Miami Nights

As WMC lurches and stumbles toward us I want to take this opportunity to remind you: around 5pm-ish today I will be picking the two winners of the Miami Nights Party Passport contest. Both winners get two party passports: one for them, one for their primary concubine. Each party passport means a week of free parties, 13 in all, starting on Tuesday. So hurry up and register, or if you already have, have your friends sign up too - after you convince them that you should be their guest if they win.

Update: It's over! Congratulations to our winners Halim I. and Thalita A. Everyone else: you have failed at life but remember you can still appear to be a winner by buying tickets and going to the parties anyway! I won't tell anyone your sad bitter secret. Check out SAFE and Embrace to make that happen.

It's that time again! Now that MiamiNights is back to being the well-oiled buff manwhore that it once was, we've got to start giving out the free party luv so that there will be someone left to adore us and attend our funerals after WMC's end. (For what it's worth, I demand to be buried in a monkey fur tutu and expect a lot of weeping but no self-flagellation. Shit's way too emo.)

Presenting The Miami Nights Party Passport brought to you by FutureMob, SAFE, and Embrace.

Here's what it is: free entrance to 13 of the best parties of WMC, two each day of conference plus one secret closing party. We're giving away two pairs of Party Passports so you can bring your new best friend with you.

And yes, as usual, you don't have to do anything to win. You don't have to make up a funny story, answer a survey, or even mail B.A.C. soiled undergarments (yet). Just click here to enter the contest.

Here's the crazy lineup:

Tuesday 3/23:

SOS: The WMC Special
BED @ 10 PM
Talent: Desyn Masiello, Demi, Omid 16b (back to back all night long)

REKIDS vs MADE TO PLAY
White Room @ 10PM
Talent: Jesse Rose, Radio Slave, + Special Guests

Wednesday 3/24

WELCOME TO MIAMI: The ANNUAL BEACH PARTY
Nikki Beach, noon to 5AM.
Talent:
Area 1: FLYING CIRCUS / STEVE LAWLER / AUDIOFLY / TIMO MAAS / TIEFSCHWARZ / DAVIDE SQUILLACE / MATTHIAS TANZMANN / NICK CURLY / HEIDI / MATT TOLFREY / LUCA BACCHETTI / HOSH / SOLOMUN / MISS JOOLS / ALEX NIGGEMANN / KABUTO & KOJI / GEDDES / SEAN MILLER / LAZARO CASANOVA
Area 2: LIL' JON (Special DJ + Live Performance) / TOCADISCO / ATFC / PAUL HARRIS / DONALD GLAUDE / TOM NOVY / KURD MAVERICK / D.O.N.S / EDX / FUNKERMAN / DAVID TORT / DENIS THE MENACE / BIG WORLD / SULTAN / ARMAND PEÑA / AVICII / EDDIE THONEICK / ALBIN MYERS / PLASTIKFUNK / SAEED YOUNAN / RALPH FALCON / SYKE N' SUGARSTARR / STRYKE / DBN / DABRUCK & KLEIN / JEAN ELAN / DON DIABLO / TAPESH / DIMITRI VEGAS & LIKE MIKE / SERGE DEVANT / DJ RAP / STARKILLERS / AUSTIN LEEDS / SYDNEY BLU

BANG BANG
White Room @ 10PM
Talent: Craze, Shy FX, Jack Beats, AC Slater, Breakage, Plastician

Thursday 3/25

MIXED DOUBLES
Grass @ 1PM to 9PM (Daytime + Afternoon event)
Talent: TIEFSCHWARZ & SANTÉ, ITALOBOYZ, HEIDI, MATT TOLFREY, INXEC, GEDDES, THOMAS SCHUMACHER, LEE CURTISS, KABUTO & KOJI, SIMON BAKER, MARCASHKEN, SEBROK

SMOG vs BASSHEAD
White Room @ 10PM
Talent: Goldie, Plastician, Mary Anne Hobbs, Virus Syndicate

Friday 3/26:

SNEAK BEATS
Rok Bar @ 10PM
Talent: DJ Sneak, Mark Farina, Phil Weeks

ANNIE MAC PRESENTS
White Room @ 10PM
Talent: Annie Mac, DJ Mehdi, Jack Beats, Brodinski, L-Vis 1990, Riva Starr

Saturday 3/27

GET PHYSICAL MIAMI
Charcoal Studio @ 10PM
Talent: M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Matthew Dear vs. Damian Lazarus, Tiefschwarz, DJ Hell, DJ T, Heidi, dOP (Live), Lee Curtiss + More

TROUBLE & BASS
White Room @ 10PM
Talent: Drop The Lime, Star Eyes, AC Slater, Bart B More, Nero, Harvard Bass, Classixx

Sunday 3/28

Super Secret Closing Party.
Details to be announced. You will not be disappointed.

