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DJ Sean Essex Talks Club Freedom, Tiësto, Paul Oakenfold, John Askew, Fei-Fei, and More

DJ Sean Essex​Name: Sean Essex AKA: eSSicCS Current club gigs: Giant Wednesdays at 910 Live once or twice a month, and on Fridays at Cream Stereo Lounge and Afterlife in Scottsdale. How did you get started as a DJ? I got started because electronic music just overcame me. When I first listened ... More >>

Paul Oakenfold and Calvin Harris Get Marquee Theatre Crowd to Dance Their Pants Off

Paul Oakenfold​Who cares if the Marquee Theatre smelled like a fishtank last night? Not the hundreds of people who came out to shake it like it was nobody's business last night at the Paul Oakenfold concert. Before the Big O came out, Calvin Harris got the crowd warmed up, and not even the most te ... More >>

Paul Oakenfold @ Marquee Theatre

Paul Oakenfold​Who cares if the Marquee Theatre smelled like a fishtank last night? Not the hundreds of people who came out to shake it like it was nobody's business last night at the Paul Oakenfold concert. Before the Big O came out, Calvin Harris got the crowd warmed up, and not even the most te ... More >>

Gomi, The National, Nas and Damian Marley, and More in This Week's Issue

Mike R. MeyerGomi's bringing grunge to the Phoenix music scene.​Local music duo Gomi is among the first artists to participate in America's grunge revival. In fact, they're loosening the genre's boundaries by playing shows with alternative artists in addition to other grunge bands. They're even ex ... More >>

Cool Breeze

Florida MC influenced by air conditioning

Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo

Florida MC influenced by air conditioning

Huun-Huur-Tu and Carmen Rizzo Bring An Ecclectic and Avant-Garde Mix To Scottsdale

​If you thought the newly opened Musical Instrument Museum was diverse in its selection of exotic instruments from around the world (where Nigerian hausa trumpets and a Burmese saung guak harp are housed in the same building as Eric Clapton's stratocasters), try checking out the multifaceted l ... More >>

Tranzit Screens His Chronicles of a DJ Documentary Tonight at Cream Stereo Lounge

​Few DJs in the Valley pimp themselves as hard as Tranzit.  Every time the award-winning house mixmaster has an event to promote, my cell phone, Facebook, and e-mail seem to blow up with announcements aplenty from the dude. This week was no exception, as the 29-year-old has been promotin ... More >>

J. Alan Talks Bad Requests, A-Trak, Bad Boy Bill, Scottsdale Clubgoers, and More

​Name: J.Alan Ehrhardt AKA: DJ J. Alan Current club nights: Thursday at Suede, Friday at Axis/Radius, Saturday at Suede, one Sunday per month at Martini Ranch. Genres spun: Hip-hop, house, electro, and Top 40 How did you get started as a DJ: Rob Wegner was DJing at Club 411 at the time. He and ... More >>

16bit

​Name: J.Alan Ehrhardt AKA: DJ J. Alan Current club nights: Thursday at Suede, Friday at Axis/Radius, Saturday at Suede, one Sunday per month at Martini Ranch. Genres spun: Hip-hop, house, electro, and Top 40 How did you get started as a DJ: Rob Wegner was DJing at Club 411 at the time. He and ... More >>

DJ Dossier: Soloman

Saki Photography​The Valley's dance music scene has been most kind to DJ Soloman. He's been kicking around local clubs for more than a decade, from his days manning the dials at ASU's KASR and working the wheels of steel at the much-missed Club Freedom to his current residencies at Tempe's Zuma Gr ... More >>

Party

Saki Photography​The Valley's dance music scene has been most kind to DJ Soloman. He's been kicking around local clubs for more than a decade, from his days manning the dials at ASU's KASR and working the wheels of steel at the much-missed Club Freedom to his current residencies at Tempe's Zuma Gr ... More >>

Darude Awakening

Saki Photography​The Valley's dance music scene has been most kind to DJ Soloman. He's been kicking around local clubs for more than a decade, from his days manning the dials at ASU's KASR and working the wheels of steel at the much-missed Club Freedom to his current residencies at Tempe's Zuma Gr ... More >>

Z-Trip Wins America's Best DJ Contest

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

Nightlife

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

More Edgefest Photos

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

Edgefest Coverage Closer: Must-See Multimedia

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

Getting Down With the “Krown” and Other Confusion

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

When Will Rise Against, Gogol Bordello, Flobots, NOFX, Flogging Molly, Pennywise, And The Other Bands At Tomorrow’s Edgefest Be Hitting The Stage? Here's The Schedule

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

Edgefest Lowdown: Micky Avalon, Authority Zero, Flogging Molly and More

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

Armin van Buuren

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

Super Bowl weekend

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

Official 944 Party

​ Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best DJ" for 2 ... More >>

Roll Over, Paul Oakenfold, And Tell DJ Tiesto the News

Top 10 DJ Mixes of 2006

2006 — The Year the Superstar DJ Died

Dinosaurs rule the dance floors no more

Paul Oakenfold

A Brit of all right

Blur

Blink and you'll miss it

Christopher Lawrence

Trance until you drop

BK at Metropolis

Trance until you drop

Niyaz

Niyaz
(Six Degrees)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Niyaz
(Six Degrees)

What's Selling

Top 10 selling CDs at Swell Records

Final Days of Freedom

Top 10 selling CDs at Swell Records

Spun

The Valley's electronic scene struggles as Freedom fizzles out

Hernan Cattaneo at Freedom

The Valley's electronic scene struggles as Freedom fizzles out

D:Fuse at Freedom

The Valley's electronic scene struggles as Freedom fizzles out

Electro-Style Wars

Sometimes, as in the case of onetime Phoenician Sandra Collins, you can't judge a trance DJ by her cover

Brand Name, House Special

The Paul Oakenfold dance-music franchise grows larger and more all-encompassing

Scene of the Rhyme

Blunt Club prizes poetry

One of a Kind

Dance DJs spin into Valley for weekend music fest

Paul Oakenfold

Bunkka (Maverick)

Timo Maas

Loud (Kinetic)

Norman Cook, Paul Oakenfold

All Star Breakbeats (Hypnotic), Bust a Groove (Hypnotic)

Reading the Beat

American dance-music journalism shows it has a long way to go

Touch of Evil

Blood, sweat and no tears, as Gwar and Derrick May infiltrate the Valley club scene

Going Underground

Astropop, kindness and the art of noise

Harm's Way

Arizona Music Forum finally reaches local musicians with its first local jam

Instant KARMA

New Tempe club night tailors the rave ambiance for the 21-and-over crowd

Eye of the Orb

Picking the "ever growing pulsating brain" of Alex Paterson, don of ambient