DJ Chachi

It would be enough of an accomplishment if 24-year-old DJ Chachi simply spun at Tenjune — after all, it is one of the Big Bad Apple’s hippest hot spots. But that’s not nearly enough for this go-getter, who also counts to his credit residencies at both Mur.Mur in the Borgata…

Head Spins: DJ Billy Paul

On any given Thursday evening at the Palms Hotel on South Beach, you’ll find an intimate confab of hipsters swaying to a decidedly worldly beat. The party’s called Sip and Spa, and, as the name implies, it’s as heavy on the cocktails as it is on the massage. Actually, there…

Get it, Chachi

It would be enough of an accomplishment if 24 – year – old DJ Chachi simply spun at Tenjune — after all, it is one of the Big Bad Apple’s hippest hotspots. But that’s not nearly enough for this go-getter, who also counts to his credit residencies at both Mur.Mur…

Head Spins: DJ Billy Paul

On any given Thursday evening at the Palms Hotel on South Beach, you’ll find an intimate confab of hipsters swaying to a decidedly worldly beat. The party’s called Sip and Spa, and, as the name implies, it’s as heavy on the cocktails as it is on the massage. Actually, there…

Head Spins: Danny Ashe

Is a DJ a musician? Some say yes; some say no. If you say yes, what happens when the DJ ditches the turntable and kicks on the Serato? Is he or she still a musician? And what about the Pioneer CDJ folks? Or the Apple Core crowd? Are they musicians…

MP3 of the Day: “Carl On” by DJ Chachi, at LIV on June 26

It would be enough of an accomplishment if 24 – year – old DJ Chachi simply spun at Tenjune — after all, it is one of the Big Bad Apple’s hippest hotspots. But that’s not nearly enough for this go-getter, who also counts to his credit residencies at both Mur.Mur…

Head Spins: Danny Ashe

Is a DJ a musician? Some say yes, some say no. If you say yes, what happens when the DJ ditches the turntable and kicks on the Serato? Are they still musicians? And what about the Pioneer CDJ folks? Or the Apple core crowd? Are they musicians too?The question is…

Music-making and Mashups

Born in Santiago, Chile, and raised right here in stormy South Florida, Ashe has been at it for more time than most folks devote to realizing their lives, let alone their dreams. And never once has he lost faith, either in himself or in the music. Ashe gained his pivotal…

Head Spins Extra!: DJ D-Up Live at Mokai! Mix

When New Times first caught up with DJ D-Up, the DC native was bringing his no holds barred “party music” to The Rose Bar at South Beach’s infamous Delano each and every Saturday night. He also was swooping into the continually cool Mokai once a month or so.Fast forward half…

Friday Night: Astari Nite at PS14

Astari NiteFriday, June 5, 2009Flamingo Fridays at PS14, MiamiBetter Than: A pop goth cocktailAs my esteemed colleague (and de facto boss) Arielle Castillo so keenly wrote in these pages last September, Astari Nite singer Mychael Ghost is unquestionably “a proper frontman.” Which is to say (as she said), that he…

Head Spins: DJ Jenni Foxx

Hurricane Wilma was devastating for a lot of folks, but not for Jenni Foxx. See, on that 2005 day after the storm hit, she happened to have a scheduled DJ audition at the Clevelander. But there was no power. And a few hours later, when it was restored, Foxx got…

Chill Out

Amazing what three months alone in a northern Wisconsin cabin will do for a fella, especially if he’s bedridden with mono and has nothing but a complete collection of Northern Exposure for company. Or at least that’s the tall tale behind Bon Iver’s debut LP, For Emma, Forever Ago, a…

Head Spins: DJ Jenni Foxx

Hurricane Wilma may have been devastating for a lot of folks, but not for Jenni Foxx. See, on that 2005 day after it hit, she happened to have a scheduled DJ audition at the Clevelander. But there was no power. And a few hours later, when power was restored, Foxx…

No Doubt

That Gwen Stefani hasn’t become a caricature of herself is either testament to her utter savvy or to the fact that she basically began as a caricature in the first place — and beat everybody to the punch line. That’s not to say that, back in the day, No Doubt’s…

Head Spins: DJ Anthony Pisano

Some people work at ambition while others are born to it. And then there are those who take the ambition they’re born with and work it till it gels into something successful. And each success spurs even more successes, until, well, their names become synonymous with the very word succeed…

Head Spins: DJ Keoki

Not many DJs can boast a big-screen portrayal by Wilmer Valderrama. Then again, not many DJs can brag about surviving some of the most decadent nights of 1990s New York clubland either. But both are the case with DJ Keoki, who spun his way through nights so depraved that they…

Help the Kids Shake, Rattle, and Roll

Throughout the ‘90s, Rene Lecour was known around South Beach as DJ Sugar. And like many of those who crawl by night, he got caught up in the party life. Flash-forward a decade and Lecour is a clean-living, hard-working single father of two who supports his family with a full-time…

Last Night: The Crystal Method at Revolution

The Crystal MethodThursday, May 14, 2009Revolution Live, Fort LauderdaleBetter than: Revenge of the NerdsWhen I spoke with The Crystal Method’s Ken Jordan last week, he assured me that when he and his cohort Scott Kirkland hit town “they’d be pulling out all the stops.”Unfortunately, the stage at Revolution reportedly wasn’t…