Check out Crossfade’s list of highlights and lowlights from the Billboard Latin Music Awards 2012. Three hours. Three long hours of fake tears, fake tits, and fake singing. It’s the nonsense that we sit through so that you don’t have to. Admit it, you didn’t watch last night’s Billboard Latin…
Chris Brown may be Rihanna’s bitch. But he’s unloading three of his own. Evidently, the angry pop singer is a backyard breeder and wants you to buy his bitches. According to ABC News, Brown’s selling some pit bull terriers via the Internet — three males and three females — at…
The best things in life are free, and the good folks at Bacardi want to show off their new line of pre-mixed cocktails in a way that you won’t find obnoxious. So they’ve announced the Bacardi Plus Fest, a nationwide booze-and-tuneage event. On May 4, there will be a free…
Moombah what? Moombahton! We here at Crossfade have been geeking over this quirky style of tropical bass music all year. And locals like DJ-producer SomeJerk and the good folks at (((SHAKE))) are giving us plenty of reason to with their monthly Moombahton Over Miami party at the Vagabond. Plus, the…
Shuffling through Record Store Day release bins this past Saturday left us feeling empty. Sure, we picked up some fine RSD stuff and supported local business. But all we really wanted was a Van Halen seven-inch. Wait! What’s that? If we buy Van Halen’s A Different Kind of Truth after…
Win free meet-and-greet tickets for Mayer Hawthorne’s Miami show at Grand Central. Unlike the rest of the stops on his current tour, Mayer Hawthorne’s May 8 visit to Grand Central comes with a money-back guarantee. Not that anyone has ever asked for a refund. But Hawthorne stresses, “We put on…
Peace out, April. It was a relatively wack-ass month. Aside from a few days of killer weather, April brought nothing. The Marlins are dead last in the National League East, struggling to bounce back from an embarrassing record and a managerial black eye. On the bright side, however, the Panthers…
Hark, Miami music fans! Do you realize it’s a miracle that there are even tickets still being sold at the American Airlines Arena box office for next month’s Maná show? Usually, tix to a night of Drama y Luz with these Mexican rock gods evaporate quicker than a little “Lluvia…
Timothy NorrisDrum roll, please… Individual results may vary.We’ve just rolled out a new and improved calendar of Miami concerts. Our online music listings are now sortable by artist, venue and price. We’ve also got a raw, unadulterated, alphabetical list of upcoming shows in the drop-down menus on the righthand side…
Miami Beach Senior High Rock Ensemble’s 40th Anniversary Concert, April 28
Magrudergrind at Churchill’s Pub April 28
Rick Ross, Pitbull, and Other Rappers’ Paternity Suits
John Dahlback at Mansion Miami April 28
Rise Against at Sunset Cove Amphitheater April 28
Sam Sparro at Bardot April 28
The Weeknd at Revolution Live May 1
Yes, Nite Jewel’s Ramona Gonzalez appreciates strangeness. While making her 2008 debut, Good Evening, Gonzalez held recording sessions in her living room as well as a friend’s residence. And that’s how the songs sounded — lo-fi, sweet, strange. She applied that same approach to her latest record, One Second of…
Calvin Harris, Maroon 5, Flo Rida, Gym Class Heroes, Enrique Iglesias … It reads like the soundtrack listing of a PG-13 rom-com. But that’s just the lineup for the iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. In fact, the two-day musical extravaganza is a strict 21-and-older pachanga. The…
The year was 1973. Legendary music journalist Ben Fong-Torres lands a sit-down interview with then 43-year-old Dick Clark at his Malibu home. After snacking on berries dipped in brown sugar and topped with sour cream, the self-described “naive, long-haired inquisitor from San Francisco” on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine asks…
There’s a dead body on the beach so full of bullet holes that the ocean can’t keep up with all the blood that’s pouring out. Life is ugly, life is beautiful. And Ziggy Marley’s latest album, Wild and Free, finds the lifelong singer-songwriter mining themes like ego, money, and karma…
It was about as unexpected as a Chinese sinkhole — a hip-hop heavyweight and, well, a former heavyweight. Last night, Rick Ross and Mariah Carey, together in a Miami recording studio with Jermaine Dupri and DJ Khaled. “Rozay and MiMi,” Ross tweeted at around 1 a.m. Attached to the late…
It’s a fine line between pure genius and utter insanity. Many musicians have made a career out of toeing that line. Or, uh, totally jumping it and never looking back. As it turns out, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. And since batshit crazy people don’t care what month it…
