"Noise is everyday fucking life," or at least it is according to the notoriously loud Kenny Millions, of experimental noise duo Death Fuk. And while Broward County is surely brimming with the sounds of "everyday fucking life" as well as contributions from a diverse range of talented and homegrown musicians, the 954 lacks a pulse on the noise beat that heartily thrives in Miami. It fosters festivals like the International Noise Conference, held annually for the past decade, or weekly series, like Be Creative or Die, where life becomes one big experiment in sound and performance.

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Heat-hater Lil Wayne is coming to West Palm Beach this summer with T.I and Tyga for America's Most Wanted Music Festival. And though we thought Tyga was replacing the once promised Future on the tour, turns out the king of Rack City'll likely be there, but, as the media's slanting it, 2 Chainz will actually being the one to replace the Astronaut Kid.

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- Lil Wayne Comes to West Palm Beach With T.I. and Tyga With America's Most Wanted Music Festival

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Thousands of years ago, ancient Celtic and Germanic civilizations celebrated the first day of May -- a month eventually named for Roman fertility goddess Maia - with dancing, drinking, and general merriment. Christians came along and kind of ruined the whole pagan thing, but the tradition of May Day festivities survived.

Fast forward about fifteen centuries to 2013, and we're still getting down and dirty to usher in the warmer days of Springtime. Even though May Day has officially passed, Hypnotic Productions happily announced their eighth-annual Maydaze event at Club Cinema. Bass, lasers, and dancing beauties will all honor yet another joyous season of fertility.
They know that it's the fans that make their party dreams come true, and in order to please them, they must continually top each prior party with more lights, more sounds, and more energy.

"We always try to bring something unique and different to the table," said organizer and headliner Danny "DJ Xta-C" Colica.

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Music is always a little extra-special when it's being played in the middle of the ocean. For instance, when the Titanic was going down, and the band played on. That was not normal chamber music.

Similarly, but in a much, much, much more cheerful way, the music aboard Jam Cruise is always outstanding. There are rare collaborations, sunrise acoustic sets, all-night just-not-gonna-stop-'cause-we're-on-a-freakin'-boat jams.

Next January, Jam Cruise shoves off for the twelfth time. And folks are already getting excited. The line-up has been announced, and to celebrate, Boca's Funky Biscuit will be hosting a Jam Cruise Launch Party Wednesday night featuring 2014 Jam Cruisers Orgone and local jazz-funk-fusion band Fusik.

In the spirit of getting fired up way ahead of time, here are five Jam Cruise 12 acts which are sure to be awesomely not normal.

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Born in New York City and reared in Puerto Rico, Elvis Crespo will forever be known as the baby-faced merengue-pop crooner behind the 1998 international smash hit "Suavemente." At that burgeoning time of serious powerhouse Latin male vocalists, Crespo suffered from the fading memory of one-hit wonder Gerardo's "Rico Suave" track and fell off the English-language radar. But County Grind is an un-doer of injustice and righter of wrongs!

While Crespo might've appeared like a kitschy flash-in-pan temporary crossover singer, truth be told, he's actually gone to enjoy a successful career, spanning nine full-length albums, a handful of singles and continued appeal across the Spanish-speaking nations of this hemisphere. Even the 2010, World Cup winning Spaniards celebrated on their return flight by singing in unison his 1999 single, "Píntame."

Though a household name in the Spanish-speaking world, he hasn't gone entirely without a wee bit of controversy; but more on that after the jump. In the meantime, let's look at a couple of points throughout this Grammy- and Latin Grammy-winning singer's career that have kept him at the top of Spanish dance and pop arenas.

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It has been said that no matter what flavor of heavy metal you prefer or what band you're most attached to, there is a Swedish group out there that does it better.

For fans of progressive metal, Stockholm's Opeth is the reigning king of post-Rush prog. Fleet-fingered guitarist/composer/vocalist Mikael Akerfeldt and his intrepid band of accomplished metal men will be stopping at Fort Lauderdale's Culture Room on Thursday as part of a tour supporting the band's critically lauded 2011 release, Heritage.

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Is it surprising that Borgore, the Israeli-born DJ known as Asaf Borger in real life, was once a member of a death-metal band? If you're familiar with his most popular party song, "Decisions," this might cause you to raise a brow.

But so many other things about this rising EDM star will also make you go hmmm. Like how in his video for "Decisions," Miley Cyrus -- who also provided backup vocals on the song -- makes out with a rubber horse head. Or that he dated sweet-as-sugar, popular-as-ever porn star Jessie Andrews. Seriously, though, any man as cute as Borgore maybe can bag a chick like Andrews, but turning Hannah Montana EDM is an impressive feat. We tip our hat to you, sir.

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- Miley Cyrus Makes Out with a Horse in New Borgore Video for "Decisions"
- Nine Best Moments of Ultra 2013, Day Two: Deadmau5, Borgore, and Nobody F#$%ed a Tree

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One of Diplo's greatest creations is the Los Angeles-based label Mad Decent. Together with Major Lazer cohorts Jillionaire and Walshy Fire, he's built an EDM empire that is actually, and undeniably cool. Mad Decent, is taking its annual Block Party on tour this summer, making its South Florida stop at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale on August 3.

Florida man, three-times Grammy-nominated producer, and all around crazy talented DJ Wesley Pentz, a.k.a. Diplo, aims to bring new genres and cultures to light in the ever diversifying musical community with a series of outdoor dance parties and concerts across the United States and Canada.

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- Major Lazer's Walshy Fire on Most EDM Stars: "These Guys Aren't DJing"
- Ultra 2013: Major Lazer Sets Off a Strip Sesh
- Rusko Admits: "Playing Shows and Doing Drugs Is a Great Diet"

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The man most loathed man in South Florida -- after Fidel Castro, of course -- has got to be Lil Wayne. So maybe there's some logic in having us all haul all out to Cruzan Amphitheater to catch Young Money's 2013 America's Most Wanted Music Festival -- the farthest venue in the tricounty area from the boys at American Airlines Arena.

It's been a truly traumatic year for the rapper, suffering multiple epileptic episodes and a sizzurp addiction that nearly sent him to his grave. He also got a whole city to fart in his general direction after talking unforgivable trash on our beloved Chris Bosh. But even with all that drama, come summertime, Tunechi's headlining the fest in a whopping 40 cities in the U.S. and 14 in Europe. For a dude on death's doorstep last month, that seems like something a mother would advise against. But we're not complaining. We'll be there with bells on to see the shit-show in West Palm Beach.

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Brothers Stephen and Lee Tiger grew up making music on what is now the Miccosukee reservation. When the two were boys, a pile of toys was delivered from Orlando to distribute to the kids in their village. "We found two plastic guitars that were actually tunable," Lee Tiger says. "So we tuned them up and we started learning to play off those things. It worked." A few years later, at age 13, he got his first wooden guitar. He put a pickup in there, and he began playing at skating rinks and sock hops.

Their first gigs were in the Everglades, where their audiences were straight-faced Native Americans who never abandoned the boys as they rocked onstage like the Beatles, but the villagers also never expressed pleasure in the music either. Tiger calls growing up out there a "different world," explaining, "When I grew up, we didn't have bathrooms; we didn't have lights. We just had lanterns. But that was all right. Man adapts to what's around him, and that's what we had."

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