So yesterday I headed to the beach to bop up and down Collins, checking out some of the hotel parties for WMC. I hit the Raleigh for a penthouse party given by AX, where the Belvy was flowing like sweat on the pool deck at the Shelborne, which is where…
The “Legend” label tends to get thrown around, but in this case, there’s just no label that fits better. Smokey Robinson is one of, if not THE greatest Motown singer/songwriter in history. His career with The Miracles produced tons of hit songs like “Shop Around”, “Who’s Loving You”, and “The…
For the Latin music lovers out there, WMC hasn’t forgotten about you. Our sources at the Shelborne say salsa princess La India is slated to make a cameo some time this afternoon, er, which is basically now. The hotel is hosting DJ Magazine’s Recession Sessions so this ought to be…
Apparently Timbaland felt like driving over from Pinecrest for some fun on Saturday. He’s been added to the bill for Ultra that day, where he’ll be performing a live set after the Prodigy and before Paul Van Dyk. If you somehow need more information about Ultra, visit ultramusicfestival.com…
Well it’s Winter Music, and this writer has gone to exactly no events. Today is the Sasha and Digweed booze cruise, errr yacht excursion (invite only so forget about it) and tonight is Tony Touch at the Vagabond, but…. also next door slyly opening for Frankie Bones is Miami’s own…
Yesterday, Jose Duran weighed in on the Eatskeet . com / Hipsterrunoff . com “Party Worth Blogging About” at the Gansevoort plunge pool, which we both attended. He was mostly on the money, but I should add that the party attendance had improved by the time I arrived around 2:30…
Who is Fedde Le Grand? According to Wikipedia he is a world famous Dutch house DJ and producer. Why is he in Miami? Apparently they got some kind of techno festival goin on down here. Who cares? A lot of people, maybe even you. So what’s with all the stupid…
I must have spent the whole day at the Gansevoort South yesterday, because after attending A Party Worth Blogging About (debatable), I returned for an private Ultimat Vodka event at the hotel’s rooftop pool featuring Steve Aoki. It was, eh. Really, I only attended because I was planning to go…
We never thought we’d ever live to see the day when prolific LA experimental electro darling Deadalus would be co-headlining a party with Will.I.Am of the Black Eyes Peas, but we’re living in strange time folks. The Hello Miami party (Friday starting at 9pm at Dolce Ultra Lounger), put on…
The mid 90’s are coming back to Pompano Beach Amphitheater in the form of the one two-hit wonder band The Offspring. What’s surprising about this announcement isn’t that The Offspring is coming here, it’s that they’re still making music at all. Add this to the Nine Inch Nails/Janes Addiction announcement…
Sung to the tune of “Jack and Diane”: A little ditty about Matt and Kim/Two American kids making music in Brooklyn/Matt plays keys, sings snotty and cute/Kim bashes out drumbeats and sings a bit too/Oh yeah, life goes on/Long after the hype of their debut is gone/Oh, yeah, life goes…
The first time I caught DJ Sandman, it was a Sunday afternoon outside by the pool at the ever-swinging Shore Club. TAI Entertainment was throwing another one of its long-running blowouts, and the joint was jumping with more models and bottles per square foot than Hefner’s dream house. Even better…
MARCH 25 Aero Bar. Therapy 10 Year Anniversary: jojoflores, Mike Fresco, JaBig, Danny Krivit, Phil Asher, Ultra Nate, Nicolas Matar, Studio Apartment, Pablo Martinez, Lisa Shaw, DJ ZO. Free with WMC Badge. Wed., March 25, 10 p.m. $20. gotsoul.b3@gmail.com. 247 23rd St, Miami Beach, 305-674-1110, aerobarmiami.com. Black Sheep Music Lounge…
The international dance-floor domination of German electrohouse duo Booka Shade, as well as that of the record label they cofounded, Get Physical, came serendipitously. “The plan was not to have a plan,” Arno Kammermeier, half of the twosome, says of Get Physical’s heady early days. It was around the turn…
Anybody with keen ears, common sense, and good taste buds digs the Dresden Dolls. Why? Because they’re the most exciting thing to sound off since Marlene Dietrich sang for Josef von Sternberg, that’s why. And to think otherwise would be to miss out on music itself. And if you dig…
Ultra remains all about dance music, but as the festival has expanded, so has its definition of the genre. As always, some of the biggest names on the bill are the best club spinners in the world. But this year’s edition will showcase a number of acts that cross genres…
Unfashionable is the next fashion. That’s been working for me the last four years,” DJ/producer Diplo says by phone from Austin, Texas, on a recent evening. But claiming to be unfashionable seems strange from a DJ called to the Longhorn State to coheadline two parties at the annual South by…
Though he is perhaps best known as Kanye West’s wheels-of-steel man, Montreal-based A-Trak has been releasing his own good-times mix albums for a few years. His many, many appearances around WMC come in support of his new CD, Infinity +1, on which he chops up tunes from all of your…
Vienna. Always culturally and politically modern, yet pleasingly anachronistic in many ways, Austria’s low-slung capital is an amber cast of the 19th Century. But a little more than 200 years after the death of Wolfgang Amadeus, in that very city, along came DJs/producers Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister — two…
You might not have heard the name Xiomara Laugart, but you probably should have. And when you do, you’re in for a hell of a treat. Xiomara Laugart, colloquially known as “La Negra,” boasts one powerful voice. All at once, it bears the singular qualities of the old troubadours singing…
The quintessential folk music of Portugal, fado typically features dark tones and lyrics that pine over loss, depict loneliness, and mourn the difficult experiences of the poor. It was historically adopted on the streets of Lisbon, though whether from the sailors or Africa, its true origins remain contested. Still, it…
Just returned from the Gansevoort South. Music editor Arielle Castillo and I were at the A Party Worth Blogging About event by EatSkeet.com and HipsterRunoff.com. So in honor of HRO I’m going to ask a few philosophical questions:Do pool parties need people in order for it to be a ‘partie’?If…
