Being local troubadour Jesse Jackson may not be easy, but it sure seems fun. Chicks come out of the woodwork, cats hang thick by your side, and songs slide straight out of the sky. You get to rise at dusk. And every week, you assemble a fluid bunch of fine-tuned…
No ifs, no ands, and definitely no buts about it — when DJ Jonathan Brody is asked to define his genre, he comes back with a quick and decisive “disco, disco, disco!” Sure, it swings “from new disco to Italo Disco disco-house,” but in the end it’s clear: this cat’s…
Everybody digs a diva, whether they admit it or not. The sass, the swagger, the glam, the tantrums – divas are never, ever boring. In fact, at their best and worst, divas can be about the best show on Earth. And if you don’t properly kowtow, a diva just might…
DJ Lennox is no fool when it comes to the vagaries of the marketplace. He’s not about to lose a gig because some wannabe club king has something vague in his skull. “I don’t want to be labeled,” Lennox says. “I can play anything.” He’s right; he can kick it…
With DJs the world over claiming to be “open format,” it’s refreshing to stumble upon a spinner who actually claims a specific genre. In DJ Lennox’s case, it’s hip-hop, he says: “That’s my foundation.”Still, Lennox is no fool about the vagaries of the marketplace, and he’s not about to lose…
These days, there are few better ways for a band to achieve instant recognition than by having a song featured on a TV commercial. And when said song happens to be hyping a product as ubiquitous as the iPod, well, that recognition is pretty much bound to be bountiful. So…
One of the best things about South Florida has to be the wide array of music available to dance to on any given night. Forget “open format,” whatever that really means. Sometimes the best music is true to its roots — a specific genre, done up right by a DJ…
One of the best things about South Florida has got to be the wide array of music available to dance to on any given night. Forget “open format,” whatever that really means. Sometimes the best is music is true to its roots — a specific genre, done up right by…
Pamela WasabiBritish R&B singer Estelle performs at The Fillmore Miami Beach Friday night. Estelle and John LegendFriday, January 30, 2009The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason TheaterBetter Than: Being sung to by the girl of your dreams. Or close to it anyway.Okay, I’m gonna get a lot of flack…
New Times recently caught up with John Legend in between all kinds of action. After his high-profile appearances at the inaugural festivities, February will find the five-time Grammy winner playing Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, the NBA All-Star Game, and the Dubai International Jazz Festival. Oh, yeah: He also boasts a new…
Like the architecture degree he keeps sequestered and the dizzying heights implied by his name, DJ Vertigo structures some truly classic nights on the town. Sure, the head spinner uses sound rather than steel and concrete to create what he envisions. But that doesn’t make his edifices any less enduring…
It’s hard to believe that one of last year’s biggest hits almost didn’t make it to radio, let alone on to the album it highlights. But that’s the story behind Estelle’s soul-stirring smash “American Boy,” from her hit LP, Shine. “We were just messing about,” says the relatively newly minted…
Like the architecture degree he keeps sequestered, and the dizzying heights implied by his name, DJ Vertigo structures some truly classic nights on the town. Sure, the head spinner’s using sound, rather than steel and concrete, to create what he envisions. But that doesn’t make the edifices any less enduring,…
Courtesy of the Opium GroupIt’s been just over 20 years since a one-eyed rapper from the unlikely London neighborhood of South Wimbledon released what would become one of the most pivotal hip-hip albums of all-time. Entitled The Adventures of Slick Rick and featuring the cautionary “A Children’s Story,” the LP…
The fact that DJ Justin Sheppard is the son of a member of the Drifters makes sense when you consider the smooth, supple soulfulness he brings to his spinning. That he’s also got a degree in computer science, however, might not make as much sense, especially when you consider just…
The fact that DJ Justin Sheppard is the son of a drifter makes sense when you consider the smooth, supple soulfulness he brings to his spinning. That he’s also got a degree in computer science, however, might not make as much sense, especially when you consider just how dizzying he…
Anybody who’s ever heard a track by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers knows the deep power of go-go, that mighty blend of pure funk and raw soul that could come only from the streets of D.C. It’s a heady mix of down-low and way-up-on-high that brings to mind nothing…
Anybody who’s ever heard a track by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers knows the deep power of go-go, that mighty blend of pure funk and raw soul that could only come from the streets of D.C. It’s a heady mix of down-low and way-up-on-high that brings to mind nothing…
One gets the impression that if there were eight days in a week, DJ Affect would spin each and every one of ’em. Hell, it’s a bet he’d spin every day of the week if there were ten or 12 or 20 – that’s how driven the cat is. When…
One gets the impression that if there were eight days in a week, DJ Affect would be spinning each and every one of ’em. Hell, it’s a bet he’d be spinning every day of the week if there were 10 or 12 or 20 — that’s how driven the cat…
On the corner of Breakbeat and Bass, in the town of Danceville, there hangs a cat whose scratch is surely as deep as the hiss of some vintage vinyl. I’m not talking about some throwback turntablist trying to revive the art of the back-cue, mind you – hell, most of…
Sayre BermanAC/DCSaturday, December 20, 2008BankAtlantic Center, SunriseBetter Than: Volume itself.To say that AC/DC were loud Saturday night is kinda like saying the sun set and the sky turned dark; a statement of fact, perhaps, but pretty much unnecessary. To say that AC/DC were louder than any show I’ve seen since…
