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Feel it, maaaaaan.

As the superpositive peeps over at Cloud 9 Productions gush: "We want to take a moment to tell you, the Jam Cruise community, just how much we love and cherish you

"The memories of all we have been through together over the past decade mean the world to us, there truly is nothing quite like Jam Cruise and we don't take that for granted for one second!"

Oh yeah, these jammin', cruisin' folks "love you guys!" And that's why they've just unloaded a massively melodic and exotic lineup for your 2014 "musical adventure of a lifetime."

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Skeptics predict the local music shop is going extinct like the penny arcade.

But for the last six years, so-called "independently owned, stand-alone brick-and-mortar retailers" around the U.S. (and the world) have been banding together under the Record Store Day banner to, paraphrasing the immortal Beastie Boys, fight for their right to exist.

Since 2010, Little Haiti music shop and hangout Sweat Records has been leading the local struggle with Sweatstock, an annual one-day music festival and RSD blowout celebrating vintage vinyl, limited-edition CDs, indie music, artisinal grub, and free fun.

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Holy Effing Ship!!!

Those three exclamation points signify three years for electronic dance music's raddest four-day party cruise. (It ain't just bad grammar or Internet-y hyperbole.)

Coincidentally, though, we're exactly that beat-freaking excited about the 2014 edition of Hard Events' EDM humpfest at sea. Especially since it's finally floating outta Miami.

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Nightclubs? Boring. Music festivals? Too landlocked. Yacht parties? Now you're talking!

Every year during the month of March, South Florida's private yacht rental business booms as electronic dance music fanatics flock to the region for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week's EDM cruises.

Check out New Times' full Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013 event listings.

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Every morning, there's a halo hanging from the corner of our girlfriend's four post bed. Today, it's soiled in sadness because Mark McGrath, lead singer of Sugar Ray and former Extra co-host, has canceled his Nineties Nostalgia cruise.

Scheduled to depart from Miami in October, the 'Mark McGrath and Friends' was nixed because of poor press surrounding the recent "poop cruise" disaster, reports the LA Times.

"I'm really bummed as well," McGrath tells one fan on Twitter. "That poop cruise did us no favors."

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Some say "happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway." But in reality, happiness is a three-night cruise with Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas at the helm.

For the first time ever, the 2004 People's Choice Awards selection for Favorite Musical Group is hitting the high seas aboard the Carnival Imagination "S.S. Matchbox," complete with a Matchbox 20 Q&A session, photo ops and, best of all, a "one-hour open bar cocktail party" to supplement the 71 other hours of cash-bar drinking.

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Just count the exclamation points ...

With every passing year, Hard Events' electronic dance music cruise only gets more epic. And Crossfade can vouch for that fact 'cause we've been aboard the MSC Poesia for each and every edition of this EDM rager at sea since 2011.

Now prepping its third uhntz-uhntz-ing trip upon the high seas (i.e. Holy Ship!!!), it's tough to imagine how the whole Hard crew will outdo itself in 2014.

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Go ramblin' with the Gambler on a boat!

Or as Kenny Rogers himself might croon: "On a warm summer's evenin' on a huge ship bound for paradise ..."

The Country Music Cruise has announced its maiden voyage and initial lineup, including Rogers, Vince Gill, and a dozen other high-seas high rollers.

Setting sail from Port Everglades on January 19, 2014, aboard Holland America's MS Eurodam, this oceanic hoedown will be cruisin' across the Pacific for seven days and makin' camp at four Caribbean ports: Turks and Caicos' Grand Turk, Puerto Rico's San Juan, Saint Maarten's Philipsburg, and the Bahamas's Half Moon Cay.

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Sydney Blu says: "Groove Cruise just gets crazier and crazier!"

"What happens on the ship stays on the ship!"

Those are the rules of Groove Cruise, according to founder Jason Beukema.

And today, for the ninth straight year, electronic dance music fanatics and so-called "exotic destination experience junkies" will be sailing out to sea in pursuit of EDM epicness and that ever-elusive "high-energy positive vibe."

But since no one wanted to open wide about the wet and wild debauchery of past Groove Cruises, we here at Crossfade asked three DJs and a repeat GC attendee: "Got predictions?"

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The best place to party is the high seas. Everyone knows it, and more and more reveling ravers are taking their good times to the deep blue.

Now that Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week lineups are emerging, it's no surprise a whole crop of party cruises, yacht parties, and the like are springing up everywhere.

The big names haven't even unrolled their flyers, but we've already got three freaky maritime excursions, all taking place during the craziest damn week of your life.

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