DJ Duo Classixx Spinning at the Vagabond Tonight

​If you’ve hit up the downtown/Wynwood nightlife scene, you most likely are familiar with LA DJ duo Classixx, even if you aren’t aware of it. They are partly responsible for turning tracks into dancefloor gold through the art of remixing, including Phoenix’s “Lisztomania” and the Ting Tings’ “Shut Up and…

Miami Music Festival Preview: Empress Raw, Playing Tonight

Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host a…

Miami Music Festival Preview: People From Venus, Playing Tonight

Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host a…

Miami Music Festival Previews: Blank Tape and Ghost of Gloria, Playing Tonight

Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host…

Miami Music Festival Preview: Q&A With Mindwalk Blvd.

You’ve probably never heard of of the Massachusetts trio Mindwalk Blvd. But, if like the rest of the world, you spend way too much of your cubicle time over at YouTube, you may have already seen one third of the band. Three years ago, the mother of drummer Tyler Hudson…

Concert Announcements: G. Love & Special Sauce and Keller Williams

via Flickr user cole24_​You know the streak of “No Jam Band Announcements” couldn’t continue. Today it’s a one man jam band and a band that, while not technically a jam band, plays the same festivals and is generally adored by the same crowds. Keller Williams is, quite simply, a one…

N.O.R.E.

When rapper Noreaga turned into N.O.R.E. in the middle part of this decade, at first it was, honestly, worrisome. Longtime fans adored him as half of the killer Queens duo Capone-N-Noreaga, who in the mid- to late ’90s helped take back New York’s crown as the seat of real street…

Sean Paul

Sean Paul’s dancers are the ones you’ll really be watching while he’s onstage at the Hard Rock. That’s because, as reggae fans know, Paul is not the most, well, vivacious of performers. But he is wicked in the studio, as his new album, Imperial Blaze, proves yet again. So even…

The Slackers

Given its members’ myriad side projects, it’s a wonder that we still get to see the Slackers proper live anymore, ever. It seems like each one has his own rock steady, dub, jazz, punk rock, garage or soul iron in the fire so that when the Slackers finally do tour…

Chimaira

Chimaira’s latest album, The Infection, crashed the Billboard album charts in April and landed at number 30. But no matter how well-received the Cleveland metal sextet’s albums are — and credible metalheads line up to drool about them — listening to its CDs is like watching a mixed-martial-arts champion work…

Simon Baker

DJ/producer Simon Baker has enjoyed a steady ascent to international fame in the past couple of years through a slew of infectious releases on high-profile labels, countless global tour dates, and a firm grasp on what makes people get down on a dance floor. As a DJ in the ’90s…

Wale

Rest assured, dedicated web 2.0ers: D.C. rapper Wale has not forsaken Twitter. One of the most committed Tweeters this side of Japanese schoolchildren, earlier this year, Wale swore off the message-posting website after a particular Tweet got him in trouble with influential U.K. journalist and blogger DJ Semtex. While interviewing…

Chus

Half of this internationally renowned Spanish twosome Chus and Ceballos, DJ/producer Chus Estaban has garnered worldwide recognition through the duo’s Stereo Productions label, in addition to chart-topping releases on the esteemed Yoshitoshi, Shinichi, and Defected imprints. High-profile remixes for the likes of Madonna, Danny Tenaglia, and Deep Dish have garnered…

Roger Sanchez

As one of the most consistently in-demand house-music icons, Roger Sanchez plays in all of the world’s most fabled nightlife paradises: Ibiza, Mykonos, Las Vegas, and, well, South Florida. Miami in particular has been a staple market for the Dominican-American DJ/producer since he began dropping singles in the mid-1990s for…