With only one year under its belt, the amount of coups the Perfect Trip: Miami Psych Fest has been able to pull off for its second edition is almost absurd: besides expanding to occupy both the Ground and Floyd along with netting seemingly miraculous gets on the lineup, event organizer Adam Arritola (he prefers just to go by Adam) says word of the festival has already traveled out of Miami, garnering attention from the likes of the Big Ears and Vision Festivals in Knoxville, TN and Brooklyn respectively. What’s more, critic and anthromorphic meme Anthony Fantano – the internet’s busiest music nerd – recently gave the festival a shout-out during a live stream. While many festivals of a similar scale and ambition struggle out of the gate, Miami Psych Fest has had no problem asserting its identity or reaching its target audience.

A crucial part of Rüfüs Du Sol’s charm is the uplifting quality of the music. Since the release of the Australian electronic trio’s first full-length album, Atlas, in 2014, it has forged ahead with a sound that’s as sweeping in emotion as in scope, enveloping listeners and concertgoers in immaculately produced soundscapes and dreamy vocals courtesy of guitarist Tyrone Lindqvist.

In composition as well as curation, Nick León considers all of the angles. Although the Miami-based producer has always demonstrated a keen ear for involved and immersive soundscapes, his latest EP, Friday’s Totem, sees the artist boil down his preexisting techniques to a previously unheard degree.

The name “Rex the Dog” carries a certain connotation among electro heads. Any mention of him among seasoned clubbers tends to be accompanied by words such as “banger,” “massive,” and “stomper,” with fond remembrances of throwing down to his music often following not too far behind. Both through his own songs…

For all of his witticisms and clever turns of phrase, Morrissey is essentially childish. He lives in an exaggerated realm where every inconvenience is a misery and every naysayer a flatulent pain in the arse. So the tribute band Ordinary Boys might be the most ideal way to enjoy the Smiths — it’s Morrissey without Morrissey.

This Saturday, Miamians will bear witness to a show more than 30 years in the making, courtesy of Lang Cook & the X-Y-Z Affair. When it was released in 1984, Cook’s debut LP, She’s Hot With 2,000 Watt’s, stood out as an oddity. The Miami native’s brand of spaced-out, synthesized funk…

Tomorrow night, the Destiny Inn will open for business. More of an idea and an ethos than a location, the Destiny Inn — summoned in spirit by Floyd’s new monthly Thursday-night party, Live at the Destiny Inn — will offer an alternative to traditional Miami-nightlife fare, occupying a deliberately hazy middle ground between pulse-pounding techno thrills and the lull of ambient works.

As the world’s premier cultural destination, there’s never been more to do in New York City than there is today. Having completed its transformation into a safer, cleaner, and friendlier metropolitan hub, the Big Apple now holds more cultural sights than seem reasonably possible.

The Soft Moon began as a way for Luis Vasquez to channel his innermost anxieties and fears into something positive.

It wouldn’t be quite accurate to describe DJ/producer Joe Seaton — better known to clubgoers as Call Super — as a techno artist. Although the London-born, Berlin-based musician is often given the label, it’s hard to find straightforward bass drum-led, hi-hat riddled numbers in his discography. Rather, his sound is possibility,…