Mazel tov! Action Bronson — Crossfade’s pick for best fire-spitting, pasta-cooking mound since Mount Vesuvius — has just signed to Warner Bros. via Vice Records. This year’s Warner company Labor Day picnic is sure to get weird when Action partners up with new labelmate Kylie Minogue for the three-legged race…
See also “Vince Neil Falls at His Vegas Strip Club: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown.” Can you think of anything less arousing than Girls, Girls, Girls, a Vegas strip club where Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil runs around like a horny lil’ piggy smearing his fake tan all over the highly…
Christopher VictorioStevie Wonder at Outside Lands.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. See more Outside Lands Music Festival news. Stevie Wonder, in theory, is an American artistic treasure. He’s more than our Beatles or Rolling Stones; he’s our Dickens…
The 305 has always been about bumping and grinding to ass-clapping booty bass music. And it ain’t gonna change if homeboy Jesse Perez gets his way. The DJ-producer and dirty mastermind behind Mr. Nice Guy Records has been busy releasing sleazy, bass-infused jacking house grooves on the local scene for…
See also “Dan Hosker: Memorial Services for Local Punk Hero Scheduled for This Friday in Hollywood.” R.I.P., Dan Hosker. Back in May, Hosker — a famed South Florida punk who’d done guitar duty in legendary local crews like Harry Pussy, The Holy Terrors, and Laundry Room Squelchers — was involved…
See the full 36-photo slideshow of Fake Blood at Grand Central. Fake Blood With Damaged Goods and Mike Deuce Grand Central, Miami Saturday, August 11, 2012 Better Than: Parties with the Manson family. Not everything that’s hard is dubstep. And just because it’s dark, doesn’t mean it can’t be funky…
See also “R. Kelly Announces Love Letter Cruise, Sailing From Miami on October 1, 2012.” The R. Kelly Love Letter Cruise is cancelled. Almost exactly eight months ago, we here at Crossfade encouraged “you and your boo [to] visit some of the most exotic ports of call in the Caribbean…
Christopher VictorioMetallica at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. See more Outside Lands Music Festival news. Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, proved just…
Photo by Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Crazy Horse at the Outside Lands Music Festival.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. See more Outside Lands Music Festival news. While he’s putting everything into a solo, Neil Young’s face looks like…
See also “WMC is back with Ultra but still needs a makeover” and “WMC and Ultra’s complicated breakup.” We’ll admit, we’ve let Winter Music Conference’s organizers have it the last few years. But it’s not because we are choosing sides. We really hope they wake up and realize they need…
Until earlier this morning, the electronic dance music scene lacked synergy. But Ultra Music Festival founder and CEO Russell Faibisch and Ultra Music president Patrick Moxey have since rectified the situation. In a joint statement released by both parties, Ultra Music Festival and Ultra Music (a pair of entirely independent…
See also “Diplo, ‘Mr. Express Yourself,’ Announces Expression Session Party at LIV Miami.” So, as you should know, Diplo will be coming to LIV for a special expression session on Wednesday, October 3. But what exactly is expressing yourself? Does Diplo want you to write an epic poem about love…
Footrprintz is multi-intrumentalist producers Clarian North and Adam Hunter. The Montreal natives are currently their city’s most hotly-tipped house and techno crossover act, thanks to 2011’s auspicious Utopia EP on Visionquest, a label beloved by the techno heads with a taste for left-field dance-pop. After all, Footprintz’s North and Hunter…
“Yo Skrill, College Drop it hard!” Or, uh, something like that … It came out yesterday that Skrillex got all up in the studio with Kanye West, and as far as Skrill knows, he worked on a track that will be West’s “first song” on the follow-up to Yeezy’s 2010…
Just two weeks ago, Joel “Deadmau5” Zimmerman was crowned the rat king of hooded sweatshirts, oversized graphic t-shirts, and flat-bill ball caps when he launched NeffMau5, an exclusive, collaborative clothing line with swag sport punk brand Neff. “The people involved are the people I see at my shows, so it…
Hell yeah, America! We’re going into the final weekend of the 2012 London Olympics neck-and-neck with China in the overall medal count, proving one Olympic sport at a time that the U-S-of-A rocks the shit out of athleticism. Seriously, did y’all catch the women’s gold-medal soccer match? We’re so nasty…
As you should know, Afrojack protégé R3hab is coming to rock the house at LIV this Saturday. And we here at Crossfade sent him some need-to-know questions. We were desperate for the scoop on why R3hab’s got a number “3” in his name. But he refused to tell us. It’s…
See also “25 Diplo-Certified Ways to ‘Express Yourself.'” Spread your legs, arch your back, work it down, and make it clap … Diplo is coming to town. Oh yeah, Mr. Express Himself will be hitting the flashing lights of LIV for a crunked-up edition of the weekly Dirty Hairy on…
See also a four-step guide on “How To Piss Off the DJ” from Love Hate Lounge’s DJ Self Born. Yo, club rats … The Miami Ink guys have cashed out of Love Hate Lounge on South Beach, leaving DJ Self Born (the guy who started the most successful night, the…
Only in America will you get sneakers and “Pu$$y” for $20. And only an Australian dude can make it happen. A decade ago, Aussie Peter Fahey embarked on a mission to combine two of his passions — footwear and music. The result: The Sneaker Pimp Tour, a mishmash of “limited,…
SAFE Miami is turning five years old this month. Now that may mean something to you if you’re a regular Crossfade reader, because we’ve been following the electronic dance music tastemakers and promotions veterans since the beginning. And it’ll definitely mean something to you if you’re a regular on the…
See also “Miami Ink Guys Cash Out of Love Hate Lounge on South Beach; DJ Self Born Takes Over.” DJ Self Born is the proud new franchisee of Love Hate Lounge on South Beach. But he’s been in the game for decades, doin’ work in his native Chicago and touring…
