For any electronic dance music lover in the know, DJ/producer Claude VonStroke and his esteemed Dirtybird and Mothership labels have become synonymous with some of the most forward-thinking and fun-loving sounds coming out of the American EDM scene in the new millennium. A Detroit native with... More >>

Hipsterism is a devilishly tricky game. It's all about transforming your day-to-day life into an almost unmanageable mountain of MP3 mixtapes, limited-edition T-shirts, social networking, and 24/7 self-promotion. And besides your cherished laptop, the best portal to this kind of advanced... More >>

An archived copy of Tegan and Sara's website, circa 1999, shows a photo of the Quin sisters in full-blown defiant woodland-creature mode. One looks like Sonic the Hedgehog, thanks to spiky, wind-blown, blond-streaked hair and a pair of sunglasses atop her head. The other looks like a big softy... More >>

Last year, when Little Haiti's best and only sort-of-English pub turned 30, we got a little worried. Would Dave Daniels take the milestone as an opportunity to finally sell Churchill's? The answer was no, and though it seems like Daniels is perennially talking about ridding himself of it,... More >>

At 10 years old, Space has become the grande dame of mainland and perhaps all of Miami nightlife. But if her age is showing, her acolytes haven't noticed. Still, even clubs need their beauty rest, and so it goes that the club will shutter its doors for the fall, ostensibly for renovations. No,... More >>

A classic mixtape rapper with no classic mixtapes. A dazzling technician with no original technique. A secretive man with no secrets to tell. It's hard to believe Fabolous is over 30 years old. But even after following him for a decade, it's easy to wonder: Who is Fabolous? And do we... More >>

The man, the myth, the legend: What is there left to say about Pete Tong to anyone remotely familiar with dance music? In the pantheon of international DJ gods, he's pretty much Zeus (though Paul Oakenfold may beg to differ). He's the guy who, through his forever-running BBC Radio One program,... More >>

At 10 years old, Space has become the grande dame of mainland and perhaps all of Miami nightlife. But if her age is showing, her acolytes haven't noticed. Still, even clubs need their beauty rest, and so it goes that the club will shutter its doors for the fall, ostensibly for renovations. No,... More >>

When Carlos Mencia first brought racist road signs, Peter Boyle reading hate mail, and terrorist snacks to the American television audience in July of 2005, certain critics slagged him as Comedy Central’s cheap replacement for Dave Chappelle. No doubt, there were a few too many... More >>

Unlike many of his "MySpace generation" peers -- the words from his press materials, not ours -- English phenom Kissy Sell Out has refused to move on to new flavors like tropical disco or funk or house. Instead, he's instead stuck to his bass-bombing electro guns, mostly on a series of... More >>

If catching waves--or listening to chill music you'd probably hear in 60's surfer movies--is your thing, has Bar got the thing for you tonight. They're suggesting you "Hula Hula" on down with all your best dudes and chicks for a night filled with hanging ten at the one night only,... More >>

With a moniker as abrasive as Fucked Up, it would be easy to prejudge the Toronto indie-hardcore punk outfit as either ridiculous or talentless. But its measure of success (winning the Canadian version of the Grammy, the Polaris Music Prize, in 2009 for The Chemistry of Common Life and rave... More >>