This weekend famed house artiste Laurent Garnier appears at Shine for his first gig in Miami in more than a decade. The star DJ, one of the prime cogs in the late-Eighties Madchester scene, boasts his share of storied appearances. There was the time he stood in for Guns N’…
Eric Prydz is serious about energy conservation, but that isn’t why he’d love to see airplanes abolished. The Swedish techno DJ/producer is deathly afraid of flying — it’s a wonder he’s making a stateside trip to begin with. Thus it makes sense that he’ll be killing two birds with one…
Chances are good it’s already too late to get yourself into Studio A for the only U.S. date on UK DJ James Zabiela’s fall 2007 tour. One thing that’ll probably be there is a small band of haters standing around with arms crossed, silently cursing Zabiela for bringing turntablism into…
Shine opens its Sleepless Night festivities Friday with an appearance by steamy DJ Colette. With her doe eyes and demure presence, Chicago native Colette is the very essence of postmillennial house music. Her sweet but sultry voice has been called “angelic” so many times it’s a wonder she hasn’t grown…
Electro-rock remix superstar Tommie Sunshine has one of the most formidable resumés in music, but ’tis beauty that whips this beast. Sunshine — a ZZ Top look-alike, with his long, scraggly beard and Cousin It hair — has remixed them all, like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Good Charlotte, Ladytron, Avril…
Avril Lavigne should be looking over her shoulder with chicks like Ryan Joy around. The Tampa-based minidiva manifested a love for show biz at age 10, taking up voice lessons in the hope of someday becoming a part of the cultural landscape like her childhood heroes Kiss, Mötley Crüe, and…
Since 1994, the B-Side Players have stirred the world music melting pot with remarkable vigor. Fusing the sounds of Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, and Brazil with American funk, rock, jazz, and hip-hop, the nine-man San Diego-based outfit has delivered some memorable results. Colin Hay of Men at Work joined by a…
If you thought Space resident Oscar G’s releases so far contained the darkest, dirtiest tribal house you’d ever heard … well, you’re right. Which makes Saturday an extra-special occasion — a party at his home base to mark the launch of his latest and best mix release. The forthcoming Nervous…
Time once again for Sander Kleinenberg to visit one of the burgs that helped put him on the map — or is it the other way around? Like a superelaborate GPS system, Sander Kleinenberg’s bloopy progressive-house megahit “This Is Miami” mysteriously becomes “This Is Ibiza” if you’re on a certain…
It’s going to be a long Saturday night for New York house DJ Roger Sanchez. First he hits Cameo and then the infamous Space terrace for afterhours, beginning at 4:00 Sunday morning. And, mind you, all of this is on his plate 24 hours after finishing up at Voodoo in…
House DJ Pablo Ceballos is another wunderkind story: Kid falls in love with techno, meets mentor, explodes worldwide. During the early Nineties, bands like Depeche Mode and Massive Attack were among those that attracted the then-teenage Ceballos to synth-based music. Soon he began to gravitate more toward house sounds and…
The thing that stokes Mark Caro — alias Tech Itch — the most is his rep as the godfather of dark, hard, experimental drum ‘n’ bass. The thing that least stokes him is what the marginal success of d ‘n’ b is doing to the genre. “There’s too much cheesy…
What has four legs and sounds like Redd Foxx trying to freak up a New Orleans blues bar? The Nashville-based duo Black Diamond Heavies, comprising Van Campbell on drums and founder John Wesley Myers on guitar and blackened throat. The band was actually born four years ago as a four-piece…
There’s nothing like seeing the “Download” links enabled for the tunes on a band’s MySpace site. Wellll, doggy — free shit! Yessir, Mark Dubin of Fort Lauderdale’s Los Diablos ain’t no cheapskate. “We believe that if people are gonna take time to check out our shows, pay for the cover,…
Pretty much every one-person operation in the futurepop/EBM scene has cause to envy Tom Shear’s hard-fought self-sufficiency. In the studio he — and he alone — is Assemblage 23, fine maker of gloomy, industrialized synth-based dance confections since 1988. In his home office he’s 23db Records, responsible for releasing albums…
DJ magazine’s number 32-ranked DJ in the world is a relative newcomer whose reputation borders on the messianic. In 2004 Sander van Doorn began to focus more on DJing and less on production, the field in which he’d been working under names like Sam Sharp, Purple Haze, and Filterfunk. In…
The Midnight Perverts are/is only one guy, that being Miami acid house DJ Romeo Ugalde. The Arizona-born spinmeister is used to being part of a package, though. While living in Mexico, Ugalde was with the S.Junkes, a three-piece progressive house outfit. And in Miami he has plugged into the Dirty…
Chicago DJ Terry Mullan’s house music is so acidic he should be pimping Eveready batteries. Mullan was last in Miami in March, at Nocturnal for the AM Only party during WMC. His renown stems in part from his track “Sidewinder,” which wound up on the Chemical Brothers Brother’s Gonna Work…
Obituary singer John Tardy was a pioneer of the low-growl metal-vocal sound, but he sounds pretty normal over the phone. “I can’t wait to see the fans in Miami,” he says, referring to the Tampa band’s first local gig in two years. Saturday’s stop at Studio A is part of…
There are electronic musicians, nonelectronic musicians, and then Miami’s Fitzroy. “I don’t think of myself as an electronic artist,” the Barbados-born singer professes before admitting, “I record my stuff using a lot of synths — both real and computer-based.” Okay. “The songs are then topped off with guitars, bass, trumpets,…
The drum ‘n’ bass tanks keep rolling at Laundry Bar, with DJ Krust manning the booth this week. Krust was originally a hip-hop guy who began DJing in the mid-Eighties at schools and small clubs around his hometown of Bristol in the UK. During the later part of that decade,…
Apparently some talented people can literally make art just by taking a dump. Wait, don’t go yet. “I’ve written several songs on the toilet,” Latin superstar Marco Antonio Solis reveals. “One of them is ‘La Venia Bendita,’ which came about while I was traveling from Mexico City to Cancun.” The…
