Photo by Luz Elena Silva

Alejandro Sanz
La música no se toca Tour
With Carlos Varela
American Airlines Arena, Miami
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Last night, thousands of Latin music fans had an amazing night at the American Airlines Arena, leaving rapt and satisfied, thanks to Alejandro Sanz and his conquering desire.

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Photo by Luz Elena Silva

Jarabe de Palo's A piano y voz
With Ulises Hadjis and Mr. Pauer
Grand Central, Miami
Saturday, April 27, 2013

In a very intimate setting at Grand Central in downtown Miami, Spanish rock band Jarabe de Palo kicked off its latest tour around the United States, called A piano y voz.

The idea: Perform classic Jarabe love songs in a pure and simple way. Just as they were created -- with a voice and one instrument.

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Photo by Eric Garcia

The Wanee masses, fully prepped for a freakout.

My band, Juke, was invited to play our first Wanee Festival last year, up at the Spirit of Swanee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida.

We played the opening night's festivities, rocked out, and suffered from a bit of culture shock. This 500-plus-acre park just outside Georgia is in the middle of nowhere.

Now the four-day festival is absolutely awesome. It is incredibly well run and attended by nearly 40,000 people. But I still didn't understand it.

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Photo by Luz Elena Silva

Kinky
With Feneiva and Mr. Pauer
La Covacha, Doral
Saturday, April 6, 2013

Kinkier Than: A swinger's party en La Saguesera.

Over the weekend, La Covacha welcomed Mexican rock band Kinky, after an absence of seven years from Miami. In a city where reggaeton, salsa, and merengue are the constant, this time, the night was all about a fusion of rock, electronic, and Latin rhythms.

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-Kinky's Carlos Chairez on Spanish Rock in the U.S. and Why "Miami Is a Challenging City"

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What's the best way to spend a Monday in Miami?

Hurling bricks of cold, hard American cash at fistfighting strippers.

As a member of Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group and an adopted 305-er, Meek Mill is a big fan of this particularly Floridian recreational activity. So it's only obvious that he'd host the most recent edition of the "world famous Monday fight night" at the newly renovated King of Diamonds Gentleman's Club in North Miami Beach.

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Gettin' sinister with the Rev, Giuseppe, and Inspecter 7

As Rev Sinister of Inspecter 7 explained, there's one place in America that gives Miami a run for its money in being dark and sordid. That's Asbury Park, New Jersey, the grimey land that the band basically comes from.

And from the first horn blow, guitar chop, kick drum, bass note, and sung lyric, they fit right in at Churchill's Pub, even though they haven't been to this city in 13 years.

Chairman of the sound board, Rat Bastard had the volume cranked to 11, and Washington D.C.'s Immoral Discipline, and the horny local punks of Askultura and Funkman's Inferno all played their hearts out for Die Trying's release show for their new Flatlands EP.

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Photo by Ian Witlen

What gets EDM-ers excited?

Sometimes "bass makes bitches cum." (Just ask these rumble-humping raver chicks.) Other times, a human chicken might be the thang that'll get the party people hot.

And at Ultra Music Festival, the beat freaks are undoubtedly the kinkiest. Just make the jump for Crossfade's 15-photo recap of the last day at Ultra 2013

Check out the 72-photo slideshow for "Ultra Music Festival 2013 Weekend Two Day Three."

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-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Three, From Plushie Penises to Killer Clowns
-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Four, From Robot Ravers to Boys Noize's Skull
-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Five, From Lip Tattoos to Pookie Monsters

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Photo by Ian Witlen

Wanna prove your dedication to the EDM scene?

Try a "Basshead" lip tattoo. Or dressing up like a grinning reptilian member of the "Pookie Monster Mafia." Or stripping down on a daily basis to go swimming in a writhing sea of 150,000 sweaty human bodies.

Even just surviving this UMF marathon long enough to browse Crossfade's 15-photo recap of day five at Ultra 2013 is pretty effing impressive.

Check out the 44-photo slideshow for "Ultra Music Festival 2013 Weekend Two Day Two."

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-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Two, From Stoned Gnomes to UMF Tramp Stamps
-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Three, From Plushie Penises to Killer Clowns
-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Four, From Robot Ravers to Boys Noize's Skull
-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Six, From Bass Bitches to Human Chickens

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Photo by Ian Witlen

No, normie. Your water bottle didn't get secretly dosed with lysergic acid diethylamide.

This is Ultra Music Festival, a trippy-ass EDM encampment in downtown Miami that's just overflowing with robot ravers and (almost) naked beat freaks of both sexes -- not to mention wacky party props like inflatable animals and blow-up dolls and Boys Noize's giant evil skull with glowing red LED eyes.

Make the jump for Crossfade's 15-photo recap of day four at Ultra 2013.

Check out the 31-photo slideshow for "Ultra Music Festival 2013 Weekend Two Day One."

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-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Two, From Stoned Gnomes to UMF Tramp Stamps
-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Three, From Plushie Penises to Killer Clowns
-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Five, From Lip Tattoos to Pookie Monsters
-Ultra 2013 in Pics: Day Six, From Bass Bitches to Human Chickens

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Photo by George Martinez

The ravin' and ragin' life isn't all epicness.

Sometimes, stuff sucks. Like "free water!!!" and "free Wi-Fi!!!" Or Yeasayer's Chris Keating talking all kinds of mad shit about Ultra Music Festival 2013's happy, half-naked, supernice party people.

We here at Crossfade just enumerated the five best moments from weekend one of UMF. But we obviously got a few gripes.

Just check the cut for the five worst moments from weekend one of Ultra 2013.

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