Electric Pickle has just announced that it will be closed for at least the next two weeks. The reason given in the official statement released by the venue is “to undergo official renovations for the upcoming season.” But what about all those scheduled events? Not to worry. They will go…
When you really love someone, you tattoo their face on your neck to prove it. But when you’ve been in the news for beating up your beloved and everyone judges you for being a dick, then you get a tat that sort of looks like them and deny the resemblance…
See also “Rihanna Announces Diamonds 2013 World Tour, Coming to South Florida in April.” Rihanna’s under-boob made a surprise appearance on Twitter last night, all in honor of Dolly, the singer’s late grandmother. Covering her breasts with an arm, Rihanna tweeted a picture of her latest tattoo, an upper ribcage…
Some people felt a little underwhelmed when we here at Crossfade revealed that Kanye West, The Offspring, Keane, Cocoon Heroes, Lou Reed, Erick Morillo, and Bob Sinclar had been tapped to perform at the first-ever UR1 Festival at Bayfront Park during Art Basel Miami Beach week. Well, another nine names…
See also “Fashion Freakouts at the MTV VMAs 2012” — plus “MTV Video Music Awards 2012’s Big Winners and Even Bigger Losers.” Last night, America’s pop culture elite came together in Los Angeles to celebrate almost 30 years of Moonmen. It was the 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards, and…
See also “Miley Cyrus to Tyler The Creator: ‘My Barber Couldn’t Even Come Close to the F#$% Job That Is Your Face.'” Miley Cyrus isn’t even old enough to drink. But the former Disney star isn’t letting that stop her from singing about wine. Yesterday, the 19-year-old singer dropped a…
Got plans this weekend? Cancel them and go support live music instead. We’re here to help with our freshly updated calendar of Miami concerts. The listings are sortable by artist and venue. Even price, if you like to choose bands based on cost per riff. There’s also a big list…
See also “Fashion Freakouts at the MTV VMAs 2012” — plus “MTV VMAs 2012: Seven Things That Sucked and Seven Things That Didn’t Totally Suck.” If, last night, you shouted, “Screw crappy pop!” and chose Barack, then you’ve probably got no effing idea who won and lost at the MTV…
This year, MTV Tr3s partnered up with Korean automaker Kia Motors to crown the Tr3s Best Latino Artist of the Year, an award said to “honor” the 2012 Video Music Awards. And this morning in a press release sent out by network, it was announced that bachata king Romeo Santos…
Black Star’s Mos Def and Talib Kweli said it best when they sang, “It’s kind of dangerous to be an MC.” There’s just too much violence in hop-hop. So much in fact that it might make bleeding heart Lupe Fiasco hang up his hat for good. He threatened to retire…
Forbes released its latest list of haha-they-have-more-money-than-you musicians. And this time, we’re talkin’ the 20 richest rappers in the game.
Pop that pussy. Rhythm is gonna get you. Shake that booty. Now mosh, pogo, and headbang. From 2 Live Crew, Miami Sound Machine, KC and the Sunshine Band to Harry Pussy, Load, and Charlie Pickett, we here at Crossfade have compiled Miami’s 50 best bands of all time. Just check…
There have been a few delays in announcing the lineup for the UR1 Festival, happening the weekend of Art Basel Miami Beach at Bayfront Park. But we here at Crossfade have finally received details about some of the acts slated to perform. Who else better to headline a music festival…
See also “Hank Williams Jr. on Obama: ‘Muslim President Who Hates U.S. and We Hate Him.'” Hank Williams Jr. hates Barack Obama. And he also made it abundantly clear this past weekend that he’s not fond of Muslims, homosexuals, or anyone who isn’t a cowboy. But the former Monday Night…
We’ve all got our kinks. Some folks like fooling around in public and risking arrest in an effort to achieve the most intense orgasm ever. Others dabble with BDSM in private, maybe swing and swap partners. But Kanye West, he’s into watching his “perfect bitch” give another homie head. And…
Can you hear that throbbing beat? It’s just the sound of Crossfade finally reaching a poundingly hot Latin-pop climax after two weeks of counting down the raddest bassers, freestyle stars, rappers, punks, rockers, and noiseniks in our subtropical city’s music history. To loosely quote Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound…
See also “Ten Best Female Rappers Ever.” Missy Elliott kept threatening to unleash new material on the world this Labor Day. And she delivered, right here at our very own Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Her longtime buddy and production partner Timbaland was in the building to perform and premiere his new…
President Obama has way more than 99 problems. But trying to cop a sick musical endorsement ain’t one. While Mitt Romney and the Republicans flooded Tampa with whatever the fuck a Welsh cake is and refused to give awesome people high fives, President Obama made a totally hip appearance at…
No party lasts forever. Even in Miami. The booze runs out. The coke gets snorted. The girls stop dancing. The club closes. The night ends. But at least the music — like Exposé’s freestyle classic “Point of No Return” — will never die. Every night in the discotheque of eternity,…
He’s a platinum-selling rapper and movie star. He gets $90 out of your IRA every time you buy a Vitamin Water. He won a rumored $4-million lawsuit against Taco Bell, a hardworking group of first-generation Mexican-Americans who are guilty only of figuring out how to make both tacos and Doritos…
We be flexin’. At various points in our city’s music history, the raddest Miami-bred noisemakers have left town, hit beaches besides Haulover, and showed off the 305’s sonic muscle all across these United States of America. For the last few years, the Jacuzzi Boys have been the MIA’s Best Scene…
This past Saturday, legendary bluesman and longtime local music fixture Musi “Big Poppa E” Faisal died suddenly after suffering an apparent heart attack, according to Tobacco Road’s Oski Gonzalez. He was 64 years old. “I might be the hardest working blues man in the whole South,” Faisal quipped in a…
