Much to learn we still have.

That's why New Times and Crossfade are seeking your help in the Sunshine Wars. So many questions! And strong in you the force is!

Who is Miami's best band? DJ? Dance club? Latin club? Rock club? Radio station?

Lend your wisdom to Best of Miami 2013: The Sunshine Strikes Back by casting votes in our online readers' poll. Voting closes May 29.

Check the cut for all music, bars, and clubs nominees.

See also:
-Best of Miami 2013: The Sunshine Strikes Back Readers' Poll

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Heavy bass, ear-shredding distortion, booty beats, syrupy synths, and prime rhymes.

Even though the 305 is a sunny city, it's definitely got a weird, dark, and dirty side. So while this year's top local releases were often sexed-up and fun-obsessed, they were also experimental, X-rated, drugged-out, deeply gritty, and unrepentantly strange.

No doubt, an appropriately unpredictable soundtrack for these subtropical shores, lousy with clubs, coke, crime, punks, metalheads, party kids, art junkies, and a million other contradictions.

Here are Miami's best albums, EPs, and singles of 2012.

See also:
-EDM's Ten Best Tracks and Albums of 2012
-Worst Songs of 2012: Lil Wayne to LMFAO

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Conga con Gloria.

Can you hear that throbbing beat?

It's just the sound of Crossfade finally reaching a poundingly hot Latin-pop climax after two weeks of counting down the raddest bassers, freestyle stars, rappers, punks, rockers, and noiseniks in our subtropical city's music history.

To loosely quote Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine: "Come on, shake that body, baby. Do the conga. We know you can't control yourself any longer."

So check the cut for the top five in our epic list of the 50 Best Miami Bands of All Time.

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R.I.P. Exposé's Sandée.

No party lasts forever. Even in Miami.

The booze runs out. The coke gets snorted. The girls stop dancing. The club closes. The night ends.

But at least the music -- like Exposé's freestyle classic "Point of No Return" -- will never die.

Every night in the discotheque of eternity, you can slam vodka shots, toot fat lines, and shake that beautiful ass to a chiming hyperactive beat.

That's called immortality. Now check the cut for numbers 10 to 6 in Crossfade's epic list of the 50 Best Miami Bands of All Time.

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Bein' the best with Jacuzzi Boys.

We be flexin'.

At various points in our city's music history, the raddest Miami-bred noisemakers have left town, hit beaches besides Haulover, and showed off the 305's sonic muscle all across these United States of America.

For the last few years, the Jacuzzi Boys have been the MIA's Best Scene Ambassadors. But there were many before them.

From Charlie Pickett to L'Trimm ... Just check the cut for numbers 15 to 11 in Crossfade's epic list of the 50 Best Miami Bands of All Time.

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The wailing, skanking third-wave punk horns of Against All Authority.

There ain't no party like a Miami party. 'Cause a Miami party don't stop.

But besides that undeniable truth, there's also the fact that a Miami party comes in, like, a million different permutations.

We live in a weird, sexy, superdiverse land of "Peanut Butter Jelly" time, Cuban-American country music hoedowns, horn-blowing punk circle pits, Carribean disco freakfests, and degenerate rock 'n' roll shows.

Need proof? Just check the cut for numbers 20 to 16 in Crossfade's epic list of the 50 Best Miami Bands of All Time.

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Disco Rick: Pimp, bass legend, and King of Diamonds stripper wrangler.

There's a classic Miami song for every occasion.

Protesting SoBe nightlife? Crank up ANR's "Kill South Beach Dead." Getting a perm? Frizz with Nuclear Valdez's "Summer." Stripping for the rent money at King of Diamonds? Try Disco Rick and The Dogs' "Take It Off."

Check the cut for numbers 25 to 21 in Crossfade's 50 Best Miami Bands of All Time. And discover another round of day-enhancing Dade County ditties.

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Poison the Well lead screamer Jeffrey Moreira.

Ever screamed so long and loud that you suddenly started spitting specks of blood and chunks of lung onto the microphone?

Well, we here at Crossfade are now halfway through an insane screeching spree of exactly that kinda throat-shredding intensity. And it's called the 50 Best Miami Bands of All Time.

Of course, it hasn't been entirely hardcore. We've also gone back to Calle Ocho with Miami Bass Warriors, gobbled a couple hotdogs with Avenue D, rolled deep with Ricky Rozay's Triple C's, and party-partied with Afrobeta's neo-freestyle.

Yet all along, we haven't stopped screaming. Check the cut for numbers 30 to 26.

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Just like Afrobeta's Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio, we here at Crossfade wanna know ... Do you party?

For the last 72 hours, we've been shakin' ass (and sometimes Scraping Teeth) while snorting skinny lines of pure white SoBe sand off scratched-up slabs by some of our favorite local music crews ever. Like Miami Bass Warriors, Avenue D, and Ricky Rozay's Triple C's.

And today the binge continues ... Just check the cut for numbers 35 to 31 in Crossfade's 50 Best Miami Bands of All Time.

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Rollin' with Triple C's: Torch, Young Breed, Gunplay, and Ricky Rozay.

After wildin' out to the brutal, punk-y, funky, bass-y, fuzzy strains of only ten Best Miami Bands of All Time (i.e. Scraping Teeth, Frank Williams & The Rocketeers, Iko Iko, ANR, Miami Bass Warriors and Nuclear Valdez, The Goods, Locos Por Juana, Cynic, Avenue D), our ears are already freakin' bleeding.

But deaf or not, this party don't end till Number 1. So check the cut for numbers 40 to 36 in Crossfade's ongoingly epic list.

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