Seven days ago, we here at Crossfade got word that Spotify and Midtown’s Ricochet Lounge were putting together a four-day Art Basel Miami Beach concert series, dubbed Music Loves Art, starring Nas, Theophilus London, TV on the Radio, and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. At the time, there weren’t many…
Oh, Black Friday! Every year after Thanksgiving, a shopping warzone breaks out as holiday cheer and good tidings soon give way to flying elbows and weeping grandmothers who scream in the deep-throated, craggy, ten-packs-a-day roar of a truck driver at a strip club, “Christmas shopping season is fucking on, motherfucker!”…
Lazaro Casanova Our Kind of Love EP (petFood) Lazaro Casanova and his petFood label seem intent on taking over Miami’s underground house scene. And they might be accomplishing that goal through sheer production volume alone. Just this year, petFood has released a whopping ten EPs by various budding transatlantic stars…
Eric Bobo is the percussion king behind the live and recorded hand beats on the Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head and Ill Communications albums and tours. He’s also been playing and recording with Cypress Hill since 1994. Today, his new album with Latin Bitman drops. Together, they are called Ritmo…
We here at Crossfade were so stoked about “summon[ing] the righteousness of reggae and Jah’s blessedness” (and, uh, toking on that ganja) at tomorrow’s second annual Bayside Rocks Festival. But sadly, Bayfront Park’s front offices have just contacted us to confirm that the 2011 editon of Bayside Rocks is officially…
Maybe you didn’t know, but master Miami beatmaker Otto Von Schirach is a great friend of gallerist Brook Dorsch. “I remember meeting Brook. It was love at first sight!” Otto beams. Dorsch is a lover of fantastic art, experimental music, and fun. So when one of Wynwood’s awesomest art spots,…
The Black Eyed Peas’ final concert of 2011 next week at Sun Life Stadium promises to be a full-blown pop spectacle. Promoters are hyping it as “the biggest party in South Florida” and promise “an all-star cast of friends,” including Sean Kington and Flo Rida. But perhaps the gnarliest guest…
Fuck the bullshit, punk ain’t dead. We might be broke, but Miami goes harder on a weekday than any other city in the world. “The cost of living is goin’ up and the money comin’ in is goin’ down. The bills comin’ in are more than the money comin’ in,”…
On October 14, the Bawse boarded a plane for Memphis where he was scheduled to spit some hits for college b-ball fans and then go bless a brand-new Wing Stop chicken spot. Shortly after takeoff, though, Mr. Rozay suffered a seizure that caused the aircraft to make an emergency landing…
Khaled bin Abdul Khaled — DJ Khaled for short — is turning 36 this month, and the legendary radio personality, label executive, and accomplished music producer will be celebrating the date of his birth in prime Washington Avenue style. Hosted by 99 Jamz’s Felisha Monet, Khaled’s birthday bash is going…
For such a pretty young woman, it’s surprising that Taylor Swift appeals less to horny 16-year-old boys than sweet 12-year-old girls. But compared to most pop tarts (read: Britney Spears) out there, this country siren isn’t a bad role model. She keeps it classy, never trashy. So last night, when…
A couple of weeks ago, we here at Crossfade were delighted to discover a new vid for the Jacuzzi Boys’ “Glazin’,” starring a bunch of singing vaginas. That’s right, actual female genitals, shaved and dressed up to look like the Boys’ singer Gabriel Alcala, bassist Danny Gonzalez, and drummer Diego…
A tandoor oven is a charcoal-heated clay cooking device used throughout the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and especially India to prepare delicious meals consisting of dishes such as rice, naan, and scrumptious meats. A knight, meanwhile, is an elite warrior (clad in iron, armed with a sword, and…
Few nightclubs can claim to inhabit a building as old as the historic Miami-Dade County Courthouse. But the Meyer-Kiser Building (AKA the Dade Commonwealth Building) has been standing in Downtown Miami since 1925, first as a 17-story structure, later salvaged as a seven-story building when a 1926 hurricane toppled the…
Immortal Technique (AKA Felipe Andres Coronel), the politically outspoken Peruvian-American hip-hop artist, gave Occupy Miami a shout out at his Grand Central show on Tuesday night. He announced that he’d be making an afternoon visit the next day to the campsite where protesters have been living outside Stephen P. Clark…
Ugh. Don’t y’all hate when you’re so deep into the ecstasy of dance music that you forget the name of the city you’re in? Sure, you’ve put your hands up for Detroit plenty of times. But you’re definitely not in Michigan. Maybe it’s Bankok, Hong Kong, or Lisbon? No, pookie…
Last night, the official Facebook for Occupy Miami — the Dade County wing of the international, autonomous financial reform protest movement, Occupy Wall Street — shouted out superlefty MC Immortal Technique (AKA Felipes Andres Coronel) for giving them props while performing at Grand Central. The rapper has been an outspoken…
Admittedly, we here at Crossfade have gotten into the habit of hatin’ on Lil Wayne. We ragged on “How to Love” for months. We insisted on enumerating the top five signs that the Young Money maniac’s finally gone soft. We called Tha Carter IV crap. We sicced rap legend and…
Each and every devoted boozer and fanatical music lover in Dade County’s gotta be jonesing to spend four solid days with 24 soul, funk, hip-hop, blues, and rock bands; tons of loud and dirty tuneage; and endless quantities of straight bourbon, cold beer, and flaming tequila shots, right? Well, here’s…
Remember the first time you smoked pot with your parents? It was probably at a Jimmy Buffett concert, somewhere between “Pencil Thin Mustache” and “Son of a Son of a Sailor.” What you thought would be the absolute worst concert on Earth — an arena full of upper-middle class baby…
When Mariah Yeater accused Justin Bieber of being the father of her three-month-old baby (allegedly the result of a 30-second, backstage sexcapade), the 20-year-old woman unintentionally opened a nasty can of pedophilia. If Yeater and Bieber did in fact share a half-minute romp at the Staples Center last year in October,…
We should be hosting a parade in honor of Churchill’s Pub owner Dave Daniels’s birthday. Like, a bizarro, Little Haiti musical version of Mango Strut with Rat Bastard as the Grand Marshal and kegs of Strongbow lining the streets. But Mr. Daniels is a humble man. So when this local…
