Mile High Clubbin’: Fedde le Grand Ticket Giveaway
Want to see superstar Dutch DJ Fedde le Grand tonight at Beta–for free? Tell us what your favorite Fedde release is in the Facebook comments below for a chance to score two comps. We’ll contact the winner by this afternoon. Presale tickets still available HERE George Peele enjoys strapping on height enhancers and aurally ambushing...
Look Ma, No Hands: Are EDM Stars Just Button-Pushers?
Joel Zimmerman has a knack for provoking people. The dance music superstar known as Deadmau5 rarely censors himself. In a July Rolling Stone, he arguably threw a few of his peers under the bus when he called them “button-pushers.” David Guetta and Skrillex were two specifically mentioned, but he didn’t exempt himself. “Not to say...
Undead Man’s Party: Casselmans Hosts Zombie Crawl Aftermath Featuring Celldweller
Let me be the first to admit that I’m not a zombie fanatic. I didn’t understand the big deal with the undead until my friend Becky and I happened to be eating Indian food near the 16th Street Mall during one of Denver’s first zombie crawls. The phenomenon came alive for me when I witnessed...
Dance Floorgasm: Peaches’ DJ Extravaganza is Fruitcake Nutty
Feist puppeteered a sock for her called Bitch Lap Lap. M.I.A. designed costumes for her. Pink, The Flaming Lips, Christina Aguilera and REM all invited her to guest on their respective albums. Iggy Pop and Joan Jett both joined her on records. Lady Gaga could certainly stand to give her a shout out or three....
Festival Window: Great American Techno Bleeps Mile High Clubs
When Eminem famously rapped “Nobody listens to techno,” the word was still generally employed by outsiders as an ignorant/derogatory umbrella term for all electronic dance music. That was before the umbrella genre infiltrated mainstream airwaves. Now that the more user-friendly acronym EDM has replaced “techno” as the catch-all, fans of the sub-genre can listen to...
Laptop Dance: Recent Mad Decent Signee Paper Diamond is Coloradical
Another Coloradical is one step closer to rubbing elbows with the stars. After a solid stint on Pretty Lights Music, Alex Botwin, known in knob twiddling circles as Paper Diamond, inked a deal with Diplo’s Mad Decent imprint earlier this year (I remember hearing a rumor about it in Miami). On the off chance you’re...
Laptop Dance: Beatport Partners with Vibesquad & Opiuo for Fall Tour
When the high priest of low end cherry-picks you to open his biggest tour to date, it’s safe to say you’re doing something right. Erie-based Aaron Holstein, known in subsonic circles as Vibesquad, just wrapped up a jaunt doing warmup duties for dubstep kingpin Bassnectar’s Vava Voom roadshow. Unsurprisingly, the high profile gig has boosted...
Dance Floorgasm: Neon Knights Lights up Meadowlark Friday
Shannon Kelly is a knight of the turntable variety. His Meadowlark monthly may have been christened after a Black Sabbath tune, but don’t go there expecting to see someone tapping an axe. The heavy metal oldie’s title makes a marketable moniker, still, it isn’t meant as a point of musical reference. What’s on Kelly’s actual...
Mile High Clubbin’: Roofless & Miguel Campbell Hijak Jet Hotel
Most people will only ever fantasize about joining the uber-legendary Mile High Club. We Denverites live here. Call it a stretch if you insist, but perception is reality and I’m sticking to mine—pun intended. Imagination need a little inspiration? How about a sexy house music soiree at a place named after a plane? Hijak, a...
Jungle Booking: Drum & Bass Filmmakers Invite DJ SS to Hive
The guitar is dead. DJs and beatsmiths finally rule FM radio in America. After a two decade plus ascent, EDM has gone from warehouses to the airwaves. Now what? Mainstream acceptance is still limited to a couple of the most popular sub-genres—namely electro, trance and dubstep. What about the others? Jungle, or drum and bass–depending...
Beat Diet: Dirtybird Brain Claude VonStroke Takes on City Hall
Claude VonStroke is a joke. If I were to hypothesize about its meaning, masturbation would be on the tip of my tongue. Barclay Crenshaw, the dance producer/label owner behind the pseudo-serious alias, slapped the pseudonym onto his first few releases and it stuck. “Deep Throat,” the title of his second record, may have even been...
Chicks With Decks: Lea Luna
Lea Luna has moonlighted as a singing telegram messenger for me on occasion. What characters have I hired her to play? Naughty Nurse and Officer Frisk (Officer Strip-search?). We even penned a tune together called “0069 (The Peeping Tom Song)” once. A former Coloradan who has since migrated to Hollywood (Hollyweird?), Luna is gunning for...
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