Stereo Systems

Miami's Top Five Nightclub Sound Systems

​Miami residents are faced with tough decisions every day. Beach or pool? Take I-395 or I-195? SPF 30 or SPF 15? Put the top down or leave it up? The list is endless. Another FAQ for MIA heads: "Which club should I head to tonight?" And indeed, the Miami nightlife scene never sleeps, with new clu ... More >>

Dubtribe on Raving: "That Renegade, Revolutionary Spirit Is Always Out There"

Dubtribe's Sunshine and Moonbeam Jones.​If there's one way to tell the true old-school house heads from the posers, it's by measuring the natural spike in their serotonin levels whenever Dubtribe Sound System hits the airwaves. That's because the beloved San Francisco duo has been pulling hea ... More >>

Finger-licking

Dubtribe's Sunshine and Moonbeam Jones.​If there's one way to tell the true old-school house heads from the posers, it's by measuring the natural spike in their serotonin levels whenever Dubtribe Sound System hits the airwaves. That's because the beloved San Francisco duo has been pulling hea ... More >>

Car Gazing

Dubtribe's Sunshine and Moonbeam Jones.​If there's one way to tell the true old-school house heads from the posers, it's by measuring the natural spike in their serotonin levels whenever Dubtribe Sound System hits the airwaves. That's because the beloved San Francisco duo has been pulling hea ... More >>

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, shit ... More >>

What is a Dub Plate?

via Reggae Zine UK​A dub plate used to refer to an acetate disc used in mastering studios to test recordings before mass producing the vinyl.Caribbean battle music in DJ vs DJ soundclashes took on the dubplate to create exclusive remixes to popular songs usually with the artist shouting out the na ... More >>

Head Spins: Al B. Rotten is White Room's Friday-night DJ

via Reggae Zine UK​A dub plate used to refer to an acetate disc used in mastering studios to test recordings before mass producing the vinyl.Caribbean battle music in DJ vs DJ soundclashes took on the dubplate to create exclusive remixes to popular songs usually with the artist shouting out the na ... More >>

The Pickle is Always Sour

via Reggae Zine UK​A dub plate used to refer to an acetate disc used in mastering studios to test recordings before mass producing the vinyl.Caribbean battle music in DJ vs DJ soundclashes took on the dubplate to create exclusive remixes to popular songs usually with the artist shouting out the na ... More >>

Q&A With DJ Chachi, Spinning Tonight at LIV

Of all the out of town head-spinners to hit South Beach, the one who would seem most perfectly suited for LIV has gotta be DJ Chachi. Yeah, we know. His primary residency is at New York's ultra-hip Ten June, which might boast a similar clientele, but it in no way resembles the Vegas-like feel of The ... More >>

Wednesday Night: Sneaky Sound System at LIV

Sneaky Sound SystemSneaky Sound SystemWednesday, June 17, 2009LIV at the Fontainebleau, Miami BeachBetter Than: Most vocal-accompanied house music.I've got to admit I don't know much about Sneaky Sound System apart from what I've heard played at the clubs. So when the Sydney trio were scheduled to m ... More >>

Johnny Winter Plays Culture Room on October 9

About BluesWhen I was a little boy I used to sit on the floor in front if a bookcase in my Dad's living room and look through his records.  They were all in alphabetical order and I would play them on his old old old turntable and hi-fi stereo system.  One of the records was About Blues by ... More >>

Roll Over Beethoven

About BluesWhen I was a little boy I used to sit on the floor in front if a bookcase in my Dad's living room and look through his records.  They were all in alphabetical order and I would play them on his old old old turntable and hi-fi stereo system.  One of the records was About Blues by ... More >>

Coconut Grove Condo Owners Fight Nightclub

They'll be up all night.

Saturday Night: Touane at Blue

Touane with Punisher, DJ NovaSaturday, December 20, 2008Blue, Miami BeachBetter than: your average DJ set in a favorable venue.

