Ghost of Gloria Wins Hard Rock Battle

Don’t tell the boys from Ghost of Gloria that South Florida isn’t a rock market. The Fort Lauderdale band’s co-manager, Brandon Young, says the foursome committed last year to making being in a band their day job in the hopes of making it big within three years. “The hope is…

Poppa E at Casa Panza

Poppa E is a bad motherfucker. Find out for yourself every Wednesday night at Casa Panza, where he has a residency, and he and his band play three or more sets of jazz, blues, and R&B songs you already know the words to. Some people might think it’s strange to…

Video: José El Rey “Ladies of the Night”

Everyone’s favorite Cuban electro/Miami bass/freestyle act — and part-time Crossfade columnist — José El Rey released a new music video for his track “Ladies of the Night.” From the looks of it, it was mostly filmed, where else, but in the deep bowls of west Miami.And while José has taken…

Video: Trick Daddy “What Dey Do”

Trick Daddy, the official un-official Mayor of Miami, has been feeding the streets fresh thug music for years on top of years on top of years. Next time there’s a mayor election we’re starting a write in campaign for Trick cause Mayor Diaz might be making our city green, but Mayor…

Buy Hand Drums In Miami

Need a hand-made drum from Africa, China or Tibet? Go to a shop called Majestic Lips at 4600 NE 2nd Ave, next door to Lemoni Cafe, up the street from Buena Vista Bistro, blocks north of the Design District. It’s full of stuff from all over the world and definitely…

OMFG: Awesome New Republic ft. …Blair Waldorf?

Anyone with even a casual eye on the Miami music scene for the past half-decade has been patiently waiting for Awesome New Republic to rightfully blow up on a national level. Well, we never quite imagined that happening with the help of Leighton Meester, aka the actress who plays Blair…

Are You An Out Of Work Musician? Want a Gig Just For the Money?

Do you wake up, smoke a bowl, bum a cigarette, drink a beer, eat some corn pops, play guitar, watch Judge Judy, Matlock and Oprah while “brainstorming” your million dollar ideas wearing dirty socks and wishing somebody would just pay your rent so you could concentrate on developing your unrecognized…

SNL Remix Hits Home(town)

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Miami Bass Express

Today The Herald is reporting on the epidemic of prescription drugs from South Florida invading the Appalachian states. If you’ve ever seen the ad section of the Broward Palm Beach New Times you know what a big business prescription drugs are, and apparently Broward county is one of the easiest…

A Text Message From Psychic Youth Inc.

Screw a club or sucka lounge. Take it to the streets. Check this message from the Nightdrive crew. If it viralizes like they want, this won’t be the last you see or hear of it tonight. Can’t speak for the music, but hey it’s free and bottle specials are as cheap…

Jim Jonsin, Rich Boy and Yelawolf in the Studio

Last night Jim Jonsin, the producer behind T.I.’s “Whatever You Like,” Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop,” Trick Daddy’s “Let’s Go,” and songs by other top artists in the game, was in the studio with Alabama artists Rich Boy and Yelawolf. You may know certified gold recording artist Rich Boy from his song…

So Raw Festival Bringing Together Miami’s Rawest Talent in June

We love festivals, even the small ones. But while most of our local festivals give non-natives the limelight, So Raw Festival aims to showcase the city’s local artists and musicians to finally prove once and for all Miami possesses the rawest talent. The lineup so far includes Dan Melchior und…

Nefarious Girl’s Sinful Radio Show

Jipsy of www.nefariousgirl.com is on the interweb radio now.  This is the woman who takes the pictures at parties that make everyone look like they are doing something eminently awesome, which, hopefully, at least sometimes, we are.  This show highlights the stuff that makes Miami cool, focusing on items that…

Fall Out Boy Now Offering Cheap Four Pack of Tickets

Can’t get enough pop-punk? Well grab three friends and head over to Livenation, because Fall Out Boy just announced a huge sale on a four pack of tickets. Individual tickets are regularly priced at $38.50, but for just $99, you get 4 general admission tickets for the April 21 show…

WMC 2009: Ultra Music Festival in Pictures

With two-days worth of performers, Ultra Music Festival is still to this day the show to attend during Winter Music Conference. Our cameras were out there in full-force to give an unprecedented visual compendium of everything that went down during the festival. Check out photos from both Day 1 (part…

Cassie Picked Up Some Swag

While the regular people were in the WMC trenches rolling ballz, Bad Boy artist/sometime pop kitten/maybe or maybe not Diddy’s current jumpoff Cassie was at chic Collins shop The Webster’s Femme Fatale DJ Series picking up some gear from Balmain, Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga and YSL. …

WMC 2009: Late of the Pier, Rye Rye at The Vagabond

So after wrapping up a couple of feel-good stories about a female inmate being sexually assaulted by prison guards and the ridiculous shenanigans by some cops in a tiny place called Biscayne Park, I stepped out this past Friday to The Vagabond for a little Winter Music Conference R&R. There we caught…