Click here to sign up for the free contest

Thank you for the incredible interest in these contests - we received more than twice the amount of registrants as last year! I guess everyone really is broke. :)

Thursday: Miami Nights Three Year Anniversary at Soho Studios (featuring Diplo, Kid Sister, Chromeo):

1. Katie A.
2. Luis G.
3. Suzy K.
4. Bonita M.
5. Mike S.

Click here for tickets if you didn't win.

Friday: Spectral Sound at Grass (featuring Audion, Seth Troxler, Lee Curtis):

1. Carolina B.
2. Greg M.
3. Alfred V.

Click here for tickets if you didn't win.

Saturday: Get Physical Miami at Studio K (formerly Studio A, featuring M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade, Matthew Dear, ItaloBoyz):

1. Luis A.
2. Carla E.
3. Paul G.

Click here for tickets if you didn't win.

Winter Music Conference is entering full swing! Secure your paraphernalia and slightly adjust your morality. We recommend you revisit our top ten WMC essentials list if you haven't already.

Here are some quicky suggestions for tonight's madnesses:

Major @ Electric Pickle, formerly Circa28. Try not to mind the name, I think it's a joke I don't understand. Anyway, Lazaro Casanova, Danny Daze, Blu Jemz, Lloyd, Stretch. $10 with RSVP.

Benny Benassi + Calvin Harris @ Mansion. What more needs to be said? $30.

Marco Carola + Paco Osuna @ Hedkandi, otherwise known as techno with a twist. $30.

And remember: your last chance to win tickets during our ticket give away is tonight! We are awarding the tickets at around 9pm. Click here to register!

We're happy to announce our second WMC stimulus package has been approved by the higher ups. We are going to give away more free tickets to some pretty banging events for all your poor, out of luck American Apparel like kids. We all know the tough times we are in, and that is why Lackner and I have lobbied heavily for these free tickets. You now have the option of signing up to win free tickets for the following WMC event:

• Thursday March 26th: Miami Nights 3 Year Anniversary featuring Diplo, Kid Sister, Chromeo etc. at SoHo Studios.
• Friday March 27th: Spectral Sound featuring Audion, Seth Troxler, Lee Curtis etc. at Grass.

• Saturday March 28th: Get Physical Miami featuring M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade, Matthew Dear, ItaloBoyz etc at Studio K (formerly Studio A).

Click here to enter the contests.Once at the contest page you can select which party's you want to enter to win free WMC tickets. Good Luck!

There's supposedly a recession or something out there -- I'm not sure, I started paying for the oil changes on my Rolls with steamy maintenance-closet BJs months ago -- so we're going to do our best to help you unemployed Miami drug children conserve what remains of your precious savings.

Step one of our recession plan to survive WMC: we are giving away five pairs of tickets to our Three Year Anniversary Brawl, featuring the sweet sex of Diplo, Kid Sister and Chromeo, plus about ten thousand other artists.

Interested? Click here to enter! We'll be picking the winners on Tuesday, March 24. But sign up now because I need to impress my superiors.

Update: And while we're on the recession tip, here are some recession cocktail recipes from the New Yorker. (Yeah, I usually don't read that shitty rag either, mostly because I failed the credit check, unless I'm trying to impress a girl, in which case I usually tell them to meet up with me at the library, where I am wearing a cardigan, plus you can totally surf for all sorts of illegal porn on their computers while you wait and then blame it on the 8 year old next to you when the party van comes.)

Otto P., you're a winner. A big time winner.

This Saturday, Vice (the upstairs of Cameo) is hosting the birthday party of industry-famous Emi Guerra, erstwhile operator of many famous venues including Park West and currently Cameo itself. Music by the popular Ivano Bellini. That's not enough to make you leave your recession-proof couch, though, so we had to throw in one more thing: win a free bottle for you and four of your friends. Interested? Sign up for the contest now!

Oh, the lucky many:

• Guillermo R.
• Xavier V.
• Adrian A.
• Matt D.
• George D.
• Jesslyn M.
• Vanessa K.
• Giovanna S.
• Jose D.
• Alain N.

See you guys at the show!

Ah yes, it's party season again. My internal organs and Wachovia representatives are angrily responding to the prolonged post-Basil abuse. As our Christmas gift to you guys for reading the site and threatening my life, I am officially announcing our latest contest: we are giving away ten pairs of tickets to Candyland 13, occurring on December 27th. Among big boys like DJ Q-Bert, the Spacemen, Ed Rush/Optical and The Plastician, you'll find the Heater/Miami Nights arena, featuring Kill The Noise, Treasure Fingers and Ludachrist.

