Spoiler alert: Yep, probably. Arcade Fire’s new album Reflektor is nearly here and while a formal tour has yet to be announced, rumors suggest a series of secret shows around the country in the next few weeks. Well, we suck at keeping secrets, so you might want to keep October…
The wound of losing a first love heals at its own pace, not when you say so. And sometimes, the pain leads to depression, which may lead to worse. But it could also lead to the kind of music that makes a career. The best example, of course, has been…
We here at Crossfade recently sat down for a chat with famed rap-groupie-turned-author Kat Stacks and learned that the woman born as Andrea has been taking control of her life and spreading her wings. She’s branching out and storming the world with her full, unbridled self. Of course, the next…
Conformity is overrated. The desire to fit the mold is so 2006. For video directors, the age of applying their vision with full creative control has already been upon us for several years, thanks to YouTube, Vimeo, and cheap but effective filming equipment. In just a little over a year,…
As the world waits with bated breath to see what America’s favorite twerk monster will do next, we can say with near-absolute certainty that it will be something to do with weed smoking — not that there’s anything wrong with that. In the past, lil’-no-more Miley Cyrus has been shifty…
“Bitch dont look at me…i ain hear to start trends.” That’s the word from Robb Bank$, a 19-year-old, born-in-Brooklyn, bred-in-Coral-Springs rapper who’s all about not giving “fuks,” writing lines on “dat lean,” and hollering “out wit tha old in wit tha new i guess…but wut next?” And this is what’s…
In commercial hip-hop, your money game is even more important than your ability to rhyme. If you’ve got money, you’ve got rhymes, and if you don’t have money, you fake it till you make it. For these top earners, the faking days are over. Making Forbes’ list of biggest rap…
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.
