Can you hear that throbbing beat? It’s just the sound of Crossfade finally reaching a poundingly hot Latin-pop climax after two weeks of counting down the raddest bassers, freestyle stars, rappers, punks, rockers, and noiseniks in our subtropical city’s music history. To loosely quote Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound…
See also “R. Kelly Cancels Love Letter Cruise.” Desperate to slow jam at sea with R. Kelly? Sadly, your wettest dreams won’t be coming true. Because Kells’ ocean-bound R&B adventure, The Love Letter Cruise, was recently canceled. But if you’re down to dry hump on dry land, go meet Mr…
See also “Ten Best Female Rappers Ever.” Missy Elliott kept threatening to unleash new material on the world this Labor Day. And she delivered, right here at our very own Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Her longtime buddy and production partner Timbaland was in the building to perform and premiere his new…
Cool hued lights and serene music made for a peaceful atmosphere at this weekend’s Guava Rugelach Festival. Ladino singer Susana Behar, flamenco guitarist Jose Luis Rodriguez, and dancer Niurca Marquez’s worldly fusion, exploring the roots of Spanish and Jewish music culture, left the crowd awestruck. Accompanists Ariadne Barbe-Villa on the…
President Obama has way more than 99 problems. But trying to cop a sick musical endorsement ain’t one. While Mitt Romney and the Republicans flooded Tampa with whatever the fuck a Welsh cake is and refused to give awesome people high fives, President Obama made a totally hip appearance at…
“This isn’t rock n’ roll,” the frontman yells into his mike, despite the young men standing behind him on the stage, fully equipped with guitar, bass, and drums. “This is hardcore.” Orange County Hardcore Scenester is a documentary exploring that crucial distinction between commercial rock and something more, specifically within…
Workers of the world, unite! And while you’re at it, would ya mind bringing along some tunes? You know the old saying: “Whistle while you work.” After the jump, check out Crossfade’s top ten songs about grindin’, hustlin’ and fighting for your right to be properly compensated…
“Honey, I’m just going to pop out to catch some stand-up comedy, live funk music, and spoken-word poetry.” “Are you sure you’re not going to the strip club again?” “Does that sound like the sort of thing that would happen in a strip club?” “So you’re not going to be…
The French horn doesn’t get enough love, man. It’s really a beautiful instrument. But it’s been all but forgotten in our modern uhntz-uhntz-ing age. And it almost never gets you laid in band class. Damn, trumpets get all the ass. Two brothers from Brooklyn learned this the hard way. They…
See the full 30-photo slideshow of Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias at the American Airlines Arena. Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias American Airlines Arena, Miami Friday, August 31, 2012 Last night, J.Lo and Enrique revealed a bunch of bizarre and fascinating things about themselves at American Airlines Arena. Enrique puts…
No party lasts forever. Even in Miami. The booze runs out. The coke gets snorted. The girls stop dancing. The club closes. The night ends. But at least the music — like Exposé’s freestyle classic “Point of No Return” — will never die. Every night in the discotheque of eternity,…
Kanye West and 2 Chainz are two ballin’ motherfuckers. And in their most recent music video, they’re bossin’ on more big booties than Sir Mix-a-Lot in the ’90s. The strange, surreal scene portrayed in “Birthday Song” is half suburban kiddie party, half evening at King of Diamonds. It’s directed by…
Let me see you dutty wine to the bassline, girl. Bitches all over the world are going to drop it low when Italy’s massive electro monster Congorock drops his new track with dancehall superstar Sean Paul at the end of September. The track called “Bless Di Nation” will coincide with…
He’s a platinum-selling rapper and movie star. He gets $90 out of your IRA every time you buy a Vitamin Water. He won a rumored $4-million lawsuit against Taco Bell, a hardworking group of first-generation Mexican-Americans who are guilty only of figuring out how to make both tacos and Doritos…
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Turns out the Canadian city of Montreal is a real hotbed of forward-thinking electronic dance music. A few natives we’ve chatted with just this past year are Akufen, Footprintz and Blond:ish. And another luminary of that Northern city is producer and multi-intrumentalist Guillaume Coutu Dumont. In an age of bedroom…
We be flexin’. At various points in our city’s music history, the raddest Miami-bred noisemakers have left town, hit beaches besides Haulover, and showed off the 305’s sonic muscle all across these United States of America. For the last few years, the Jacuzzi Boys have been the MIA’s Best Scene…
See also “Labor Day 2012: Nine Best Rap Parties, From Timbaland to Trick Daddy and Strippers.” It’s Labor Day weekend, y’all. You could spend your free time maxin’ and relaxin’ by the pool. Or you could spend it getting white-boy wasted, fist-pumping your way into blackout oblivion. We think that…
This past Saturday, legendary bluesman and longtime local music fixture Musi “Big Poppa E” Faisal died suddenly after suffering an apparent heart attack, according to Tobacco Road’s Oski Gonzalez. He was 64 years old. “I might be the hardest working blues man in the whole South,” Faisal quipped in a…
At exactly 46 minutes past midnight on Monday, King of Diamonds, Miami’s most baller big-booty strip club, gave notice via Twitter that “DJKHALED gon have #KOD TURNT THE FUCK UP TONIGHT!!!!” And turnt the fuck up the place certainly was. Judging from Dazed One’s video recap of Khaled’s Kiss the…
See also “Eats Everything Talks UK Hardcore, Bass Music, and New EP on Dirtybird.” Less than 24 hours ago, English electronic dance music junkie Eats Everything (AKA Dan Pearce) chatted with Crossfade about having an incurable case of the munchies, releasing a new slab of superfunky beats on Dirtybird, and…
Calvin Harris has been a busy little boy. His massive hit “Feel So Close” landed him his first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 12, and he penned a lucrative endorsement deal with Pepsi Max to feature his smash “Let’s Go” with Ne-Yo. Riding that wave, he just…
