Identity Festival Miami Canceled Due to Hurricane Irene; Miami Tickets to Be Honored at Tampa UPDATED

Update: Identity’s organizers have release another statement saying tickets for Miami’s canceled/postponed Identity stop will be honored at tomorrow’s show in Tampa. Road trip! (Full statement after the jump.)Dammit, Hurricane Irene!Despite NOAA’s prediction that the storm will skirt the state and stay well to the east, Identity Festival’s organizers aren’t…

Amy Winehouse’s Toxicology Report Shows No Illegal Drugs

​Just days after brilliant and troubled singer Amy Winehouse tragically joined the Dead at 27 Club on July 23, Fox News reported, “Amy Winehouse spent the last week of her short and troubled life in an alcoholic, drug-fueled fog.” Then, classy as always, called her a train wreck. Well, Fox,…

Chill Out on Labor Day With Finnegan’s Music Festival September 2 to 4

Finnegan’s River is honoring Labor Day, our federally granted 24 hours of rest, with a music festival guaranteed to distract you from any lingering work preoccupations and chill you the hell out. The three-day fest is beefed up with killer representation of the best pop, reggae, hip-hop, and Latin fusion…

Metro Zu and O’Grime Talk Kush, Chi, and the Crossfade Music Series

Go RSVP for the Crossfade Music Series via Facebook and invite all your homies and hoochies. Whatever the haters may say, we here at Crossfade aren’t just a gang of mindless party people. We are also pop philosophers. And lately, we’ve been asking ourselves some pretty deep questions, like, “What…

Top Ten Guilty Pleasures of ’90s Dance

If you’re a clubland regular, then you’ve probably noticed what a major comeback the classic ’90s dance sound has made in the last couple years. You can hear it from the jacking house revival of underground acts like Hercules & Love Affair and Steffi, all the way to the Swedish…