1. June
    11

    Design and Dine…. then Dance!

    posted by Jsin

    Tonight the City of Miami Cultural Arts & Entertainment presents the Miami New Times Design and Dine at the Design District’s Buena Vista Building (180 NE 39 St). It’s sure to be a spectacular event full of fantastic food, fashion and music. Expect an OPEN BAR and samplings from some of the best restaurants in South Florida. Repping The Vagabond will be our fearless leader Carmel Ophir spinning the tunes and (((SHAKE))) master Aholsniffsglue painting live with Adam Schwimmer (designer of most of Vagabond’s flyers) and Oliver Sanchez.

    Tickets are only thirty bucks for all the food, drink and entertainment you can handle! Make sure you get there at 7pm when it starts so you can take full advantage of the goodness. A portion of the proceeds to benefit Hands on Miami so you’re helping a great cause. Plus, you can keep your wristband for free entry to (((SHAKE))) with our special guest DJ A-Train(Stone Groove/Champion Sound/Back Door Bamby) for the official Design and Dine afterparty! Do your job.

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  2. June
    5

    Has It Really Been 10 Years?

    posted by Lolo

    Weekly club night Poplife celebrates it’s 10th year tomorrow night at The White Room with a live performance by Atlanta’s SNOWDEN.  I was thinking – 10 years already?  Sure enough, my first regular DJ gig was at Poplife when it was at Picadilly Garden in the Design District (which turned into The District which turned into what is now Pacific Time).  I was 17 (!) then and I turn 27 next week.

    Here’s a little throwback picture of yours truly on the decks at Picadilly in 1999.  My hair wasn’t even hot pink or orange or red then but you can see the color waiting to burst out!

    PhotobucketThe CD on the table is Bruce Haack’s “Listen, Compute, Rock Home” for all the nerds wondering.

    If you go the doors are at 10pm and the cover is $20.  10 years of anything in Miami is an accomplishment so congrats!

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  3. May
    9

    Sweat on the 1′s and 2′s

    posted by Lolo

    Some people somehow still complain that there’s no good music at clubs in Miami.  Well those people haven’t made it through for our weekly sets at Fridays at The Vagabond!  Jsin and I have been throwing down the early set for over a year, soundtracking the $1 PBRs from 10 to midnight.

    We invite you to join us weekly in the Bar Room as we mix it up with different tracks every single week – new music, local bands, indie classics, and tunes we think should be classics.  Here’s a list of the bands we played last night:

    • Andrew Bird
    • Awesome New Republic
    • Belle & Sebastian
    • Bobby Conn
    • Brazilian Girls
    • Chateau Marmont
    • CSS
    • Doves
    • The Editors
    • Empire Of The Sun
    • Fan Death
    • Fountains Of Wayne
    • Gorillaz
    • The Gossip
    • Hercules and Love Affair
    • The Horrors
    • Jay-Jay Johanson
    • The Juan Maclean
    • Junior Boys
    • Junior Senior
    • Kings of Leon
    • Ladyhawke
    • Late Of The Pier
    • Life Of Seals
    • Luscious Jackson
    • Matt & Kim
    • Metric
    • MGMT
    • Midnight Juggernauts
    • Neon Neon
    • Panic Bomber
    • Placebo
    • Pulp
    • The Rapture
    • The The
    • Tones On Tail
    • TV On The Radio
    • The Wave Pictures
    • The Whip
    • White Lies
    • Whitest Boy Alive

    P.S. We take requests!

    P.P.S. Mike Simonetti KILLED IT last night!

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  4. May
    7

    Do You Like “The Beatles”?

    posted by Lolo

    Well then tonight is your night! Legendary Grammy-winning Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick is going to be at the Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater speaking about his new book “Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles”!

    This is a once-in-a-lifetime event, tickets are on sale now for $45 but use promo code JUDE (all caps) and they’re just $15!  I heard there are only about 30 tickets left so click here to get on it.

