Tom Anderson Productions is a Miami record label that’s dredged the depths of South Florida’s dive-bar freeform music scene, digging up tuneage that would have otherwise remained completely obscured. Miami-based visual artist and Renaissance man Domingo Castillo founded the label in 2009 as a digital-only publishing house that used separate…
Still wondering, “What is 11?” Well … Exactly 11 days ago, we here at Crossfade noted that a new nightclub named E11even Miami would be taking over the old Goldrush strip club spot in downtown Miami. At that point, the address and the January 2014 opening date were the only…
“What is 11?” That’s the mysterious tagline for a new club that’s apparently set to take over the old Goldrush nudie bar property at NE 29 NE 11th Street (just across the street from Space) in Downtown Miami. It seems (based on the official trailer) that this new nightspot will…
On his song “hYena,” Miami’s Nik SB raps: “All my bitches do drugs and I love ’em for that/Especially when she pop two of her sex appeals/Or Ms. Sims’ first name for the extra thrills/I know her brother praying that she change/But what he expect when she watched him sell…
If you absolutely abhor Miami’s hipster culture, you can probably blame the defunct nightclub Soho Lounge for its existence. At the turn of the century, it was the center for the kind of Miami nightlife “cool” that was soon co-opted by the rest of downtown and, eventually, South Beach. Classic…
Vernon Harginy, also known as VURN, sits at the table outside of a Five Guys in North Miami with fellow Pro Club rapper B.Way. Initially, his silence is as strong as the bars on songs such as “Bang” and hYena.” But then he cracks a chuckle when Crossfade poses the…
Miami New Times and New Times Broward Palm Beach have an immediate opening for an assistant web editor. This position combines journalism with social media marketing and analytical data management to increase the audience for New Times on its desktop and mobile applications. The assistant web editor assigns and edits…
Life’s a stage. But you still need talent. And getting paid is another thing. Ever since he first picked up the mic and aptly took on the nickname Broadway before making the change to B.Way, the Miami rapper born Kareem Brown has looked at every day as a chance to…
What do you get when you cross a Miami house music legend like Murk’s Oscar G. with a next-generation Miami house wunderdude like Lazaro Casanova? You get the dance floor-quaking Miami powerhouse of Futro. The homies Oscar and Lazaro have been working together on and off for a few years…
Prez P’s room at the W Hotel in Buckhead, Atlanta, is a complete mess. Pillows, blankets, clothing, and bags are tossed on the floor. A pair of jeans is hung over a misplaced microwave. Magazines, water bottles, ketchup and mustard, an empty bag of Skittles, a Perry Ellis Aqua and…
“Dress up and come party with us!” That’s an excited invitation from Win Butler, Arcade Fire, and a weird bunny rabbit to this week’s Reflektor concerts in Miami. Of course, you (probably) don’t have tickets. And that means you’re screwed harder than a cottontail at the peak of mating season…
For all the jerks who scoffed: “Why the fuck would Arcade Fire choose Miami of all places for semi-secret, ultra-exclusive shows to promote its awesome new record, Reflektor?” … We here at Crossfade offer a three-part answer. 1. Our city is home to almost a quarter-million Ayitiens. And Arcade Fire’s…
As we at New Times often gush: “Austin Mahone is a teenage dreamboat.” But even teen idols get sick. And sadly for millions of Mahomies, the 17-year-old Cash Money-signed cutie has come down with a bug that’s forced him to cancel both his Miami and Orlando concerts his entire 2013…
Over the last few years, Twitter has become the diary of almost everyone’s lives, where we air out personal grievances or document what we ate for lunch. But Kevin Pouya, the 18-year-old rapper known simply as Pouya, prefers to use it for more practical purposes, especially with his female fans…
Yep. The Reflektors is Arcade Fire. Yesterday, we here at Crossfade noticed a curious update on local world-music promoter Rhythm Foundation’s website for a special edition of the monthly Big Night in Little Haiti at the Little Haiti Cultural Center starring a band that we’d never heard of. Oddly, though,…
Spoiler alert: Yep, probably. Arcade Fire’s new album Reflektor is nearly here and while a formal tour has yet to be announced, rumors suggest a series of secret shows around the country in the next few weeks. Well, we suck at keeping secrets, so you might want to keep October…
The wound of losing a first love heals at its own pace, not when you say so. And sometimes, the pain leads to depression, which may lead to worse. But it could also lead to the kind of music that makes a career. The best example, of course, has been…
We here at Crossfade recently sat down for a chat with famed rap-groupie-turned-author Kat Stacks and learned that the woman born as Andrea has been taking control of her life and spreading her wings. She’s branching out and storming the world with her full, unbridled self. Of course, the next…
Conformity is overrated. The desire to fit the mold is so 2006. For video directors, the age of applying their vision with full creative control has already been upon us for several years, thanks to YouTube, Vimeo, and cheap but effective filming equipment. In just a little over a year,…
As the world waits with bated breath to see what America’s favorite twerk monster will do next, we can say with near-absolute certainty that it will be something to do with weed smoking — not that there’s anything wrong with that. In the past, lil’-no-more Miley Cyrus has been shifty…
“Bitch dont look at me…i ain hear to start trends.” That’s the word from Robb Bank$, a 19-year-old, born-in-Brooklyn, bred-in-Coral-Springs rapper who’s all about not giving “fuks,” writing lines on “dat lean,” and hollering “out wit tha old in wit tha new i guess…but wut next?” And this is what’s…
In commercial hip-hop, your money game is even more important than your ability to rhyme. If you’ve got money, you’ve got rhymes, and if you don’t have money, you fake it till you make it. For these top earners, the faking days are over. Making Forbes’ list of biggest rap…
