Ten Best Free Parties During Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013

You don't need money to see Diplo's pretty face during WMC/MMW 2013.

Tickets to Ultra Music Festival: $299.95. Winter Music Conference passes: $475. Seeing all your favorite DJs and producers: priceless.

No, it literally won't cost you anything. The best-kept secret of the whole WMC and Miami Music Week party train: You can catch some of the hottest names in the game for absolutely nothing.

Artists from Mad Decent, Fool's Gold, Rinse FM, Slow Roast Records, Trouble & Bass, and others can all be caught live in the act, free of charge. Even some of the artists hitting the Ultra stage are just waiting for you to walk in the door of some hotel or bar.

Don't you dare stay at home all week. With Crossfade's guide to the best free parties, you've got no excuse.

See also:
-Ultra, WMC, and MMW 2013 Guide
-Ten Best EDM Cruises During WMC and MMW 2013
-Ten Best Pool Parties During WMC and MMW 2013
-Twenty Best Club Parties During WMC and MMW 2013



His & Hers: Slap & Tickle Edition With Pirate Stereo and Santiago Caballero. Saturday, March 16, at the Garret at Grand Central, 697 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-377-2277; grandcentralmiami.com. Ages 21 and up. The party starts at 11 p.m. No RSVP required. Poplife and Off The Radar have a good thing going with their new Saturday weekly. They're helping to usher in the week's festivities with a special performance from locals Pirate Stereo and Santiago Caballero. Come get loose and take advantage of the drink specials. You need to save your monies for what's to come.



Rvdiovctive Pool Party. With special guest headliner, Codes, Junior Sanchez, J Paul Getto, DJ Mes, Sazon Booya, Lazerdisk Party Sex, David Dann, Bamboora, Chemicals of Creation, String Theory, Kre8or, Metaphysical, Nate Mars, Joey Grenier, Subset and Zeratone. Tuesday, March 19, at the Carlton South Beach Hotel, 1433 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-672-5858; carltonsouthbeach.com. Ages 18 and up. The party starts at 11 a.m. No RSVP required. The headliner may be a mystery, but the rest of this lineup's got lots of cool grooves, spicy moombah flavor, and tons of electro edge. This sunny poolside get-down boasts two bars, live art, and sexy mermaids.