Good folks over at Ultra Music Festival premiere this week the new video Tiësto vs. Diplo track “C’mon,” which was filmed live at this year’s festival. The track sounds a bit like outdated 2006 blog-house, sounding more like the work Tiësto than Diplo’s. In other words, don’t expect any Third…
If a trek to Tennessee for Bonnaroo just wasn’t in the cards this year, we have two ways for you to catch the Music and Arts fest from the comfort of your South Florida digs. First, the three-day arts and music festival is hosting a YouTube page with exclusive live webcasts…
Easily contenders to top every end-of-the-year poll for the amazingly superb follow-up to 2008’s Crystal Castles, for the similarly named Crystal Castles (AKA Crystal Castles II), Ethan Kath and Alice Glass have shed the electro-house label and positioned themselves as true electronic music pioneers.Their 2009 performance at Ultra Music Festival…
Always been curious to see what Hayley Williams is like behind the scenes? What a real, big studio recording looks like? How Paramore really acts behind the scenes? How they see you when they’re on stage? Voila, here’s Paramore’s new video for “Careful.” It’s a behind-the-scenes view of the band’s shows, studio…
The Velvet Underground song “After Hours” always seemed like an anomaly for the band. For one, it featured a rare vocal by the band’s usually silent, fiercely androgynous drummer, Maureen Tucker. For another, it seemed just too pop, with a cutesy melody that didn’t jibe with either the band’s guitar-drenched…
We sure are glad Lauren “Lolo” Reskin was born on this day, 20-something years ago (a lady never tells). If you run into Sweat Records’ legendary proprietress around town this weekend, feel free to bow and give offerings. Or just show up at the store tonight for her actual birthday,…
Ahhh, the early ’90s: A time for plaid shirts, grunge, cheesy pop hits, and rump-shaking. And, of course, Tag Team. The Atlanta duo’s hit “Whoomp (There It Is)” hit number two on the pop charts in 1993, and is certified four-times platinum in the U.S. with sales of over 4…
Once upon time it seemed like Pitbull was possibly just too Miami to make sense anywhere else. Well, we were wrong to think that. His blend of Little Havana swagger, dance beats, and lusty raps went truly global last year with the success “Calle Ocho (I Know You Want Me). His…
2010 VH1 Hip Hop Honors |Hip Hop Rally Machine |Hip Hop Honors Video Despite the theme of our earlier post about last night’s VH1 Hip-Hop Honors show, the entire thing was not, in fact, about Miami. Atlanta, Virginia Beach, New Orleans, and Houston all got their due as well, represented by…
2010 VH1 Hip Hop Honors |Hip Hop Rally Machine |Hip Hop Honors Video Last night’s VH1 Hip-Hop Honors show was full of hits (the return of Missy Elliott, for one), and misses (the glaring omission of Outkast, among many others). Still, much of it gave us some serious hometown pride…
Back in May, Crossfade reported that Alanis Morisette was pregnant by longtime boyfriend Souleye, a.k.a. ex-Boca resident Mario Treadway, a conscious-type hip-hop MC specializing in vaguely crunchy, spiritual lyrics. (Really crunchy — dude even once worked at Whole Foods). Yesterday, People reported that the two semi-secretly got hitched at Morisette’s…
Here are a few preview snippets to count down some more time until the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors broadcast tonight. Though the program debuts this evening, it was already taped this past week. (That’s somewhat disappointing — can you imagine the possible shenanigans if it were a live broadcast?) Our favorite…
Crossfade: Okay, let’s give our readers a little taste of you. Who are you, where do you come from, and where’s the best place to get pizza and score a hooker? I’m Alex, I play guitar for Remembering Never. I was born in Miami, raised a few years in St…
This year’s annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors awards show seems to be one of the most contentious to date, thanks to its focus on “Honoring the Dirty South.” On one hand, you’ve got major Southern artists like Scarface, who feels the show is just ghetto-izing his peers. (The Houston rapper, actually,…
Picture this: You’re channel-surfing when you see a weird mixture of characters in what looks like a scene from Star Wars. Daft Punk is hanging out with the droids, Snoop Dogg is chilling with Obi-Wan Kenobi and seems to be mimicking a Jedi, and they’re all hanging out at the…
Prior to their Ultra Music Festival booking, Passion Pit was already scheduled to play at the Fillmore Miami Beach on June 13. But it wouldn’t be a complete Miami concert appearance without the obligatory afterparty. That’s where the Overthrow, Poplife, and One Fifty come in to ensure the possibility that…
— The Rick Ross vs. Rick Ross saga continues. (Click here if you need to catch up on the background). But things are going to get a little more ugly. Former drugpin “Freeway” Ricky Ross is now trying to stop the release of Rick Ross the rapper’s Teflon Don album,…
Contrary to music industry buzz, Fort Myers’ hottest rapper, Plies, has just announced that he will not be performing at the 2010 VH1 Hip-Hop Honors airing next Monday, June 7 at 9 p.m. This is the first time ever that VH1 is honoring a particular geographic area for its contribution,…
Most bibliophiles know about the lurid tales of William S. Burroughs. He shot and killed his second wife by accident while drunk, became openly gay, had an affinity for guns, a serious opiate addiction the last 50 years of his life — and for all of you Floridians, he spent…
Friday, June 4*The Big Bounce makes for some pretty classy drinking music, so it’s appropriate that the “lounge-hop” duo plays an extended happy-hour from 4 to 9 p.m. at Mia at Biscayne. Admission is free. Click here for details. *Saturday’s awesome garage/punk/rock and roll extravaganza at Churchill’s — with Sloppy Seconds,…
If you haven’t heard of Kat Stacks, it’s okay. It means you spend a healthy time away from Twitter and from following the minutiae of struggling, up-and-coming rappers in Miami’s busting hip-hop industry. Still, for the past month she’s been taking the rap-centric Internet by storm with her spicy tales…
Two-thirds of Miike Snow is responsible for producing some of the biggest pop hits of the last decade. Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, also known as Bloodshy & Avant, are responsible for giving mega-hits to Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Jordin Sparks, Kylie Minogue, Kelis, and Madonna. But along with Andrew…
