See also “Avril Lavigne & Nickelback, Diarrhea-Flavored Mouthwash, Four Other Gross Marriages.” OK, this Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger engagement thing has gone too far. At first, it seemed fun. Or at least, an efficient way for a vengeful Old Testament god to smite them both with a single bolt…
Electric Pickle has just announced that it will be closed for at least the next two weeks. The reason given in the official statement released by the venue is “to undergo official renovations for the upcoming season.” But what about all those scheduled events? Not to worry. They will go…
When you really love someone, you tattoo their face on your neck to prove it. But when you’ve been in the news for beating up your beloved and everyone judges you for being a dick, then you get a tat that sort of looks like them and deny the resemblance…
Old-time samba and bossa nova might come to mind when thinking of Brazil. But it’s also the country that spawned one of electronic music’s most forward-thinking artists. Since the late ’90s, Rio de Janeiro-born composer, producer, and sonic mad scientist Amon Tobin has honed his own ever-evolving brand of electronica…
He’s synonymous with women’s underpants, bleached blonde hair, and early 2000s strip club soundtracks. But before Sisqó went solo and opened up about his thong fetish, he was a founding member of Dru Hill. While many feared that “Thong Song” would ultimately crush the possibility of a Dru Hill reunion,…
See also “Rihanna Announces Diamonds 2013 World Tour, Coming to South Florida in April.” Rihanna’s under-boob made a surprise appearance on Twitter last night, all in honor of Dolly, the singer’s late grandmother. Covering her breasts with an arm, Rihanna tweeted a picture of her latest tattoo, an upper ribcage…
See also “Today Is the Day’s Steve Austin on Living in the F#$%ed-Up South and Being 100-Percent Real.” Today Is the Day With Maruta, Shitstorm, Orbweaver, Ironside, Cardiel Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, September 8 Better Than: Not seeing Today Is the Day because South Florida is long and faraway from…
Editor’s note: Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle, celebrating that city’s favorite musical genre: mainstream country. With the nation’s major-party political conventions drawing to a close recently with a rousing reelection appeal from the nation’s first black president, it seems fitting to…
Some people felt a little underwhelmed when we here at Crossfade revealed that Kanye West, The Offspring, Keane, Cocoon Heroes, Lou Reed, Erick Morillo, and Bob Sinclar had been tapped to perform at the first-ever UR1 Festival at Bayfront Park during Art Basel Miami Beach week. Well, another nine names…
See also “MTV Video Music Awards 2012’s Big Winners and Even Bigger Losers” — plus “MTV VMAs 2012: Seven Things That Sucked and Seven Things That Didn’t Totally Suck.” The red carpet is where fashion lives, and the MTV Video Music Awards are where people let their freak flags fly…
Rihanna is a boss chick. She makes $53 million a year. She smokes pot with mom to celebrate Mother’s Day. She openly professes her “looove” for Brazilian smut on PornHub. She makes it rain on skrippers like Jay-Z before Bey. And she even shares skinny-dipping pics with her 60,197,117 Facebook…
See also “Fashion Freakouts at the MTV VMAs 2012” — plus “MTV Video Music Awards 2012’s Big Winners and Even Bigger Losers.” Last night, America’s pop culture elite came together in Los Angeles to celebrate almost 30 years of Moonmen. It was the 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards, and…
See also “Miley Cyrus to Tyler The Creator: ‘My Barber Couldn’t Even Come Close to the F#$% Job That Is Your Face.'” Miley Cyrus isn’t even old enough to drink. But the former Disney star isn’t letting that stop her from singing about wine. Yesterday, the 19-year-old singer dropped a…
Chris Isaak is enjoying some rare down time at home in San Francisco. Not that he’s taking it easy. With an album to promote — a collection of rock ‘n’ roll standards dubbed Beyond the Sun — Isaak’s engaged in a string of telephone interviews with music journalists. At the…
Got plans this weekend? Cancel them and go support live music instead. We’re here to help with our freshly updated calendar of Miami concerts. The listings are sortable by artist and venue. Even price, if you like to choose bands based on cost per riff. There’s also a big list…
See also “Fashion Freakouts at the MTV VMAs 2012” — plus “MTV VMAs 2012: Seven Things That Sucked and Seven Things That Didn’t Totally Suck.” If, last night, you shouted, “Screw crappy pop!” and chose Barack, then you’ve probably got no effing idea who won and lost at the MTV…
This year, MTV Tr3s partnered up with Korean automaker Kia Motors to crown the Tr3s Best Latino Artist of the Year, an award said to “honor” the 2012 Video Music Awards. And this morning in a press release sent out by network, it was announced that bachata king Romeo Santos…
Black Star’s Mos Def and Talib Kweli said it best when they sang, “It’s kind of dangerous to be an MC.” There’s just too much violence in hop-hop. So much in fact that it might make bleeding heart Lupe Fiasco hang up his hat for good. He threatened to retire…
Forbes released its latest list of haha-they-have-more-money-than-you musicians. And this time, we’re talkin’ the 20 richest rappers in the game.
Remember when Miami New Times columnist, booty bass pioneer, and free speech enthusiast Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell lambasted Pittsburgh weed rapper Wiz Khalifa (AKA “the boy behind the popular hit ‘Black & Yellow'”) for breaking the hip-hop code and hooking up with another rapper’s ex-boo? Well, Luke probably didn’t think…
See also “Steven Tyler Passes Out in the Shower! His Five Most Embarrassing Moments.” Every few months, Steven Tyler emerges from his cavern of unearthly delights to reveal a new phase in his gradual transition from rock ‘n’ roll sex symbol to an extraterrestrial grandmother with the grossest toes we’ve…
See Crossfade’s review from Of Montreal’s last Miami show in 2010 — plus the 35-photo slideshow. It’s been 29 long lonely months since we here at Crossfade last basked in the warm, “whimsical and musically captivating” glow of Kevin Barnes and band. And for the last little while, we’ve been…
