Thievery Corporation Lands at Eden Roc for Secret Set Tonight

Spawned on the streets of our nation’s great federal district, Washington, D.C., amid palm-greasing, spook stories, shadow games, political corruption, and urban blight, DJ duo Thievery Corporation has always cultivated a certain distate for the sleazy dealings of America’s most priveledged classes. In 14 years of active opposition, Rob Garza…

Boys Noize Brings His Bloggy Buzzsaw Skills to Mansion November 3

Way back in the summer of 2005, the internet gave birth to a baby called blog house. Yet unlike 99.9 percent of the web’s offspring, this particular suckling sub-subgenre survived. It was strong, loud, and infectious. And soon, the little bastard was remultiplying by the minute. One among the first…

Drake’s Big Booty Birthday Bonanza at King of Diamonds Tonight

In order to officially achieve the rank of grown motherfucker, one must scratch three very specific things off the eternal To-Do list: (1) Make out with Nicki Minaj; (2) Earn an awesome nickname ending in -zy (e.g., Jeezy, Weezy, Kanyeezy); and (3) Celebrate a landmark b-day in the company of…

Simon Baker

The buildup has been gradual. Actually, that’s an understatement. But now, after nearly two decades spent refining his take on techno house, first behind the decks and then behind the soundboard, Leeds DJ-producer Simon Baker is finally gearing up for the release of his debut artist effort on Ralph Lawson’s…

Monotonix Returns (Sort Of) to the Site of Its Busted Leg December 4

Have you ever seen acrobatic Israeli punks Montonix in action? It’s almost like these three dudes (Ami Shalev, Yonatan Gat, and Haggai Fershtman) are the bastard triplet sons of Iggy Pop, Nadia Comăneci, and Tel Aviv’s drunkest team of Krav Maga experts. And really, one just assumes that superhuman flexibility,…

Join Young Jeezy’s Thug Motivation Seminar at Mansion This Friday

Originally, Young Jeezy’s fourth major-label slab, reportedly titled Thug Motivation 103, was supposed to drop sometime in 2009. But soon the rapper pushed back the projected release date to June 2010 before flip-flopping with a guesstimate of July. Then, a couple of months ago, the world was told to expect…