Tag Archives: Rich Morel

FRIDAY: Blowoff NYC @ Highline Ballroom

Blowoff will bust its sweaty, furry self into Chelsea’s Highline Ballroom this Friday. Doors open at 11:30pm. Advance tickets here. This party will probably sell out.

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FRIDAY: Blowoff NYC @ Highline Ballroom

Blowoff will bust its sweaty, furry self into Chelsea’s Highline Ballroom this Friday. Doors open at 11:30pm. Advance tickets here. This party will probably sell out.

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FRIDAY: Blowoff NYC @ Highline Ballroom

The gay pride edition of Blowoff will bust its sweaty, furry self into Chelsea’s Highline Ballroom this Friday. Doors open at 11:30pm. Advance tickets here. This party will probably sell out.

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Vanessa Daou – Heart Of Wax

As a JMG exclusive, here’s a free download of famed remixer Rich Morel’s take on Vanessa Daou’s Heart Of Wax. Veteran househeads will fondly recall Daou’s epic 1992 classic Surrender Yourself. (Work it, learn it, serve it, bring it to the ball.) I’m loving this new single.

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FRIDAY: Blowoff NYC @ Highline Ballroom

Doors open 11:30PM, advance tickets are $15. One of these days, I’m going to get around to framing one of their great posters. By the way, Bob Mould’s memoir, See A Little Light: The Trail Of Rage And Melody, comes out on June 15th.

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Remixer & Blowoff DJ Rich Morel Scores 20th Billboard #1 Dance Hit

Blowoff DJ Rich Morel has scored his 20th number one remix on Billboard’s dance chart with his latest work for 78 year-old Yoko Ono. Along with numerous hits with Ono, Morel has notched chart topping remixes for Depeche Mode, New Order, The Killers, Pet Shop Boys, Cyndi Lauper and many others. Rolling Stone reports on Yoko’s streak: Yoko Ono has …

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FRIDAY: Blowoff NYC @ Highline Ballroom

Doors open at 11:30pm, advance tickets $15.

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SLIDESHOW: Blowoff NYC

Another fantastic Blowoff party last night, where I hung out for a bit with Alan Cumming and singer/songwriter Aiden James, and met lots of handsome JMG readers. And Rich Morel even played his smoking remix of Cumming’s Next To Me, one of my favorite tracks of the year. Full-screen photos are here. Enjoy the hotties.

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FRIDAY: Blowoff NYC @ Highline Ballroom

The brawny beery bears of Blowoff return to Manhattan’s Highline Ballroom tomorrow night. Expect the usual mayhem. Doors open at 11:30pm. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Check out a recent Blowoff setlist from DJs Rich Morel and Bob Mould.

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Remixer & Blowoff DJ Rich Morel Scores 15th Billboard #1 Dance Hit

Remix artist Rich Morel, also one-half of the Blowoff DJ team, notches his 15th Billboard dance chart topper this week with his reworking of Yoko Ono’s Wouldnit (I’m A Star). Morel has previously reached the dance summit with remixes for Pet Shop Boys, Seal, Cyndi Lauper, Depeche Mode, New Order, Vivian Green, and t.A.T.u. Morel is currently writing songs with …

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FRIDAY: Blowoff NYC @ Highline Ballroom, Enter To Win Tickets Here On JMG

Blowoff returns to NYC’s Highline Ballroom in Chelsea this Friday. Doors open 11:30pm, advance tickets $15. Comment on this post to WIN a pair of tickets to Friday’s party. Please remember to leave your email address IN THE TEXT of your comment. Entries close at midnight tonight, west coast time. We have two pairs of tickets up for grabs and …

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TONIGHT: DJ Rich Morel In DC

DJ Rich Morel (one-half of the wildly popular Blowoff team) debuts a new party tonight in Washington DC at Club Liv. Doors open 10pm, $7. Facebook page. Guaranteed to be a sweaty furry mess! In a good way! JMG EXCLUSIVE!!! Here’s DJ Rich Morel’s brand new mix for Yoko Ono, Wouldnit (I’m A Star). This is Rich’s fifth production for …

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JMG EXCLUSIVE: New Single From Famed Disco Artist Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear, the 70’s disco artist, model, and muse of Salvador Dali, has a new single and you folks are the first to hear it before its release on iTunes next week. Outsider Music teams up with French imprint, Edina Music, for the release of AMANDA LEAR “I’M COMING UP” REMIXES EP. Featuring dynamic mixes by MOREL, TOMMIE SUNSHINE, SPECIAL …

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Tomorrow: Blowoff NYC

DJs Bob Mould and Rich Morel return to Tribeca’s Canal Room tomorrow night for the latest NYC installment of Blowoff. Doors open at 11:30pm, advance tickets $15. Get tickets here. Subway: A/C/E/1 to Canal Station, one block from the venue. Rich has promised to play Tightrope, the new smoking track from 2009 Grammy-nominee Janelle Monae. Love it.

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Morel – Shoegazer Disco

Rich Morel tips us to a new mix of Shoegazer Disco, my favorite track from his The Death Of The Paperboy album. Video by Rich’s husband, Nick Lopata.

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Friday: Blowoff NYC @ The Canal Room

Booze, bears, and mayhem. After a three month absence, Blowoff returns to NYC tomorrow night at the Canal Room in Tribeca. Doors open at 11:30pm, advance tickets $15. Get tickets here. Subway: A/C/E/1 to Canal Station, one block from the venue.

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Hot Gay Singles

Two hot new singles from gay artists are out this week. First, Blowoff DJ and remix king Rich Morel has just released his take on Alan Cumming’s Next To Me, which is from Cumming’s new album, I Bought A Blue Car Today. Now available on iTunes. Another typically fantastic Pink Noise Mix from Rich. And B-52s frontman Fred Schneider has …

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Slideshow: Blowoff NYC

Friday’s final NYC Blowoff of the decade was its usual cavalcade of carousing and nonsensery. Some were worried that the word about the new venue, Tribeca’s Canal Room, had not gotten out, but the joint was beyond capacity for most of the night. The club’s lower lighting (compared to the Highline) seemed to influence DJs Bob Mould and Rich Morel, …

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Friday: Blowoff NYC At New Venue

This Friday’s installment of Blowoff in NYC will take place in a new venue, the posh-looking Canal Room at 285 W. Broadway & Canal. Bob Mould tells me that the Highline Ballroom, host to Blowoff parties since the beer-soaked bear bacchanal came to Manhattan several years ago, has launched a new Friday nights event and is unavailable. The Canal Room …

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Slideshow: Blowoff NYC

Friday night’s Blowoff at NYC’s Highline Ballroom was the usual swirling vortex of sweaty nonsensery. Met lots of new JMG readers from out of town, most of whom introduced themselves with a beer. Ow, my head. But also, yay for free beer and new readers! Clicky click below for photos of muskely hair monsters. If you’d like your photo removed …

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