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Art, Film, and Booze

Crazy Cheap Tickets to Artopia, Get 'Em While You Can

​Admit it: You've grown weary of the typical club night. $20 drinks this, untz-untz that. What's a party-ready Miami kid gotta do to change it up?The answer: Get tickets to Artopia, Miami New Times' annual arts soiree. We'll be dining, drinking, and toasting the city's top cultural talent, includi ... More >>

Sweat Records' Lauren Reskin's Top Cultural Events of 2011

​As 2011 comes to an end, we're getting all nostalgic about the great moments in Miami culture that took place over the past year. And we know we're not alone. So we've asked some of Miami's top artists, writers, film producers and other cultural geniuses about their favorite 2011 memories. La ... More >>

Wood Tavern's Grand Opening: Free Drinks at Wynwood's Newest Dive This Wednesday

Photo by Kerry McLaneyThe wall of drinkers past.​​Every once in awhile, a bar opens that bridges scenes. Its appeal is universal. Whether you're into Moose Juice or PBR, Pitchfork or Porsches, this is your common ground. And Wood Tavern is that bar. Recently, the cosy Wynwood spot opened it ... More >>

Sweat Records' Black Friday Garage Sale Promises Deep Discounts and No Stampedes

Oh, Black Friday! Every year after Thanksgiving, a shopping warzone breaks out as holiday cheer and good tidings soon give way to flying elbows and weeping grandmothers who scream in the deep-throated, craggy, ten-packs-a-day roar of a truck driver at a strip club, "Christmas shopping season is fuc ... More >>

Talib Kweli Is Coming to Bardot July 3

via FlickreviewR​Alongside Mos Def, Talib Kweli was Black Star, a duo that created the soundtrack -- via hand-me-down cassette -- to this writer's late-'90s college days. Somehow, their socially conscious, Afrocentric hip-hop totally articulated how we felt as a nerdy, suburban white girl driving ... More >>

Animal Collective's Geologist Creates Original Soundtrack for Coral Morphologic

The Coral Morphologic guys. Magical visual manipulators of sea life Coral Morphologic, comprised of Colin Foord and Jared McKay, not only landed a spot at the Borscht Film Festival, screening their short "Man O War," but also an original soundtrack for the film by Animal Collective's Geolo ... More >>

Waffles and Records: a Talk with Lolo

It's about the food, not the plates!​While everyone's sucking down greasy maple syrup covered bacon at Sunday brunch a group of people more conscious of the fact that meat is murder gather at Sweat Records for the Waffle Party. This isn't just your run of the mill waffle party (if there is such a ... More >>

Sweat Records' 16-Year-Old Intern Fezito Chancy Is the Next Diddy

When he saw the footage, Fezito said: "I look like Will Smith."I love Miami because it is filled with a billion talented artists. In the next few weeks, I will take you inside their studios. But this is not about me. This is about a young man that interns at Sweat Records. His name is Fezito Chancy ... More >>

Ten For $10 or Less For the Weekend of June 11 - 13: Jazid's B-Day, 2 Live Crew's Mr. Mixx, and More

via myspace.com/mongolianjermainemusicJohn Hancock 11 other guys Lolo's b-day = This Friday at the Vagabond​Friday, June 11*Jazid beings its weekend-long 14th anniversary celebration tonight with the debut of its new reggae party, Freeup Fridays, featuring live music tonight by Jahfe and Mixed ... More >>

If You Love Sweat Records, Go Tonight for Blur Documentary, Lolo's Birthday

We sure are glad Lauren "Lolo" Reskin was born on this day, 20-something years ago (a lady never tells). If you run into Sweat Records' legendary proprietress around town this weekend, feel free to bow and give offerings. Or just show up at the store tonight for her actual birthday, celebration of w ... More >>

Sweat Records Hosts a Vegan Waffle Party

Photo By Danielle Alvarez​The question, "Hey, are you here for the waffle party," isn't something you hear every day inside the muraled walls of Little Haiti vinyl provider Sweat Records. But this past Saturday afternoon, the quirky record store/ venue/vegan coffee shop hosted a vegan waffle party ... More >>

Event Review: 10 X 10 at Miami Art Museum, May 13

Photo by Ben Thacker​Click here to view all the photos from this event.10 X 10 Miami MAM Contemporaries SocialMiami Art Museum, Miami Thursday, May 13, 2010Better than: Ben Stiller's Night at the MuseumThe Review:10 x 10 is a concept lecture series featuring ten up and coming local creative mind ... More >>

ANR and MillionYoung Tour Kick Off Show Tonight at Vagabond

​Miami indie darlings ANR and MillionYoung are leaving town. They're  both going on an East Coast tour with big cities like New York and Chicago on the slate. MillionYoung even has shows planned for Canada, France, Berlin, Denmark, and London all the way through July. Who knows when they're c ... More >>

Countdown to Sweatstock: Q&A With Sweat Records' Lolo Reskin, Part Three of Three

via sweatrecordsmiami.comVinyl bins inside the store.​In anticipation of Sweat Records' five-year anniversary party this Saturday, we sat down with Sweat head Lolo Reskin for a chat on the store's past, present and future. If you missed the first two parts yesterday, click here for part one, and h ... More >>

