as enough collaborators to fill a small stadium — post-punk pioneer Michael Gira has been experimenting with sonic extremes for over three decades. In the days following the…
We here at Crossfade had massive plans to spend last night swagging out with Metro Zu, O’Grime, and Chalk at The Stage. And if you paid close attention to the party scenario laid out in last week’s epic interview with the Zu crew and the O’Grime guys, you know that…
Fresh off a 65-city tour with new label Strange Music, ¡Mayday! return to Miami as great, conquering hip-hop heroes. And now that they have rocked more crowds than Stonehenge, their sound is sharper than a samurai sword. Will they play Stuck On An Island in its entirety, test out new…
When ex-teenage drama queen and current courtroom fixture Lindsay Lohan dropped a silly lawsuit against Pitbull last week, citing “disparaging” and “defamatory” lyrics from his song “Give Me Everything,” we here at Crossfade called her out for trying to score an easy payday. Pit, meanwhile, kept his head. And as…
Smokin’ and drankin’ under blacklight is just another day on the motherfucking job for Metro Zu. And last week, between discussing the art of swag with us and whipping up a “Fuck the Hurricane!” flyer for tonight’s Crossfade music series show at The Stage, the Zu crew’s Lofty, RubenSlikk, Freebase,…
Who’s Zed? He’s dead. His brains got blown out by bass. And two Toronto dubsteppers named DC and Hooks pulled the trigger. Coming together in 2009, after an earlier collaborative project called Mass Productions went kaput, the Zeds Dead dudes have been stretching the limits of dubstep for almost three…