What do you have to do to receive this wonderful gift? Just fill out a form and roll the dice. Good luck!

Click here to enter the contest.

Francisco M-S, Luis V and Ilija I: you are winners. The rest of you should consider answering your phones when unknown numbers call - you would probably win more tickets. :)

Tonight, Peace Division plays at Big Fish on the Miami River. Since 1994, Peace Division (Clive Henry and Justin Drake) has been a huge influence on house music, changing the shape of tribal and later influencing the deep sound that we all came to love. Not sure what you're getting? Check out their recent Essential Mix.

I have a special treat for you guys. We are giving away three free pairs of tickets for Peace Division. Sign up now! We are awarding the tickets at 8pm.

Vanessa M. and Ricardo R. have won the contest. Everyone else: you lost, and have failed at life. Just kidding. Now go buy tickets and show up anyway.

This Saturday, the newly rejuvenated Circa28, in conjunction with Safe, presents M.A.N.D.Y.. This duo (Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung) have caused an absolute sensation every time they have played during WMC. Now we offer you the opportunity to not only win one of two pairs of FREE tickets, but also meet the artists before the show.

And all you have to do to win is make a charcoal drawing of B.A.C. and I riding a white horse into the sunset!

Just kidding. All you have to do is click here: enter the contest.

This Friday, traveling techno party Plot (picture illegal warehouse parties) comes to Fracture at White Room and they bring with them a special guest: minimal techno maestro Reverse Commuter (otherwise known as Kenneth James Gibson) from Los Angeles. If you haven't heard of him, you can check out a mix of his here (right click and Save As to download), but I can summarize it for you: deep, throbbing, and sick.

We're giving away a pair of tickets for the show. Even if you don't win, you get reduced $10 admission just for entering the contest. Even losers are winners at Miami Nights. Except me, I'm still a loser. Click here to enter the contest.

And for the hundreds of Fracture regulars, fear not: your favorite DJs will be banging away in the red room as usual. You know when two dogs have sex and get stuck together? It's like that but with turntables.

Ken A., you lucky chap. You've won a bottle for tonight at Exposure at White Room. Everyone else: come see Scottie B cause some trouble.

Andrews Lorenzana and Rafael DeOrnate, hot on the heels of their masterful DJ Blaqstarr booking, bring you more B-more hotness: Scottie B! This Monday, August 11th, Baltimore DJ Scottie B will be at Exposure. This party has quickly set itself apart as the place to be if you want something a bit more dirty and electro (and full of sweaty children) than the usual indie parties.

Scottie B is legendary in the Baltimore club scene as one of the inventors of that crazy, jackin', pop-influenced sound. He's been DJing for years at the Baltimore staples and now is touring internationally with the likes of Diplo, Switch and DJ Technics.

To make this more interesting, we're giving away a free bottle for you and four friends. Do it to it. We'll pick the winner Monday afternoon, so you have plenty of time to get all of your friends and business associates to register to win.

The contest is now closed. The winner of the pair of tickets is Will S. Congrats! If you didn't win you can purchase tickets here. Thank you for entering and again thanks to Contagious Musiq for providing the tix.

I am closing the contest down at 12pm mid-day. You have until then to enter to win free tickets for tomorrows event Rock the Bells. Good Luck!

Don't forget Rock the Bells is this Saturday, August 2nd at Bayfront Park Amphitheater. Headlining this year is an amazing line up including A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Method Man, Redman, Ghostface and much more.

Thanks to Contagious Musiq we are giving away 2 free tickets to the show! All you have to do is sign up with Miami Nights and we will randomly select the winner this Friday. Good luck.

Click here to sign up to win FREE tickets to Rock The Bells

Heard of Rock the Bells yet? I'm sure you have as it is probably one of the biggest hip-hop festivals that swings through Miami. This year Rock the Bells is featuring one of it's best lineups with A Tribe Called Quest, NAS, Mos Def, Raekwon and Ghostface and a very special performance by The Pharcyde. And that's just to name a few. The bill is full of worthy rhymers that it would occupy to much space on this post.I mean I'm getting all giddy and I'm a white boy from the spud fields of Idaho.

So because we love our readers so much we decided to give away a pair of tickets (2) to Rock the Bells. This event will have over 20 live performances, 2 stages and all the festival food you can eat (humane society prime a meat) in addition to a vendor village which I'm guessing will have urban style clothes and stuff. You can click here to enter the contest but your best bet is to enter our contest but also keep an eye on ticket prices here. We will randomly select the winner from all who entered. A big thanks goes to the good people at Contagious Musiq who made this contest possible.