Carol City’s Phatz has stayed busy as of late. A couple months ago in late March, we featured his mixtape Palm Trees & Bomb Weed as our mixtape of the week. The release received a good amount of attention and praise locally, and Phatz even went on to release videos…
Those that attended the Poplife Anniversary Party at Grand Central on Saturday, read the review, or just heard about it might be a bit confused by the comment Surfer Blood lead singer J.P. Pitts guitarist Thomas Fekete made mid-set. “Awesome venue, too bad it’s run by a bunch of dicks,”…
Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie/Travis McCoy has insisted he hasn’t gone solo forever (see, he’s “Travie” when he’s by himself, but back to regular old “Travis” with the band). Still, his solo work, which he’s currently promoting through a tour with Cobra Starship and 3OH!3, may soon eclipse his output…
Flo-Rida teams up with the ultra-trendy David Guetta to releases his latest single off his upcoming album The Only One. The song is also featured on the Step Up 3D soundtrack. The song is called “Club Can’t Handle Me” where Flo handles the main vocals and David Guetta handles the…
Saheed is a 21-year-old Dade County spitfire with a new video for a song called “The Ups,” featuring a beat produced by Numonics. The Mupalia Pictures video follows Saheed from the time he wakes up to when he walks outside to find his car has been towed on South Beach…
Sad news out of Argentina this week. Latin rock pioneer Gustavo Cerati seems to have suffered extensive brain damage from a stroke in his left cerebral hemisphere, as evidenced from a CatScan. Cerati had been hospitalized in Venezuela as of May 15, after collapsing following a show in Caracas on…
Can you blame him? Fat Joe is seen around Miami all the time, but when he’s in South Florida, he doesn’t actually sleep in the 305. Instead, he’s been living like a king out in the western edge of Plantation. And now, apparently, he’s tired of it, and as we…
Alright, alright, we’ll stop blogging about Kat Stacks, hip-hop’s Internet enfant terrible … when she stops being so entertaining. Plus, it’s Friday — not a day to think about anything serious.The latest piece of Kat drama: People are supposedly now trying to kill her. But not in the way most…
Even if you’re Hispanic and have lived in South Florida your entire life, you’ve probably never heard of Discovery Channel en Español. They’ve got lots of animals, travel, tornadoes, and quite possibly local singer Josephine “La Pepa” Bauza really soon. The channel (contact your cable provider for availability) recently held…
Good folks over at Ultra Music Festival premiere this week the new video Tiësto vs. Diplo track “C’mon,” which was filmed live at this year’s festival. The track sounds a bit like outdated 2006 blog-house, sounding more like the work Tiësto than Diplo’s. In other words, don’t expect any Third…
If a trek to Tennessee for Bonnaroo just wasn’t in the cards this year, we have two ways for you to catch the Music and Arts fest from the comfort of your South Florida digs. First, the three-day arts and music festival is hosting a YouTube page with exclusive live webcasts…
Easily contenders to top every end-of-the-year poll for the amazingly superb follow-up to 2008’s Crystal Castles, for the similarly named Crystal Castles (AKA Crystal Castles II), Ethan Kath and Alice Glass have shed the electro-house label and positioned themselves as true electronic music pioneers.Their 2009 performance at Ultra Music Festival…
Always been curious to see what Hayley Williams is like behind the scenes? What a real, big studio recording looks like? How Paramore really acts behind the scenes? How they see you when they’re on stage? Voila, here’s Paramore’s new video for “Careful.” It’s a behind-the-scenes view of the band’s shows, studio…
The Velvet Underground song “After Hours” always seemed like an anomaly for the band. For one, it featured a rare vocal by the band’s usually silent, fiercely androgynous drummer, Maureen Tucker. For another, it seemed just too pop, with a cutesy melody that didn’t jibe with either the band’s guitar-drenched…
We sure are glad Lauren “Lolo” Reskin was born on this day, 20-something years ago (a lady never tells). If you run into Sweat Records’ legendary proprietress around town this weekend, feel free to bow and give offerings. Or just show up at the store tonight for her actual birthday,…
Ahhh, the early ’90s: A time for plaid shirts, grunge, cheesy pop hits, and rump-shaking. And, of course, Tag Team. The Atlanta duo’s hit “Whoomp (There It Is)” hit number two on the pop charts in 1993, and is certified four-times platinum in the U.S. with sales of over 4…
Once upon time it seemed like Pitbull was possibly just too Miami to make sense anywhere else. Well, we were wrong to think that. His blend of Little Havana swagger, dance beats, and lusty raps went truly global last year with the success “Calle Ocho (I Know You Want Me). His…
2010 VH1 Hip Hop Honors |Hip Hop Rally Machine |Hip Hop Honors Video Despite the theme of our earlier post about last night’s VH1 Hip-Hop Honors show, the entire thing was not, in fact, about Miami. Atlanta, Virginia Beach, New Orleans, and Houston all got their due as well, represented by…
2010 VH1 Hip Hop Honors |Hip Hop Rally Machine |Hip Hop Honors Video Last night’s VH1 Hip-Hop Honors show was full of hits (the return of Missy Elliott, for one), and misses (the glaring omission of Outkast, among many others). Still, much of it gave us some serious hometown pride…
Back in May, Crossfade reported that Alanis Morisette was pregnant by longtime boyfriend Souleye, a.k.a. ex-Boca resident Mario Treadway, a conscious-type hip-hop MC specializing in vaguely crunchy, spiritual lyrics. (Really crunchy — dude even once worked at Whole Foods). Yesterday, People reported that the two semi-secretly got hitched at Morisette’s…
Here are a few preview snippets to count down some more time until the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors broadcast tonight. Though the program debuts this evening, it was already taped this past week. (That’s somewhat disappointing — can you imagine the possible shenanigans if it were a live broadcast?) Our favorite…
Crossfade: Okay, let’s give our readers a little taste of you. Who are you, where do you come from, and where’s the best place to get pizza and score a hooker? I’m Alex, I play guitar for Remembering Never. I was born in Miami, raised a few years in St…
