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DJ Sneak: Five Reasons He's a House Gangster

DJ Sneak (AKA Carlos Sosa) doesn't need an introduction if you know house music. Sneak has been running around bragging that he's a house gangster for a while now. And that's a pretty bold claim. What is a house gangster though? Isn't that a term more fitting of violence-glorifying rap music? Is t ... More >>

Why the Corporate Takeover of EDM Was Inevitable: The Straight Bros are On Board

You're not likely to hear many heavy-handed conversations about business at Ultra Music Festival this weekend, but if you do, it will more than likely be about billionaire Robert F.X. Sillerman's plans to buy up just about everything related to electronic dance music and consolidate it all under SFX ... More >>

Araabmuzik at Mansion Miami November 16

Araabmuzik, "MVP of the MPC," Headlining Mansion Miami's Super Fridays

One of the first critiques hurled at electronic music (usually from an individual of the guitar-bass-drums persuasion) is the performers "aren't doing anything." This is a valid charge. Are you really trying to tell us in between smashing people in the face with cake and washing it off with a water ... More >>

Gender Wars

Flosstradamus at Grand Central October 12

Flosstradamus Brings Chicago Deep-Dish Electro to Grand Central on October 12

Had Mannie Fresh heard womp-womp "from the amplifiers" instead of boom after "the truck went uh-uh" in "Still Fly," Big Tymers' Hood Rich would've been a completely different record 10 years ahead of its time. We're glad he didn't. Producing electro beats with enough swag to effortlessly pump thro ... More >>

BGR The Burger Joint Offers Obama and Romney Burgers

BGR The Burger Joint is asking for your vote.Only this time, it's not about greasy politicians, it's about hamburger meat.  The burger chain has created two burgers as different as the candidates they're named after. Go ahead, Eat your favorite politician in effigy.The presidential burgers are ... More >>

Young the Giant at Culture Room March 18

Kate Simko Talks Debut Album, New A/V Live Show, and Keeping It Real

​Since the 1980s, the sounds emanating from the house music capital of Chicago to the west and the techno capital of Detroit to the east have met and cross-bred in the Midwest. These were the hybrid sounds that DJ-producer Kate Simko soaked up as a rave kid. And they have greatly informed her wor ... More >>

Four Arrested for Skimming $1.5 Million From ATMs in Miami, Chicago, and New York

​The Department of Justice has indicted four foreign nationals for stealing more than $1.5 million from bank accounts by using "skimming" technology to help themselves to the bank accounts of customers who used ATMs in Miami, Chicago, and New York City. Mihail Dragici and Ionel Dedlescu, both ... More >>

Indigo Narratives

The Interrupters: Gang-bangers interrupted

Common's Lecture on The Effects of Hip-Hop on Modern Society at FIU

Photo by Liana Lozada​ On Wednesday, February 9, FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus got a little taste of Chicago rapper and actor Common. The speaking engagement was titled "The Effects of Hip-Hop on Modern Society." But it took the form of a motivational speech on achieving individual greatness. Common ... More >>

Bad Boy Bill at Space January 28

Bad Boy Bill Brings His Chi-Town House Boom to Space This Friday

​The story of DJ Bad Boy Bill reads like the history of house music itself. It tells exactly how this Chicago music subculture spread across America and the world to become an international mainstream phenomenon. Schooled in the Chi-town house boom of the mid '80s, Bill first made a name for hims ... More >>

Soulja Big Top

Conspiracy Hearist

Beyond All That Jazz

Maintenance Worker Shot on Ocean Drive While Evicting Tenant

​In today's senseless murder news, a maintenance worker was shot dead while helping police evict a tenant from an Ocean Drive apartment in South Beach this morning. The shooter and a police officer were also injured, though neither seriously.

Glitzy House Kittens

Glitzy House Kittens

Bar Debuts New Decor by Cody Hudson Tonight

Photo via RAULIZM's TwitPicShattered Dreams are free at Bar.​It's that time again -- Bar will be showcasing a new look starting tonight. Above is a teaser photo Bar's general manager Raul Sanchez tweeted last night. This time it's Chicago artist Cody Hudson who will be plastering Bar's wall with h ... More >>

Bad Boy Bill Plays Gryphon Tonight

​The story of DJ Bad Boy Bill (born William Renkosik) reads like the story of house music itself, and namely how this once geo-specific Chicagoan music subculture disseminated itself across the greater American and international cultures to become the mainstream phenomenon it is today. Schooled in ... More >>

Dwyane Wade Will Discuss Free Agency Plans With LeBron James, Joe Johnson

​With one of the most talent-loaded free-agency classes in NBA history, the upcoming off-season is like war. Now, Dwyane Wade says he, the Cavs' LeBron James, and the Hawks' Joe Johnson will convene a sort of basketball Yalta Conference to discuss postseason reorganization."[Free agency] has been ... More >>

