MiamiNights - Miami Night Clubs, Nightlife

Friend of the site and has been tennis master Danny Daze and his counterparts Gigamesh and Joe Maz from the duo trio Discotech bring us a gem of a track mixed in with the now infamous and always wingnutty Farce News host Bill O'Reilly. The track seems short so I know this isn't full length. When you get a chance Daze, forward it over to us! Enjoy:

I was having a serious talk with one of my best friends last Friday night (Michelle, holla!) about what it truly is to be a real Miami girl. We live what Miller Beer likes to call "the High Life" and we do it at a Miller price -- cheap. Now don't get me wrong, my purse is a real Coach and my shoes are all Steve Madden, but after the new $200 dollar dress from BCBG and my mani-pedi in Pinecrest the pocket book is a bit empty. But what can I do about it? Not looking fabulous is not an option, so I've learned a few tricks of the Miami Trade that I'd like to share with you.

Miami Girls have it all, and at a price no one can turn down: FREE. If you know how to be social, make new friends every night! You'll be surprised where they lead you, and be a good friend, so when the time comes that your low on drink and low on funds that guy you joked with while waiting in line for the bathroom (and ladies, be aware that a Miami girl does not wait in line unless its for the bathroom, and don't try to skip cause thats how things end up in the ER) he'll offer you a drink, and you'll be happy with a new friend and drink, and he'll be happy thinking you might get drunk enough to make-out with him (lets try to control ourselves please, real Miami girls need to be picky not sloppy). 

Miami girls it's time to put on your heels and leave your Coach wallets at home, because I'm taking you out! (but don't forget your ID's)

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Boring editor's note: We're resurrecting our moribund Weekend Roundup column by injecting it with Redbull and pure sex energy. Don't forget to check out new partner PlumTV, where we'll be syndicating these posts.

This week's weather forecast predicts 90 degree temperatures throughout the weekend, so in an effort to save you from humid suicide we've put together some cute little things to do that don't involve being outside during daylight hours or unfashionably high levels of dancing.

Thursday: The formerly-grungy spot known as Lounge 16 / BoomBox / Boom Boom Room Bang Bang Room has returned in enviable new decoration as Bella Rose, operated by Cocaine Cowboys filmmaker Alfred Spellman and Keith Paciello, brother of the famous (or infamous, depending on your social circle) Chris Paciello. They promise an upscale but bullshit-free lounge experience. They are open Thursday through Saturday, but Thursdays are the night to attend, featuring Tom Laroc in the DJ booth. Bella Rose is located at 423 16th Street on Miami Beach.

Also on Thursday, local export Lazaro Casanova is in town for a rare show at Dream. Once a denizen of Revolver and heartthrob of many, Lazaro now tours with heavyweights MSTRKRFT. See our earlier post for more information. Dream Nightclub is located at 1532 Washington Ave on South Beach.

Friday: Lolo's Friday Sweat Records party at Vagabond continues to successfully unite the most random forms of indie children available on MySpace under one roof. If you just awoke from a coma since last summer, this is the party that was formerly at Circa28 on Saturdays. Featuring MiamiNights-sanctioned DJs Mike Deuce and Ray Millian, $1 Stella beer specials and free admission until midnight. Click here for the flyer if you're into that sort of thing. Vagabond is located at 30 NE 14th Street in Downtown Miami.

Saturday: Mansion gets ballsy by booking the innovative DJ Deadmau5. This Toronto based talent came out of nowhere a few months ago and now no one will STFU up about him. He has a proclivity for electrohouse and uses Ableton Live exclusively, which hopefully means it won't trigger my progressive house gag reflex. For bonus points review his Wikipedia page which is way more detailed than mine. Tickets are available for a reasonable $22 on Wantickets. We'll be taking pictures so wear your good toupe. Mansion is located at 1235 Washington Ave on Miami Beach.

The Miami New Times finally released its Best Of Miami issue, perhaps one of the most anticipated issues every year. But let's go over shit that actually matters to us here, their choices for Best Bars & Clubs, which I've included my choice had I been able to call it. Oh and full disclosure here: I'm technically a New Times employee, even if it's just part-time.

Best After Hours

Their Choice: Space Saturdays (and Sunday afternoons)

My Choice: Space Saturdays (and Sunday afternoons)

Come on, there is no contest here.

Best Club DJ

Their Choice: Induce

My Choice: Induce, Danny Daze, Matt Cash, Contra, Ross One

That's like asking me what do I like better: sex, drugs or rock 'n' roll? I could never decide.

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So if you didn''t know, but you probably did, Bronques of lastnightsparty.com was in town for less than 24 hours Saturday night. While it isn't necessarily anything special him being in town, I mean he's been here a million times before, it's certainly refreshing him taking pictures of Downtown's nightlife scene instead of South Beach. Anyway, check out the two galleries he posted up titled Fly In and Fly Out, one being of the Freegums and Hexagon events during art walk and the other of the hedonistic pursuits of Miami kids at Poplife.

Oh and by the way, the titty factor is minimal, so put away your lube. 

Yet another long time friend of Miami Nights will disappear tonight. The second sexiest woman in the world (after Duran), Brittany Ann, leaves soon for an undisclosed location for the business called modeling. Attend her going away thingy at Love/Hate tonight, featuring $4 Pabst Blue Ribbons and $6 well drinks. It is a sad day. A tear may be shed. It will be like a big Irish funeral but with fewer drunk people and less cop drama. Click here for the flyer.

