Hell yeah. A week after being closed by order of the City of Miami Department of Fire-Rescue, everyone’s favorite outdoor Wynwood hangout, the backyard at Wood Tavern, is serving up cold beer and good vibes again. As owner Cesar Morales hollered via Facebook: “WOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! We are opening the back tonight!!!”…
And the uhntz-uhntz continues … Last month, the Opium Group dropped its Phase One lineup for Miami Music Week 2013, revealing eight shows at four clubs: Mansion, Cameo, SET, and Mokai. Now almost exactly four weeks later, the clubbin’ conglomerate has unveiled its Phase Two slate, including MMW throwdowns with…
Will JT and Jay-Z be hitting up the MIA? Last week, after Timberlake admitted “[Jay and I] are definitely going to go on tour” while walking the Grammys’ red carpet, we here at Crossfade insisted: “These two dapper dudes gotta make a stop in Miami, right?” And it seems as…
When she’s not appearing in a Los Angeles County criminal courtroom, Lindsay Lohan can be found filing frivolous lawsuits in the state of New York. And for nearly two years, the most frivolous of suits has been the grievance filed against Miami’s Pitbull for his use of “disparaging” and “defamatory”…
There will be an epic DJ battle during Winter Music Conference 2013. But this one won’t be fought behind the decks. It’s going down on the basketball court. Yes, the Red Blue Classic on March 19 is WMC’s inaugural DJ basketball game — a chance for enthusiasts of the sport…
Strippers are stars. Just ask 305 rapper and Rick Ross collaborator Ice Billion Berg. Like any straight-up gentleman with a lifetime platinum membership at the gentleman’s club, he’s got mad respect for the inner strength, physical prowess, and work ethic of the average exotic dancer. “It’s a way a lot…
Y’all ready to get your HARD on? It’s beginning to look a lot like springtime. And as such, electro bangers will soon drown out every other noise Miami generates in a 24-hour period — construction, traffic, chusmeria — as part of the March tradition known as Winter Music Conference and…
Who in the 305 “want[s] to get up close and personal with your favorite #RizinStar artist?” Well, sorry. It ain’t gonna happen ’cause the Rizinstar Tour with Travis Porter, Kirko Bangz, Ca$h Out, and others has nixed its show at the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami. The venue…
Rusted Root as Part of Virginia Key Grassroots Festival 2013, February 21 to 24
Lotus at Culture Room February 22
Bachaco at Jazid February 23
Lil Wayne ain’t sorry. Just a few minutes ago, the Young Money maniac called up 99 Jamz’s Felisha Monet to discuss his war with the Miami Heat and his now-infamous taunt: “Fuck LeBron! Fuck She-Wade!… And, and, and I fucked Chris Bosh wife!” But when Ms. Monet confronted Weezy about…
Beware the Ides of March. No, not because someone’s planning to stab you in the back à la Brutus. But rather because this year’s Winter Music Conference kicks off on March 15, meaning you have only about three weeks of fake tanning sessions, CrossFit classes, and detoxing left until you’re…
If you’re going to listen to a DJ Pauly D set and you care at all about the legitimacy of the art form, you’ll need to get very, very drunk. But if you just really like clubbing and tanning and Pauly D, you’ll still probably want to get very, very…
Whether Lil Wayne is actually persona non grata at the American Airlines Arena remains a mystery. What is certain, however, is that Weezy is a classless, kiss-and-tellin’ fool who has fallen so far off the cultural-relevancy radar that only a childish rant about a professional basketball team and one of its…
Skeptical until about 46 minutes ago, we just learned there is, in fact, a God. And while it took her several years to answer the one prayer that we’d been repeating every night for the past 1,460 days, Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona is finally returning to Miami. The veteran crooner…
We here at Crossfade can’t wait to get back to doin’ the Backyard Boogie, gettin’ drunk in the midafternoon, just straight sippin’ from a pitcher of cold brew at Wood Tavern. So it’s exciting to hear that the Wynwood hangout could be getting an OK from the City of Miami…
Question #1: Is Lil Wayne banned from the home of the Miami Heat? Maybe. Although, the team hasn’t said shit since Weezy went bonkers, howling, “Fuck LeBron! Fuck She-Wade! … And, and, and, I fucked Chris Bosh wife!” during All-Star weekend in Houston. Question #2: Did LeBron, D-Wade, Bosh, and…
Some say “happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.” But in reality, happiness is a three-night cruise with Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas at the helm. For the first time ever, the 2004 People’s Choice Awards selection for Favorite Musical Group is hitting the high seas aboard the Carnival…
Now going on its sixth year, Flying Circus has emerged as one of the foremost mid-week Winter Music Conference parties. Back in 2011, Luca Saporito of UK DJ-production duo Audiofly reminisced with Crossfade about the fateful day in 2008 when he teamed up with SAFE Miami to launch the party…
MC Yogi grew up in the rough world full of drugs, gangs, pimps and hoes in the Bay Area. At around 18 years old, he discovered yoga, and later applied his new philosophy on life to making hip hop. Today, he’s independently sold over 100,000 albums. And this weekend, he…
Who is “Chris Bosh’s wife”? Well, we here at Crossfade, like everyone else living in Heat Nation, know her as Adrienne Williams, a lovely Venezuelan lady who secretly married the (almost) seven-footer in 2011 and then gave birth to a beautiful baby Bosh in 2012. But… The rest of America…
