“I actually wanted to do a mixtape called Iced Coffee back when I was 19,” says QuESt as he drinks an Iced White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks. “Terrible idea. Terrible idea.” The coffee chain’s stores have become temples of freshly brewed ideas for the 22-year-old Miami rapper, who sometimes spends…
For over a century, Tobacco Road has made its home at 626 S. Miami Avenue, surviving 13 years of prohibition, Miami’s lawless Cocaine Cowboys days, even the destruction of Hurricane Andrew. But Miami’s oldest speakeasy turned gambling hall turned nudie bar turned drinking den will soon be sold. And it…
“From the hippest hipster to the loudest fratboy, we’ll all be cheering together.” That’s the tag line for Benchwarmers, a new sports bar from Wood Tavern owner Cesar Morales. This latest nightlife venture from the “Wood Tavern Family of Companies” is slated to begin doing business “just in time for…
Music venues in South Florida have always come and gone with an alarming casualness. Over the last 30-odd years, only one place, Churchill’s Pub, has held the torch for Miami’s savvy underground rock fans. Now that new owners have taken control, an era is coming to an end. And that’s…
South Beach is ’bout to be mobbed. It’s almost Memorial Day weekend in the 305 (otherwise known as Urban Beach Week), the annual four-day span during which the beach (as well as mainland Miami) gets swarmed by famous rappers, celebrity strippers, and 250,000 party people from all over the Dirty…
What does Miami’s favorite power couple do after they’ve dominated the Latin music charts, snagged more Grammys than you can ever fit onto one shelf, and created an empire of Cuban restaurants? Take their talents to Broadway, of course. Gloria and Emilio Estefan have teamed up with the Nederlander Organization…
Everyone loves Miami. Our food, our people, our beaches. But we here at Crossfade would argue that it’s our music that puts us above the competition. We’ve never tried to steal anyone else’s sound. We keep it 100 with grooves and style of our own. We are leaders in the…
We could hardly belieb our eyes. Could it be true? Has the world’s most popular singer-dancer-badboy been approved to attend the prom festivities at Miami Senior High School? Is some lucky girl (and teen model) from Little Havana named Yovanna Ventura actually dating the Biebz? Are they so super-cereal that…
In the early ’80s, Pepsi had begun seriously encroaching on sales of Coca-Cola, even outselling the latter in supermarkets. In an effort to rejuvenate sales, Coke outright replaced its formula with what would be known as “New Coke” — an “improved” version of the formula that would replace the original…
It’s amazing how much the 305 has had its hands in the perpetuation of established underground genres.
Two years isn’t forever. But in clubland, it might as well be a lifetime. Most weekly nightlife ventures are lucky to last six months. A full 24 means that you’ve built something special. Miami’s Slap & Tickle is the Tuesday party with a reputation for wild nights and unique sets…
“Nooooooo! We party! We party! We party!” Those shrieks are just the desperate pleadings of Miami music fans collectively panicking at the news that Afrobeta’s Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio might be splitting, like so many promising 305ers, for friendlier (and possibly more profitable) West Coast climes. Don’t worry, though…
The Lube’s for sale. Smoothing late-night interaction for just over a year at 167 NW 23rd Street, Wynwood’s The Social Lubricant Lounge is already being peddled to entrepreneurial bidders looking to slip into the ‘Wood hood. But for anybody wanting to purchase this particular location in “the most exciting and…
Dat Lil’ Chico is the new Dick Clark. The Cubano rapper born Armando Christian Perez will host Pitbull’s New Year’s Revolution, an end-of-the-year fiesta broadcasting all across los Estados Unidos from Miami on Fox. “The world needs to get ready to un-mute New Year’s Eve, because we are taking the…
Of the wild and weird animals in Miami’s menagerie of heavy bands, Cave of Swimmers (formerly known as The Tunnel) is a particularly unique anomaly. Childhood friends Arturo Garcia and Guillermo Gonzalez have taken the power duo concept to a completely unexpected place. Expanding and exploring their respective musical palettes…
Welcome to the ‘Wood, Brick House! The bar may be Wynwood’s latest watering hole, but everything about the drinking den is vintage, from antique National Bohemian beer cans to the building that it calls home. Dating back to the 1920s, the house on 187 NW 28th Street has been around…
Remember when DJ Khaled was just some loud motherfucker on Miami’s 99 Jamz, restarting every track about five times, and yelling at us to “Listennn!” even though the greatest impediment to actually paying attention was his own obnoxious cries? He used to just be our disruptive big boy. But ever…
The Sunshine State was a breeding ground for some pretty cool ska acts in the ’90s. You would almost think the state invented the genre. Maybe it is our proximity to the Caribbean and a large presence of Jamaicans that made the feat possible. Who knows? The reggaefied punk trend…
The last time that we spoke with Denzel Curry, his album Nostalgic 64 had just been released and he was enjoying praise for its intense, dark, and terrifyingly real stories of life in Carol City. Undoubtedly, it was one of the best rap projects to come out of Miami in…
You might know Joel Meinholz as a skateboarder, the guy behind Miami’s longest-running party Chocolate Sundays, the mastermind of IamYourVillain, putting together park jams like Bum Rush the Spot, or perhaps just a friend that you see around town. The list goes on. About a month ago, Joel suffered a…
The 305 did not invent punk rock, nor was it instrumental in the development of its subculture. As a matter of fact, South Florida was plagued by so-called “album-oriented rock” clubs, insufferable cover bands with Eagles aspirations, and misguided disco heads who were ignoring the better stuff put out by…
Rejoice, kids. Just days after the new owners of Churchill’s Pub announced a 21-and-over policy, they’ve already abandoned those plans. Yesterday, following the pub’s weekly staff get-together, an announcement of the reversal was made on Churchill’s official Facebook page. “After a meeting today with the new owners, the age policy…
