Langerado Music Festival 2011 Canceled

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…

Bruise Cruise 2012 Adds Fucked Up, Vivian Girls, The Togas, and Others

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…

Apparently, Kim Kardashian’s “Jam” Video Is Not a Sex Tape

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…

Four South Beach Clubs Make “Most Expensive Nightclubs in America” List

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,…

Rescheduled Identity Festival Miami Tickets On Sale Today

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…

MTV Video Music Awards 2011’s Big Winners and Even Bigger Losers

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…

Morningwar Covers Grizzly Bear’s “Foreground”

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…

Metro Zu, O’Grime, and Crossfade Party in a Public Parking Lot

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…

Pitbull Responds to Lindsay Lohan’s Lawsuit in PlanetPit.com Video

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…