Black Bobby Drops Major Blazer Monday

​If you haven't heard about Black Bobby, now its time to pay attention. This Harvard grad and D.C. transplant is doing some pretty amazing stuff. He gave up the corporate life in New England and moved down to Miami to pursue a music career. Why Miami? Who the hell knows and who cares.Well, in hono ... More >>

For the Ungrateful Child in Your Family

​If you haven't heard about Black Bobby, now its time to pay attention. This Harvard grad and D.C. transplant is doing some pretty amazing stuff. He gave up the corporate life in New England and moved down to Miami to pursue a music career. Why Miami? Who the hell knows and who cares.Well, in hono ... More >>

Rachel Goodrich's "Light Bulb" Used to Sell Crayola Glow Dome

Rachel Goodrich​If you aren't aware yet, it's the holiday season, which means the advertisements on television are focusing heavily on toys kids don't really need and will probably forget about a month after unwrapping. Still, that didn't stop Crayola from brainwashing children into thinking they ... More >>

Meatless in Miami: Pescatarianism Is Getting Fishy

My first brush with vegetarianism was fish-related. I was 6 or 7 on Florida's west coast, tagging along with my father on an orchestra gig. Being raised by a musician dad, I'd been to the opera, salsa gigs and renaissance fairs but never on a fishing trip. We took a walk by the pier and my eyes caug ... More >>

Aiden Dillard's Death Print Features Local Music People, Premieres at Colony Theater August 8

Local film Auteur and fitness dude, Aiden Dillard's film Death Print is getting another Premiere showing , this time over on South Beach's Colony Theatre, right in the heart of Lincoln Road.  This piece of cinema mayhem has many local musicians and people about town starring in it.  Look f ... More >>

Meatless in Miami: A Case of Chickenitis B

Once in a while being a vegetarian can be a royal letdown. You espy a lovely bean burrito on a menu, but upon inquiry it turns out that the beans are cooked con puerco and the rice was simmered in chicken stock. Or how about this sumptuous-looking roasted tomato soup? Ahh, the base is ... More >>

Ten Under $10 For the Weekend Of June 12 - 14: Lolo's Birthday, Jeru the Damaja, and More

The Pretty Faces play Alligator Alley's anniversary party on Saturday.Friday, June 12*South Florida music scene sweetheart and Sweat cofounder Lolo celebrates her birthday at the Vagabond in Miami tonight. DJ Hottpants is the special guest, and there will be cupcakes and candy galore. Cover is free ... More >>

On the List: Gumball 3000, Aqua Girl, Power '90s Sex and Porn Prom

Talk about a T&A weekend! Exxxotica is in town and so is Aqua Girl, making this a great weekend to see plenty of lovely ladies around the beach. So get ready, because here is what you might want to check out this weekend:For seven days, 120 cars have travel 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Miami ... More >>

Other Clubs Just Give Us Lemons

Talk about a T&A weekend! Exxxotica is in town and so is Aqua Girl, making this a great weekend to see plenty of lovely ladies around the beach. So get ready, because here is what you might want to check out this weekend:For seven days, 120 cars have travel 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Miami ... More >>

The Jean Marie

Talk about a T&A weekend! Exxxotica is in town and so is Aqua Girl, making this a great weekend to see plenty of lovely ladies around the beach. So get ready, because here is what you might want to check out this weekend:For seven days, 120 cars have travel 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Miami ... More >>

The Jean Marie to Celebrate Full-Length CD Release at the Vagabond, Jan. 23

Nobody in Miami has been a bigger booster of the local quartet the Jean Marie than Lolo Reskin of Sweat Records. So where else would the band celebrate its latest album release than at the Vagabond's Friday party, which Lolo helps throw? So this edition celebrates Annie Jump Cannon, the group's fi ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Hottpants

The man in shorts makes you dance, dance, dance.

Break In at Sweat Records

The man in shorts makes you dance, dance, dance.

Sweat-y LOLs

Sweat Records kicks off its comedy night with brotherly love.

Sweat-y LOLs

Sweat Records kicks off its comedy night with brotherly love.

Last Night: Rag Trade Grand Reopening

Sweat Records kicks off its comedy night with brotherly love.

Meet the New Fashion Mecca.

Same as the old fashion mecca, with added Sweat.

On The List - Love Hate, Mark Knight and Studio A

Same as the old fashion mecca, with added Sweat.

Rock Out With Your C@#k Out

The cool kids are at Fridays at The Vagabond.

Go, Sweat! It's Your Birthday!

Party with Miami’s hipster elite at everyone’s favorite store.

Get Your Read On

Party with Miami’s hipster elite at everyone’s favorite store.

Great Success!

We’ve got high hopes for the Black Kids.

Sweat Records is Moving

We’ve got high hopes for the Black Kids.

Last Night: Electroma Release Party at Studio A

We’ve got high hopes for the Black Kids.

Get Off

Miami’s hippest weekly bash is totally up our alley

Hotter than Ever

Celebrate two years of Sweat

She Spins Us Right ´Round

Circa28 is heir to the hipster club throne

Taking It to the Streets

MoCA gives you Moore

The End

MoCA gives you Moore

Out of Step

Sweat Records takes indie culture out of the clubs and into your speakers

Basshead

Chairs Missing

Escape

Don't dream it, be it

Soggy Celebration

Gotta love water

Touching Up Haiti's Roots

Gotta love water

The Vodou They Do So Well

Gotta love water