People speak of him with reverence, yet he still worries about being seen as relevant. He was recently honored as Top Progressive House DJ at the DJ Awards in Ibiza, yet he thinks the tag “progressive” is still partially a burden. He has long been seen as a herald of…
Here’s a last minute show announcement for a party that sounds like it’s well worth attending. Former Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell is playing a gig tonight at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel that should be a lot of fun. The show starts around 11 p.m. The…
The instrumental rock quartet Pelican has markedly evolved in recent years. Perhaps it was a result of moving from the band’s original hometown of Chicago, for the sunnier climes of Los Angeles. For where the earliest Pelican material skated around the borders of metal, as time has passed there’s been…
Kevin Rudolf is an adorable young man. The Cash Money Record’s pop-star took me out to lunch, drove me around in his Lambo, introduced me to his model girlfriends, and at around 3 a.m., took me to Cash Money’s studio in North Miami, where he introduced me to Lil Wayne,…
ZOMG, ya’ll! It’s Tuesday, so what the hell is On the List doing up so early in the week? Well, in case you didn’t know, today is Election Day, and whether your candidate of choice wins or loses, there will be plenty of alcohol flowing and music pumping in the…
The newish local nonprofit S.A.F.E., dedicated to forward-thinking dance music events with no bullshit and no guest lists (omg!), continues to impress. There was that crazy Richie Hawtin one-off last December, a gig by Matthew Dear this summer, and the latest coup, M.A.N.D.Y. at tiny Circa 28 two weeks ago…
Over the weekend, I had the treat of heading over to Nassau, Bahamas to cover the Millennium Countdown 8, a mammoth three day concert broken up by genre. The line-up for the first evening, somewhat strangely tagged “International Night” was stacked with stellar acts like Morgan Heritage, Etana, Sanchez, and…
Score another point for Miami in the good fight to keep quality dance music coming down here beyond WMC. The latest coup? Why, the only East Coast appearance on the current tour by white-hot Italian producer/DJ duo Crookers, who skip down here straight from Toronto. What’s even stranger is where…
Once upon a time – the mid- to late Eighties, to be precise – heavy metal ruled the rock landscape. On the pop side, of course, there were the infamous hair bands. But on another, more underground but no less popular side, were a number of faster genre offshoots, presided…
Boo ya’ll! It’s Halloween. Time of year when girls dress like total sluts by wearing lingerie and some kind of animal ears. “Look at me! I’m a sexy mouse.” Sure you are. While we appreciate a bit of sexiness during Halloween, we also appreciate a bit of creativity too. But…
So I just watched this new six minute video from T-Pain for his song, “Karaoke” and it’s both weird and hilarious. I can’t seem to find much info on who directed it though which is unfortunate. My guess is Gil Green, but it doesn’t totally fit his style. This video…
So former childhood star Malcolm-Jamal Warner is in town and performing a bit of soul music and spoken word poetry tonight at 88’s Dueling Piano Bar inside of the the Hard Rock. A lot of folks don’t know that the actor known as Theo Huxtable from the Cosby Show to…
It’s not called Shore Thing for nothing. Sunday afternoons by the pool at South Beach’s Shore Club: bottles bucketed by the dozen, bikinis barely there and less, and the bad-ass bump and grind of kick-ass house. This is where the swing set swings, all the way through sunset. Oh, and…
Adrian Michna, on the phone from his Brooklyn home, has been called to discuss production. Known to many as DJ Egg Foo Young, or as a producer under his own last name, 30-year-old Michna could just pimp his full-length debut, Magic Monday, released on Ghostly International. The album is first-rate,…
These days it seems like anyone might run for a spot in our executive branch. We got to wondering which pop stars might take advantage of this new political reality, and what their campaign platforms might be. Natalie Maines Maines, along with her fellow Dixie Chicks, was persecuted for bashing…
Although the pairing of Joe Satriani and Mountain initially seems a bit incongruous, this double bill should have guitar enthusiasts wetting themselves with excitement, provided that fans from each camp keep an open mind. Satriani and Mountain’s Leslie West, of course, have each made an indelible impact on the public’s…
Chromeo’s Dave 1 (the four-eyed Semite behind the mike and guitar) and P-Thugg (the gold-chained, do-rag-clad Lebanese behind the analog synths and talk box) have been “crossing the Gaza Strip of Sexxx Jams” to further a goal only two Canucks with disco-size balls can dream up: putting the fun back…
Characterized by spare, repetitive house beats, the work of self-described minimalist DJ Paco Osuna is based on an insistent throb — the idea here is to move your body until you reach an exercise high. More than that, however, Osuna imbues his music with a dreamy component that never veers…
If you hear similarities between the Afro-Peruvian music performed by New Jersey resident Eva Ayllon and the rhythms brought from Cuba by the late Celia Cruz and Tito Puente, you are on the right track. Peruvians have borrowed a lot from Africans taken to South America as slaves during the…
In the three years since the release of his eponymous debut EP, big-room-house DJ/producer Dirty South (a.k.a. Dragan Roganovic) has impressed the who’s-who-complex of international DJs, producers, media, and music lovers with his otherworldly knack for dishing out high-energy dance-floor bombs. Born in Eastern Europe and relocated to Australia at…
“We have a sound?” laughs Maria Christopher, guitarist/frontwoman for the Cambridge, Massachusetts trio 27. Well, yes and no. The band, which also includes Christopher’s sister Terri on drums, and Ayal Naor on guitars and samplers, certainly does conjure up a distinct brand of swirling atmospherics. Still, main songwriters Christopher and…
Caleb Followill and the other members of the Kings of Leon family once seemed content with updating Seventies Southern rock for the new millennium — but no more. Only by the Night is a bid for mass popularity and critical acclaim of the sort typically associated with Chris Martin, not…
