Oh, sweet, sweet irony. Remember in the mid-'80s when major labels crowed about how the advent of compact discs would hasten the death of vinyl? A quarter century later, it looks like the (turn)tables are reversed: vinyl's popularity is resurgent while the CD's fortunes are looking as bleak as Iraq's, according to this article in Wired by Eliot Van Buskirk.
Vinyl's sonic superiority long has been an axiom among audiophiles and Neil Young; now the format's popularity is rising, along with sal
Attention Bay area beat junkies, club rats and weekend freaks! Friday is definitely your night to shine under the strobe lights of Sutra. Platinum rapper Too $hort will be unleashing a club bumping set in honor of turntable wizard DJ Scene's birthday bash. Since arriving on the hip hop scene in 1983, no other rapper has pioneered the art of the braggadocios gangster anthems quite like Too $hort. His masterful use of true life tales, racy rhymes and gangster flow has earned him a basket of platin
Fans of house music culture are in store for a demonstration true DJ dexterity tomorrow night as Sutra Lounge hosts the innovative turntable duo Scooter and Levelle. Considered local heroes of the San Diego club scene where they first emerged, their sound relies on a basic mantra: two DJs, with a lust for sonic alchemy, spinning four records simultaneously to create a unified sound. But of course, each man brings their own style to the mix. DJ Scooter handles most of the vinyl scratching turntab
HB/LB punk band TSOL plays tomorrow night in downtown Long Beach at the Rhythm Lounge. It's an unusual venue for the show as the upstairs hotspot is known more for Latin and dance music than dudes with liberty spikes.For those who haven't been to the Rhythm Lounge, the club is waaaaaaaaaaaaay bigger than it looks from the outside. When you walk in, you see the bar and a tiny dance floor and wonder where in the hell a band is playing. Then you walk left in a pretty big sized room with a decent so
In the life of almost every great DJ residency, there is a time and place where the man/woman behind the turntables ultimately says "enough already!" and moves on. As the first DJ to ever spin at The Crosby, DJ Weird Beard could very well fall into that category. Flexing his record collection during his weekly Wednesdays with Weird Beard, the 26-year-old DJ showed himself to be one of the club's sharpest purveyors of dusty punk, funk and soul in an environment that constantly clamors for a
As the '00s dawned a fresh crop of DJs and artists descended on club-land.
Where the last generation had mastered the long mixes and hip-hop-style
tricks of turntables, the new kids were getting under the hood of technology
to produce multimedia experiences on the dance floor. James Zabiela is chief among the new wave
of spinners.
The Brit burst on the scene in 2000 by winning a mixtape contest put on by a
UK dance music magazine (Muzik). He was soon embraced by the progressive
house elite
