Six Best Parties on South Beach This Week

Screw Friday, the real party starts tonight in the Magic City. So slip on your stilettos, grab your girls, and head out to South Beach for some hardcore rap from Yo Gotti, "forward thinking house & techno" from Fur Coat, and a neon paint throw down at Mansion. Here are...

By Laurie Charles

March 6, 2014

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Screw Friday, the real party starts tonight in the Magic City.

So slip on your stilettos, grab your girls, and head out to South Beach for some hardcore rap from Yo Gotti, "forward thinking house & techno" from Fur Coat, and a neon paint throw down at Mansion.

Here are the six best bashes going down this week.

Yo Gotti. With DJs Stevie J and Iron Lyon. Thursday, March 6, 11 p.m., Story, 136 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-538-2424; storymiami.com. Tickets cost $30-$40 plus fees via wantickets.com. Ages 21 and up. If Yo Gotti were an NBA all star, he'd be LeBron James. Not because LBJ is a record-breaking MVP beast and all, but because he ain't no "rookie." So if you wanna "[pop] bottles, [blow] money, and just [have] fun," you better "Act Right."

Lil Jon. DJ Set. Friday, March 7, 11 p.m., LIV, 4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-674-4680; livnightclub.com. Tickets cost $40-$75 plus fees via wantickets.com. Ages 21 and up. "Are you ready?! Are you ready?! Are you ready?!" No, really, "Are you ready?!" Yeah! Then "Let's Get Fucked Up" with Lil Jon at LIV.

Fur Coat. With Danyelino and Ms. Mada. Friday, March 7, 11 p.m., Treehouse, 323 23rd St., Miami Beach; 305-614-4478; treehousemiami.com. Tickets cost $15 plus fees via wantickets.com. Ages 21 and up. No matter how much we may "try to walk away" from the deep, funky beats and "rolling grooves" of the Venezuelan DJ duo Fur Coat, they always seem to "get [us] with [their] sound," and hypnotize us with their musically intoxicating ways.

Norman Doray. With Dave Sol. Friday, March 7, 11 p.m., Story, 136 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-538-2424; storymiami.com. Tickets cost $30-$40 plus fees via wantickets.com. Ages 21 and up. "We all need something to believe in," so believe in the raw fist-pumping power of French DJ Norman Doray.

TARGAMY Neon Party. Saturday, March 8, 11 p.m., Mansion, 1235 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-695-8411; mansionmiami.com. Tickets cost $30 plus fees via wantickets.com. Ages 21 and up. Ever had that wild EDM dream that you're being splattered with neon paint by a sexy stranger in a fluorescent latex body suit? That's no fantasy of yours, that's the glow edition of TARGAMY, Italy's biggest bash, and it's going down at Mansion.

Victor Calderone. With Rony Seikaly. Saturday, March 8, 11 p.m., Story, 136 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-538-2424; storymiami.com. Tickets cost $30-$40 plus fees via wantickets.com. Ages 21 and up. Can't get enough of Victor Calderone's "big-room tribal house beats?" Neither can we. That's why we're gonna watch the uhntz-uhntz legend tear down the stage at Story with former Miami Heat player-turned-DJ, Rony Seikaly.

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