Rick Ross suffered a seizure aboard a flight today, and the plane was forced to make an emergency landing. Miami’s larger-than-life rapper was flying from Fort Lauderdale to Memphis when the 35-year old lost consciousness, according to TMZ. Paramedics quickly started to administer CPR once the plane landed. The celebrity…
Newsflash! Turns out that network TV execs’ massive hard-on isn’t limited to sitcoms starring rappers. Apparently, they find whiteboy rap-rockers supersexy and crazy funny too. Last week, we here at Crossfade chuckled about the fact that former Rollin 20s Crip, gangsta rapper, and proud daddy Snoop Dogg had landed a…
Tequila, Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac, and Brooklyn coffeehouse singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins … It sounds like the beginning of a joke. But no, it’s the basis for the inaugural Cabo Wabo Tequila Off The Record webseries, where “up-and-coming” music artists pair with wash-ups to shill hooch. In this dark, weird…
If you listened real close when Outkast rapper Big Boi (AKA Antwan Patton) disembarked from a cruise ship at 1:35 p.m. on August 7 and got busted by Miami-Dade K-9 cops while carrying three kinds of contraband (MDMA, Ecstasy, Viagra) and “drug paraphernalia,” you could almost hear the cell door…
The first tidal wave of artists joining Mr. Worldwide on his Club 305 Cruise has been announced, and it’s fucking huge. Electro master and commander Paul Oakenfold is joining Pitbull aboard Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas, and so is Miami native Flo Rida. Together, these three locos are gonna…
“It’s bingo, sort of, but not like you’ve seen it before. We made up our own rules, because we don’t know how to play ACTUAL bingo. This is Rebel Bingo. It’s not nice and it’s not fair. Do not bring your grandma.” That’s the way the cryptic press release for…
Comfortably nestled in the Mid-City District of New Orleans, the historic Tremé neighborhood is one of America’s loudest. Jazz music thrives in this 0.69-square-mile patch of NOLA land, especially at Kermit Ruffins’s house. A brilliant composer, accomplished trumpeter, pot connoisseur, and masterful barbecuer, Ruffins grew up in the infamous Ninth…
Did Winter Music Conference organizers concede defeat? Not exactly.The largest US conference devoted to electronic music is expanding to 10 days in 2012. From March 16 to 25, WMC 2012 will take over Miami in what promises to be an endless array of events that combine music, fashion, and, yes,…
As reported today on our food blog, Short Order, the Delano’s basement bar and lounge, the Florida Room, will be closing right before the new year. We had heard rumors that the Lenny Kravitz-designed space was facing closure, but this is the first report we’ve read that confirms the news.Florida…
Pumped-up kicks and a pimp chalice. That’s all you’ll need Friday, October 21, when Foster the People perform live at LIV, and Lil Jon tackles the ones and twos. They’re not playing together. But both acts are scheduled to appear at the Fontainebleau nightclub on the same night. One can…
Armando Christian Pérez is a boss. El tipo es tremendo performer, Dr. Pepper’s best bilingual spokesperson, y Miami’s biggest act since Gloria Estefan. Pitbull is undeniably one of pop music’s favorite male artists. And no, not just in our Cuban-American eyes, but in the eyes of the 2011 American Music…
On October 1, Ultra Music Festival organizers alerted its fans via email and social media that early bird tickets were on sale for $149.95. In a couple of hours, they were gone. In fact, the demand for tickets crashed the servers, forcing Ultra’s reps to send out an explanation via…
Post-Tha Carter II and right up until the year or so after Tha Carter III, you couldn’t get Lil Wayne to shut the fuck up about slugging back big Styrofoam cups of Purple Drank, an unholy brew of soda, jolly ranchers, and cough syrup. He opened his epic-as-the-original freestyle remix of Rich…
Every Wednesday, Contesta Rock Hair, a salon sitting on South Beach’s charming Española Way, offers more than just cuts and up-dos. In association with LINK, one of the companies dominating Miami’s dance music party scene, the Italian-owned salon hosts a happy hour from 6 to 10 p.m. with music by…
In Miami Chum Bucket’s two years of existence — first as a fundraising-slash-organizing effort, then as a short-lived warehouse-b/w-multipurpose space in Allappattah — the DIY punk venue has been continuously weighed down by process. First, the process of opening, which provoked enough skepticism that the organizers cheekily (and in good…
Attention: job seekers There’s a new nightlife venue opening in Midtown. It’s called Ricochet Bar and Lounge, and it’s now hiring bartenders, servers, waitresses and busboys. Unemployed people and other interested parties should email HR@taient.com. We called Alan Roth from TAI Entertainment to see what he had to say about…
Ikea, Volvo, and electro-pop music — that’s what we think about when someone says Sweden. And speaking of the European Union’s third largest country by area, Swedish indie outfit Little Dragon is almost here! Earlier this year, the Gothenburg-based group released its third studio album, Ritual Union. We spoke with…
You’d do anything to sit atop The Throne, curled up in the resplendent million-dollar laps of His Hovatastic Majesty Jay-Z and King Kanye. But there’s no way that you, a poor and humble pauper, could ever gather enough gold to pay for a $276.50 ticket to the royal duo’s November…
Y’all wanna hit Dadeland Mall for a pretty-pretty sesh with country-pop princess Taylor Swift? OK, good! Just tell that screeching, hysterical 12-year old girl inside you to shut up, simmer down, and stop puking with excitement ’cause there’s a catch … Ms. Swift won’t actually be making an in-person appearance…
Is Lady Gaga really Freddie Mercury in reincarnated drag? Probably not. Mother Monster was already five years old when Mercury died in 1991. But the two flamboyant icons have a lot in common. So much, in fact, that Queen guitarist Brian May is hinting at the possibility of Lady Gaga…
Murder was the case in 1993. But Snoop Dogg walked away a free man and into the collective heart of American pop culture. Now 18 years later, he’s trying to crip walk onto primetime television. MTV News (via Deadline Hollywood) is reporting that NBC is working on Snoop’s “family comedy…
The mashup is a decadent, triumphant symbol of the digital age’s too-deep pool of influences. Before the internet, you had to save your pennies and hunt down sounds (and information about them) like a bounty hunter. Before electricity, you straight up had to wait until someone with an instrument came…
