There are a million reasons to love Miami: the weather, the melange of culture, the Miami Heat. Pero ask anyone under the age of 80 what the most redeeming quality of our city is, and chances are that they’ll mention at least one of the three P’s: playa, puta o…
Finley Quaye Ricochet, Miami Wednesday, September 13, 2012 Better Than: Shopping for overpriced fedoras. At a little after 11 p.m., amid smoke and buzz, Scottish reggae guy Finley Quaye took to Ricochet’s stage and started crooning, no unnecessary fanfare or wild shout outs. It was a mellow start to his…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
See SYTYCD’s Season Nine Girl Champion is From South Florida.America’s first real introduction to So You Think You Can Dance finalist Tiffany Maher was as the jazz dancer with brown wavy hair who wasn’t Audrey Case during the top 20 reveal show in June. The 19-year-old Plantation hoofer flew so…
See also “Today Is the Day’s Steve Austin on Living in the F#$%ed-Up South and Being 100-Percent Real.” Today Is the Day With Maruta, Shitstorm, Orbweaver, Ironside, Cardiel Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, September 8 Better Than: Not seeing Today Is the Day because South Florida is long and faraway from…
Editor’s note: Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle, celebrating that city’s favorite musical genre: mainstream country. With the nation’s major-party political conventions drawing to a close recently with a rousing reelection appeal from the nation’s first black president, it seems fitting to…
Got plans this weekend? Cancel them and go support live music instead. We’re here to help with our freshly updated calendar of Miami concerts. The listings are sortable by artist and venue. Even price, if you like to choose bands based on cost per riff. There’s also a big list…
It was a sunny, hot, and extremely humid Saturday afternoon, Labor Day weekend, and a crowd had started to gather at the Euclid oval on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. There were a few people who may have been there from previous word-of-mouth knowledge, but the majority of the ever-increasing…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
Can you hear that throbbing beat? It’s just the sound of Crossfade finally reaching a poundingly hot Latin-pop climax after two weeks of counting down the raddest bassers, freestyle stars, rappers, punks, rockers, and noiseniks in our subtropical city’s music history. To loosely quote Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound…
See the full archive of Pepe Billete’s columns here.Dear Micky Arison:As owner of the Miami Heat, you’ve nurtured the evolution of a legacy that was humbly born in the late ’80s, developed in the ’90s, and unmistakably solidified in the new millennium. Your dedication to Miami sports revitalized a city…
No party lasts forever. Even in Miami. The booze runs out. The coke gets snorted. The girls stop dancing. The club closes. The night ends. But at least the music — like Exposé’s freestyle classic “Point of No Return” — will never die. Every night in the discotheque of eternity,…
Summer’s almost over. Miami’s arts schedule is about to get a lot more crowded. And we’re looking for a few new voices to help us cover it all.If you’re a writer interested in the cultural side of South Florida, a talented reporter closely connected to the city’s arts leaders, or…
We be flexin’. At various points in our city’s music history, the raddest Miami-bred noisemakers have left town, hit beaches besides Haulover, and showed off the 305’s sonic muscle all across these United States of America. For the last few years, the Jacuzzi Boys have been the MIA’s Best Scene…
There ain’t no party like a Miami party. ‘Cause a Miami party don’t stop. But besides that undeniable truth, there’s also the fact that a Miami party comes in, like, a million different permutations. We live in a weird, sexy, superdiverse land of “Peanut Butter Jelly” time, Cuban-American country music…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
There’s a classic Miami song for every occasion. Protesting SoBe nightlife? Crank up ANR’s “Kill South Beach Dead.” Getting a perm? Frizz with Nuclear Valdez’s “Summer.” Stripping for the rent money at King of Diamonds? Try Disco Rick and The Dogs’ “Take It Off.” Check the cut for numbers 25…
Ever screamed so long and loud that you suddenly started spitting specks of blood and chunks of lung onto the microphone? Well, we here at Crossfade are now halfway through an insane screeching spree of exactly that kinda throat-shredding intensity. And it’s called the 50 Best Miami Bands of All…
Just like Afrobeta’s Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio, we here at Crossfade wanna know … Do you party? For the last 72 hours, we’ve been shakin’ ass (and sometimes Scraping Teeth) while snorting skinny lines of pure white SoBe sand off scratched-up slabs by some of our favorite local music…
After wildin’ out to the brutal, punk-y, funky, bass-y, fuzzy strains of only ten Best Miami Bands of All Time (i.e. Scraping Teeth, Frank Williams & The Rocketeers, Iko Iko, ANR, Miami Bass Warriors and Nuclear Valdez, The Goods, Locos Por Juana, Cynic, Avenue D), our ears are already freakin’…
Yesterday, we here at Crossfade went bangin’ on the beach with Miami Bass Warriors and even enjoyed some bathroom fellatio with Rat Bastard’s Scraping Teeth. But that was just the beginning of our weird and wild ten-day trip through the MIA’s long and varied musical history. For today’s edition of…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
