The Duke Spirit

When Crossfade checked in with The Duke Spirit on Thursday, the London rock band was lost and on the run somewhere outside Daytona Beach.

They finally arrived under cover of darkening skies, as the neon tubes buzzed on for the evening in Miami Beach. Crossfade tagged along to see what 29 hours in Miami was like for the band, currently opening for Jane's Addiction on their North American tour.

"I wish my body were a temple," says The Duke Spirit's singer, Liela Moss, as she adjusts her eyes to the dark of a Miami Beach barroom. "I wish I were a perfect, clean-living diva but the forces of alcohol always pull me back."
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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 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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​The Main Stage lineup on Saturday was impressive with both Fatboy Slim and Justice warming up the crowd for headliner Avicii.

But at 11:07 p.m., the Swedish DJ was nowhere to be found. And so the restless crowd started chanting his name, "Avicii! Avicii! Avicii!"

Maybe the tactic worked. Because just seconds later, the Material Girl herself, Madonna, bounced out from backstage for a superspecial Ultra Music Festival guest appearance, crashing Avicii's set and giving him the awkwardest of introductions.
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​"Squelch TV, man. It's better than Saturday Night Live."

Though the source (Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra, prolific producer, musician, and, yes, sole proprietor of Squelch TV) is arguably biased, the assertion is, nevertheless, pretty convincing.

Over the weekend, Falestra hosted the latest edition of the series, which has featured Miami-based rock 'n roll (Snakehole, Holly Hunt) and avant-weirdo shit (Kenny Millions, Xela Zaid) alike, streaming live from his apartment-slash-studio in South Beach.
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​Maybe you spent Christmas night digesting the pig and/or turkey you'd been scarfing down all day. But we spent it dancing off our 20 meals to Questlove's DJ set at Wall Lounge.

Nowadays, even your mom knows about Questlove, thanks to Jimmy Fallon. Yet somehow, the drummer and producer manages to maintain cool status, even though he appears on television more regularly than Simon Cowell or Paula Abdul.

It's not often that you hear basically every danceable American musical genre mixed deliciously into a two-hour-plus DJ set. But we were granted this gift last night as Questlove craftily vacillated between hip-hop, soul, rock, swing, funk, disco, house, and back to soul again. It filled us with a dangerously intense desire to flail our arms and shake our asses.
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Photo by Logan Fazio

​Check out the full 21-photo Wood Tavern Grand Opening slideshow.

Cesar Morales wasn't lying when he told New Times a few months back that he was gauging public opinion in order to create a bar to please the common people.

We're paraphrasing, but he did post questions on Facebook, asking what beer people wanted to drink. After the soft opening, he adjusted some of his musical expectations. And all of that has so far led to success!

Last night, Wood Tavern hosted its official grand opening, staying packed with an eclectic mix of patrons long after the free cocktails were gone.
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Tom Tom's about ladies with drums.

The crowd at Churchill's Pub for Tom Tom Magazine's Basel showcase wasn't all chicks with drumsticks. But there certainly were many of both.

The night opened with an all-female percussion group, Gainesville's Cave Rave. A cave rave is apparently the opposite of a sausage fest. The place was pleasantly packed and it was neither a cave rave, nor a sausage fest.

Relaxed yet tight and totally stuffed with talent, a night with Tom Tom, the magazine about female drummers and beat-makers, was pretty much the perfect party to close out Art Basel Miami Beach. It was a lot of fun.
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​The average rainfall in Las Vegas is about 4.5 inches a year, the equivalent of an average afternoon in Miami. However, that number doubles when Marc Anthony and Pitbull team up for a performance at the 12th Annual Latin Grammy Awards show.

During last night's telecast, those two bros performed their bilingual megahit "Rain Over Me" at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay. To add authenticity, they were joined by several fine looking women who danced under prop rain. Wonder if J-Lo was watching? After all, what happens in Vegas, lingers on the Internet.

Check out the video and a list of Latin Grammy winners after the cut.
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