We all know about Washington Ave between 5th and 8th street: you just don't go there. You're going to get shanked, shot, beat up or wrongfully arrested as a suspected drug dealer. While Lackner likes to spend his Sunday nights in the alleys instigating knife fights, the rest of us sane people have avoided that stretch like the plague. And for good reason, the place had degenerated into an under 18 hoodlums paradise awash with spanglish gangeros and chongas.

It wasn't always like that, back in the early days through the early and mid 90's that stretch was the place to be and be seen. But like everyone knows in this industry, times change quickly. Washington between 5th and 8th quickly took a nose dive. Crappy club owners took over once prestigious establishments like The Living Room and Bash and effectively turned the strip into a cornucopia of thugs and cornrolls. South Beach magnate Gerry Kelly makes a pointed observation in the article with this comment:

"It was a gradual decline from 1996 onward -- you could just see it," he says. 'There was a huge influx of people that came to South Beach and saw all the models, all the success of Bash and others, and one year later a lot of people said, 'Owning a club is the next best thing to being a rock star,' so you had a lot of inexperienced nightclub operators...who didn't share the same dress code or the same marketing values."

But things are beginning to change in the area as those old, god forsaken venues (Club Deep, Troy, Goddess, Templo, etc, etc) are beginning to close down and new more intelligent business owners are beginning to move in. Venues like Dek23, Gem, The Angler's Hotel, Heathrow UK Lounge are starting to turn the strip around. We're still not at the point we were during the heyday, but at the very least that part of the strip is walkable again between the hours of 10pm-5am. I personally wasn't old enough to experience the 1990's decade of glam but it seems a new era of club owners wants to bring this dilapidated stretch back to life and they seem committed to bringing us club goers a new and safe area to stumble our liquor laden selves around in, without the threat of a wild Lackner jumping out from behind a parked Vespa wielding his rusty Army surplus store knife.

The seedy area u referred to between 5th and 8th has dramatically improved over the past year. The completion of the street construction project along with the opening of the new Anglers Resort (which is rivaling Prime 112 as the to be seen Saturday night Restaurant) has dramatically improved the area. I remember when I couldn't walk down the street at night with my wife without being harassed. It is nothing like that anymore and there are some decent clubs in that area that are worthwhile checking out, including the new Ora Ultra Lounge (formerly Ink) and Gem Nightclub. Also, a new club is opening up in the space formerly occupied by Goddess and being operated by some South Beach heavy hitters. History shows that hot areas in South Beach change over the years and this little area is heating up again.

Do you know how frustrating my life becomes every time I am at der clurrb, and all of a sudden over the speakers comes one the most orgasmic tunes I've ever heard in my life and I have no idea who it's by or what the song title is, and because I'm drunk it's most likely I won't remember the beat or even a bit of the lyrics. I'm friends with DJs for plenty of reasons, but really because if I need to know the name of a song, I can waltz my way to the DJ booth and ask them.

So this WAO I dedicate to the proverbial Poplife DJ Matt Cash, who when I asked who was responsible for this sinful mix of bongos and dirty electro, he quickly pulled out the record sleeve that revealed its creator: Zongamin. Funny enough, the song is titled "Bongo Song". It's been out for a while, 2006 to be exact, which it isn't a surprise because I've been hearing this song what seems like forever. But it's good to finally know who created it.

A little background on Zongamin: he is a Japanese DJ based out of England and has released records on XL Recording and Ed Banger Records. The single for "Bongo Song" was the only thing he ever released for Ed Banger back way at the beginning before they were everyone's favorite record label.

Hey, remember when the House of Diehl came to the White Room as part of the Style Wars Tour? Well, if you didn't know local designer Karelle Levy, owner of the local label KRELwear, won the Miami round, earning her a spot in the final event in New York to determine the Style Wars champion. Well, guess what? Levy cleaned house and showed the contestants from New York, San Fransisco, Los Angeles and Chicago that Miami has got its style in check.

The New York Times even got on the ball and covered this shit. Score 1 for Miami! I always knew New York and Los Angeles were cities full of fucking losers. And in case you forgot what all the fuss was about, below is a video courtesy of Nefarious Girl.

Critics consider it "gypsy-punk", they call it "death metal/melodramatic popular song/Japanese classic music." Say whaaaa?! I call it  crazy-dance-when-drunk-till-you're-pants-fall-off music.

So now you think, "Wadafunkk?" But I say "Gogol Bordello!" And if you're still bamboozled by all the genres listed above, then allow me to introduce them to you. Gogol Bordello has actually been around for quite some time now, 10 years almost, and even though they've always provoked a raucous party where ever they go, it's their latest and fourth album Super Taranta! thats made them gain popularity. These eight blokes are based out of New York, but they come from all over. With this in mind, their sound comes from a melting pot of instruments, but they deliver this dirty-clothed vodka-drenched and fist-clenched gypsy music that makes you feel like you're in freaking Bulgaria or something. Actually, the lead singer is from the Ukraine and he's got a mustache to prove it. To make the description simpler, Gogol Bordello makes folkloric punk music that can be considered the Eastern European version of Manu Chau.

Their shows combine burlesque with a euphoric atmosphere, and now South Florida gets to experience it because their coming to the Culture Room, in Ft. Lauderdale, on June 17. Tickets are $20. So get drunk. Get sweaty. Get gypsy.