Washington, D.C.-based turntable whiz DJ Enferno hits WMC just a few months after his marquee spot as official tour DJ for Madonna’s winter Sticky Sweet tour. Besides keeping the energy high onstage, the battle-circuit champ, along with Madonna’s musical director, Kevin Antunes, was charged with rearranging Madge’s songs to fit…
British electronic/rock band Underworld audibly peaked after Darren Emerson joined the group in 1991, and subsequently helped craft classic dance-floor anthems such as “Rez,” “Cowgirl,” and “Born Slippy.” Similarly, the group has made only minimal noise since he departed in 2000. Draw your own conclusions there, but we think Emerson…
Sunday-night Nikki Beach resident Armand Pena will introduce his new slick-as-hell house compilation LP, Nervous Nitelife: Miami 2009, during his set Wednesday, March 25. The compilation features a number of Pena’s own original productions and remixes, in addition to tracks from current it-boy Chris Lake, Joi Cardwell, Tom “Superchumbo” Stephan,…
The Droog DJs are some of the fiercest soldiers for the cause of quality dance music in their hometown of Los Angeles. Buddies Andrei Osyka, Brett Griffin, and Justin Sloe are proponents of more stripped-down sounds, spinning dubby, clicky, groove-oriented tracks on the techno/house spectrum. Perhaps it’s a reaction to…
It wouldn’t be completely out of line to say DJ/producer Hernán Cattáneo is as significant a head spinner in his home of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as top-earning British DJ Paul Oakenfold is in England. Oakey must have thought so, even just a little bit, after encountering Cattáneo in South America,…
You won’t hear his cinched beats and dub fringes unfurl through the radio (unless, that is, you live in a tech-house fantasy land). But it would seem he’s been a slave to the mixing board, based on the number of tracks tagged with his name in the past few years…
Music scholar Daniel Fuller wrote that Orlando-based DJ/producer Q-Burns Abstract Message (Michael Donaldson) blurs the line between “eclectic experimenter and populist ass-shaker.” That couldn’t be a more perfect way to describe his fun and flirtatious style behind the decks. His label, Eighth Dimension, has been a welcome respite from big,…
The Weston-based indie up-and-comers Old Wives’ Tale are nothing if not professional — the band’s entire existence argues further for the end of record labels. Its website and debut disc are snappily designed and art-directed by the band itself, with a high-gloss New Wave style much like the band’s music…
As an ace jazz guitarist with a husky syncopated voice, George Benson straddled the line between Quiet Storm R&B and adult contemporary during the mid-1970s and early 1980s. His singles from that era sound both of the time and utterly ageless: “Turn Your Love Around” predated the Police’s “Roxanne,” with…
With his soaring voice and arena-rock fluency, Todd Rundgren seemed destined for hit-after-hit superstardom when he released his third album, the entirely self-recorded Something/Anything, in 1972. Looking back, though, it was clear that Rundgren had too many experimental itches to scratch — and the progression of his career has arguably…
Fillup Banks is a business visionary with a digital hustle. 305HipHop.com, the successful site he started in 2003 is forging a new era in South Florida independent media production with the launch of Urban Union on March 22nd at 3:05pm. Urban Union is a multimedia production house. Here’s the Fillup…
Even if you’re neither Cuban nor into Cuban music, you’ve no doubt heard of the Buena Vista Social Club, originally a members club where musicians would meet in Cuba during the 40’s, but better known for the rediscovery in the 90’s, championed in large part by American guitarist/producer Ry Cooder. …
There has been an obscene amount of concert announcements over the last couple weeks and there a trend has been developing. Huge name acts are deciding that South Florida (more specifically West Palm Beach’s Cruzan Amphitheater) is the place to start their massive U.S. tours, and that’s fantastic news.The latest…
EDM Productions and Gooshie House (from House 101 Sundays) will be hosting the 5th annual Locals Only! show at Black Sheep Bar on Sunday, March 22. This special pre-Conference gathering will feature a dozen-plus local DJs in an impressive 15-hour spinning marathon, and includes an exclusive live performance by soulful…
When Circa 28 suddenly shut down last year, it came as a shock to many. Well its back, er, sort of. We reported about the Electric Pickle taking over the space back February, and just in time for Winter Music Conference, the place is ready for the public. Good thing…
We received word that Get Physical Miami’s event Saturday, March 28 at Charcoal Studio has been canceled. Calls to Charcoal Studio confirmed that it was true. We still are looking into the specific reason why the party was scraped. We did some snooping around on our own and we noticed…
While 2008 was a quiet year for Jean-Baptiste de Laubier — better known as Para One — 2009 promises to be a busy one for the DJ/producer. Laubier will be in town during Winter Music Conference to celebrate that label that pushed him to the forefront of the French-house craze,…
Found this hilarious video of 16 year old Irish rapper named Fitzy Fitz doin a song with California’s Village Boo talkin shit about Rick Ross and DJ Khaled, let the video ride for about a minute, that’s when it gets funny. Apparently Fitzy is mad that Khaled don’t show radio…
Miami’s own Danny Daze and Induce are now part of the Midnight Moroders, a loose-knit group of music lovers. Induce, also of Casual Sax, is a brightly colored lad, known to also DJ in short pants and a hat, playing from his hip-hop roots to more current and eclectic underground…
I received this encyclopedia length post as a comment to a blog about a blog. Coffee House Gypsies superfan Amanda wants you to know why she loves the Coffee House Gypsies. I caught them once on video. They were playing in a weed-filled trailer park in Wynwood during Art Basel…
Nothing says St. Patrick’s Day like an English rock band and a Pennsylvania based grunge act. Bad Company (yeah, the Bad Company that rocked the 70’s) and Live (think Lightning Crashes) are banding together and hoping enough green beer is consumed that the crowd will literally feel like they’ve been…
Andy Butler, the cunning mind behind Hercules and Love Affair, is a champion of saucy, sweaty disco and house, and his DJ sets reflect this focused style. The group’s self-titled record was easily one of the biggest exclamation points in dance music’s lexicon last year. Alongside singers Nomi and Kim…
