Featured Gallery Miami Sasha and John Digweed Sunset Cruise 2010

April 13, 2010 - 12:19 pm

For the past eight years during Miami’s Winter Music Conference, dance music masters known as Sasha and John Digweed throw what is arguably the party of the year.  And by “party of the year” I am not just referring to the thousands of options available during this very full week of every conceivable form of electronic music.  I am referring to all parties, everywhere, all year round. Going all out, Sasha and John rent a mega yacht and invite 400 close friends and fans to join them for this special event, the Sunset Cruise.  This will prove to be a peak experience in the lives of many of these party goers – not just of the year, but of their party-going careers.

Sasha and Digweed cruise

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Gallery interview Tacos With Twin Atlantic

April 12, 2009 - 11:30 pm

Glasgow, Scotland’s newest musical export, Twin Atlantic,  arrived in Austin, TX on their first trip to the good ole’ USofA.  And you could tell, too, by the way everything seemed so damn wonderful to them.  Having dinner with them was like having dinner with 5 musically virtuosic children in the way that children are sweet little sponges, eager to learn and experience everything around them.  That’s about the only way these guys are like kids.  Well that and the fact that they were drunk after two margaritas.  We took time out of their busy gigging schedule to sit down for the lads’ first-ever authentic Mexican meal, which they absolutely relished.  The venue was Austin foodie staple Gueros, home to the best Mole’ in TX.
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Fashion Featured Vintage Shopping with Black Gold Drummer Than Luu

April 12, 2009 - 11:15 pm

A few of us Chinashoppers were invited to go high-end vintage clothing dumpster diving with Than Luu, one half of the badass musical duo known as Black Gold.  Of course we said yes.  And of course we didn’t actually dive in any dumpsters. Than is a civilized smart and clean dude and yours truly is a germ-a-phobe.  Instead we went on the hunt for something distinctly Texas and obviously used that we couldn’t do without.

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Music Other Lives

April 6, 2009 - 3:54 pm

I first heard of Other Lives when a friend who, when he found out I was going to SXSW mentioned them first in his list of must see acts at the festival.  I take these types of recommendations seriously especially coming from musically well-versed and knowledgeable heads.   I dug in to find out more about this Stillwater Oklahoma band about a week before I left for Austin and what I found only added fuel to my growing interest.

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