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  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    All Shall Perish, California Deathcore Band, Sues Illegal Downloaders In Miami

    All Shall Perish, a blistering political deathcore group from California, burst onto the metal scene with their 2003 record, "Hate, Malice, Revenge." Today, those are exactly the emotions driving the band to seek sweet vengeance against dozens of fans who illegally downloaded tracks from their newes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Wikipedia Is Down Today: Don't Panic, We Have Your Alternatives

    ​Pity the University of Miami freshman who picked this morning to crap out a research paper, and the Miami Herald journalist trying to write about whichever moderately famous person dies today. Wikipedia has gone dark! The site is protesting the SOPA legislation that most sane people realize would ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    Top Ten Rock and Pop Stars Who Hate Digital Music Downloading

    Ever since the dawn of digitization, the internet-surfing public has had every bit of media at its fingertips. And once Napster took the music world by storm, there has been a constantly raging debate about how to restructure the industry around digital music downloads. Some artists have simply acc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Steve Jobs' Top Ten Contributions to Music

    ​Steve Jobs, one of the greatest innovators of both the 20th and 21st Centuries is dead. But his name will ring out eternally through history. 'Cause damn, that motherfucker changed the world and shit.  iTunes is just one of many ingenious inventions to come out of the Apple camp. From apps t ... More >>

  • Music

    April 28, 2011

    Interpol at the Fillmore Miami Beach April 29

    ​Steve Jobs, one of the greatest innovators of both the 20th and 21st Centuries is dead. But his name will ring out eternally through history. 'Cause damn, that motherfucker changed the world and shit.  iTunes is just one of many ingenious inventions to come out of the Apple camp. From apps t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    The Internet Killed the Music Industry and Interpol Wached It Happen

    Interpol was there, circa 2001, when the hype machine died.​There was a certain millennial flash-point when New Wave-y New York City goth-pop quartet Interpol seemed as though it might play a major part in the cleanup of a half-decade's crappy music. This was near the outset of the 21st Century w ... More >>

  • Music

    April 14, 2011

    Sweatstock and Record Store Day at Sweat Records April 16

    Interpol was there, circa 2001, when the hype machine died.​There was a certain millennial flash-point when New Wave-y New York City goth-pop quartet Interpol seemed as though it might play a major part in the cleanup of a half-decade's crappy music. This was near the outset of the 21st Century w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Save the Music! Celebrate CDs, Vinyl, and the Local Scene With Sweatstock 2011

    Fight for your right to collect records with Beings and Sweat.​See Sweatstock 2011's full lineup and set times. Thanks to Napster, Steve Jobs, and the overlords of the Internet, we all live in an increasingly immaterial world where the only acceptable way to package, market, and consume music is ... More >>

  • Music

    March 3, 2011

    WMC hits the Miami Beach Convention Center March 8 to 12

    Fight for your right to collect records with Beings and Sweat.​See Sweatstock 2011's full lineup and set times. Thanks to Napster, Steve Jobs, and the overlords of the Internet, we all live in an increasingly immaterial world where the only acceptable way to package, market, and consume music is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Go Get Your PhD in Party Science! See Winter Music Conference 2011 Schedule of Events

    Join party professor Paul Van Dyk at WMC 2011.​Believe it or not, there is indeed such a thing as party science. But you're not going to learn it by running the club circuit like a lab rat on double doses of Ritalin. If you really want to develop yourself into a certified master of the electronic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Five Reasons The Social Network Thinks You Should Date a Tech Geek

    ​The Social Network has given Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook an insurmountable amount of free press, but many are failing to see the bigger picture: It breaks down the barriers and makes tech enthusiasts and the tech community look cool, sexy, and oh-so-datable, too.Sure, everyone subscribes to the ... More >>

  • Film

    September 30, 2010

    The Social Network: Facebook and its unlovable founder

    ​The Social Network has given Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook an insurmountable amount of free press, but many are failing to see the bigger picture: It breaks down the barriers and makes tech enthusiasts and the tech community look cool, sexy, and oh-so-datable, too.Sure, everyone subscribes to the ... More >>

  • Music

    November 12, 2009

    The Get Up Kids Rise Again

    The emo pioneers really were worth writing home about.