Minimal techno is a bit of an acquired taste, much like straight liquor. Verse and chorus are the requisite ice and soda mixer most social drinkers need in their music ... More >>

Brand New Black Chiney Mix Willy Chin Birthday Bash

South Florida's favorite reggae sound system, Black Chiney is at again. They just released a brand new free mix  project full of the hottest tracks coming out of Jamaica at the moment. But in typical Black Chiney fashion, the songs are mashed up with solid hip-hop tracks at just the right mome ... More >>

Suénalo Sound System Cooks Up a Global Stew at Jazid

South Florida's favorite reggae sound system, Black Chiney is at again. They just released a brand new free mix  project full of the hottest tracks coming out of Jamaica at the moment. But in typical Black Chiney fashion, the songs are mashed up with solid hip-hop tracks at just the right mome ... More >>

What Goes Around, comes around

South Florida's favorite reggae sound system, Black Chiney is at again. They just released a brand new free mix  project full of the hottest tracks coming out of Jamaica at the moment. But in typical Black Chiney fashion, the songs are mashed up with solid hip-hop tracks at just the right mome ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Jazid

The South Beach stronghold celebrates 12 years of live music.

Kreamy 'Lectric Santa

1980 to 2007 6 Song Retrospective of Unreleased Material II (Digestive Systems)

We Wish You a Trini Christmas

1980 to 2007 6 Song Retrospective of Unreleased Material II (Digestive Systems)

Last Night: DJ I-Dee and Q-Bert at Studio A

1980 to 2007 6 Song Retrospective of Unreleased Material II (Digestive Systems)

Undercover Boy Wonder

International turntablist DJ I-Dee's life on South Beach is low-key. No surprise: He's too young to buy a drink.

Murder Dem

JahCuban reps the 305 as reggae ambassador

Backbeat Confidential

At Miami's Scratch Academy, students master the fine art of spinning vinyl

Beat Down

This DJ simulator is nothing to rave about

DJ Colette

This DJ simulator is nothing to rave about

Quantic Soul Orchestra

Pushin On (Ubiquity)

Bring It Back

After bad decisions cost Gabriel Fain a spot among Miami's DJ elite, the house music jock gets a shot at redemption

Stone Love Sound System

After bad decisions cost Gabriel Fain a spot among Miami's DJ elite, the house music jock gets a shot at redemption

Latin Funk Music Festival

After bad decisions cost Gabriel Fain a spot among Miami's DJ elite, the house music jock gets a shot at redemption

Suenalo Sound System

Collage self-released

Local Heroes

Collage self-released

Various Artists

Miami on Vinyl (SFP)

City Slackers

Poverty, dancehall, and sound systems in modern-day Kingston, Jamaica

Slash N' Scratch

Mix Master Mike puts the needle to the metal

BEST LOCAL ELECTRONICA RELEASE

Live at Fuácata

Spam Allstars

BEST ROCK CLUB

Churchill's

Booth Less Traveled

Victor Calderone seeks a new music mix

Real Ring-Ding

The pioneers of Jamaican pop team up with the R&B legends who inspired them

Various Artists

SYR 5(SYR)

Best Place For DJs To Buy Vinyl

Yesterday & Today Dance Music

Dig the New Breed

On Live Human, Elefish Jellyphant, and more

Natty Dread Learns to Rap

Rastas and b-boys find common ground in Marley's legacy

Turn to the Left and Cough

Rastas and b-boys find common ground in Marley's legacy

Able Hands on Deck

Rastas and b-boys find common ground in Marley's legacy

The Beat Surrender

Rastas and b-boys find common ground in Marley's legacy

Rotations

Rastas and b-boys find common ground in Marley's legacy

Twilight of the Tweaks

The mass marketing of stereo equipment put truly obsessed audiophiles on the lunatic fringe

Speaking Freely

The mass marketing of stereo equipment put truly obsessed audiophiles on the lunatic fringe

Everything Must Go!

Videotapes! Drill presses! Toasters! Sphygmomanometers! If the Dade County Store's prices were any lower, they'd be insane!