The Retrospective

One of the only places to go get your dance on if your brand of dance music includes artist like Daft Punk, Simian Mobile disco, or The Black Kids is Hartford’s first indie dance night Shag Frenzy. Organized by DJ’s, Strangler, Garage Flower, and Photographer Low Brow; the monthly event has always brought out righteous […]

Trying to  do something radically different with the status quo in Hartford is no easy task. I mentioned in a post earlier this month how downtown Hartford is often, hands down, the lamest place for a young person to try and enjoy the nightlife. The reasons for this stem from the type of people you encounter; they can range […]

It’s Wednesday night, and while my Sociology final kept me from the M.I.A. concert, I know of a very very hot afterparty going on.  Wait, hot party on Wednesday?  Thanks to Rchrd Oh?!, Sleazemore, and the ever-so-lovely Parker Day, you had better fucking believe it.  The trio, who are also responsible for the hot and […]

Take Buenos Aires and stick it in Oakland. You know, like what Shawn Reynaldo (aka Disco Shawn) and Gavin Burnett (aka ORO11) did after meeting on the Buenos Aires DJ circuit through mutual friends in late 2006. We should thank these guys for bringing cumbia to the Bay Area in a way that no one […]

This past weekend I had the opportunity to escape Boston, hang out in Connecticut, and party in NYC at the Highline Ballroom where French electro-pop superstar, Yelle, performed. She put on a high energy show that kept the crowd dancing all night long. Then I proceeded to sleep for a couple hours in Grand Central […]

Albeit a week later, the mere mention Girl Talk’s music still drives me into a barrage of excited banter. Friends have had to deal with my hyper antics since last Friday when ultimate mashup DJ, Girl Talk, headlined a show at Toads Place in New Haven, CT. Packed in like sardines at the sold out show, we were slowly inched […]