Free-spirited? Supersexy? “Hungry for hedonism, music and an extraordinary lifestyle”? Welcome to Generation Wild, a “unique concept tour,” according to the official hype, “ready to explode in a city near you.” The beat-freaking lineup: Awesome “Bong” bro Deniz Koyu, the 17-year-old Spanish EDM phenom Danny Avila, house blog fave dBerrie,…
Long before the rapper Rick Ross allegedly started “selling dope straight off the iPhone,” the drug dealer Ricky Donnell Ross, a man the Wall Street Journal called “a mastermind of the crack-cocaine trade,” was pushing 100 kilos of Nicaraguan blow per day and building a $600 million criminal empire under…
As usual, the City of Miami commission meeting convened at 9 a.m. today. Amid discussion of telecommunication contracts and waste management, our municipal pols will also decide whether vice chairman Marc Sarnoff was correct when he called Ultra Music Festival fans a “urinating, defecating … throwing up” mob of “kids…
Why does SoBe get such a bad rap, bro? Sure, it’s crawling with rich douchebags in button-down dress shirts. And the parking sucks. And the drinks are ridiculously expensive. But it’s also home to formerly law-breaking Frenchmen, $10 underground minimal techno throwdowns, and the Mustache Revolution. Just check out this…
Why does SoBe get such a bad rap, bro? Sure, it’s crawling with rich douchebags in button-down dress shirts. And the parking sucks. And the drinks are ridiculously expensive. But it’s also home to formerly law-breaking Frenchmen, $10 underground minimal techno throwdowns, and the Mustache Revolution. Just check out this…
New Wynwood bar Gramps (176 NW 24th St., Miami) is a blend of Old Florida, hipster aesthetics, and the area’s signature warehouse grittiness. In other words, it’s perfect. “It originates with my grandfather, Irving Miller,” owner Adam Gersten says about the venue’s name and feel. “But it is also symbolic…
There’s a loud, all-up-in-your-face sound coming out of Miami that’s making waves in clubs across America. It’s got a hip-hop lean and a tropical vibe. It’s dirty, sexy, and full of hype. And it’s coming from a converted dorm across the street from Miami Dade College in Kendall. Matt Toth,…
Ellie Goulding is a sweet-voiced crooner cooking up hits on the other side of the Atlantic. And she’s hitting the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach this Wednesday. But what do you really know about her anyway? Sure, you know all the lyrics to her hit song “Lights.” Well, you…
Rock ‘n’ roll will never truly die. Just take the Darkness, a British glam-rock band that harks back to a time when unitards were acceptable onstage male attire, guitars were loud, and songs were sung in only the highest pitches. The sexy, rockin’ outfit released its massive debut, Permission to…
We here at Crossfade have been trying to get Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff’s side of the Ultra Music Festival story for approximately 48 hours. Today, we finally got a chance to talk to his spokesperson about the commissioner’s attempt to curb Ultra’s second weekend. “We are not talking about shutting…
The “Red Headed Stranger” and the “Okie From Muskogee” ride again. That’s right … Ol’ Willie Nelson — the pot-smoking, braid-wearing, hippie-loving outlaw country legend — just announced some new 2013 tour dates. He’s bringing his son Lukas, young gun Jamey Johnson, and the rest of the Nelson family down…
Contrary to Marc Sarnoff’s alarmist claims, EDM fans aren’t all “kids on some sort of mind-altering drug” with a fetish for “urinating, defecating, or throwing up” on the streets of Downtown Miami. Just take Irvine Welsh, the 54-year-old Scottish author of Trainspotting and 11 other books. He’s been a strident…
Back in April, we here at Crossfade waxed enthusiastic about a growing breed of live acts redefining electronic dance music. Well, one local who sees eye to eye with us on the virtues of live EDM is promoter Anders Scherberger. And that’s exactly why he launched Massive Wednesdays at The…
Who wants to party with Porter Robinson, score some awesome swag, and enjoy a one-on-one hang sesh? Well, you don’t have to flee a pack of wolf-like beasts, sprint through some creepy forest, jump off a cliff into unknown waters, swim past a long-lost underwater city, and then free fall…
Marc Sarnoff still hasn’t returned repeated calls to Crossfade about his anti-Ultra Music Festival stance. But considering Tommie Sunshine’s push to get EDM fans to call and email him, we’re pretty sure he’s been busy the last for the last few 24 hours. However, we do finally have a response…
He’s gotten “head on the unmade bed” in the Chelsea Hotel. He’s smoked a million cigarettes. And he’s written dozens of perversely profound songs about love, sex, religion, and other dangerous habits. But over a period of several years leading into 2004, Leonard Cohen was also robbed of approximately $9…
The narrow gaps between letters on our keyboard are vile graveyards for curly black whiskers with hints of gray and even red. But all of this lost facial fuzz tells a story, one of stressful days at work spent anxiously twirling the hairs on our chinny-chin-chins in an effort to…
Holy Ship!! It’s been mere days since that rager returned to Port Everglades, but we can’t get the memories to stop looping through our heads. What an ass-clapping good time … All the great DJs, the run-ins with our idols, the slutty girls walking around with almost nothing on besides…
Despite Ultra Music Festival’s annual $79 million contribution to the local economy, City of Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff believes the “event will be disruptive to the local business community and area residents due to noise, nuisance behavior of festival goers, and grid lock traffic.” After all, as he fear-mongered during…
There were a lot of grim faces on Monday morning as the electro-loving masses emerged off the MSC Poesia (AKA the EDM party boat Holy Ship!!) and did a slow zombie shuffle through U.S. customs and back into the real world (AKA Fort Lauderdale). Here in the industrial port, the…
Yesterday, Crossfade broke the news that Commissioner Marc Sarnoff had introduced a resolution “disapproving” of the second weekend of Ultra Music Festival.We still don’t entirely understand whether the commission could actually force the festival to cancel its second weekend, and repeated messages Crossfade left with the city attorney and Sarnoff…
Crunk, where’d it come from? You’d be a fool to believe that it’s a modern phenomenon. In fact, scripture says that God herself was so tired of building an entire planet in just six days that she spent the seventh “Smokin’ Out” with Project Pat and learning ’bout crunk music…
