Picture this: You’re channel-surfing when you see a weird mixture of characters in what looks like a scene from Star Wars. Daft Punk is hanging out with the droids, Snoop Dogg is chilling with Obi-Wan Kenobi and seems to be mimicking a Jedi, and they’re all hanging out at the…
Prior to their Ultra Music Festival booking, Passion Pit was already scheduled to play at the Fillmore Miami Beach on June 13. But it wouldn’t be a complete Miami concert appearance without the obligatory afterparty. That’s where the Overthrow, Poplife, and One Fifty come in to ensure the possibility that…
— The Rick Ross vs. Rick Ross saga continues. (Click here if you need to catch up on the background). But things are going to get a little more ugly. Former drugpin “Freeway” Ricky Ross is now trying to stop the release of Rick Ross the rapper’s Teflon Don album,…
Contrary to music industry buzz, Fort Myers’ hottest rapper, Plies, has just announced that he will not be performing at the 2010 VH1 Hip-Hop Honors airing next Monday, June 7 at 9 p.m. This is the first time ever that VH1 is honoring a particular geographic area for its contribution,…
Most bibliophiles know about the lurid tales of William S. Burroughs. He shot and killed his second wife by accident while drunk, became openly gay, had an affinity for guns, a serious opiate addiction the last 50 years of his life — and for all of you Floridians, he spent…
Friday, June 4*The Big Bounce makes for some pretty classy drinking music, so it’s appropriate that the “lounge-hop” duo plays an extended happy-hour from 4 to 9 p.m. at Mia at Biscayne. Admission is free. Click here for details. *Saturday’s awesome garage/punk/rock and roll extravaganza at Churchill’s — with Sloppy Seconds,…
If you haven’t heard of Kat Stacks, it’s okay. It means you spend a healthy time away from Twitter and from following the minutiae of struggling, up-and-coming rappers in Miami’s busting hip-hop industry. Still, for the past month she’s been taking the rap-centric Internet by storm with her spicy tales…
Two-thirds of Miike Snow is responsible for producing some of the biggest pop hits of the last decade. Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, also known as Bloodshy & Avant, are responsible for giving mega-hits to Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Jordin Sparks, Kylie Minogue, Kelis, and Madonna. But along with Andrew…
We want to like Miami rapper Jacki-O. We dig her tattoos, her spitfire raps, and her scrappiness in her attempts to bounce back from a checkered past that includes a shoplifting charge and personal bankruptcy. And though she was once poised to become as famous as Trina, she lost her major-label…
Let the record show this Buddyhead piece with the Jacuzzi Boys is perhaps the stupidest interview ever. The questions are half-assed and pointless. And for the ones that are provoking, they obviously only look to stir up drama. Thankfully, the Miami-based band wisely choose the high road.For instance: 4. Time…
Rick Ross may possibly be the last rapper on the planet to join Twitter, which, along with its fascinating reports on desk workers’ lunches, seems largely these days to be a big chain of celebs A- to Z-list @ mentioning each other. (For an up-to-the-minute stream of Crossfade staff’s sandwich…
If I were Jay Leno, I might begin this post by saying, “Have you heard about this? Have you seen this?” Then I’d hold up a clipping of dejected Mexican-Americans protesting Arizona’s SB 1070 bill. But I have neither his chin, nor his bankroll. And this really isn’t a laughing…
If you, like Crossfade, are guilty of watching way more VH1 than is worth admitting, you may be hotly anticipating this year’s edition of the annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors awards show. This year’s official focus is on “Honoring the Dirty South,” and it airs live on the channel next Monday,…
One of the worst thing about being a devoted live music fan is the sticker shock that comes when a ticket’s final price is totaled up. A ticket that’s about $20 can end up as much as $40 sometimes when you lump in all the nebulous service charges, “venue charges,”…
Ice Berg (a.k.a. Billion) has been causing quite bit of a stir over the last couple years. He’s definitely developed a loyal following and fanbase through his various mixtape releases and countless live performances. Most might know Iceberg from his association with Trick Daddy and the Dunk Ryders, but Ice…
As we mentioned this past Friday in our weekly 305 Live local hip-hop news column, Lil Wayne may be physically behind bars, but still, he’s everywhere. This past Memorial Day Weekend may as well have been Weezy Weekend, as a barrage of new videos and remixes by him appeared, all…
Lil Wayne is currently behind bars, but still he’s managing to pull off the release of about four videos within the span of this weekend via MTV. Two of them feature local group Mayday playing backup for Weezy.The first video is for the Cool & Dre-produced “Da Da Da,” which was released today…
Praise Jebus! There is a god, and his name is Roman Jones! For those of us already dreading the drive up to Fort Lauderdale’s Culture Room to see La Roux perform live on August 4 have another option. Mansion has booked the British electropop outfit two days later on August…
We are only two weeks away until we pissed off people announce the 2010 Best of Miami winners. The choices have already been made and are in the book, but who won is currently only the knowledge of the editorial board — and no matter what people say, our sales…
Got to love M.I.A., a.k.a., Maya Arulpragasam. New York Times Magazine contributor Lynn Hirschberg, wrote an fascinating and intimate piece on the Sri Lankian-by-the-way-of-London artist. In it, Hirschberg writes about Maya’s past and how it influences her work today. The writer also seems a bit cynical about if Maya is…
We reported a few weeks ago that Heathrow Lounge had a “Nightclub Available” sign up on the facade of its building and had closed up shop. According to current majority owner Matthew Switkes, that might have been misunderstood. The nightclub is open. During this Memorial Day Weekend, the South Beach…
Miami New Times’ recent cover story on Scott Storch may not have been the most flattering of portrayals, but it did reveal at few nuggets for those interested in the former superproducer’s attempted musical comeback. When Storch refused to speak with New Times staff reporter Gus Garcia-Roberts, he was actually…
