Hercules and Love Affair

Horse Meat Disco at Electric Pickle: Five Reasons to Love the Queer Disco Party, Even If You're Straight

Any disco music lover has probably heard of Horse Meat Disco, the London collective made up by promoters and DJs James Hillard, Severino, Luke Howard and Jim Stanton. Together they go around the world reintroducing audiences to the somewhat forgotten genre. What started at London's Eagle nightclub h ... More >>

Identity Festival signals dance music's true arrival on the American scene

Tim Sweeney at the Electric Pickle August 27

Top Ten Guilty Pleasures of '90s Dance

Haddaway: If it's wrong to love him, we don't want to be right.​If you're a clubland regular, then you've probably noticed what a major comeback the classic '90s dance sound has made in the last couple years. You can hear it from the jacking house revival of underground acts like Hercules & Lo ... More >>

Identity Festival 2011: A Guide for Bros, Girls, Hip-Hoppers, Snobs, and Hipsters

​Dance music's gonna blow up! That's the kind of ecstatic chatter that's been endlessly parroted by pop commentators in 2011. However, this perception that electronic tuneage has been waiting idly on the sidelines just isn't true. Dance music crossed over a long time ago. In case you hadn't not ... More >>

Tim Sweeney Brings Beats in Space to the Electric Pickle August

​After twelve years of live mixing the weekly WNYU radio program Beats in Space, never once missing a night, Tim Sweeney has hosted pretty much every big name in electronic music. Sweeney started the Tuesday night affair as an 18-year-old college freshman. With ambition, smarts, and commitme ... More >>

Afrobeta Talks Under the Streets, Identity Festival, and 40-Person Bear Hugs

Photo by Daniel Sannwald​For five years, Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio have been playing together as Afrobeta. These two are pros at getting crowds sweaty and riled up. Right now, they're getting ready to kick off a summer tour with the Identity Festival by throwing one more party at the Electri ... More >>

Ten Female DJ-Producers Putting the Boys to Shame in 2011

Maya Jane Coles​The electronic dance music community has always been a major sausage fest. But why? The ladies like to get down on the dance floor just as much as the gents. And they certainly have plenty to contribute behind the decks and in the studio. Nevertheless, for decades, the superstar DJ ... More >>

Identity Festival Tickets On Sale Today

Photo by Daniel SannwaldAfrobeta bring a little 305 to Identity Festival.​Quick reminder: Tickets for Miami's stop on the Identity Festival are currently on sale via idfestival.com. Passes range from $40 general admission to $400 on-stage VIP, which includes food and drinks.And in an interesting t ... More >>

Identity Festival Miami Lineup Revealed

Hercules and Love Affair​More news on the upcoming Identity Festival happening August 25 at the Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park: There is now a Miami-specific lineup for the event. And while it unfortunately excludes some of our favorites (Modeselektor and Pete Tong), there are still plenty ... More >>

Yo Yo Yo! '90s Jam With Soul Clap at Electric Pickle Tomorrow

Soul Clap​After wearing out our '80s nostalgia on the dancefloor all through the 2000s, it's safe to say we've now collectively moved into full-blown '90s retro mode. You can hear it across clubland, where DJs everywhere have started to drop their fair share of jacking house classics from semina ... More >>

Ten Raddest Album Covers of the Internet Era: Daft Punk, Cut Copy, Booka Shade, and More

​If you're old enough to remember vinyl LPs, then you know that album design used to be an art unto itself. Who doesn't fondly remember rolling a fatty across the face of iconic sleeves such as the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon?  But toda ... More >>

Real Housewives' Kim Zolciak Goes Public With New Lady Love DJ Tracy Young in Miami Beach

​The hottest trend in Hollywood is dating lesbian DJs. Lindsay Lohan had Samantha Ronson. Australian pop singer Sia has coupled up with JD Samson of Le Tigre. So it was only a matter of time before Fort Lauderdale-based DJ Tracy Young got a semifamous girlfriend of her own.According to US Wee ... More >>

Hercules & Love Affair Continues to Tease Miami, DJ Set at the Vagabond February 6

Hercules & Love Affair, Andy Butler (center).​Hercules & Love Affair perhaps single-handedly ushered in the nu-disco era that South Florida's hipsterati current find themselves dancing to. Their self-titled debut album was a breakthrough filled with glittery gems including tracks like "Bli ... More >>

