DJ Carnage — he’s “just chilling, eating food, watching Netflix,” doing whatever. You might have heard his breakout Bang! EP. Or you might have heard about how he pissed off a bunch of agro commenters by saying he was over trap. Or you might have killing it at Ultra Music…
Dear hip-hop, what the fuck happened? When did hip-hop become about bogus egos, dehumanizing women, hating ourselves, and stupid, unrelatable statements like #SufferingFromSuccess? Hip-hop was a music of the people, but now it’s a culture of the blind-leading-the-blind into a party full of strippers and bad decisions. The next morning,…
When you combine the traditional percussive powers of Maracatu Nação Estrela Brilhante with the rhythmic vibes of Nation Beat, the result is a mega carnival that’ll keep you dancing the samba til o nascer do sol. “It’s an epic experience,” brags Scott Kettner of Nation Beat and Maracatu New York…
Seems like Ultra Music Festival organizers took our suggestion to heart, because today the festival has announced it will let allow festival-goers to purchase a limited number of tickets via a payment plan. See also: – Ultra Music Festival: It’s Time for Ticket Layaway – Ultra 2014 Early-Bird Tickets Sell…
Miami has a long history of putting out great, unique sounding heavy bands. In much the same way that the marsupials of the Southern Hemisphere have evolved with combinations of traits unlike those of any other mammalian group, Miami’s isolated heavies are a genus unto themselves. And now, in particular,…
What makes a DJ legendary? Well in the case of West Coast house music legend Doc Martin, it’s a whopping three decades of destroying international dancefloors with his masterclass underground record selections. Having came up during the late ’80s to early ’90s dance era, when novel sounds like house, hip-hop,…
Has this every happened to you? One day, you’re sitting on a sofa with your best girlfriend, talking about boys and music and dreaming big. The next, you’re touring the world in support of a supersuccessful feminist pop anthem. Most likely not, but Aino Jawo and Caroline Hjelt now find…
From the moment you hit the flashy streets of SoBe, you know you’re entering a wonderland of non-stop, liquor-flowing, celebrity-studded bashes. The best part of it all? You don’t even have to wait for the weekend to party like a Lil Jon-level crunk-rock star. It’s no wonder this place is…
Tickets to see Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z’s Legends of the Summer tour at Sun Life Stadium: $40. Watching JT in that “Suit & Tie” at an exclusive aftershow at the Fillmore Miami Beach: Priceless. Well, at least for MasterCard holders. See also: -Jay Z and Justin Timberlake Not Boycotting Florida,…
Back in 2012, we here at Crossfade had a chat with international boogie meisters Soul Clap about their newly launched eponymous label and some of the artists they handpicked to represent their “artsy, cool, and funky” vision for the catalog. Among them was San Francisco DJ-production wunderkind Nick Monaco. With…
It’s tough to put a price on music, but the going rate at sea seems to be about $700 per person plus tax and miscellaneous fees. At least that’s what virtually every four-night music theme cruise to the Bahamas seems to cost these days. Yes, even the latest indie progressive…
From her early days as lead vocalist of Banda Eva, Brazilian songstress Ivete Sangalo has enjoyed a solid, steady career, becoming her home nation’s biggest-selling solo artist with a string of axé music hits aimed not only at the four-day Carnaval holiday but also the perennial micaretas, which are weekend…
It’s Monday. That means you gotta rise up to the challenge of your rival, the workweek. Good thing there are plenty of concerts going down to help you get back on the streets and face “The Eye of the Tiger.” Check out Crossfade’s five best concerts in Miami this week,…
With his first EP, Velvet, Austin Paul won the hearts of musical taste-makers from soulful-producer Kastle to groove-guru Pharrell. In the few months since it dropped, he’s traveled the nation making musical connections with big brands from Vogue to Porsche, and it’s just the beginning. Still, success can be stressful,…
Miami may be lacking a lot of things, but great dance clubs is definitely not one of them. And it’s not only us that thinks so — Rolling Stone agrees! See also: LIV Miami Fourth Highest Grossing Nightclub in U.S…
When you’re living on a budget, weekends can get, well, complicated. You wanna party with your (better-off) friends at one of SoBe’s star-studded nightclubs, but there’s one minor detail standing in the way … You’re broke. Before you start making plans to watch weird cult movies all night while laying…
The Metric concert last night had to be the most punctual rock show to ever take place at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Maybe it was the five cameras preparing to stream the show live on Myspace; it was the Florida entry for Bud Light’s 50/50/1 music festival — 50 bands,…
If The Clash were from Miami and made a record in 2013, it might sound like ¡Mayday!’s new album, Believers. With rock and Caribbean guitar riffs, simple and heavy basslines, snap-and-crack drums, multilayered lyrics, and catchy hooks, this slab is the Miami rap crew’s latest masterpiece. We spoke with MCs…
“Miami bass is the ghetto-style hip-hop that came out of Miami in the ’80s,” says DJ Jerry Pulles. From 1989 to 1994, he drove a van loaded with speakers and records from Miami Lakes to Hialeah to Carol City, playing house parties for his friends from American High. Later, he…
America loves dance music, and bass music is especially beloved by thousands, probably millions, of happy beat freaks, from Miami to New York and Los Angeles. Now, we can’t really say 12th Planet is the man responsible for the current bass trend in the U.S., but we can say he…
If you’re old enough to recall the mid ’80s, you can probably recognize the sounds of Debbie Deb’s “When I Hear Music” and “Lookout Weekend” in an instant. The freestyle hits were the teen anthems of their day, ubiquitous soundtracks at roller rinks and mall parking lots. Younger listeners may…
Too $hort is an independent hip hop pioneer who made his first million on cassette tapes. The East Oakland pimp is famous for dirty sex raps, and has put out a new album almost every year since 1987. He’s also a ghetto reality rapper in the style of Melle Mel…
