Antidote party, featuring Bassnectar and the Freestylers Circa 28, Miami Sunday, March 30 Better than: A ripe, juicy peach on a hot summer afternoon while your boombox spills the top 40. A good amount of closing joints were poppin’ off Sunday night to see the close of WMC ’08, but…

Fool’s Gold Records showcase The White Room, Miami March 28, 2008 Better Than: All the sleep you’re missing from WMC, times 10 Although most of the brouhaha was supposedly occurring Friday night over at Ultra, one seemingly underground party emerged from the woodworks of Downtown Miami. Dubbed by LA Riots…

Justice at Ultra Music Festival Bicentennial Park Friday, March 28, 2008 Better Than: Whatever X those chicks next to me were rolling face on I obviously wasn’t surprised in the slightest to see the typical ravers, rollers and ridiculous public behavior at Ultra, a fest known for its array of…

M.A.N.D.Y. and Booka Shade’s hit 2005 track “Body Language” M.A.N.D.Y., hailing from Berlin, isn’t female — nor is it even one person. Rather, it’s the purposefully ambiguous moniker of the DJ/producer duo of Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung. Longtime pals since boyhood, over the years they moved from throwing warehouse…

In this week’s special Winter Music Conference guide, we spoke with house legend Louie Vega — click here to read the story. Of course, there are always interview outtakes, so for Louie’s true fans, here’s the full Q&A. — Arielle Castillo Little Louie Vega performs Thursday, March 27, at the…

Day 3, Friday, March 14 I’ll admit, by Friday, day 3 of SXSW, I was already starting to feel the exhaustion a bit, and I was starting to need some motivational cheerleading. Luckily, I got to start the day off easy with the daytime party thrown by the Miami and…

So I’ve finally gotten a decent night’s sleep after getting back on Sunday from SXSW. And, while here in Miami, we have to start down the countdown to WMC (next Tuesday! Get excited)! I still wanted to wrap-up a summary of the live music I saw out in Texas. The…

Everybody and their grandmother, by now, knows at least the chorus and hooks to local guy Flo Rida’s inescapable track, “Low,” featuring T-Pain, that’s spent a bazillion weeks as the number-one pop song in the country. His anticipated full-length, Mail on Sunday, drops tomorrow on Poe Boy/Atlantic. (Wonder what the…

Here’s the second installment from our guest blogger, Sir Winston, proprietor of Churchill’s Pub in Miami. Here are his highlights for SXSW day three, Friday Rachel Goodrich Rachel Goodrich woos new and influential friends Miami native Rachel Goodrich’s three-song set at the swanky BMI/Billboard Luncheon on the lawn was truly…

Reporting in from SXSW in Austin, where the proliferation of barbecue, noise, and way too much free booze is starting to severely hamper my ability to take notes. It’s now day three of the music marathon, and over the last couple of days I’ve caught a few legends, maybe a…

The long-haired, natty Lazaro Casanova got his start playing at the now-defunct old Malibu Grand Prix’s infamous Full Moon parties, int he Nineties. But he really became a local marquee name as the musical selector du jour for the main rooms indie-ish dance parties in Miami, most notably at the…

This quartet specializes in face-melting volume, pounding riffage, and a churning, breakneck-speed riffage section. But don’t tag ’em with the “m” word – Torche is a band possessing the rare ability to create heavy, heavy sounds that remain versatile and nuanced. With a floating overlay of intelligent, almost shoegazey textures,…

Within a span of months, the kiddies of Black Tide have shot from totally unheard-of to total buzz band for lovers of heavy music, appearing in the like of Spin and Revolver. And they are, in fact kiddies – the oldest members of the quartet are 19, and the frontman,…

(Via Idolator). Liberal mag Mother Jones did us all the favor of putting together an imeem streaming play list of songs used during military prison interrogations, according to various leaked documents. And I have to say — I, too, would crack pretty quickly if forced to listen to “Babylon” by…

…when you can use VOCALOID, a totally fascinating, vaguely unsettling singing synthesizer program from – where else? – Japan. It doesn’t just do the robot voice box or vocoder sounds – this one actually sings, mainly through the reedy female voice of a fictional character, Miku Hatsune (based, however, on…