It’s gonna be a Story … Next week, South Beach’s latest nightlife spot will be opening at 136 Collins Avenue (i.e. the space that used to be Opium Garden and Prive and then Amnesia Miami) with an absolutely epic NYE 2013 lineup. All week, Avicii and Tiësto wil be bro-ing…
“I’ve waited a long time to play here. But they said this shit’s too future for all of y’all.” That’s how DJ Shadow said goodnight to clubbers at Mansion on South Beach after getting kicked off the decks last Saturday. For the second time in 2012, the Opium Group-owned nightclub…
DJ-producer Danny Daze is an international player now, zigzagging around the global party circuit and throwing down at all the hotspots from Los Angeles to Ibiza to Melbourne. But for Danny, it all started in Miami — the place he still calls home. Back in March, he reminisced with Crossfade…
New Year’s Eve is the high holiday of unacceptable behavior suddenly becoming acceptable. Because, well, you were fucking wasted. And just imagine if the next day nobody was going to be able to hold you accountable for your despicable life choices. Sounds kind of ideal, right? Well, you might not…
The S.S. Coachella returned safely Wednesday morning after a relatively wobbly night’s sail across the Caribbean Sea. The voyage was a success. The boat didn’t sink, and constant forced Purell-ing kept us all from contracting tropical illnesses or just the flu from our diseased shipmates. Three days, 400 meals, 30…
Ever done the Swamp Stomp? And nah, dude, it ain’t a muddy-ass dance. We’re talkin’ about the totally homegrown 2,000 person-strong music festival that “started as a killer backyard barbecue with a bunch of bands and booze and a few friends in 2007.” It’s always the most “badass, rockenest, craziest,…
These days, Fat Joe ain’t so fat. But he owes an obese (or is that obscene?) amount of back taxes to the IRS. According to a press release from the Department of Justice: “Joseph Cartagena, the rapper popularly known as ‘Fat Joe,’ pleaded guilty [in New Jersey] today to two…
OMG, you guys. Please shut up with all these awful statuses about “holy crap da Mayans” and “whatchu think gon’ happen tomorrow” and “evolved consciousness ftw” and “damn I better wear my sexy undies cause Ima fuck tonight end of world #swag.” We here at Crossfade gotta get drunk just…
The World Music Awards just got canceled. Only two days before the scheduled 2012 edition at Marlins Park, WMA organizers have nixed the show, blaming “visa issues” and — absurdly — the Newtown shooting. “We are sorry for any inconvenience,” the official statement reads, “but this decision had to be…
Most people we met on the S.S. Coachella had never been on a cruise. Like us, they were probably not so sure what to pack or how to dress for three days of awkwardly saying “Hi!” to their favorite bands on a floating building at sea. But like the festival,…
Damian Lazarus’ Crosstown Rebels is a world-class dance music institution by now — a regular shoo-in for best international label on yearly polls like Resident Advisor’s, and a permanent presence on the global scene through its myriad transatlantic artist bookings and formidable Get Lost and Rebel Rave lineups. It follows…
UPDATE The World Music Awards just got canceled and exposed as a con. But WMA organizers are blaming “visa issues” and the Newtown shooting. That $515 million ballpark in Little Havana that Miami-Dade taxpayers helped build for Major League Baseball’s biggest joke, Jeffery Loria’s Miami Marlins, is finally being put…
Miami’s Top Albums, EPs, and Singles of 2012
Miami’s Six Best Holiday Parties, December 20 to 26
Punisher Talks EDM, Gender Stereotypes, and Moving to Miami
Mr. Nice Guy Records’ Second Anniversary at Mansion December 20
SkaPocalypse at Talent Farm Studios December 21
End of Days Party at Grand Central December 21
Carrie Underwood at BB&T Center December 22
Old punk guys and fancy wines, two things that make sense together only now, mere days before the end of the world. Nothing is more a “sign of the times” than James Murphy and Justin Chearno hosting a winetasting in the middle of the ocean for a handful of people…
Ever wonder “what it sounds like when Miami teams up with Hawaii”? Well, Cris Cab did. So he made a new track called “The Fire.” “Felt like dropping some music for you all,” the local pop-hop crooner announced via Facebook today. “This one features The Green from Hawaii and produced…
What’d y’all do on your 20th birthday? If it was anything like ours, you spent 45 minutes waiting for a table at some generic hibachi restaurant, and the three days thereafter puking up shellfish. If you’re B-list pop royalty, however, you spent the big two-oh mean muggin’ and feelin’ on…
