Just two months after Miami Chum Bucket hosted its grand opening, the punk venue and multipurpose space is under fire. This past weekend, the collective was ratched up to full throttle as hundreds flocked to the warehouse in Allapattah for the fifth annual 305 Fest, a punk/hardcore festival featuring three…
Lenny, an old guy with sparkling bling who calls himself “The Granddaddy Rapper,” presented a flawless a cappella rendition of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back,” riding onstage atop a Rascal electric wheelchair. Marlene Jenkins only started singing six years ago when her adult son started a karaoke business. When she…
Porn and Miami go way, way, way back. All the way to January 1972, in fact, when writer-director Jerry Gerard (AKA Gerard Damiano) and producer Lou Perry (AKA Louis “Butchie” Peraino, son of mob guy Anthony Peraino) brought a young, fat, and very talented little 23-year-old lady named Linda Lovelace…
More news on the upcoming Identity Festival happening August 25 at the Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park: There is now a Miami-specific lineup for the event. And while it unfortunately excludes some of our favorites (Modeselektor and Pete Tong), there are still plenty of reasons to get excited.Acts coming to…
These days, the term underground gets thrown around a little too easily in the electronic dance music scene. Certainly not all DJs can boast the same sort of authentic subterranean cred as Christopher Milo, AKA DJ Three. It’s a relentless comittment to the musical cutting-edge at the expense of mainstream…
If, like Crossfade, you’re a total electronic music junkie, you must be going crazy, chewing your lips, and sweating through your DayGlo t-shirt. You just want that uhntz uhntz. And so far, the Identity Festival has been playing plenty of purposefully secretive games, teasing us, screwing with our heads, and…
With only ten days left until the Miami-Dade county mayoral election, the honorable and horny Luther Campbell was running third in polls with ten percent of the action. It was time to hit that shit hard. It was time to rally the freaks. It was time to wild out for…
It was almost exactly seven weeks ago during Miami Music Week when glossy flyers advertising a gig by Kid Cudi at La Covacha started showing up all over the city, tacked to telephone polls, tossed in the gutter, and being used at the Vagabond as coasters for Colt 45s. The…
Pitbull’s T-Pain-featuring pop-club banger “Hey Baby (Drop it to the Floor)” continues to burn up the airwaves, playing on Power 96 approximately every third song, it seems. But while that track continues to linger in the top 100 of various Billboard song charts, its successor has already arrived. The recently…
Spam Allstars are celebrating the tenth anniversary of ¡Fuacata! this Thursday, a monumental accomplishment to say the least. Week after week for the last decade, the Spam Allstars have taken to the tight Little Havana stage in Hoy Como Ayer to lay down their one-of-a-kind descargas. And week after week, they’ve…
Despite the fact that comedian and Miami Beach mayoral hopeful Steve Berke reminds us of all those cheesy South Beach bottle-poppers we try to avoid at all costs, we were down with most of his platform: legalization of medicinal weed, full rights for gay couples, and, importantly, the right to…
RIP Montae Talbert (AKA M-Bone), aged 22, and respect to his family. We are sorry for the tragic loss of the talented artist.No matter how smooth he was, M-Bone couldn’t Dougie his way out of two head shots in an Inglewood, California drive by that left him dead inside a…
As Crossfade has chronicled the career of twentysomething, Miami-based songwriter Rico Love, his star has continued to rise. Last year saw major Billboard Hot 100 success for three songs he penned for Usher’s “There Goes My Baby,” Nelly’s “Just a Dream,” and Diddy Dirty Money’s “Hello Good Morning.” More importantly, 2010…
After a half-week’s worth of happy hours at the Palace, girl-on-girl bowling, traffic jams, and Havana nights, Aqua Girl 2011’s hottest, wettest, and wildest six hours took place this Saturday when the annual lesbian, bisexual, and trangender fest stripped down to its bikini, bling, and best shades for the Aqua…
Read Crossfade’s full feature article “The Spastic Science! Girl Talk Is All About Confetti, Sweat, and Scientific Rigor.” Gearing up for the Girl Talk experience at the Fillmore Miami Beach this Thursday and Friday, we’ve slipped into our wettest jeans, bought a bunch of contraceptives, guzzled a gallon of Red…
Aqua Girl 2011 Aqua Beach Pool Party With DJ Just Steph and DJ Pat Pat Surfcomber Hotel, South Beach Saturday, May 14, 2011 Better Than: The series finale of The L Word. As part of the Aqua Girl foundation’s weeklong series of events, Saturday’s pool party was all about cooling…
The Axe and the Oak With Pretty Please and Fight Like Animals Grand Central Miami May 13, 2011 Better Than: Feeding ducks at the park. Last Wednesday evening, I sliced my hand open while trying to stuff some squid flukes with chopped prawns and veggies. And while that doesn’t mean…
We here at Crossfade pride ourselves on breaking new international talent ahead of their debut Miami performances. And UK disco-house sensations Death On The Balcony are one act we’ve been following closely all year in anticipation of its first apperance this side of the pond. DOTB hails from Leeds, where…
UPDATE: Via Tumblr, Kid Cudi has stated that the show La Covacha is fake. Read the response from promoters Major Event Marketing and Uprise. Kid Cudi loves Miami so much. In 2009, he threw a free party on South Beach with Santigold. And then he came back on New Years…
Two musical masterminds, armed with pseudonyms, Will Oldham (AKA Bonnie Prince Billy) and Emmitt Kelly (AKA The Cairo Gang), will bravely head south, past the Florida state line to mercifully provide us with quality shows in our time of desperate musical need. Oldham and Kelly’s Free Florida tour will introduce…
Out of the Anonymous is a long-running local outfit that’s spent years making beautiful soundtracks for dreamers and paranoiacs. And while we’ve already had the opportunity to interview bassist Henry Rajan and guitarist Buffalo Brown, we come full circle today with the man who started it all back in the…
No, we’re not fucking with you. We know, we know. We just reported not a month ago the terribly sad news that after ten years of providing SoFla’s local music scene with one of its most beloved stages, and Miami’s drinking crowd with one of its favorite boozing spots, Transit…
