by Mosi Reeves
DJ Hell Pawn Shop Lounge, March 25 DJ Hell, the nom de plume for Helmut Josef Geier, signifies Eurotrash electronics at its most seductive and confrontational, all acid noise and dark, deep techno-funk. He plays many roles, from owner of the hugely influential International Deejay Gigolo label to producer of…
When we announced our second annual Ultra Music Festival spinoff, we never imagined we would receive a staggering 87 submissions, 54 of which were sent to Miami New Times and 33 to New Times Broward-Palm Beach, from both established DJs and relative greenhorns. Amazingly, we managed to listen to them…
Sandy Rivera, the man behind Kings of Tomorrow, epitomizes New Jersey deep. He came to international attention in 2000 with “Finally,” a classic love number featuring the svelte vocals of Julie McKnight. “Finally” was a massive house anthem that was inescapable for months in discotheques around the world and was…
Any city whose very existence captures the public imagination becomes an elusive, flickering ideal. Miami has proved to be an especially potent muse, a mirage viewed as an oasis of paparazzi and celebrities, a Latin paradise, a haven of illicit and criminal behavior, and a concrete proving ground for immigrants…
The French flamenco ensemble Gipsy Kings is best known in this country for its unlikely 1988 hit Bamboleo. But the group is more than a one-hit wonder; its most recent album, 2004’s Roots, was one of the best received albums of its career. See the new and improved Gipsy Kings…
Thursdays, Pawn Shop Lounge If you’ve ever partied in Fort Lauderdale, you may recognize DJ Midas’s name: he plays on Fridays at Pangaea in Hollywood and on Saturdays at Art Bar. Slowly but surely he’s beginning to earn gigs here, and currently holds down a residency at the Pawn Shop…
Thanks to a series of dance hits culminating in last year’s smash “Which Way You’re Going,” Robbie Rivera is one of Miami’s signature producers, sharing the spotlight alongside George Morel, Murk, and a handful of others. He has released countless recordings on his own imprint, Juicy Music, as well as…
Want to get out of town when Miami Beach turns into the land of a thousand ravers? Better yet, are you one of the millions of people fortunate enough to not live on the Beach, but want to go check out something cool and electronic without dealing with traffic and…
Human After All draws Daft Punk away from its famed disco-house sound and closer to the mechanical Kraftwerk roots that girded brittle, looping singles such as “Around the World.” It starts off strong: “Human After All,” with the chorus “We are human/Rock and roll,” serves as a cheeky commentary on…
Hip-hop culture is awash in marketing campaigns, from the somewhat high-minded self-improvement (meditation, yoga, a sometime-vegan diet) strategy employed by Russell Simmons for his Phat Farm clothing line and other products, to the tactics used by street teams such as Crazy Hood Productions to publicize films, new CDs, and radio…
David Morales spins true, classic New York house, the pumping, four-to-the-floor, body-moving tracks that everyone, whether elitist, anti-dance, or rockist still gives props to. His most recent album, 2 Worlds Collide, was one of the best released last year, thanks to the blazing first single and collaboration with Tamra Keenan,…
Do all the New York hipsters and Miami club kids know where mash-up — mixing up records from disparate genres — really came from? It’s something hip-hop and disco DJs have been doing for ages, and their modern counterpart is expert party-rockin’ DJs such as Z-Trip. Raised in Phoenix and…
German house producer Ian Pooley’s repertoire ranges from the airy, ambient Euro-house of his brilliant Meridian to his Brazilian house anthem with Esthero “Balmes (A Better Life).” As one of a handful of house producers to earn a major-label deal in the past few years (via his now-defunct relationship with…
There are only a handful of DJs whose names resonate beyond dance music: John Digweed is one of them. Back in the salad days of the late Nineties, when the genre exploded from an underground cultural renaissance to a global industry, the British-born Digweed and his frequent partner Sasha invaded…
If Guns N’ Roses and Stone Temple Pilots consummated their mutual passion for authentic rock and roll, the result would be the bastard love child known as Velvet Revolver. The supergroup joins Hoobastank at the Sound Advice Amphitheater at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 25. Tickets range from $24 to $54.50…
Ivano Bellini is one of the most popular DJs in the city, as well as an occasional producer and remixer for South Beach imprint SFP Records, a label he runs with Marc Sacheli and another local DJ, Pierre Zonzon. Miami Afterhours is a good example of the sets he spins…
Cotton Candy The hype around 50 Cent’s new album, The Massacre, began sometime last fall when “Disco Inferno” began percolating on radio stations around the nation. The left-footed logjam wasn’t as fresh as The Game’s first single, “How We Do,” which found the West Coast thug and 50 Cent pass…
After construction delays postponed its re-opening party two weeks ago, PS 14 is coming back with a bang. Now a bar and restaurant that will complement the neighboring I/O, this modest-sized pizzeria will undoubtedly swell to capacity when Counterflow Recordings brings back its weekly jam Paid Attention (remember when it…
DJ Vertigo Thursdays, Rumi; Fridays, State; Saturdays, Space; Mondays and Wednesdays, Oxygen Lounge DJ Vertigo is all over the place: bubbling in the Grove at Oxygen Lounge; spinning hip-hop for trance-weary heads at Space; and throwing his own jam, The Main Event, at State. You can also hear him on…
Thanks to multidisciplinary artists such as Tiffany “Hanan” Madera, belly dancing has become an unusually effective element in the city’s bohemian culture, appearing in everything from spoken-word events to electro concerts and dance clubs. Madera creates her acclaimed projects, which range from her performance piece Habibi Remix to a Latin…
By now, everybody knows the story: On Friday, February 11, Clear Channel, the multimedia corporation that owns several hundred radio stations across the United States, decided to switch its call letters from the rock-oriented ZETA (WZTA-FM 94.9) to the reggaeton-oriented MEGA (WMGE-FM 94.9), leaving West Palm Beach’s The Buzz (WPBZ-FM…
I don’t know how well you know my songs,” says Elvis Costello over a cell phone that occasionally cuts out as he drives towards Buxton Opera House in Devonshire, England, where he is scheduled to play at the Four Four Time festival. Such knowledge is near-impossible to acquire. Since debuting…
