While in Japan for a benefit concert recently, Lady Gaga told the Associated Press that she’s going to enjoy Tokyo and its food, and that her fans should do the same. “The most important thing, and the best thing, we could do for Japan right now is to boost tourism,…
I don’t think everyone on public assistance is a lazy bum, but I’m happy about the welfare drug-testing bill (the only move Rick Scott has made that I approve of). More importantly, I don’t think food stamps should be used to buy fast food. So far, California, Michigan, and Arizona…
TMZ is circulating an image of 63-year-old Aerosmith frontman and American Idol judge Steven Tyler sporting extra-short daisy dukes while on vacation in Maui. The Crossfade staff has thoroughly analyzed the photo, cringed over it, and there’s even been some water cooler debate about how even though Tyler looks like…
Lionel Richie. His hair is fucking crazy, bordering on crazy awesome. However, throughout the decades he has made efforts to tone it down. That mustache, on the other hand, has stuck around like his daughter’s herpes. We’re not insinuating Nicole Richie is a slut, by the way, it’s just that…
The last time Crossfade got weird with the O’Grime boys, we bumrushed a Taco Bell, scrubbed ourselves down with Mexican meat, and wasted $400 on 15 minutes with a stripper slathered in nacho cheese. In a word, it was awesome. And really, there’s only one scenario that might get mo’…
During a New York City stop along her bus tour, Sarah Palin met with Donald Trump in what could be deemed either reality show heaven or political reality hell. During the meeting, they chowed down at Famous Famiglia Pizza in Times Square (part of a chain of 30-odd pizzerias with…
Memorial Day ranks as one of the biggest movie-going weekends of the year. The start of summer blockbuster season, millions of theater-goers run to the multiplex to beat the heat and be one of the first to see what’s bigger, faster and funnier this year. According to NBC, The Hangover…
Sean Combs used to be famous for hanging out with The Notorious B.I.G. Now he’s famous for a bunch of stupid crap like Making the Band, a show whose cultural relevance can be measured in how funny you find Dave Chapelle’s parody. In addition to tabloid fodder like gun scandals…
At the end of March, punk music venue and multipurpose space Miami Chum Bucket opened with the chaotic roar of powerviolence virtuosos Gorilla Pussy and the wild churning of an inaugural, non-stop mosh pit. The moment marked the culmination of over a year of fundraising. But less than two months…
Last month, Complex reported that Earl Sweatshirt had been tracked down. Odd Future’s 17-year old lyrical mastermind was enrolled at the Coral Reef Academy in Samoa, an “off-shore treatment program for at-risk teenage boys.” A source said Earl had been sent there by his mom because of his “disrespectful music…
With the help of local boy Udonis Haslem, the Heat nailed the Bulls last night 85-75. Now we come back to Miami for re-ignition of this NBA Eastern Conference Finals sausage fest on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Since we’re foodies, not sports handicappers, we decided to do a “playoff” of…
Remember vinyl LPs? Well, back in the day, album cover design used to be very important work. And there were some pretty sweet masterpieces. But as any crate digger can tell you, for every brilliant piece of art, there were dozens of embarassingly crappy ones. The ’70s and ’80s, in…
Odd Future had to cut their May 16 Detroit show short when “some asshole decided to continue to throw GLASS BOTTLES [sic] on stage.” The incident happened shortly after the “I’m opening a church to sell coke and Led Zeppelin” line from Tyler the Creator’s Bastard track, “French.” Not surprisingly, Odd…
Fox News’ Sean Hannity dedicated 10-minutes of his program last night to shit on Common, and criticize Michelle Obama for inviting the “controversial rapper and poet” to her White House Poetry Night.In typical “fair and balanced” fashion, Hannity even invited two black guys to discuss the “running list of controversial…
Remember Fall Out Boy, that quartet of silly midwestern emo dudes who shoved power chords down our throats in the early 2000s? Well, they’re on an indefinite hiatus. (Blame it on Ashley “Yoko” Simpson.) But their longtime chubby frontman, Patrick Stump, has a solo album due out this summer, and…
Sometimes you’re so hungry you believe you can devour everything on a menu and then some. The next time that feeling hits, head to one of these restaurants to take on an epic battle of man and food. Your friends might say they are disgusted after watching you muck down…
In honor of that annual American tradition taking place Saturday at 6:24 p.m, the Kentucky Derby, Short Order has compiled a list of the top five dishes made with the dinner of champions: horse meat. Now, before you let your preconceived notions and ethnocentric American ideals take over, check out…
Crossfade loves a good laugh at the wonderful, weird range of human expression. Hence, last week’s deep anthropological studies on the phenomena that are these five crazy dances. Or the amazingness that is Mexican tribal guarachero and its related fashion. But that was just scratching the surface in the contemporary world…
Despite repeated CPR attempts by Nas, it appears hip-hop officially flatlined last week, suffering a painful, humiliating death at the hands of an assailant known as Soulja Boy. The murderer suffers from a massive delusional disorder and he’s known for many inexplicable acts, such as smearing Wite-Out all over his sunglasses, basically…
Happy Cinco de Mayo, chingones! Pardon our French — er, Mexican — but tequila does that to you. Anyway, that fifth day of May is upon us once again. And you know what that means … It’s time to boisterously celebrate Mexico’s Independence Day. Even though that’s not really until…
There’s no better way to express pure joy than the art of song. So when the news broke on Sunday that Obama had killed Osama, a giddy mob of superpatriotic Americans flocked to special spots like the White House, Ground Zero, and Times Square to musically convey its overwhelming excitement…
Upon reading Billboard’s report that crappy rap-country mish-masher Kid Rock received a Great Expectations Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Sunday, our first reaction was, WTF? People still listen to Kid Rock? Our second thought was, WTF? How has Kid Rock advanced anything other than the general…
