Feuds. Why do we love them so much? From Angelina and Aniston to the Ottoman Empire and the Byzantines, mankind has been throwing shade since the Earth’s first sunrise.  This translates to music as well. There was the East Coast versus West Coast hip-hop feud in the ’90s, the one-sided Meek versus…

Cruises can be boring. Not long ago, bingo, trivia games, and cooking demonstrations were actually listed as “fun activities” by some ships. But these days, there’s a new kind of cruise in town: the music cruise. Take, for example, Jason Beukema’s Groove Cruise, essentially a floating rave. The 11th-annual Groove…

Keys N Krates have fond Miami memories of eating good Cuban food and playing a WMC party hosted by DJ Craze at a strip club. They love Florida and say the crowds are “lit.” Their mission statement reads, “make weird rap beats for the weird kids,” which would make the…

Though it’s a country smaller than California, few places match Italy’s appreciation for the finer things in life. Nobody shells out the big bucks for luxurious North Korean leather, after all. Italians have an astute attention to detail and a brilliant eye for design. Sports cars from the small towns…

Guy Gerber was in his friend’s underground studio in Toronto when we tracked him down. He could have been on South Beach with one of those margaritas with the upside down Corona in them, but he’s the kind of guy who prefers a cavernous recording studio. The place looks like…

A military brat, Markus Schulz was born and raised in Germany before moving to Phoenix for his teenage years. He didn’t speak English very well and spent a lot of time alone in his room listening to the radio. Music inspired him, as a teenager he played eight-hour sets on…

Jono Grant was northbound out of London for a studio session when we tracked him down on his mobile. Jono, along with Paavo Siljamäki and Tony McGuinness, are Above & Beyond, an English electric dance music DJ and production group. They also own and operate the Anjunabeats label, whose roster…

Natural elements are important to Damian Lazarus. The English DJ and owner of the Crosstown Rebels record label has played in jungles, on the Galápagos Islands, in an igloo, and in deserts around the world. He’s also played after parties in random fan’s houses and hasn’t totally ruled this out…

“Story is a challenge, and maybe the most challenging club to play in Miami because of the mixture of core dance music fans and fringe fans or people just in town on vacation,” Arty says. The 25-year-old DJ is the most popular thing to come out of Russia since vodka…

What does it feel like to release an anthem — a track that becomes unanimous with a genre? Is there any hint of what’s to come in the recording studio? Does the sky blacken and the thunder clap closer until, finally, the song is done and a flock of golden…

The walls were so thin at their old place Afrobeta could hear the parade of hookers marching in and out of their neighbor’s apartment. Luckily, the Miami natives invited us to their new home/studio for this interview. Their friend AholSniffsGlue’s ubiquitous artwork covers a wall next to the new and…

New Times’ chief meteorologist is calling for champagne showers, heavy fog, and a storm of LED foam sticks when Sultan + Shepard return to LIV this Thursday. “We’ll be reading the crowd at LIV,” Ned Shepard says. “We’ve been DJing so long that we can take a set anywhere the…

Kind of like when Clark Kent loses the glasses, adorns his cape and becomes Superman, Sam Young morphs into Vanilla Ace before our very eyes when he drops the needle on a 118 BPM house track with an Isaac Hayes sample. While Sam Young has played 30-plus open format sets…

“My mom and dad don’t like dance music, but they like mine,” Nora En Pure tell us. Mom and dad might like their daughter’s music if she was scraping forks on a chalkboard, but point taken. Nora En Pure went on to add that other non-ravers and PLUR-types typically appreciate her…