Awesome New Republic Passports, MacBook Pro Stolen in Montreal

Photo from tenthousandislands.blogspot.com​It seems another Miami band has gotten its gear stolen. New Times reported yesterday that Torche, currently on tour with Circa Survive and Coheed and Cambria, had a slew of equipment jacked in Chicago on Friday, including a guitar, bass, pedals, iP ... More >>

Torche Gear Stolen in Chicago; Band Accepting Donations, Scrambling to Continue Tour

via myspace.com/torche​Gear theft is a sad reality of the touring life, but despite its many, many months on the road, Miami-birthed Torche had been lucky enough to avoid a major incident -- until this past Friday. The band is currently on tour with Circa Survive and Coheed and Cambria, a package ... More >>

Either Miami or Chicago Will Dominate NBA, Hints LeBron Pal

Despite the pleas of New York's local media, it seems that LeBron James will not be heading to join the Knicks. Or so says Charles Oakley, a former Knicks player and close pal of LeBron. "Chicago or Miami. Not New York. He's leaving," Oakley told the New York Daily News.Hmmm, the Heat and the B ... More >>

Concert Review: Wilco at the Fillmore Miami Beach, March 22

Photo by John HoodWilco performing live at the Fillmore Miami Beach.​WilcoThe Fillmore Miami BeachMonday, March 22, 2010Better Than: Having to travel all the Way to Chicago's Vic Theater.Call me a fogy if you want -- a lightweight, a wimp. Yes, Wilco staged at The Fillmore Gleason last night, and ... More >>

Mushroom Jazz originator Mark Farina does Nocturnal

The Miami Turkey: Double Stuffed, Bacon, Pork, Black Beans & Rice

Turkey image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/teddyllovet/ / CC BY 2.0Represent​Chicago's got the smokehouse turkey stuffed with hot dogs.Los Angeles turkeys get botox in their gobblers, and surgical breast enhancement.Arizona turkeys get left to cook by solar power on the sidewalk.So what is the ... More >>

Grandpa's Martini Test at Chicago's Steakhouse & Tavern

Old-school booze bombs: the Well-Mannered Dirty Martini, left, and Chicago's Martini​You know, Tom Brokaw was right when he called our grandparents the "Greatest Generation." Not only did they fight World War II and rescue the world from the evil clutches of fascism, but Grandpa and Grandma totall ... More >>

Felix da Housecat

The Dwyane-Desertion Paranoia Countdown: Confronting His Baron Nemesis Will Drive Wade Away

Jacob Katel If this is the face Dwyane Wade makes when you simply mention Richard von Houtman's name, what happens when Wade actually sees him? Projectile vomit?​Ever been in an intimate relationship at work that ended badly? We bet all you wanted to do afterward, in order to escape seeing ... More >>

Jazzy Eyewear at Electric Pickle Tonight

​A last minute heads up to the house music fiends: Jazzy Eyewear, Miami's best kept secret and pretty much our most talented local proponent of classic Chicago-style funky house will be spinning at the Electric Pickle tonight. Fabian Giannattasio a.k.a. Jazzy Eyewear is an Argentinian transplant w ... More >>

"Opinionated About Dining" Survey Disses South Florida

Opinionated About Dining (OAD) released results of its second annual survey of dining establishments in the United States and Canada. The ratings cover over 900 restaurants ranging from fine dining to inexpensive. The only South Florida restaurants to make the grade were, perhaps to no surprise, the ... More >>

WMC Wednesday Recap: Gansevoort Pool Parties, Soft Opening of Chicago, and an Empty Nocturnal

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 attendance had impro ... More >>

WMC Preview: A New Club Called Chicago (Really) Opens Tonight With Free Booze, Hot Dogs

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, and as a partner in a ne ... More >>

Don't Try This At Home, and other reasons to eat at Lulu's

Deep frying a turkey can destroy your home, kill your neighbors, and ruin your life. It happened to a friend of mine. This was in Chicago, some years back. He turned on his heating element -- something red and dangerous looking, made by a company with a Japanese sounding name -- and filled a li ... More >>

BREAKING NEWS: Liberty City Six Jurors Deadlocked

Kanye West's Mom Dies at 58

Meg White is Bug Bug Buggin' Out

Concert Preview--Bad Boy Bill at Voodoo Lounge

Bad Boy Bill

Clean Queens

Giving drag cabaret a final rinse

If Chicago Can Make Bikes Work, Why Can't Miami?

Sty of the Blind Pig is a Sight to Behold

Still Dribbling

The Globetrotters play for a living

That’s the Ticket

A local filmmaker has the magic numbers

Chris Brown