Photo by Yesenia Hernandez

See the full 36-photo slideshow of Rusko at the Fillmore Miami Beach.

Rusko
With DJ Sigma
Fillmore Miami Beach
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Better Than: Making out with a tree.

Any talk about dubstep in its current, wildly popular and commercially viable form, always devolves into hand-wringing. But if anyone deserves to play the style critically derided as brostep for a theater full of sweaty, screaming fans, it's Rusko.
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Photo by Jason Koerner/jasonkoerner.com

Jane's Addiction singer and Miami boy Perry Farrell.

See also "Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell Comments on Tom Gabel's Transgender Announcement" -- plus the Fillmore's full Facebook photo album from Jane's Addiction in Miami.

Jane's Addiction
With The Duke Spirit
Fillmore Miami Beach
Friday, May 18, 2012

Better Than: Remembering that Ritual de lo Habitual came out in 1990.

Jane's Addiction doesn't so much play a concert as put on a party. For frontman Perry Farrell, who spent his teen years just a few surf breaks up from the Fillmore Miami Beach, Friday night's show was a homecoming blowout.

"People tell bands that it's not a good idea to come to Miami," he told the crowd. "Well, they're fucking liars."
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Photo by Sayre Berman

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy at the Fillmore last night.

See the full 26-photo slideshow of Wilco at the Fillmore Miami Beach -- plus "Wilco's John Stirratt on the Music Industry, Piracy, and Southern Manners."

Last night, Chicago-based alternative country rock band Wilco performed at the Fillmore Miami Beach for a packed house.

Founders Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, and company started the set with songs from its latest album, The Whole Love, playing "One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)" before moving right on through "Art of Almost," "Born Alone," "Capitol City," "Dawned On Me," and "I Might."
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Photo by Alex Broadwell

A Flock of Seagulls' Mike Score.

View the full 37-photo slideshow of A Flock of Seagulls at Grand Central here.

A Flock of Seagulls
Grand Central
Friday, May 11, 2012

Better Than: A real '80s dance party, because we've got smart phones.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was 1982. The iconic '80s synthpop band A Flock of Seagulls was hitting their stride and shocking families across America with their made-for-MTV aesthetic. And, you know, that hair.
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Photo by Ian Witlen

See the full 21-photo slideshow of Beach House at the Fillmore Miami Beach.

Beach House
With Zomes
Fillmore Miami Beach
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Better Than: Hitting the snooze button ... Forever.

Beach House is from Baltimore?!?

If The Wire had been set in Beach House's Baltimore, it'd be about the gritty world of selling homemade blankets on Etsy.
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Photo by Eric Garcia

Hippie lady putting mini-umbrellas and other crap in a Juke member's hair.

For years, everyone has told me, "You guys gotta play it, man! Juke would be perfect."

We're talking about the annual Wanee Festival, a three-day, 30,000-strong, hippie jam extravaganza in Live Oak, Florida.

It mostly specializes in "bluesy" acts like The Allman Brothers.

And this year, my band finally went to Wanee.
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Photo by Jacob Katel

Climb aboard the Sound Bomb Bus.

The cool sea breeze whipped through the North Beach Bandshell on Saturday night as Afro-Latin rhythms bounced off the circular wall of the oceanside, outdoor venue.

Colombia's Quantic Sound System and NYC's Pedrito Martinez Group rang in the Heineken Transatlantic Festival's 10th anniversary with complex yet infectiously danceable beats.
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Photo by Ian Witlen

Confetti, smoke machines, champagne, birthday cakes, an inflatable raft, and crowd surfing.

It isn't surprising to find all this stuff at one of Steve Aoki's performances. He's known for hyping the crowd up with his crazy stunts. But Aoki dialed it up to 11 for his set at Ultra Music Festival on Sunday afternoon.
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All photos by Jacob Katel

​Magnetic Man is a collabo between three dubstep dudes from the UK -- DJs Benga, Skream, and Artwork -- who met at a record store in the '90s and have been raging ever since.

They're all big-name DJs and producers in their own right. As Magnetic Man, though, Benga, Skream, and Artwork have a major-label record deal, and they're touring the world. But prior to Ultra Music Festival 2012, they'd only played together in the U.S. once before, at Coachella.

Their show at Ultra's Live Stage featured a special guest MC who was pure fire. He was a hell of a hype man. Here are 15 photos from Magnetic Man's set.
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All photos by Jacob Katel

​We missed Afrobeta's opening-night set at Ultra Music Festival. But the Miami duo also played an action-packed closeout to Ultra on Sunday. And we caught it all on camera.

The party animals were out in full force and the band's Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio were in strong shape. They played electro, and dubstep originals, and covered Devo's "Whip It," Nirvana's "Nevermind," and did a remix of the Looney Tunes theme song.
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