Our lives are boring. There’s a reason we hit snooze five times every morning. We get up, go to work, do laundry, go to bed, and wake up to do it all over again the next day. By the time Friday rolls around, hard liquor can’t even correct our rut…
We sent out a million invites to come party with Crossfade last night. (OK, as accounted by Facebook, the actual number was 1223.) And 124 of you said, “No,” about 60 answered, “Eh, maybe,” and a whopping 938 didn’t even acknowledge the question! What the fuck’s wrong? Don’t you like…
Before you start anything in life, you will more than likely hear the phrase, “There have been many that have come before you.” And we have to wonder if that’s how NBC’s The Voice felt coming onto the TV scene. There have been many singing competition shows. And some have…
If you’ve been following our blog, you know that Bulletproof Tiger does it for the titties, Furious Dudes just wanna party, and Secret Arms is using satanism to piss you off. So what’s your motivation to joining us for the kickoff of the Crossfade Music Series tonight at the Stage?…
Adam Huss is no stranger to the local music scene, having tenured in the wildly popular Dreams You Die In. He’s also known to hardcore kids across the US as a solid booker from The Alley days. After a lengthy absence from local music, he’s back with a new outfit,…
You may have noticed quite a bit of coverage for this LAMC thing on Crossfade lately. Like this, this and this. But we’ve got a good reason. Going strong for over a decade now, the Latin Alternative Music Conference is the biggest of its kind, a sort of mecca for the indie…
Do you really, honestly, genuinely need a fucking reason to come party with Crossfade at the Stage tomorrow night? OK, fine. Here’s a bunch: (1) It’s totally free; (2) I thought we were friends; (3) What the fuck else you gonna do on a Thursday?; and also (4) Furious Dudes!;…
Early this morning, gossip website TMZ published a scandal involving South Florida-based rapper Rick Ross that is certain to rock the respective foundations of Miami, hip-hop, and the infinitely reverberating reblogging axis. The story was published in the early a.m., a clear strategic attempt to maximize coverage by inspiring a…
You know Toto Gonzalez (AKA Mr. Pauer) from around town. He’s not so much a local music act as an institution. A DJ, producer, party promoter and founder of Latin music and lifestyle website Fabrika, Mr. Pauer has played a big role in helping to bridge the gap between our…
Yesterday, Crossfade published a blog reviewing Pitbull’s new Planet Pit app for the iPhone 4: “Is Pitbull’s New Planet Pit App Worth Its $9.99 Price Tag?” But we accidentally purchased both the iPad-only version of the app, and another official Pitbull app, this time for the iPhone, that used an…
On Wednesday night, Bar tweeted: “As of this afternoon, BAR on 14th Street has permanently shut down.” So the Jacuzzi Boys goodbye party has been canceled. Everyone’s slowly coming to terms with the fact that the space at 28 NE 14th Street, currently known as Bar, will soon be closing…
You’ve been enjoying Suénalo right here in the MIA for years. And they just won New Times’ pick for Best Latin Band in this year’s Best of Miami issue. But New York is only just about to learn the true meaning of Afro-Latin-baby-makin’-descarga-funk. After all, we can’t be stingy. We…
On April 9, local rap crew ¡Mayday! announced: “It’s official – ¡MAYDAY! has signed to Tech N9ne’s indie powerhouse – Strange Music!!!” Almost exactly a month later, the six-man team hit the road with its new boss, Tech N9ne, and a few other members of Strange Music fam for the…
Jorge Moreno’s “Thank You” is a gently unfolding, deceptive pop-rock paean to life’s simple pleasures. Its earworm tendencies come on slowly. The more you play the track, the more it reveals new flourishes — a roots-rock guitar lick here, a Beatles-esque wall of backing voices there. It also pays off…
When Bono busted up his back last year, U2’s 360° Tour was forced to a dead stop. The Irish crooner-slash-crusader needed emergency surgery and time to mend. So the band canceled a bunch of dates, including the Miami gig. Eventually, all shows were rescheduled. But as StubHub headquarters told Crossfade…
There’s been a lot of excitement around New Times HQ in the lead up to the first edition of Crossfade presents The Local at The Stage scheduled for this Thursday, June 30 at 9 p.m.. We’ve spent countless hours picking the perfect party dress. We’ve blown our rent on “party favors.”…
Alongside Mos Def, Talib Kweli was Black Star, a duo that created the soundtrack — via hand-me-down cassette — to this writer’s late-’90s college days. Somehow, their socially conscious, Afrocentric hip-hop totally articulated how we felt as a nerdy, suburban white girl driving through the streets of South Beach. So…
We are less than a week away from the inaugural Crossfade-sponsored The Local at The Stage concert series, and New Times HQ is buzzing with preparation. To prepare, we figured it would be a good idea to give you, faithful Crossfade readers and The Local attendees, a preview of the…
Crossfade was doing some casual afternoon lurking when the Events section of the Nightdrive blog slapped us in the face with some pretty cool news. According to the Miami promoters-slash-bloggers, math-rock mutant-pop ensemble Battles will be making its return to South Florida. The listing offers little information aside that the…
Rick Ross is the Boss. And he’s got a personal stockpile of greenbacks almost as huge as the Federal Reserve’s cash stacks. So needless to say, Mr. Ricky can afford to celebrate American independence and excess in a bling-bang way that’d make even the fattest capitalist shine bright and star-spangled…
Britney Spears, our favorite almost-30-year-old, meltdown-prone mom is trying to keep her music videos sexy. It isn’t working and here are some lowlights from her new vid for “I Wanna Go.” Robots. People keep turning into androids. The video ends with a guy giving her a handful of seashells before…
Crossfade has received word that Best of Miami 2011 Readers’ Poll winner Bar will be closing after July 4. The news comes as a shock, even though there have been previous rumors of the venue’s closure.Sources tell us that it wasn’t OHWOW’s choice to close. In fact, it was hoping…
