Gucci Mane has been going berserk lately. He spewed a bunch of hate speech about Brick Squad and how he banged Nicki Minaj via Twitter, and then his own friend called the cops and had him arrested for erratic behavior (getting an ice-cream cone tatted on his face wasn’t a…
Trina is Da Baddest Bitch, but even she needs to get her rest. Reportedly, our favorite bit of “Ass Fat” just fell flat on the floor while getting off a plane here in South Florida. She gave everyone such a scare, she was rushed to the nearest hospital, where she…
Are y’all fuckin’ wit’ us? We honestly wouldn’t have guessed that a guy who’d already been busted on weapons and heroin charges by the age of 16, occasionally giggles about murder via Twitter, and absolutely refuses to pay his child-support bills might have to bail on his commitment to play…
For the past decade and a half, Lady Gaga, Paulina Rubio, Macy Gray, and divas of the 305 have stormed their way through the black doors of Score. But after 15 years, Lincoln Road’s legendary nightclub is taking its ‘tude, perfectly chiseled and coiffed men, and hardcore party rep to…
DJ Heron grew up carrying milk crates full of records for his cousin Manny Love in NYC. In 1987, at age 15, his family moved from Brooklyn to North Miami Beach. Heron made friends with neighborhood kids Classik and Oski, formed a crew, and started rocking his own parties. He…
Love Hate Lounge has called 423 Washington Avenue home since Miami Ink stars Chris Nuñez and Ami James opened the pin-up and skull tattoo themed bar in 2007. The lounge kept its badass biker charm intact, but became more music oriented in 2012 when the guys turned the keys over…
There’s red everywhere. Red walls. Red bed comforter. Red sheet over the ceiling light. Luc Patrick Alexandre, Jr., known to the many as Unkle Luc, is also wearing red board shorts. And if the heat inside his room were a visible color, it’d be probably be red as well. “My…
Wow. The people of Dade County got lots of “Love Etc.” for Pet Shop Boys. Last night’s Electric U.S. tour kickoff show was totally sold out. And Crossfade readers’ rave reviews include: “One of the best shows I’ve ever been to … Like seeing a musical. The best!” Honestly, local…
One conversation with J. Nics and his laid-back Polar Bear Mack reputation precedes him. So it should come as no surprise that little, if anything, fazes the Miami rapper. “The type of person that I am, I don’t allow people that I can’t deal with on a regular basis, or…
There was no doubt, as 2012 got started, that Kenisha “Tip Drill” Myree was at the top of Miami’s stripper food chain. The top-drawing dancer at King of Diamonds, she pulled in as much as 10 grand a shift. There were a couple nights, she says, where she brought home…
Miami doesn’t have the strongest of indie music scenes. So it’s nowhere near often enough we see promising local underground artists erupt with new, promising work. Now if these artists also happen to be pushing the envelope and breaking ground with their music, it’s a very special thing indeed. With…
America. We’re on the brink of war, just moments from disaster, shaking up and down, side to side, hanging out the bottom of some nude-colored shorts. No, we’re not talking about Syria. We’re talking about Cyrus — Miley Cyrus. And while the President fumbles with words and foreign relations, the…
Freestyle music got its name from a Miami group called Freestyle Express. Someone left out half the name on the group’s most popular record, and when “Don’t Stop the Rock” became a national hit, the label just read “Freestyle” and that word came to define the sound. Miami Freestyle is…
“Have you ever dreamed of being a star?” Who’s asking? Flo Rida! He wants to make your dreams come true, and he’s not going to do it with the exciting new BeamzByFlo, “the future of interactive music.” What is it? Probably the cheapest piece of plastic crap turned musical instrument…
Chief Keef has been 18 for less than a month, but he’s already got a police record riddled with more crimes than 50 Cent’s body got bullets.
Mad Skrews is a Miami Beach producer with more metal in his face than Kanye West, hence the name. And in the four years since Crossfade last caught up with him, he has continued landing placements on albums from the likes of Funkmaster Flex, Trina, and Ky-Mani Marley. Now the…
The “abandoned-treasure-turned-retro-sixties-alternative-atomic-bomb-dance-music-bar-institution” that is Do Not Sit on the Furniture (or Don’t Sit for short) is officially opening its doors. Don’t Sit debuted its SoBe “living room” on Fourth of July weekend, but tonight marks the soft opening of the club, where owner and Electric Pickle veteran Behrouz will be…
When one club closes, another one opens. That’s how we here at Crossfade summed up the Miami nightlife cycle in the opening to our profile of downtown’s Therapy when it launched during Miami Music Week 2013. But you know, maybe we’d have been closer to the truth with something like,…
Denzel Curry sits on the couch with his friend Raul, who’s in the middle of a sketch. Another friend, producer Ronny J, stands by the sink, just watching. A few seconds later, Curry reaches for an Xbox controller and scrolls through Netflix to pick The Truman Show. It’s been more…
Love is a powerful thang. So who among us will dare to ask why LeBron James’ mom could have fallen for a man named Lambo? That’s right … Mrs. Gloria James has a new boo. And he’s a rapper from Miami who happens to be only three years older than…
In the 1970’s TK Productions was 10 times more powerful than Cash Money Records is today. Company President Henry Stone had more artists, more hits, greater distribution, and more sales. But when 1980 hit it all came crashing down and the company went bankrupt. One of his first million selling…
It’s always great to see local bands do big things. And for Miami-bred technical grind masters, Maruta, signing to Relapse Records, a titan among extreme genre labels, has been a long time coming. The group, currently composed of Mitchell Luna, Eduardo Boria, Mauro Cordoba, and Daniel Morris, has previously put…
