Giant Step presents New Year’s Eve w/ Common & Rye Rye, at The Delano, MIAMI

[ December 31, 2009 9:00 pm to January 1, 2010 4:00 am. ]

WHO: New York’s Giant Step returns to Miami to ring in the New Year at Delano. Grammy award-winner Common will be joined by his live band for an exclusive performance in The Florida Room with additional music by DJ Tommy Ryk. Up-and-coming hip-hop star and M.I.A. protégé Rye Rye takes over the Poolside for [...]

VIDEO: Rye Rye – Bang

We’ve been following Baltimore artist Rye Rye for a hot minute now and I’m glad to hear that she’s FINALLY put out a video for her track “Bang,” which has been making waves on the club circuit. The vid, directed by Mrs. Maya herself, has that grainy, gritty B-More quality we come to expect from [...]

Remix: Rye Rye – Bang (Nacey Remix)

Rye Rye – Bang (Nacey Remix)
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Most of y’all know that I’ve gotten back into dance music hard core, and the dude’s from DC’s Nouveau Riche party are some of the top dance/electronic cats I’ve heard in a while. The night combines hip-hop, electro, bass, dubstep, and whatever else they [...]

SXSW Drive By Day 1

So yeah, I promised y’all I would do a preview of all the artists that will I’ll be seeing (or want to see at SXSW) including some interviews of DC Area artists going to Austin. Unfortunately, life got in the way, so that’s not happening Instead, here are said artists in a more compact form:
The [...]

Mad Decent Block Party Pictures

Yes, more pictures, but I’m still coming down from the high that was last weekend–and I didn’t even make it to this event. The Mid-Atlantic region was on fire last weekend! Mad Decent took over 2 blocks in North Philly for the Mad Decent Block Party, which included our boy Dave Nada (and the introduction [...]