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As you may or may not know, WVUM likes to highlight events happening around Miami that we think are fun / cool / interesting / on air / pretty / crazy / tasty / free or cheap / worth talking about / maybe not mentioned enough. So, to make this make more sense we are starting a weekly run through of some events on this blog right here.

Our Events Calendar is awesome, check it on our main page.

DON’T FORGET:

Deadline is this Friday! let’s get it in!

In chronological order:

Monday

WVUM: MIAMI TIME: Matt Preira from Roofless Rex
on the air

From Matt:
“Hello and welcome to my first-person blog post. I’m going to be on WVUM tonight, from 7PM to 9PM. The program: MIAMI TIME. The host: the incomparable Giovanna Stallings-Blanche. The plan: play some records (I dug into 3 separate personal collections for this one), plug some events (what are you doing Thursday, Friday and Sunday?), and generally try to make life trapped in a car on 826 that much more tolerable. If you’re not in your car or by an old timey radio, you can stream WVUM directly from their website (upper right hand corner, “click to listen”).” Thanks Matt : )

PARTY: Locals Only Hip Hop
at BAR

Good times, cheap everything, free fun + pool.

Join us for LOCALS ONLY-Monday July 26th, 2010 -Monday at BAR-GUEST DJS KEEN-ONE, DZ, MIKE DEUCE AND PROF.MURDER )-FREE CHICKEN WINGS FROM WING STOP!!!!! PLAYING YO MTVS RAP VIDEOS ALL NIGHT IN THE BIG SCREEN-NO COVER-CHEAP DRINKS-NO HASSLES

Tuesday

WVUM: Freedom for the Funk Takeover
on 90.5 FM, 8pm

Tom Laroc, local hip hop legend drops in for a set as part of the summertime takeover while Jonny’s away. Manuvers and Terrence host.

Wednesday

CONCERT: Deer Tick
at Grand Central

Keep listening all week for ticket giveaways!

PARTY: Girlfriends Lip Sync Party
at BAR

Playing an assortment of new & classic music videos from every music genre 1960 - 2010. Plus Lip Sync Contest!

PARTY: TROPICASA
at Hoy Como Ayer

This weekly party is a well kept secret. Oscar G plays with a live band on variations of afro-cuban rhythms, while resident Lazaro Casanova always brings in fresh opening and closing sets.

2212 SW 8th Street, in Little Havana

PARTY: Champion Sound Summer Mix CD Release Party + Fin du Monde Upstairs
at the Electric Pickle

Downstairs:

.......✪☆✪ THIS WEEK ✪☆✪........
SUMMER MIX CD -Release Party- with LUMIN, A-TRAIN, SIRE ESQ., Mr.BROWN, MANUVERS

Upstairs:

GET SOME BASS IN YOU FACE UPSTAIRS
[SMUT+BASS] w/SOMEJERK + DAVE BETAMAX & friends..

Thursday

WVUM: Electric Kingdom: Troy Kurtz
on 90.5fm

Strange Days #3: w/ Strangers Family Band
at Bar

STRANGE DAYS is a monthly showcase of experimental music.
performing live

STRANGERS FAMILY BAND (Orlando, FL)
http://www.myspace.com/strangersfamilyband
“...unquestionably channeling the various strata of late ’60s mindbending west coast pop art experimental jangle – light garage rock timbre, pinch of British blues a la John Mayall, and homage to Ravi Shankar that became nothing but en vogue in the post-druggy Beatles summer of love”

MZ. OLOGIST (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
loose cannon erotic poetry + primo hip-hop production, a proud veteran of Theatre De Underground

TUMBLEWEAVE (West Palm Beach, FL)
http://tumbleweave.bandcamp.com/
keyboard+drums for a post-pixel society

SINGLE (Miami, FL)
C. Dube on tape loops n vocal manips

Friday

LAST DAY TO SUBMIT FOR STICKER CONTEST
at sticker@wvum.org

CONCERT: CRITICALLY MASSIVE benefit show for MICHAEL LUM
at Churchill’s

Michael Lum, a huge supporter of the local music scene, a contributor and participant to Miami’s growing cycling subculture, was hit by a truck and placed in critical condition.

Come out and help support a young man who like many of us is not financially prepared for the medical services that helped save his life. So come on and join us during this month’s Critical Mass Miami. The whole night will be dedicated to MICHAEL and ride, walk, or drive to a great musical event in his honor!

COVER WILL BE 6 DOLLARS AND ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HELP MICHAEL AND HIS FAMILY PAY FOR HIS SURGERIES.

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performances by:

Anita Bertolini
Alex Diaz aka Xela Zaid
Jesse Jackson
Raffa Jo
ANIMAL Tropical
Deaf Poets
Sirens and Sealions
ANIMAL Tropical

ART: a: i don’t know/b: i don’t care : “I Swear” Release & Show Opening
at the end, 4141 NE 2 Ave Suite 202

a: i don’t know
b: i don’t care

“I Swear” Release + Show

curated by Lazaro Rodriguez

featuring

Jared Boger
Nick Klein
Dan Rossiter
Adam Schleimer
Dave Whitaker

closing performance by

CJ, Jordan, Jimmy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ymc4tIEqAs

Roofless Rex is proud to announce the launch of our publishing branch, spearheaded by co-president Dana Basset. I SWEAR is the debut monograph from Miami-based artist Lazaro Rodriguez. The book develops the iconography and distinct tone of Rodriguez’s “Plan2Cry” and “LazRodriguez” websites, in which he appropriates content from the internet to probe interlaced themes such as the decadence of youth, queer desire and self-conception. I SWEAR enacts an intratextual, self-referential quality built upon a subtle and often witty dialogue between subject matter and composition

CONCERT: Natacha Atlas
at the Fillmore

Saturday

PARTY: Poplife
at Grand Central

Sunday

Party: CHOCOLATE SUNDAYS
at Purdy Lounge