And you thought Bobby and Whitney were bad. Amy Winehouse and her husband, Blake Civil-Fiedler were recently photographed bloodied and bruised after a recent fight in London. It can’t help that paparazzi follow their every move and make matters worse, but the couple could certainly clean themselves up after they…
There’s a big reggae concert happening on Randall’s Island in New York this weekend that even state politicians are trying to get shut down due to the homophobic lyrics of some of its artists. Typically, I would say, FORWARRDDDD!!!! And big up to anyone willing to put all of that…
“I said it’s here, it’s here, it’s here, it’s here.” The dude seems to release new material every 6 months and today, Mr. Talib Kweli BK MC, has another LP for hip-hop lovers to consume. Eardrum is in record stores today and while I haven’t heard it yet, I’d love…
London’s favorite rock’n’roll screwball, Pete Doherty, of Babyshambles is escaping jail time despite being arrested for suspicion of drug use recently. Apparently the cops didn’t get him to court within 24 hours of his arrest. Not quite sure how that happened. Maybe a few extra quids in the cops pockets…
Say it ain’t so! First, rumors keep popping up that Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa are getting a divorce–which entitles the soon-to-be ex Mrs. Bryant to HALF of everything Kobe is worth. It’s California and they had no pre-nup. No sympathy there… fools and their money always part. You…
Don’t even get me started on this outfit. According to this news story, R. Kelly may finally be heading to trial to face charges on child pornography…which is a really spruced up way of saying “this jackass not only peed on a 14-year-old girl then slept with her, he also…
Any fans of breakdancing and viral videos need to watch this South Korean b-boy putting in some serious work! They don’t call this guy Poppin Hyun Joon for nothing.–Jonathan Cunningham…
It sounds like an incredible, genre-defying jam that could only be conjured up in the wildest dream state. A week packed with parties and special events, where the collective lineup of talent features everything from classic goth-rockers the Cure to the current “King of Crunk” Lil Jon, with every conceivable…
While the American dance scene has in many ways cooled from the peaks of the late Nineties, it’s also adapted to fit into the fast-forward culture of today. With mix CD and especially 12-inch sales virtually nonexistent, dance fans have instead emphasized the experience. Just ask anyone stuck at the…
Some of electronic music’s most recognizable names are slated to appear at Ultra Music Festival, from Richie Hawtin and Fatboy Slim to Sasha and John Digweed. But the full lineup (available at www.ultramusicfestival.com) reveals a certain curatorial skill even beyond all of the star power, offering samples of house, techno,…
“Over the years, we’ve always had a great time in Miami. The Cure has a really strong following there. When we first started coming to America, we didn’t play there for years, because certain promoters told us that no one would like us in the city. But when we did,…
When it began in 2004, M3: Miami, Music & Multimedia was inspiring. The panel discussions, which featured future superstars like Danger Mouse alongside industry veterans like legendary British mogul Tony Wilson (who discovered New Order), were conducted in air-conditioned tents at the end of Washington Avenue, near the beach and…
Andrew Mason describes the experience of spinning vinyl records — as opposed to playing MP3s — in deeply reverential terms. “It’s the thrill of the needle on the groove and hearing the noise of the record and then the song starts. It’s this visceral thing,” says Mason, also known as…
We are certainly not the Oscars or the Grammys. Heaven knows there’s no budget for fancy statues — or pretty girls to stand behind the podium holding them, for that matter. But we do like to give praise where it is due, and there are lots of cool happenings set…
Okay, so Winter Music Conference might not start officially until Tuesday. But Miami will make any excuse to party a little bit extra. And if you’re from out of town and here for the conference, you’re likely similarly swingin’. No worries — besides the city’s usual debauchery, the special events…
Kids are going crazy out in Los Angeles. Every month it seems a new opus emerges from the region: Aloe Blacc’s Shine Through, Georgia Anne Muldrow’s Olesi: Fragments of Earth, Daedelus’s Denies the Day’s Demise, Ta’Raach’s The Fevers, and Flying Lotus’s 1983. These recordings don’t reinvent the rules of soul,…
New Yorker Shauna Slevin is a veteran label manager and house music hustler, but she has a slightly strange scheduling stipulation when booking international trips for the Martinez Brothers. European gigs are limited to Saturday nights as the guys have a prior commitment on Fridays: high school. Apparently, playing at…
Just when electroclash was becoming a punch line and dance music threatened to turn moribund again, along came Ed Banger Records to give it another swift kick in the ass. Postmodern and ice-cool, the label’s signature sound is equal parts electro-tech-house, hip-hop swagger, and punk-rock attitude and distortion. Its biggest…
I’m an electronic-folk-soul-jazz-singer, or something in between,” writes Clara Hill. The German singer communicates via e-mail, but her warmth and enthusiasm shine through the text. Hill’s most recent album, All I Can Provide (released on Jazzanova’s imprint Sonar Kollektiv near the end of last year), is a delight. It finds…
Before beginning, a brief warning: Above & Beyond, the nom de plume for producers Jonathan Grant, Paavo Siljamäki, and Tony McGuinness, makes airy trance. And no, this isn’t the kind of borderline-trance Kompakt techno that hipsters like. This is the kind of sickly-sweet trance that makes hipsters grit their teeth…
He has produced songs for — and become friends with — Afrika Bambaataa. He lives around the corner from Snoop Dogg. But Überzone’s Tim Wiles is not a hip-hop star by any stretch of the imagination. You won’t find him rocking the latest platinum chain. He has no entourage, unless…
When the hip-hop movement was born, it was the beat heard around the world. Apparently Stockholm caught the buzz and a young Swede, now known as Mad Mats (Mats Carlsson), was obsessively listening to the tunes and practicing his street dancing. “I was the king of windmills,” he says. Fast-forward…
