After catching a nasty case of seasonal influenza, grunge-y sex symbol, former Soundgarden singer, and current acoustic crooner Chris Cornell was forced to cancel last night’s unplugged gig in Miami. “Due to laryngitis caused by flu, Chris Cornell is unable to perform tonight,” the official Live Nation cancelation announcement explained…
Sleeping in tents and marching the streets with Occupy Miami has been more pleasurable than painful, thanks in part to the protesters’ spirited musical showcases. In contrast to a slew of other more serious events designed to dilate your political mind, the second Occupalooza Music Festival planned for tomorrow evening…
Buried deep in the Comcast Digital Preferred package of premium pay cable, and sandwiched between MTV Hits and MTV Tr3s, channel 140 belongs to that moderately popular MTV sister station known as MTV 2. Peppered with crap television like Guy Code and Bellator MMA Fighting, the network’s an overall waste…
What’s the perfect Friday morning? Wake and bake with your homies, then cruise over to the swap meet, shopping for bargain-bin shades, sucking the water straight from the coconut, and stonerishly staring as the smiling, bright blue inflatable dancing man does his thing. And if you don’t know, now you…
Can you spit faster and farther than any other chump-ass rapper in the 305? Well, homie, WTF are you waiting for? Write a few rhymes, guzzle some energy drank, and go check out the United States of Amerikkka’s baddest battle rap contest, Red Bull Emsee. The Eminem-approved, invitation-only series has…
Considered Miami’s oldest bar, Tobacco Road was once a speakeasy, a gambling den, a gay bar, a strip joint, and blues bar. It has survived Al Capone, Prohibition, the Great Depression, deadly hurricanes, the Mariel boatlift, race riots, cocaine cowboys. And next Friday, Tobacco Road celebrates its 99th anniversary with…
On October 6, booty bass boss, First Amendment enthusiast, and weekly New Times columnist Luther Campbell (AKA Uncle Luke) issued an ultimatum to Weezy’s YMCMB crew and other “freeloading” rappers like them. “I have a message for Lil Wayne, his Cash Money brothers, DJ Khaled, Puff Daddy, and all the…
Not too long ago, Ex Norwegian was one of those Miami bands that everyone had to see play. The group’s debut album, Standby, was amazingly well received. Reviewers would offer glowing praises like explodingsound.com’s “Standby is a stellar pop album that should be widely embraced.” Likewise, the follow up, Sketch,…
Taylor Swift has been banging out big hits since she was just sweet 16. It all began with 2006’s “Tim McGraw,” a love song, not for superstar singer Tim McGraw, but her high-school sweetheart. And ever since, the 21-year-old country-pop princess has played the role of Little Miss Kiss-and-Tell, penning…
The architecture in Helsinki, Finland, is world-renowned. The city’s neoclassical structures and Art Nouveau buildings have been celebrated for their architecturally functional design and aesthetic appeal. Naturally, when the members of an indie outfit from Fitzroy, Australia, needed a name that would capture their collective brand of stylishly synthesized pop…
Do you ever wish you could be in two places at once? Better yet, how about 50 places at once? Sometimes we here at Crossfade get really pissed about the fact that we’re stuck in our cubicle and not traveling to India to write about vegetarianism and Lady Gaga. Or,…
When Chris Glover (AKA Penguin Prison) tells us that he’s never ever been to Miami, we are a bit shocked.Never?”Never.”Considering the 305’s unofficial status as the sixth borough, we tell him he’s probably the only New Yorker who’s never stepped foot in our swampy waters.”You are from Miami?” he asks…
Arguably one of the best parties last year and Best One-Nighter winner for this year’s Best of Miami, Basel Castle returns for another night of awesome music and kickass art at Overthrow Castle. The Overthrow, which seems to have been a little quiet lately, has amassed a lineup that includes…
Occupy Wall Street has been swarming with acoustic appearances by musicians like Tom Morello, Talib Kweli, and Jeff Mangum. But Occupy Miami still hasn’t drawn in Pitbull or Gloria Estefan. Guess that’s no big surprise. As the Occupiers round out a second week sleeping outside of Stephen P. Clark Government…
Open up and say “Ahh!” We know you’ve got a fever, but the cure isn’t more cowbell. Local crew ArtOfficial knows how to get you right and it comes over the counter. All you need is your Vitamins & Minerals, the latest dose of sumptuous jazz fused with hard-nosed hip-hop…
Gibbor Green is the cutest little singing heartthrob Miami has possibly ever seen. And the 13-year-old talent is about to take the biz by storm with his single “Crush.” The music video directed by Maicol Diaz isn’t just the tale of one middle-schooler’s infatuation with another. It also offers an…
This Halloween, O Cinema is bringing one of the most beloved cult films back, keeping it interactive and adding a tropical touch. Organizer Liz Ferrer is taking the geek and freak classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and giving it, in her words, “Miami charm.” For a hint of what…
Are you an 18- to 35-year-old alpha male? Do you love scantily clad women and binge drinking? Were you ever caught masturbating to PG-13 pictures of teen-romp starlets? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re going to flip your shit when you hear that Maxim Magazine is…
As if his birth name wasn’t whimsical enough, dreamy dance-pop producer Orlando Higginbottom would really prefer that you call him by the adorably twee title, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. The son of an Oxford University music professor, this skinny, rosy-cheeked Englishman’s artistic sensibility is wide-ranging and quite eclectic, touching upon…
Diplodocuses were some of the gnarliest dinosaurs in North America. They were friendly, survived on a diet of mostly tree branches and water plants, and generally kicked it prehistorically ’round Utah and Colorado. But the Diplodocus is also the inspiration behind one of electro music’s commercial heavyweights, Diplo. He’s bringing…
Crossfade was down at Jimbo’s this Saturday, and we asked him how he feels about all of the bands that play out there. Does he like them? He said enthusiastically, “Oh, yeah!” Though he’s had both knees replaced, the 84-year-old still loves cutting the rug on his Virginia Key squatting…
It’s been a pretty good week for all those downtown cool kids who’ve spent the last four months stone sober and cloaked in black, mourning the death of Bar, the OHWOW-owned hipster hangout that closed in July. Over the weekend, a group of Bar’s ex-employees opened a new party spot…