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  5. April
    27

    This Week’s Parties In Pictures

    posted by Lolo

    ☆ Sweat Records presents a visual guide to 04/27-05/01 ☆

    Tonight at Sweat we’ve got an encore screening of “CLOSING TIME” by local filmmaker Tony Kapel.  It features Miami art- and music-makers the TM Sisters, Jesse Jackson, Jen Stark, Manny Prieres, Rachel Goodrich and more.  The screening is FREE and starts at 8pm.

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    Tuesday is PSYCHIC TUESDAYS at Bella Rose.  Now in it’s 4th month, this underground dance party is truly worth checking out for music you swoon over but just won’t hear anywhere else (outside of your bedroom).  There’s also no cover and 2-for-1 drinks all night so if you too feel the need to bop and sway and goth dance to classic new wave, post-punk, industrial, and other dark favorites, this is definitely the place.  Join their Facebook group to stay in touch.

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    Also on Tuesday, if you like colors other than black, miss Pamela Wasabi (aka Miami’s own Rainbow Brite) will be hosting the COSPLAY WASABI FASHION PARTY at Sushi Samba on Lincoln Road.  This month’s color theme is BLUE so wear your wildest blue outfit as there’s a cash prize for the best costume.  11pm to 4am.

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    Wednesday evening up in West Palm Beach, SUNFEST kicks off with performances by Wavves, The Mae Shi, The Spam Allstars, Kinky and more!  The festival goes through the weekend (Cold War Kids Saturday night!) and the full info can be found here.

    Wednesday at Off The Radar at The Standard, our old friend DJ SAUL (HIMSELF) is back visiting from China and will be doing a special guest DJ set!  Lords knows what kind of music he picked up out there but don’t worry as his tunes always rock a party.  8pm to midnight and parking is reduced w/ validation inside.

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    Thursday night at (((SHAKE))) at The Vagabond is a yearly theme party all of Miami’s been waiting for…  QUINCES NUMERO DOS!  This year’s entertainment includes superstar DJs Doormouse, Alex Caso and Induce with live performances by Jose El Rey and Afrobeta,  plus food, cake and more sorpresas.  You can RSVP to shake305@gmail.com and don’t forget to dress for to impress…

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    This Friday at The Vagabond, we’ve got a very special event as it’s the official album release party show for AWESOME NEW REPUBLIC!  More on that tomorrow…

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    Also Friday at GOO, there’s the opening for a homegrown art show called “The World That Summer” with live performances by Eli & Gyr and the Diet Cokeheads.  Goo is right by Sweat so swing by the store and check out our flier area for more of what’s up!

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    Have a great week!

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  6. April
    24

    Through The Weekend

    posted by Lolo

    Dear Friends,

    First off we just want to say THANKS SO MUCH again to everyone for coming out to Sweat’s 4-Year Anniversary and Record Store Day 2009 last Saturday!  It was an amazing time, hundreds and hundreds of people came by throughout the day, and we sold A TON OF MUSIC.  Thanks too to Panic Bomber (free tunes at panicbomber.com) and Rachel Goodrich for their stellar performances, Mike Deuce and Laura of Miami (WVUM) for the tunes, Sacre Bleu and Bacardi for the booze, and the whole Record Store Day team for creating such a wonderful music-centric “holiday.”

    We’re proud to report we are now finally about set to get our new air conditioning!!!!  Updates on that soon…

    Also, happy weekend!  There’s a bunch of great stuff going on so here’s the dilly complete with lots of clickable links.

    Tonight:

    Saturday:

    Sunday:

    • BIKE MIAMI RETURNS! Explore your city in a new way as the main streets in Coconut Grove are closed to cars from 9am to 2pm.  There will also be a Dutch orange bike parade, activities for kids, live music all over the streets and more!  Even your best excuse (“I don’t have a bike!”) won’t work today as you can rent bikes for FREE at the event!
    • And if you still haven’t partied enough yet, there’s always Chocolate Sundays at Purdy Lounge

    Have a great, safe time everyone!  See you on Monday when MOVIE MONDAYS presents an encore screening of local filmmaker Tony Kapel’s “Closing Time” featuring all sorts of great Miami music-makers and artists!

    Cheers,
    Lolo, Jsin + the Sweat crew

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