Concert Review: The Blow Channels Lindsay Lohan at Pulse Art Fair, December 5

Kyle Munzenrieder​The BlowPulse Art Fair at Ice Palace Studios, MiamiSaturday, December 5, 2009Better Than: A Samantha Ronson DJ set interrupted by a Lohan lover's quarrel.The Review:It's not impossible to think that The Blow really had been collaborating with Lindsay Lohan on the tabloid fixture' ... More >>

The Golden Filter Coming to Poplife December 5

The Golden Filter​We're about a month away from Art Basel Miami Beach, and yes, the art tends to be the bigger focus, but a great bonus is usually the influx of musical performers during the week. Last year alone, we saw performances by Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Panda Bear, The Gossip, MS ... More >>

Concert Review: Respectable Street's 22nd Anniversary

Afrobeta opened the night's festivities.​Respectable Street's 22nd AnniversaryClematis Street, West Palm BeachSaturday, August 22, 2009Better Than: The 21 previous Respectable Street anniversary parties (probably)The Review: It's been 22 years since Rodney Mayo bought an old  Salvation Army s ... More >>

Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House, at Vagabond this Saturday

Frankie Knuckles is hardly a man who needs introduction. The legendary DJ/producer is a pivotal figure in the history of house music, having begun his stellar career alongside Larry Levan in NYC and as resident DJ at the Warehouse in '70s Chicago, back when house music was still an experimental offs ... More >>

Winter Music Conference Event Listings

Find all the best parties taking place March 25-29.

Winter Music Conference Event Listings

Find all the best parties taking place March 24-29.

Andy Butler of Hercules and Love Affair

Must-See Acts on Ultra's Lineup

Fringe Sounds

Check these underground parties for left-field beats.

WMC Preview: Q&A with Late of the Pier

The English quartet Late of the Pier are among their homeland's best, brightest young hopes, with all the high cheekbones and music press praise that usually entails. But don't mistake them for one of the dour, fedora-ed Brit indie groups of recent years. This band makes fun music for the kids full ... More >>

WMC Preview: Andy Butler of Hercules and Love Affair

Andy Butler, the cunning mind behind Hercules and Love Affair, is a champion of saucy, sweaty disco and house, and his DJ sets reflect this focused style. The group's self-titled record was easily one of the biggest exclamation points in dance music's lexicon last year. Alongside singers Nomi and Ki ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival Announces Phase Two of Its Lineup

Ultra Music Festival released the second phase of its lineup, and while the biggest names in the list offer no big surprises, a number of other, smaller acts added to the bill demonstrate more of the festival's forward-thinking approach this year. So here are the titans who will play (again): Paul ... More >>

Mickey Rourke Campaigns for the Oscar by Calling Sean Penn a Homophobe

The Daily Beast obtained text messages by our favorite local comeback kid Mickey Rourke trashing Sean Penn's performance in Milk and calling him a homophobe. It's ironic that Rourke is freely castigating people as homophobes when he was the one caught on tape calling a reporter a faggot just a few m ... More >>

Best Dance-Floor Anthems of 2008

The year's finest tracks, both mixed and unmixed.

Bump 'n' Grind 2008: A Look Back at This Year's Club Bangers

Back in my days over at Miami Nights, I liked to close out the year by looking back at all the music I discovered where I spend most of my time -- in nightclubs. It's always interesting to see what makes it big the following year, because downtown club in particular tend to be ahead of the curve. So ... More >>

Saturday Night: Holy Ghost! at The Vagabond

Holy Ghost Saturday, December 13, 2008 The Vagabond, Miami Better than: 100% of the godless ultra-commercial dance crap polluting the Beach.  It's past midnight and I'm at the Vagabond sipping my whiskey straight and waiting for Holy Ghost! to start their DJ set in the main room. It's my ... More >>

Hercules & Love Affair Also to Play Ultra's Second Day

Hah! Ultra is sounding better and better! Looks like the organizers have also flip-flopped their booking M.O. this year. Since the festival's expansion into a two-day affair, things have generally gone more experimental the first night, with the classic dance music titans taking over the second da ... More >>

Head Spins: Pumps Crew

Two deft DJs, one now sound.

Head Spins: DJ Joe Dert

This mashup king runs the genre gamut.

The Faint

Over the Weekend - Fito Paez, Hercules & Love Affair and Cameo

Hercules & Love Affair DJ Set