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Hey, kids.

In just two more days, print copies of New Times' 2013 Best of Miami issue will plop onto street corners, loaded with 330 winners across categories such as "Best Hot Dog," "Best Strip Club," and "Best Place to Go Stoned."

But today, we here at Crossfade got a preview. And Miami's Best Songwriter is ...

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Hey, kids.

In just two more days, print copies of New Times' 2013 Best of Miami issue will plop onto street corners, loaded with 330 winners across categories such as "Best Hot Dog," "Best Strip Club," and "Best Place to Go Stoned."

But today, we here at Crossfade got a preview. And Miami's Best Music Blog is ...

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Hey, kids.

In just a few more days, print copies of New Times' 2013 Best of Miami issue will plop onto street corners, loaded with 330 winners across categories such as "Best Hot Dog," "Best Strip Club," and "Best Place to Go Stoned."

But today, we here at Crossfade got a preview. And Miami's Best Record Label is ...

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-Best of Miami 2013's Best DJ: Baez

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Hey, kids.

In just a few more days, print copies of New Times' 2013 Best of Miami issue will plop onto street corners, loaded with 330 winners across categories such as "Best Hot Dog," "Best Strip Club," and "Best Place to Go Stoned."

But today, we here at Crossfade got another preview. And Miami's Best Electronica Artist is ...

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Baez: "I love what I do, music."

Hey, kids.

In just seven days, print copies of New Times' 2013 Best of Miami issue will plop onto street corners, loaded with 330 winners across categories such as "Best Hot Dog," "Best Strip Club," and "Best Place to Go Stoned."

But today, we here at Crossfade got a preview. And Miami's Best DJ is ...

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Hey, kids.

In just seven days, print copies of New Times' 2013 Best of Miami issue will plop onto street corners, loaded with 330 winners across categories such as "Best Hot Dog," "Best Strip Club," and "Best Place to Go Stoned."

But today, we here at Crossfade got a preview. And Miami's Best Band is ...

See also:
-Best of Miami 2013's Best DJ: Baez

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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. But voting closes today!

So check the cut for all music, bars, and clubs nominees. And vote, young padawan.

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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.

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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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