The main room of Soho Studios around 1:30 a.m.My WMC day on Thursday went from swish to underground to somewhere in the middle, and it was interesting to see how conference is holding up across the economic strata. It seems like in the alternate world of dance music, people who…
So yesterday I headed to the beach to bop up and down Collins, checking out some of the hotel parties for WMC. I hit the Raleigh for a penthouse party given by AX, where the Belvy was flowing like sweat on the pool deck at the Shelborne, which is where…
The “Legend” label tends to get thrown around, but in this case, there’s just no label that fits better. Smokey Robinson is one of, if not THE greatest Motown singer/songwriter in history. His career with The Miracles produced tons of hit songs like “Shop Around”, “Who’s Loving You”, and “The…
For the Latin music lovers out there, WMC hasn’t forgotten about you. Our sources at the Shelborne say salsa princess La India is slated to make a cameo some time this afternoon, er, which is basically now. The hotel is hosting DJ Magazine’s Recession Sessions so this ought to be…
Apparently Timbaland felt like driving over from Pinecrest for some fun on Saturday. He’s been added to the bill for Ultra that day, where he’ll be performing a live set after the Prodigy and before Paul Van Dyk. If you somehow need more information about Ultra, visit ultramusicfestival.com…
Well it’s Winter Music, and this writer has gone to exactly no events. Today is the Sasha and Digweed booze cruise, errr yacht excursion (invite only so forget about it) and tonight is Tony Touch at the Vagabond, but…. also next door slyly opening for Frankie Bones is Miami’s own…
That green blur is the lone dancer at Nocturnal last night.Yesterday, Jose Duran weighed in on the Eatskeet . com / Hipsterrunoff . com “Party Worth Blogging About” at the Gansevoort plunge pool, which we both attended. He was mostly on the money, but I should add that the party…
Who is Fedde Le Grand? According to Wikipedia he is a world famous Dutch house DJ and producer. Why is he in Miami? Apparently they got some kind of techno festival goin on down here. Who cares? A lot of people, maybe even you. So what’s with all the stupid…
Justin NamonPara One taking over the decks at Louis. Click here to view the full slideshow.I must have spent the whole day at the Gansevoort South yesterday, because after attending A Party Worth Blogging About (debatable), I returned for an private Ultimat Vodka event at the hotel’s rooftop pool featuring…
The mid 90’s are coming back to Pompano Beach Amphitheater in the form of the one two-hit wonder band The Offspring. What’s surprising about this announcement isn’t that The Offspring is coming here, it’s that they’re still making music at all. Add this to the Nine Inch Nails/Janes Addiction announcement…
Vienna. Always culturally and politically modern yet pleasingly anachronistic in many ways, Austria’s low-slung capital is an amber cast of the 19th Century. But a little more than 200 years after the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in that very city, along came DJs/producers Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister —…
As Tall as Lions’ self-titled, 2006 sophomore album was one of that year’s most overlooked. That’s a shame, because the Long Island, New York,-based band’s disc was a surprisingly bittersweet, wistful work, full of soulful lullabies about the fleeting nature of life and love. Ghosts and faded lovers populated its…
Though he’s perhaps best-known as Kanye West’s wheels-of-steel man, Montreal-based A-Trak has been releasing his own good-times mix albums for a few years now. His many, many appearances around the World Music Conference come in support of his new one, Infinity +1, on which he chops up tunes from all…
Backward baseball cap-wearing white boys of South Florida, rejoice! Kottonmouth Kings are coming to town and bringing their friends. Fans of Kottonmouth Kings will have the opportunity to hear live versions of some of their favorite hip-hop tracks about smoking weed and living in the suburbs, including hits such as…
Jose D. DuranIf there is nobody at a pool party can you still call it a pool party? Just returned from the Gansevoort South. Music editor Arielle Castillo and I were at the A Party Worth Blogging About event by EatSkeet.com and HipsterRunoff.com. So in honor of HRO I’m going…
In a return to early punk shows, Respectable Street is having a few of South Florida’s finest this Saturday, March 28th @ 6p.m. One of this writer’s personal faves, Nobody’s Hero, with Joe Koontz (AAA, the Crumbs, On the Account, etc.) and Dougie and Dave from Guajiro, are on the…
Hamburg-based producer Stimming has been making waves in the elite minimal community with a series of highly distinctive and phenomenally funky releases on his hometown’s Diynamic label. Both a trained classical musician and certified audio engineer, his mind-boggling productions defy the stereotypes of techno and the very parameters of dance…
My music is (as you know) stripped down to the bone (perhaps why you were nearly naked)…I hope that the music I create is both appealing to the body and mind allowing you to dance full force on the dance floor, hide in the corner of a club with your eyes closed, or while relaxing at home.
Dutch DJ Joris Voorn has gotta be one of the headiest head-spinners working the decks these days. In fact, his double-disc Balance 014 mix CD seems to spring straight from an ether all its own. So New Times decided to give the celebrated dance man a chance to bring it…
Justin NamonMiss you Benny Benassi. Click here to view the full slide show.First night didn’t go so well for me. After a few too many glass of champagne early in the day at the Gansevoort’s rooftop pool, I had to go home to sleep off the buzz. Yes, I broke…
The band which for some reason still calls itself Metallica has just announced a stop at the BankAtlantic Center on October 1st. They’ll be on their “World Magnetic” tour, playing both their songs and the songs from the band they replaced after the Black Album. Clearly, the current incarnation of…
Close watchers of the local electro scene may remember producer/DJ Jason Tyler’s splashdown here from Chicago a couple years ago. (Read a past New Times article on him here). While last year he went back to the Windy City for a while to work on some new music, he’s returned,…
