What do you get when a mike mangler named Pitbull humps the Miami Sound Machine? A barking, buzzing remix of “Wepa.” Last week, we here at Crossfade unleashed our Martian chonga for Otto Von Schirach’s mega-mix of the first single off the impending Gloria Estefan album, Miss Little Havana. Of…
Last month’s Motown Brunch at The End/SPRING BREAK’s temporary Ear Conditioning space was packed with cool dudes and dudettes who left their first meal of the day with yummy chow in their bellies and Detroit’s best lingering in their ears. This Sunday, though, Leonardo Valencia’s comfy and classy brunch is…
Mogul BFFs Jay-Z and Kanye West must be pretty pleased with themselves. After so many late nights spent studying one another’s awesomeness in the Roc Nation executive penthouse, Jay and Ye’s collaborative vanity project, Watch the Throne, has played out precisely as planned — selling 613,000 copies, kicking ass for…
According to the National Hurricane Center, there is a nasty bitch with one eye named Irene who’s gonna come crashing through “the Southeastern…Central…and Northwestern Bahamas” today. She’s a “category three hurricane.” She’s whipping up winds of 115 mph. And she’s pissing “1 to 3 inches” of rain on any fool…
A quick survey of the cars surrounding you in rush hour gridlock will prove, once and for all, that the line between man and machine has been completely eradicated. Look at these fleshy bags of bones and organs: Their bodies are frail, so they strap themselves in with seatbelts. Their…
Listen to all 10 tracks off Glazin’, out August 30, at spin.com. Want three really good reasons you shouldn’t miss Jacuzzi Boys’s Glazin’ album release bash at Churchill’s Pub this Saturday? OK, (1) There will be wine and whiskey; (2) You’ll get to party with a band Crossfade likes to…
Update: Identity’s organizers have release another statement saying tickets for Miami’s canceled/postponed Identity stop will be honored at tomorrow’s show in Tampa. Road trip! (Full statement after the jump.)Dammit, Hurricane Irene!Despite NOAA’s prediction that the storm will skirt the state and stay well to the east, Identity Festival’s organizers aren’t…
There are plenty of foolish admirers — still under the spell of 2009’s hypnotic art-pop album Lungs — who wouldn’t mind sacrificing themselves to the sea for Florence Welch. The red-headed siren has got that ethereal yet dangerous thing going on. And her new track “What the Water Gave Me”…
Wanna get ripped like a juggalo? Meet the Ice Man at Seminole Casino’s free Labor Day concert September 3. Vanilla Ice is one chill dude. He not only sang “Ice, Ice Baby.” He also found a way to adapt it to nu-metal! Just imagine the stoner youth of America never…
Proper rock band etiquette dictates: Thou must rock hard, do drugs, and have crazy tour stories. After Crossfade last spoke with Joshua Xmas, lead singer and guitarist of Dyslexic Postcards, he and his band embarked on the Might As Well Get It On Tour in support of their first EP,…
After the news of Lindsay Lohan’s lame-ass lawsuit against Pitbull leaked across the interweb late last week, it didn’t take too long for Mr. Worldwide to respond. No, he didn’t talk shit via Twitter. He didn’t toss off an expletive-filled Facebook rant. And he didn’t organize a mass album burning…
For the last five months, the local 305 division of the Trece army has been stuck on high alert, awaiting the arrival of its commander-in-chief René Pérez Joglar, AKA Residente, and sergeant-at-arms Eduardo José Cabra Martínez, AKA Visitante. It all started on April 7 when Crossfade relayed a Calle 13…
Finnegan’s River is honoring Labor Day, our federally granted 24 hours of rest, with a music festival guaranteed to distract you from any lingering work preoccupations and chill you the hell out. The three-day fest is beefed up with killer representation of the best pop, reggae, hip-hop, and Latin fusion…
TMZ is reporting that Birdman’s baby, Weezy “F”, is being sued by rapper Rich Rick over the beat to Wayne’s recent ex-lax-smooth single “How To Love.” The beat was part of a recording suite cooked up by rap production team Drummer Boyz, and spanning instrumentals written from 2006 to 2009…
Go RSVP for the Crossfade Music Series via Facebook and invite all your homies and hoochies. Whatever the haters may say, we here at Crossfade aren’t just a gang of mindless party people. We are also pop philosophers. And lately, we’ve been asking ourselves some pretty deep questions, like, “What…
No two names are more Miami than Gloria Estefan and Otto Von Schirach. So when we heard that the king of Miami’s electronic underground and the international queen of the Miami sound got together on a track, we were seriously shocked. On paper (or sound systems), it doesn’t seem to…
Now that she’s all grown up and unemployed, former teen movie star and fake blonde Lindsay Lohan has been desperately scrambling to find a reliable revenue stream. (You know, so she can continue to support her nasty peroxide habit.) And apparently, after a whole lotta scheming with a top-notch legal…
Danny Daze started out like every Miami DJ: spinning at South Beach clubs and downtown joints, trying to earn a buck. But deep down, there was an electronic music artist waiting to come out. And now, whether it’s under his own name, DiscoTech, or Señor Stereo, Daze seems ready for…
Our very own weirdo genius Dino Felipe is getting ready to hit the road. And he needs our help, i.e. $$$. Hence, a Kickstarter campaign. At the end of September, he and his sidekick This Heart Electric (AKA Ricardo Guerrero of “Miami Venues Suck Dick” fame) plan to load their…
For a while there, Kanye West was the least popular man on Earth.But his career didn’t start off that way. In fact, if you told Crossfade that the fresh-faced and manic MC who released that crazy-ass “Jesus Walks” single would one day be the bonafide sultan of swag, we would…
Considering Lucenzo’s superlucrative connections to the 407’s Don Omar and the 305’s Pitbull (not to mention his obvious appreciation for babes in bikinis and dancing aboard million-dollar boats), it’s kinda shocking that the French-slash-Portuguese singer, songwriter, and producer hasn’t already docked his party yacht at the Port of Miami, skipped…
Too busy chasin’ that chedda (i.e. money) to notice our annnouncement that O’Grime and Metro Zu will be droppin’ swag, Swishers, and dirty bills as part of the August edition of the Crossfade music series at The Stage? Shit, kid. Wipe them $$ out your eyes ’cause we got your…
