Before Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week became a spring breaker’s paradise, it was all about discovering new music and artists. When did we all lose sight of that? Well, if you look close enough, you’ll still find there are acts worth discovering. Just let us introduce you to…
Did you know that Tiësto (AKA the Led Zepplin of EDM) considers Miami to be his second home? It’s true. When the Dutch superproducer isn’t slaving away in his pimped-out studio, doing the uhntz-uhntz on the sands of Ibiza, or partying with Swedish House Mafia on a plane while getting…
Do you support the Occupy Miami movement but hate living in a half-abandoned Overtown apartment complex? Are you and/or your friends “dying to get arrested” in the name of socioeconomic equality but are short on bail money? Or do you just hate douchey frat boys who support Mitt Romney? If…
A Swedish, citrus-spiked cocktail — the official drink of electronic dance music and the inspiration behind Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello’s latest single. Landing EDM’s liquor-soaked spaceship in the town of Åhus, Sweden, these Mafia men have joined forces with Absolut to create “Greyhound,” the group’s fifth single and…
Are you among the legions of sad, ticketless beat freaks who failed to score three-day Ultra Music Festival passes before the big sellout of 2012? Well, real-life raves are overrated. And we here at Crossfade suggest that you forget about furry boots, caffeinated booze, babes of both sexes, pep pills,…
Originally the brainchild of Berlin tech-house veterans M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade, and DJ T, Get Physical Music has been going strong for a full decade ago now. In fact, Winter Music Conference 2012 marks the label’s ten-year anniversary, as well as its return to Miami for yet another highly anticipated annual…
If you’ve ever gotten so high off guarapo that you stripped down to your g-string, draped your nakedness in a giant Puerto Rican flag, and streaked up the middle of SW Eighth Street while screaming “Tu tienes la boca grande! Dale ponte a jugar!” … Then you might be the…
Fierce, strong, independent — Mary J. Blige is now a full-grown, 41-year-old diva, known as The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. But like so many enormously talented young women in the music business, she’s endured seriously hard times. Throughout her teens and 20s, she struggled with drugs, alcohol, herself. And fame…
Fueling the obesity epidemic and enabling the Young Money Maniac’s sizzurp addiction, PepsiCo’s toxic green nectar, Mountain Dew, has a new spokesperson and his name is Lil Wayne. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. and Mountain Dew have come together to form DEWeezy, a new ad campaign…
Calle Ocho is the biggest, livest street party in the whole United States and represents the real Miami to the fullest. Members of every nation including Cubanos, Boricuas, Nicas, Catrachos, Zuelans, Boludos, Zoes, Bajans, Trinis, Jamaicans, Chilangos, Norteños, Sureños, Truchas, Gringos, even tourists — not to mention the rich and…
Despite the fact Rihanna’s breasts offended an Irish farmer last year, the 24-year-old singer showed ’em off last night in the Big Apple, just six days before one of Ireland’s most celebrated feasts, St. Patrick’s Day. According to Media Takeout, “Rihanna was spotted in NYC last night” wearing little more…
Ultra Music Festival, much like the Universe itself, is constantly expanding. Over the past 14 years, what started as a one-day party on Miami Beach has morphed into a huge corporate monster with a million heads. Rather than one day of debauchery, you get three days, plus an UMF concert…
Marco Torres”What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.” — Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don’t have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all…
Everyone plugged into Miami rap has known about Gunplay and his raw, unhinged lyrical style for years. The longtime Rick Ross running mate and Carol City Cartel member figured prominently on the Triple C’s 2009 album Custom Cars and Cycles, and scored a substantial regional hit with his Waka Flocka…
Boston boogie virtuosos Soul Clap are pretty much honorary Miamians by now. For one thing, they’ve been WMC regulars for a decade. But they also spent this year’s entire winter season in the 305, holding down a DJ residency with label mates and regular collaborators Wolf + Lamb at the…
Everybody “Vogue”! It’s been approximately four weeks and three days since we here at Crossfade totally wet our panties over the news that Ms. Louise Ciccone (AKA our favorite quinquagenarian pop dominatrix) would be bringing her “Girl Gone Wild” act to the MIA for a “Gang Bang” as part of…
Who’s Got The Funk? With Amtrac and Brass Knuckles Grand Central, Miami Thursday, March 8, 2012 Better Than: An awkward ’70s-themed party with fake afros and platforms. Miami’s own Amtrac and Brass Knuckles brought the house down last night at Grand Central with support from some of their funkiest friends…
Just about every Wynwoood Art Walk for the last three years, Russel Mofsky and his Golddust Lounge have posted up outside of the Harold Golen Gallery on NW 2nd Ave at 23rd street and rocked out.They’ve played hundreds of thousands of notes to (almost) just as many ears, and recently…
Admit it, you’re turned on by the new Miley Cyrus, the one who loves penis cake and can’t stop exploring her sexuality, the girl who takes bong rips and sexts rock stars. But a braless Hannah Montana in daisy dukes and cowboy boots? Fantasy complete. Earlier this morning, TMZ posted…
David “Lebo” LeBatard, Miami’s own globetrotting musico-surrealist painter is getting his own room at Purdy Lounge. For a month. And this Saturday when it opens, there will be music, dancing, and the all-important free drinks. “Purdy is a place I feel most at home in Miami Beach,” Lebo says, “among…
Ostensibly, Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week provide thousands of very serious electronic dance music fans with an annual opportunity to meet, mingle, and discuss the current state of EDM.But c’mon, that’s bullshit. The truth: Both WMC and MMW are just excuses for totally out-of-control beat freaks to strip…
Beethoven’s father was a drunk and his momma was dead. His guts were twisted up. He was clinically depressed. And his mind was full of screaming from the dying cells inside his ears. Cash was low, the girls he loved couldn’t love him back, and the aristocratic bastards he hung…
