One gets the impression that if there were eight days in a week, DJ Affect would be spinning each and every one of ’em. Hell, it’s a bet he’d be spinning every day of the week if there were 10 or 12 or 20 — that’s how driven the cat…
One gets the impression that if there were eight days in a week, DJ Affect would be spinning each and every one of ’em. Hell, it’s a bet he’d be spinning every day of the week if there were 10 or 12 or 20 — that’s how driven the cat…
On the corner of Breakbeat and Bass, in the town of Danceville, there hangs a cat whose scratch is surely as deep as the hiss of some vintage vinyl. I’m not talking about some throwback turntablist trying to revive the art of the back-cue, mind you — hell, most of…
On the corner of Breakbeat and Bass, in the town of Danceville, there hangs a cat whose scratch is surely as deep as the hiss of some vintage vinyl. I’m not talking about some throwback turntablist trying to revive the art of the back-cue, mind you – hell, most of…
Sayre BermanAC/DCSaturday, December 20, 2008BankAtlantic Center, SunriseBetter Than: Volume itself.To say that AC/DC were loud Saturday night is kinda like saying the sun set and the sky turned dark; a statement of fact, perhaps, but pretty much unnecessary. To say that AC/DC were louder than any show I’ve seen since…
Nope. He didn’t nick his name from James Brown’s classic “Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Wants).” He didn’t nab it from former Famous Flame Bobby Byrd’s “Hot Pants — I’m Coming, I’m Coming, I’m Coming” either. And he most certainly wasn’t thinking…
David Byrne Saturday December 13, 2008 The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theatre Better Than: Just about any show you’ve ever been to. Really. I’ve gotta apologize to David Byrne, because every time his acrobatic sidekick Lily Baldwin took the stage during last night’s dynamite Fillmore Gleason show, I…
Nearly three decades ago — in 1981 to be exact — two inimitable forces of indie nature collided to create a concoction of modern disco spirituals entitled My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. There was no “indie” then, per se. But the two men responsible for the album, David…
You’d never expect such a nice girl to have such a mean moniker. Then again, you’d never expect such a nice girl to slam such heavy tech-house either. According to Ms. Vicious, the name came from “old partner Andre Ramos. We produced experimental techno and house together under the name…
What’s hotter than seeing two pretty girls on the decks wearing their heels and bringing out banging, bumping-filled music?” Hmm, DJ-wise? I’d say not much. Not much I can think of offhand, anyway. Then again, when DJ Heather Holiday asks me the question, I get a bit flummoxed. Not because…
Carlow, Ireland, is about as far away from South Beach, Florida, as one can get and still be in the same hemisphere. (Actually, since the dominion lies along the prime meridian, it is common to both the Western and Eastern hemispheres, but you knew that already.) Throughout nearly the entire…
John Hood Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: The Eagles after they slept with Leonard Cohen. This should really be called The Night Before Last Night seeing that ol’ Bright Eyes’ boy wonder played on Tuesday rather than Wednesday,…
Dubbed “The Most Magnificent and Most Humble DJ on the Planet,” Self Born is a South Side Chicago slab-slinger who has been spinning South Beach since 2004. His coming-out? The Opium Garden birthday bash for Kid Capri. It was the kind of gig that gives a cat instant pedigree, and…
The first and last time I saw Omaha, I was struck by the tremendous gray of the place. The town’s sky, its streets, its buildings, even the skin of the townsfolk themselves all seemed to be cast in this otherworldly shade of slate. Granted it was winter, and there wasn’t…
On any given Friday night at the Lincoln Road swank spot Gemma, with its touch of Euro-class and cosmopolitan attributes, you’d never think the DJ propelling the room happens to have a background in metal. And not just any metal, but the particular brand of nu metal made meaty by…
STFU when LMFAO performs at Karu & Y. You’ve hear the track “I’m in Miami Bitch” more times than you care to count, but still it never fails to get you cracking a smile. And if the MySpace count is any indication, there’s almost 1.3 million people cracking smiles right…
Coldplay November 9, 2008 BankAtlantic Center Better Than: You’d Expect Say what you will about Coldplay (and most folks do), but unlike a lot of so-called arena acts – nevermind their smaller setting counterparts – they’ve at least got sense enough to make a spectacle of themselves when they come…
John Hood Rufus Wainwright November 8, 2008 The Jackie Gleason Theatre at the Fillmore Miami Beach Better Than: Crooning a Storybook They call it a Rubus. In theory, one suspects the thing is related to the centaur (half man/half horse), the mandrake (half man/half plant) and the Minotaur (half man/half…
When Rufus Wainwright hits The Fillmore this Saturday night, prepare to swoon. This is one crooning troubadour who could probably turn a grocery list into a heartbreaking tale of terrible beauty. Not that Wainwright has to resort to grocery lists, mind you. With a song-soaked career that dates back a…
“Just Chilly.” That’s how he said to write him up. No “DJ.” No “Mister.” No “Sir.” No nothing. “Just Chilly.” Which kinda makes sense considering the cat took his name back when “chill out” was the parlance of the day and anything more need not be said. Not that Chilly…
It’s not called Shore Thing for nothing. Sunday afternoons by the pool at South Beach’s Shore Club: bottles bucketed by the dozen, bikinis barely there and less, and the bad-ass bump and grind of kick-ass house. This is where the swing set swings, all the way through sunset. Oh, and…
Even when Deejay Smeejay is sitting, it’s not at all difficult to imagine him being a go-go boy, despite the fact that he has probably not, er, bar-topped for a decade or so. I mean, the cat literally dances in his seat. And in the rare instance when his body…
