The bad news: It’s been yet another average workweek in the all-too-average blur of your increasingly average existence. The good news: It’s officially Friday and tonight you go glam. So toss on some expensive rocks and slip those feet into a pair of crystal slippers for Glamorous Life Fridays at…
We should all mourn the death of the cassette, because mixtapes change lives. Case in point: Marques Wyatt. Originally a teen vinyl junkie from Santa Monica, California, he became a world-touring house DJ/producer in part because of a few carefully compiled tapes. Weaned by a jazz-addled father and three funk-obsessed…
Sometimes a party isn’t just a party. Sometimes it’s Local Motion, the annual charity electro concert benefiting the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, organized by Loscar Rodriguez — AKA HenceSoLo — and presented by Lexyn Intelligence and Nocturnal. First launched in February 2006, Local Motion has been fighting the…
In the vaguely menacing gloam of this first dying decade of the 21st century, the people continue to party hard. It’s an obsessive, have-fun-or-die type of mindset that cannot be deterred, no matter the consequences. And to a large extent, Frenchy sensations Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter of Daft…
Now and again, it becomes absolutely necessary to revisit your teen self, resetting to age 16 for a minute. Things these days can get desperate; maybe life is a permanent lost weekend, or maybe you’ve finally realized that becoming a millionaire is a totally bogus life goal. Either way, it’s…
Believe it … There are chimps living among us. And when these wild animals aren’t busy ripping the faces off unwitting citizens, they’re insidiously hard to spot. Cleverly camouflaged in people clothes with their hair cropped and parted smartly down the middle of the skull, they’re shopping in our supermarkets…
Champagne, strawberries, and beautiful people — No Sugar Added is the rare club night that provides a totally organic escape from the normally toxic South Beach scene. As mastermind Gianfranco Dossena says, it’s all about reuniting house music lovers with a fresh atmosphere. And, in fact, since launching in Miami…
Sometimes a party isn’t just a party. Sometimes it’s Local Motion, the annual charity electro concert benefiting the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, organized by Loscar Rodriguez, a.k.a. HenceSoLo, and presented by Lexyn Intelligence and Nocturnal. First launched in February 2006, Local Motion has been fighting the good fight…
Looking for a party where the dress code is greasy jeans and a bloodstained tee? Seeking someplace you can let your inner juvenile delinquent skank away the night while wasted on moonshine and black beauties? Well, call off the crusade, because Stop, Drop ’n’ Roll — a cover-free rockabilly bash…
The artist known as Matthew Dear has got some serious (but not too serious) identity issues. I mean, it’s not as if his psychic split is the acid-activated, lock-myself-away-for-30-years-and-die Syd Barrett variety. It’s more that, musically, Dear is way too complex to be merely one man. And so, like a…
The bad news: It’s been yet another average workweek in the all-too-average blur of your increasingly average existence. The good news: It’s officially Friday, and tonight you go glam. So toss on some expensive rocks and slip those feet into a pair of crystal slippers for Glamorous Life Fridays at…
The motto is “Nothin’ but the goods.” And like some punch-drunk baby boxer beating a gong with bare bloody fists, the seven-week-old Champion Sound throwdown brings the noise in a big way. For proof of pure party acumen, just take a quick and dirty MySpace tour with a few members…
There’s only one way to properly commemorate our nation’s deliverance from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Dancing. Lots of it. So come join NYC Meets Miami, this weekend’s seven-event, multi-club Fourth of July bonanza organized by New York nightlife promoter Rob Diesel and featuring Big Apple-based DJs Nyse and Abrupt…
A minute ago, still buzzing from the twin highs of payday and a certain psychotropic substance, I had the sudden realization: Green is a very good color. For a second, it seemed like a weird kind of intellectual smoke that meant precisely nothing, just floating past. Then, the rest came:…
Imagine you were one of Miami’s original cocaine cowboys, a man infamous for having transported — by air, sea, and street — $2 billion worth of Colombian powder into the United States. How would you choose to celebrate your birthday? Excessively, right? Surrounded by naked ladies, loaded weapons, and a…
There’s nothing more Floridian than cultivating a sunburn as you sniff burning rubber and gasoline exhaust. So when the lethal days of late June finally hit, head for Homestead-Miami Speedway for a full weekend of daredevil bikers whipping around the 2.21-mile road course as part of the Championship Cup Series…
¡Mayday! Friday, June 19, 2009 Transit Lounge, Miami Better than: A photo of yourself. The Review: Sometimes a club fills with 400 and every single one seems to be starring in his or her own personal reality show. That was the scene at Transit Friday night. The entire crowd came armed with Elphs, iPhones,…
As wild admirers of Johnny Cash, Karl Marx, and Pee Wee Herman, the ex-Miami and now Oakland-based outfit Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa makes a skuzzy, avant-garde sound that could be called “kinder commune rockabilly.” But that might be short-selling a crew that’s got as many facets as an LSD-25 trip in…
From the moment local hip hop crew ¡Mayday! got their first DSL hookup, the self-described “sound bombers” have proven themselves to cunning manipulators of modern internet technology. Like a half-feral band of dystopian techno-guerillas, they’ve managed to sidestep the bombed-out remains of the post-Napster music industry — YouTubing, MySpacing, and…
The term mayday is a universal distress signal that means “This shit’s gonna blow!” But here in Miami, it’s become a rallying cry to party, thanks mostly to explosive hip-hop sextet ¡Mayday!. After building its name locally, the band first garnered national props in 2006 after the video for the…
Featuring the Spam Allstars, Suenalo, and more Saturday, June 13, 2009 Jazid, Miami Beach Better than: Bottle service and a roomful of fake tits. It was 9:13 p.m. and across the street on Washington Ave., a couple hundred members of the steroid and cosmetic surgery set were waiting outside one…
In the world of Miami Beach party spots, Jazid (1342 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) is a welcome oddity. Not only does the small speakeasy-like joint stand in stark contrast to our city’s cavernous superclubs, but it has also managed to find a more permanent public than your average hipster bait…
