WMC 2012: Eight Best Electronic Dance Music Cruises

When in Rome, you shuffle through the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum with a tour group. Guided by a dopey ex-pat, you learn the condensed histories of these places, take cliché family photos, and drop serious Euro coinage on overpriced gelato. When in Miami, however, you drop a hundred bucks…

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…

New Order’s Four Catchiest, Hook-Laden Songs

As the world’s most comprehensive electronic party extravaganza, Ultra Music Festival is dominated by the sonic phenomenon known as the drop. Simultaneously present in seemingly unrelated genres — such as the soulful vocal crescendos of house, the interlocking pulses of techno, or the bombastic bass-wobble breakdowns of dubstep — the…

The Casualties Hit the Circle Pit at Churchill’s Pub on March 8

Last time we saw The Casualties in Miami, the circle pit opened up wider than Bicentennial Park. It spread from Biscayne Bay to the Metro Rail and swallowed up everything from manatees to high-school girls, giant tattooed heshers, spike and leather punks, hardcore kids, metal mamas, stoner crusties, skateboard hooligans,…

Ten Best Music-Related Things to Do in Miami This Weekend Under $10

It’s been a tough week for everyone. Davy Jones died after God selfishly robbed the would-be jockey who “left millions of teenage pillows soaking hot and wet with culture-lust” from us, death-sentencing him with coronary failure and signing him to an eternally binding record contract on his heavenly label. Like…

Six Best South Beach Club Parties This Weekend

Holy time lapse! Even with that extra day tacked on to the end of the month, February flew by and gave way to the madness that is March. And in Miami, that means 128 BPM bass drops and bleep-bloop electro bangers. With Winter Music Conference just two weeks away, EDM…

Six best club parties on South Beach March 1-3

Holy time lapse! Even with that extra day tacked on to the end of the month, February flew by and gave way to the madness that is March. And in Miami, that means 128 bpm bass drops and bleep-bloop electro bangers. With Winter Music Conference just two weeks away, EDM…

2 Chainz at Cameo Miami March 7

Man, 2 Chainz is tall. We were going to guess six feet five inches. But one of those oh-so-reliable Internet answers sites lists his official height to be exactly six feet eight inches. Whatever the number, he needed every bit of it to remain visible over the mob of hangers-on,…

Hank Williams III at Culture Room March 7

Hank III might be Satan’s favorite grandson. His daddy was a cactus, his mama was a bear trap, and he was born with his boots on in a river full of moonshine. At age 11, he ripped out his own throat and cooked it over a forest fire. The next…

Bands for Dance III Benefit at Churchill’s Pub March 2

Art and politics can make strange, confusing bedfellows. German playwright and all-around commie Bertolt Brecht would say: Unless your work directly protests the global capitalist hegemony by alienating the bourgeois theatergoing audience, it amounts to little but titillation for the ruling classes. On the other end of the spectrum, though,…

The Hood Internet at Mansion March 2

Though obviously rooted in the beat matching and live mixing of the disc jockey, the mashup, as we know it today, is a distinctly ’00s phenomenon that revealed itself at the very beginning of the decade. And the modern blueprint for expertly splicing together two songs (often from mind-blowingly disparate…

No Name #2 at the Electric Pickle March 1

No genre has been more ripped off, watered down, and straight-up bastardized than techno. To the layperson, say a classic-rock aficionado or maybe a jazz head, the mere mention of this Detroit-bred electronic music genre (and really, less a conventional genre than an unwieldy collection of variants, everything from minimal…

Romeo Santos at the American Airlines Arena March 1

Over the past 17 years, Romeo Santos and bachata boy band Aventura have won the overflowing adoration of prepubescent girls, their mothers, and 35-year-old guys in white pants who love to dance. In the process, Santos and sidekicks scored a surplus of American Music Awards, Premio Lo Nuestro statues, and…

Nine Mile Music Festival at Virginia Key Beach Park March 3

Wanna lead a blessed existence full of irie vibes? Simply abide by these nine Rasta-approved rules of conduct and you shall bask in the radiant glory of the Zion Lion: (1) Grow that ganja; (2) get dreaded; (3) praise Jah; (4) start an Ital diet; (5) smoke that ganja; (6)…