  • Music

    October 1, 2009

    Metallica's Death Magnetic tour stops at BankAtlantic Center

    The emo pioneers really were worth writing home about.

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    MP3 of the Day: "Junkyard Dog" by ¡Mayday!, Playing Transit Tonight

    From the moment local hip hop crew ¡Mayday! got their first DSL hookup, the self-described "sound bombers" have proven themselves to cunning manipulators of modern internet technology. Like a half-feral band of dystopian techno-guerillas, they've managed to sidestep the bombed-out remains of the po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    New Autonomous Bass Heads Mix Available for Free Download

    Autonomous Bass HeadsMiami-Dade County brought us Bass as a genre.  Shade and J-Nasty have not forgotten that bit of information. Collectively known as Autonomous Bass Heads (ABH), the duo has been rocking parties, big and small, mostly on the south side of town for some time now. Sometimes the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    Coffee House Gypsies Have a Superfan

    I received this encyclopedia length post as a comment to a blog about a blog. Coffee House Gypsies superfan Amanda wants you to know why she loves the Coffee House Gypsies. I caught them once on video. They were playing in a weed-filled trailer park in Wynwood during Art Basel 2008. I didn't get the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Honor Roll Music - Making The Music Business Make Dollars and Sense

    You may have heard about Honor Roll Music in a recent New York Times article highlighting Miami's indie music culture, but probably not, Newspapers are stupid. They keep homeless people warm, cats shit on them all the time, they want you to read all about it, you're probably not even reading this a ... More >>

  • Music

    August 7, 2008

    Heat Rave

    Ten summers that rocked.

  • Music

    January 31, 2008

    The Ween Abides

    Ten reasons Ween is better than your favorite band.

  • Music

    July 28, 2005

    Hate It or Love It

    The Anger Management Tour may be mainstream hip-hop's high-water mark, but has it poisoned the well?

  • Shops and Wares

    May 12, 2005

    BEST USED-CD STORE

    Uncle Sam's Music

  • Film

    July 29, 2004

    Head Trip

    Between hard rock and a safe place, Metallica finds itself

  • Music

    July 22, 2004

    Anatomy of a Buzz

    The Secret Machines ride a wave of good press; can record sales be far behind?

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    Valet Sharking

    No tips for the weary; swan-eating croc irks park

  • Music

    January 8, 2004

    After Shock

    The music industry's ongoing problems continue to affect the local dance community

  • Music

    April 3, 2003

    Island Man

    Chris Blackwell moves into the digi-Web-world-global-video age

  • Music

    March 20, 2003

    Spirit in the Sky

    From desert to studio to stage, Electric Skychurch falls back into techno's warm embrace

  • Culture

    August 8, 2002

    Do the Math

    The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

  • Music

    April 18, 2002

    J-Live

    All of the Above (Coup d'Etat)

  • Culture

    April 11, 2002

    When Online Got Off Base

    Or: How Mark Cuban would have--and could have?--saved the music biz

  • Music

    March 28, 2002

    Bang to the Hype

    At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

  • Shops and Wares

    May 17, 2001

    Best Used-CD Store

    Uncle Sam's Music

  • News

    March 22, 2001

    Mix & Remix

    Welcome to Miami Beach's annual Winter Music Conference, where the elite meet to discuss the future of the beat

  • Music

    February 15, 2001

    Fuck You; Pay Me!

    At MIDEM 2001 it's no more Mr. Nice Download

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    Socialism or Suntan, Part 2

    Is it a harmless political party, or is it a cult?

  • Culture

    November 9, 2000

    Ransom Notes

    Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their "free" music?

  • Music

    July 13, 2000

    Brother's Keeper

    Tastes great, less filling: Ween gets serious

  • Music

    July 6, 2000

    Flanagan's Wake

    VH1 vice president's novel about the music business mourns an era just since passed

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