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Alejandro Sanz's La Msica No Se Toca in Miami: A Ten-Photo Recap
May 10, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by Luz Elena Silva Alejandro Sanz La msica no se toca Tour With Carlos Varela American Airlines Arena, Miami Thursday, May 9, 2013 Last night, thousands of Latin music fans had an amazing night at...
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Alejandro Sanz: "I Always Wake Up Thinking, One More Day to Conquer"
May 02, 2013 in Crossfade
Via facebook.com/ASanzOficial Among the most commercially successful and artistically respected Latin pop artists in the world, singer, songwriter, and composer Alejandro Sanz has sold more than 22 million albums over the...
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Phresh James: "I'm Retiring Phresh James ... My Name Is Kaleem Muhammad"
April 30, 2013 in Crossfade
Via Phresh James' Facebook page Over the last few years, the so-called "New Miami" hip-hop scene has started to thrive, with artists J. Nics, Lil Fway Champ, Flight School Preps, Jigg,...
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Jarabe de Palo's A Piano y Voz at Grand Central Miami: A Ten-Photo Recap
April 29, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by Luz Elena Silva Jarabe de Palo's A piano y voz With Ulises Hadjis and Mr. Pauer Grand Central, Miami Saturday, April 27, 2013 In a very intimate setting at Grand Central in downtown...
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Wanee 2013: Jam Bands and Dudes With Tramp Stamps, a Report From Juke's Eric Garcia
April 23, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by Eric GarciaThe Wanee masses, fully prepped for a freakout. My band, Juke, was invited to play our first Wanee Festival last year, up at the Spirit of Swanee Music...
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Coachella 2013: The 10 Worst Moments of Weekend Two
April 22, 2013 in Crossfade
Timothy Norris Native American Headdresses These have still not gone away. In fact, one particularly irritating woman (not pictured) wore a towering feather mohawk weave, a sartorial statement that combined racism with...
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Coachella 2013: The 13 Best Moments of Weekend Two
April 22, 2013 in Crossfade
LP HastingsButterfly?! The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella's art installations -- the ones designed to impress you while you're high, aka all of them -- were particularly impressive this...
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Coachella 2013: Eight Best Moments of Weekend One
April 15, 2013 in Crossfade
Christopher VictorioKaren O Karen O's Outfit Karen O's wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over...
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Coachella 2013: Five Worst Moments of Weekend One
April 15, 2013 in Crossfade
Screenshot of the Daft Punk commercial at the main stage.Daft Punk Fake-Out Friday and Saturday, all anyone could talk about was if Daft Punk was going to show up during Phoenix's set....
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Pac Div Smoked Out EVE Miami, April 13
April 15, 2013 in Crossfade
Via statigr.am/themikejames Pac Div Featuring Johnny Polygon Eve, Downtown Miami Saturday, April 13, 2013 Better Than: Watching Three Musketeers, Three Stooges, and Three Amigos. Descending from atop of the stairs, the three California dudes (Mibbs, Like,...
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Pac Div on Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller: "Why Don't We Just Have Them on Our Shit?"
April 15, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by Stephanie Meiling via facebook.com/ItsPacDiv It's been a couple of years since Los Angeles has seen Phil Jackson's triangle offense dominate not only the West Coast, but the country. In...
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Kinky Conquered Miami's La Covacha With Feneiva and Mr. Pauer: A 12-Photo Recap
April 08, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by Luz Elena Silva Kinky With Feneiva and Mr. Pauer La Covacha, Doral Saturday, April 6, 2013 Kinkier Than: A swinger's party en La Saguesera. Over the weekend, La Covacha welcomed Mexican rock band Kinky,...
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Bomba Estereo on World Music and TransAtlantic Fest: "We Used to Look North; Now the Anglo World Is Looking at Us"
April 02, 2013 in Crossfade
Bomba Estereo Traditions are kept alive by constant change. The roots music of the 21st Century is being created as much with electric guitars, sequencers, and laptops as with drums and...
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50 WTF Quotes From Ultra 2013
March 26, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by George Martinez "What the fuck does unicorn taste like?" Stardust. Rainbows. Maybe black-market horse meat from Miami's C-9 basin. There's really no way to know, though. Because this fabulous one-horned equine...
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Ultra 2013: Five Worst Moments, From Free Water to Yeasayer and Bad Drug Trips
March 20, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by George MartinezThe ravin' and ragin' life isn't all epicness. Sometimes, stuff sucks. Like "free water!!!" and "free Wi-Fi!!!" Or Yeasayer's Chris Keating talking all kinds of mad shit about...
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Ultra 2013: Five Best Moments, From Snoop to Naked Dudes and 70-Year-Old Ravers
March 20, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by George Martinez Welcome to Ultra land. The weather is perfect. The kids are nice. There are "No Guns Allowed." But famous lady rapper side-boob is plentiful. So are the naked...
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Ten Signs Your Band Won't Make It at SXSW
March 15, 2013 in Crossfade
With more work, maybe Dave Grohl (seated on drums) can finally find success in the music business. Being a successful musician really has to be a slice of heaven. And...
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The 50 Commandments of SXSW
March 13, 2013 in Crossfade
For Christ's sake, don't break any of these commandments this year.You're going to South by Southwest, right? Or you're already there? One of those things is bound to be true....
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Ultra, WMC, and MMW 2013 Party Guide
March 13, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by Santiago Felipe Every March, Miami is seized by total EDM insanity, reverberating with bass, techno, house, trance, and everything electronic. With Ultra Music Festival (this year expanding to two...
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Hannibal Buress and Friends Broke Down the Bullshit at The Stage Miami
February 18, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by Adam Katzman Comedy's in a weird place right now. It's seen a mass middlebrow resurgence of sorts, after inside-baseball podcasts and Louis CK's artsy crit-baiting TV show. And it's...
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Murs and Fam Roll Down the Road to Paid Dues at The Stage Miami
February 18, 2013 in Crossfade
Via facebook.com/MursMurs and the fam on the Florida leg of the Road to Paid Dues.Murs Road to Paid Dues Tour With Fashawn, Prof, DJs Foundation and Fundo The Stage Miami Friday, February 15, 2013 On...
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Generation Wild Got V-Day Crazy With Deniz Koyu and Danny Avila at LIV Miami
February 15, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by Lisa FerreraGeneration Wild Tour With Deniz Koyu, Danny Avila, dBerrie and Mikael Weermets Thursday, February 14, 2013 Better Than: Speed dating for a Valentine's companion. Did the youth of Miami prove they...
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GTA Took on LIV Miami, Made That "Booty Bounce" on South Beach
February 07, 2013 in Crossfade
Photo by Gianmarco Pow-Sang GTA LIV, Miami Beach Wednesday, February 6, 2013 Better Than: Sitting at home waiting for the next GTA game to come out. DJ-producer duo GTA headlined LIV for the first...
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Project Pat and Raider Klan Got Faded and Watched 'Em Twerk at EVE Miami, January 18
January 22, 2013 in Crossfade
Project Pat EVE, Miami Friday, January 18, 2013 It was a rap show. So in the tradition of rap shows, EVE was turned into a battleground state for real and/or true hip hop. And Project...
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Krisp Talks Nomenclature and Its New Record on Sweat Records In-House Label, Sutro
January 11, 2013 in Crossfade
Via facebook.com/KrispMusic What do "Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Moses, Chuck Norris, The Little Prince" have in common? They're all awesome dancers. And they all serve as wellsprings of inspiration for Krisp, a four-member...
