New Wrekonize Track: “Don’t Stop The Music”

This newly uploaded Wrekonize “Don’t Stop The Music” track has an “it’s not rap, it’s hip-hop” sound to it. Maybe 1994 is the new 2010. Just kidding, that sounds stupid. Either way, between the clean production, lyricism, and nice mixing job the shit sounds like a professional song. Catch Wrekonize…

Marlins Super Saturdays: Kevin Rudolf Says Heckle The Other Team

via kevinrudolf.com​Let it rock!This Saturday April 10th, and at each of 13 Saturday home games this season Florida Marlins games become Super Saturdays, major concert productions with national caliber acts followed by fan giveaways and firework shows.At the end of this season’s first home game Nelly, Kevin Rudolf, and New…

Free EP: Llamabeats – Don’t Show This to Anyone, Vol. 1: Operation Fade

​Who the fuck are Llamabeats? They are Spits, Master Fader, and a dude named “The What’s Good?” who make malt-liquor-and-blunts type bass-heavy melodic party music.Check out their new EP, Don’t Show This To Anyone Vol.1: Operation Fade, the shit rides and it’s a free download.Click here for that.Their sounds have…

Crossfade Live: Iko Iko at Q American Barbeque

​ According to band leader Graham Wood Drout IKO IKO have been playing in Miami for over 30 years. We caught the legendary Dade County killers live at Q American Barbeque on the West End of Miami’s Design District on Saturday night. We asked the band if we could record…

Dimebag Darrell, Live and Acoustic in Miami, One Night Only

April Ashford-ForsytheGet ready.​Tonight, at the crossroads of Krome Avenue and the Tamiami Trail, Dimebag Darrell will play a special one night only acoustic set.Fan and promoter Sam Hamovich says, “Dude, if you’ve never heard Bag’s acoustic shit you’re fucking missing out. He’s like the Kenny G of metal. This new…

Contest: Sounds of Ultra 2010 – Name That Artist, Win a Prize

Jacob Katel​Were you one of the 75,000 ticket holders at ULTRA 2010 on Saturday? If so, then you may recognize the following clip from a major and influential electronic act. Correctly name the artist and DJ and you can win a random prize from Crossfade. Here’s the audio we recorded,…

WMC 2010: Steve Starks Interview and New Starks & Nacey EP Out Now

​Steve Starks is 1/3 of Washington DC’s Nouveau Riche party crew alongside Nacey and Gavin Holland.Monday, he played White Room to welcome in WMC. Tonight, he’ll be at Spiderpussy’s Set Up For Scandal at Klutch on South Beach.We caught up with him by phone to get his perspective as an…

Video: John Legend at Jazz In The Gardens Festival in Miami Gardens

Over the last 5 years, Miami Gardens’ annual Jazz In The Gardens festival has become a premier concert event and tourist attraction for South Florida and is helping to build a positive national reputation for the largest majority-black city in all of Florida.The two-day event featured performances by Mary J…

WMC 2010: Back 2 Basics Too Party on the Clevelander Rooftop

​Just when you thought WMC was nothing but an out of towner fuck fest with no room for locals, in steps Public Wizard Inc. and Back 2 Basics Too: DJ Edition, a Clevelander rooftop party where homegrown talent meets tourists on work visas.Party organizer Sammy “Parable” Donado says “We scouted…

Death Comes Ripping

It starts with the ritual slaughter of a virgin goat. Its blood flows off the edge of a machete forged in a fire stoked with biblical passages. Hunks of dismembered body parts stolen from local graveyards are demonized with evil passages from ancient thrash texts. The crowd passes a blood-filled…

Fuck WMC: Top 10 Reasons Techno Sucks

via http://www.i-mockery.com/antirave/idiots.phpCaution: shitty music ahead.​All I listen to is country music. I drive a truck with a shotgun rack and a confederate flag and I don’t believe in ipods and I drink and drive cause it’s fun, but I think all those grass smoking, cocaine snorting, ecstasy headed hippies need…

Video: Calle Ocho 2010 Mambo Kings Street Dance and Steel Pan Jimi

Jacob KatelLive from the streets of Calle Ocho 2010​Calle Ocho 2010 fell on a bright, hot, perfect Miami day in Little Havana on our infamous SW Eighth Street for the biggest street festival in America.There was food, and drink, tight shorts, bikini tops, tattoos, gold teeth, yelling, screaming, dancing, laughing,…

Video: AholSniffsGlue Art Show Opening at Butter Gallery

Here’s a video I produced from last night’s AholSniffsGlue art show at Butter Gallery with the Miami Bass Warrior’s “Calle Ocho” song as the soundtrack.There were free 16 oz. tall cans of Colt 45 malt liquor and wine.There was art on the walls and people bought it.There was the afterparty…

Top 20 Thursdays: Top 20 Classic Hardcore Punk Songs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreac84/ / CC BY 2.0Old man wearing Descendents “Everything Sucks” t shirt.​”It’s been a few years now, we’re going strong, we been through a lot of good and bad.” – WarzoneThis list of the Top 20 classic hardcore punk songs is fuckin awesome cause it’s full of good shit, but…

Video: New Miami Ice Cream Truck Has Killer Sound System

Seen, well, heard, and then seen in Wynwood, check out the killer sound system on this ice cream truck and its Latin style soundtrack. Next up, subwoofers and an iPod and this truck could be making the rearview shake while making money in club parking lots.We’ve heard plenty of bootleg-ass,…

DJ Khaled Victory Out Now; Day One Twitter Reactions

​Oh you think it’s a game!? You think it’s a game?Liiiiiisten. DJ Khaled’s new album “Victory” dropped yesterday, and the response via Twitter proves that Miami’s biggest loudmouth knows what he’s doing.People around the world have something to say about it, most of them good things. One things for sure,…

Top Five Ways To Sneak Your Weed Into The Bob Marley Festival

Legalize it.​The 17th annual Bob Marley Fest hits Bayfront park this Saturday, February 27th with more Marley-kid performances than you can shake a joint rolled up in a copy of the Miami Herald at (hey at least then the paper’ll be put to good use).The list of what you can’t…

Miami Bass Warriors Just Wanna Sniff Some Glue

Aholsniffsglue once made crack cocaine out of Ajax and battery acid, smoked it with the Dalai Lama, and became obsessed with stripes and circles. True story.Give thanks the art world appreciates the kind of compulsions that drive people past the brink of madness, are willing to pay for it, and…

Recap: Honeyboy Edwards at Colony Theatre, February 21

Jacob KatelHoneyboy Edwards signing autographs.​Honeyboy Edwards destroyed a sold out house at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre last Saturday night with a set so full of Delta you could feel it in your bones. The 94-year-old Edwards, who just won 2010’s Life Time Achievement Award at the Grammys, played with backing…