Disc jockeys are the new rock stars. Hence, many a teen dreams of being a superstar DJ. Well, that dream happened to come true for brothers Chris and Steve Martinez from the Bronx, New York. With a little mentoring from veteran house DJs like Dennis Ferrer and Jerome Sydenham, the…
Make sure your corset is laced up nice and tight ladies … Nicolas Jaar is coming to town. The American-Chilean deep house guru and leader of the Clown & Sunset art house label is coming to get real funky with a special Art Basel Miami Beach week performance at Bardot…
The Road is 100 fucking years old! There’s never been a better time to get wasted, eat great, and have consensual drunk sex in a parking lot than tomorrow’s big birthday bash. Here are the top ten reasons Tobacco Road should live another hundred years. See also: -Graham Wood Drout…
Sí, anoche, the 13th annual Latin Grammys went down in Vegas. Of course, Crossfade’s homie Pitbull was part of the hoopla, dressed in black tie, mugging with babes in hot-pink bathing suits, and getting it all started with a “Daleee!” … Even though Mr. Worldwide wasn’t actually nominated for a…
Alright, this is a big New Year’s Eve. What are your options? 1. Stay at home in your comfiest jammies, watch the ball drop, and sip sparkling wine. 2. Head out in a shimmery get-up to a real expensive, classy joint, and toast away your wallet. 3. Get fucking nasty…
Break out your vinyl copy of Candy Girl and get your “I Love JIG” tees. ‘Cause Jazz in the Gardens, everyone’s favorite mature-and-sexy Miami music festival, just announced its initial 2013 lineup, starring New Edition (with Bad Bobby Brown!), Earth Wind & Fire, Charlie Wilson, and a few other jazz-y…
Have y’all heard Trilogy yet? It dropped Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate The Weeknd’s first major-label release this Sunday night at LIV. It’s that good … The type of record that’s so damn legit, it continues to have “official album release” parties five days after the official…
When an “American Gangster” bumped into “Vito Corleone” at Leonardo DiCaprio’s New York City birthday party, attendees witnessed firsthand how rival celebrity Gangs of New York settle unfinished business. And it wasn’t pretty for Jay-Z. According to the New York Post, Jigga waltzed over to Robert De Niro’s table for…
It was cold outside in the summer of 1998. And she said, “Baby, it’s 3 a.m., I must be lonely.” Yeah, it’s been 14 fucking years and we still can’t get that fucking song outta our heads. Neither, apparently, can Rob Thomas and Matchbox Twenty. Because the ’90s Orlando-bred alt-rockers…
She loves, she loves, she loves it when you eat it. And we love it, we love it, we love it when Rihanna puffs a fatty. RiRi’s affinity for blunt smoking is no secret. We here at Crossfade caught her blazing that California cannabis at Coachella. Then she wore a…
It took Haruki Murakami three years to complete 1Q84, the Japanese author’s nearly 1,000-page surrealist novel set in a fictionalized 1984 Tokyo. He described his creative process in a 2011 interview with The Guardian as “routine,” waking each morning well before sunrise, diving straight into his “subconsciousness,” and then writing…
Madonna at the American Airlines Arena November 19 and 20
Ky-Mani Marley for DWNTWN Concert Series at Bayfront Park November 16
Monty Alexander at Miami Jazz Fest 2012, November 17 and 18
Serrat and Sabina at American Airlines Arena November 16
Araabmuzik at Mansion Miami November 16
Regina Spektor at Fillmore Miami Beach November 17
I Love Latin Music Festival at James L. Knight Center November 21
Remember Art Basel Miami Beach week in 2010? Our favorite memory: Metric at Art Loves Music. Of course, though, the punky Canadian pop band has been a dear favorite of indie kids for about a decade, ever since releasing show-stopping debut Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?. In fact,…
Cypress Hill With Action Bronson and ¡Mayday! Grand Central, Miami Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Better Than: The “giggle stick.” Grand Central’s main cave was filled with a thick and sticky cloud of party smoke well before beat one was dropped at last night’s Cypress Hill show. But despite the night…
Metro Zu is high above Miami on a cumulus of kush. They’re dropping acid rain on the people in the streets. They’re surfing through the County on a tidal wave of bass. They’re wide awake, they’re making tracks, they want to blow your mind. See also: -Metro Zu, O’Grime, and…
Amnesia is an inability to recall things because of brain damage. A story is something you have when lots of really exciting things happen in your life. Both can be caused by excessive amounts of drinking, and both can be really awesome clubs on South Beach, but not at the…
