Put your paws up, little monster. Lady Gaga is coming to town. Er, well, sort of. Not really. But her Born This Way album listening party will be hitting SoBe. And thanks to Gaga’s latest commercial partnership with Gilt City, the e-coupon site is offering you a chance to celebrate…
Back in the day, circa 1996, the hip-hop world was all about the gangsta rap and busting caps, not the boom-bap and phat flips. Nevertheless, a couple of local b-boys named Richard “Speedy Legs” Fernandez and Steven “Zulu Gremlin” Roybal decided it was time to bring breakdancing back. So they…
The Italian popular music tradition of the last several decades has been an idiosyncratic one. When rock ‘n’ roll was paramount, Italians were considered the least likely to rock your world. Their sole contributions during the classic rock era being mainly sappy, straight-laced pop stars like Lucio Battisti. But their…
Just two months after Miami Chum Bucket hosted its grand opening, the punk venue and multipurpose space is under fire. This past weekend, the collective was ratched up to full throttle as hundreds flocked to the warehouse in Allapattah for the fifth annual 305 Fest, a punk/hardcore festival featuring three…
Porn and Miami go way, way, way back. All the way to January 1972, in fact, when writer-director Jerry Gerard (AKA Gerard Damiano) and producer Lou Perry (AKA Louis “Butchie” Peraino, son of mob guy Anthony Peraino) brought a young, fat, and very talented little 23-year-old lady named Linda Lovelace…
More news on the upcoming Identity Festival happening August 25 at the Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park: There is now a Miami-specific lineup for the event. And while it unfortunately excludes some of our favorites (Modeselektor and Pete Tong), there are still plenty of reasons to get excited.Acts coming to…
It was almost exactly seven weeks ago during Miami Music Week when glossy flyers advertising a gig by Kid Cudi at La Covacha started showing up all over the city, tacked to telephone polls, tossed in the gutter, and being used at the Vagabond as coasters for Colt 45s. The…
Pitbull’s T-Pain-featuring pop-club banger “Hey Baby (Drop it to the Floor)” continues to burn up the airwaves, playing on Power 96 approximately every third song, it seems. But while that track continues to linger in the top 100 of various Billboard song charts, its successor has already arrived. The recently…
Spam Allstars are celebrating the tenth anniversary of ¡Fuacata! this Thursday, a monumental accomplishment to say the least. Week after week for the last decade, the Spam Allstars have taken to the tight Little Havana stage in Hoy Como Ayer to lay down their one-of-a-kind descargas. And week after week, they’ve…
As Crossfade has chronicled the career of twentysomething, Miami-based songwriter Rico Love, his star has continued to rise. Last year saw major Billboard Hot 100 success for three songs he penned for Usher’s “There Goes My Baby,” Nelly’s “Just a Dream,” and Diddy Dirty Money’s “Hello Good Morning.” More importantly, 2010…
UPDATE: Via Tumblr, Kid Cudi has stated that the show La Covacha is fake. Read the response from promoters Major Event Marketing and Uprise. Kid Cudi loves Miami so much. In 2009, he threw a free party on South Beach with Santigold. And then he came back on New Years…
Out of the Anonymous is a long-running local outfit that’s spent years making beautiful soundtracks for dreamers and paranoiacs. And while we’ve already had the opportunity to interview bassist Henry Rajan and guitarist Buffalo Brown, we come full circle today with the man who started it all back in the…
No, we’re not fucking with you. We know, we know. We just reported not a month ago the terribly sad news that after ten years of providing SoFla’s local music scene with one of its most beloved stages, and Miami’s drinking crowd with one of its favorite boozing spots, Transit…
In a fit of alliterative inspiration, Rick Ross and company have dubbed May as the official Maybach Music Month. Rap lately has been all about the label clique and compilation album — just see the recent blockbuster success of Diddy’s Dirty Money record, and Lil Wayne’s Young Money posse cuts. Now…
As promised here are more details on the upcoming Identity Festival, which stops in Miami August 25. The one-day event will happen at the recently renamed Bayfront Park Amphitheater, now known as Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park.Early bird tickets will go on sale from May 20 to 22 via idfestival.com…
Come back, Rachel Goodrich! Miami needs you. What can Los Angeles give you than Miami can’t? Er, perhaps better industry connections and a milder climate. But the Magic City’s constant state of fucked-up-ness makes for a gritty backdrop to your folksy demeanor. We miss you, Rachel.Sigh … Not helping our…
Did you see last week’s episode of 16 and Pregnant? It was about a vulnerable teen girl and her decision to keep the baby growing in her junior-year belly. It’s OK if you missed it, though. MTV will probably air that episode again. But don’t expect it to be on…
If you’re deep into Miami’s undeground EDM scene, then you’re probably familiar with the PL0T crew by now. With its nonstop barrage of big-time bookings over the last couple years, including international heavyweights like Seth Troxler, Ryan Elliot, Lee Foss, and Wolf + Lamb, PL0T was among our picks for…
It’s finally here! The official music video for “Play House,” the first single off Afrobeta’s first full-length album Under the Streets. The video is vastly different from the kitschy teaser trailer shown on the band’s website. That project, which was directed by local filmmaker Fro Rojas, was abandoned and the song…
Smoke pon de chalawa. Three decades ago today, Bob Marley’s essence floated off into the most high like a purple cloud of ganja smoke.We won’t get into the details of his death, except to say: Let’s continue to fight cancer. And let’s celebrate the life of the greatest musical ambassador…
OK, so we were joking about the professional part. There are no suits and ties in the Crossfade office. And we don’t carry a briefcase unless it’s full of Four Loko. But we do got jobs! And if you wanna write about music and get paid for it, like Lester…
Most professional politicians don’t know how to party. Their idea of “fun” is finger foods, light drinks, and saxophone music. So under normal circumstances, we here at Crossfade prefer partying to politicking, boozing to bargaining, drugging to debating. But Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Luther Campbell is different. As we all know,…
