Tag Archives: Rich Morel

Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Fly Life Inc, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is the new album by British dance artist La Roux. If you’ve attended any of the Blowoff parties around the country in the last month or so, you’ve probably heard La Roux. (I think there even might be a Rich Morel remix on the way. Squeal!) The highly anticipated 2009 debut …

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Slideshow: Blowoff Pride NYC

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Tonight: Blowoff At NYC’s Highline

Bob Mould and Rich Morel’s traveling bear circus returns to Manhattan tonight at the Highline Ballroom in Chelsea. Should be quite the out-of-towner fur fest as Gotham kicks off Pride weekend. Doors open 10pm. Tickets $25. Purchase advance tickets here. You can check out the set list from the last Blowoff here. Blowoff around the nation: Atlanta, July 4th, at …

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Slideshow: DC Blowoff

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Photos: Blowoff Brooklyn

Another boozy blurry Brooklyn Blowoff. I’m wiped. Two musical highlights: Bob Mould spun an astonishingly great remake of Klaatu’s Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft. (You might know the Carpenters’ cover.) Then towards the end of night Rich Morel spun a remix of some old Faithless song that had me right back on the dance floor at SF’s Universe. Great night, …

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Tomorrow: Blowoff Brooklyn

Saturday night Blowoff returns to Southpaw in Brooklyn where Manhattan’s hirsute will rub furry shoulders with outer-borough homo hipsters. Doors open at 10pm, tickets are $15 advance and at the door. Next month Blowoff makes its Chicago debut on the Saturday night of IML weekend at Metro. Embiggen the image for details. You’ll want to make very sure you get …

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Tomorrow: Blowoff NYC @ Highline

Blowoff returns to Manhattan tomorrow night at the Highline Ballroom where Mack Daddy DJs Bob Mould and Rich Morel will spin the beer-soaked bears into a sweaty pile of fur. Doors open 11:30pm, advance tickets here. RELATED: Bob Mould’s excellent new album Life And Times was released this week. Check out Bob’s artist page on Facebook for updates, reviews, and …

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Tonight: Blowoff Brooklyn

Blowoff’s bears bounce back to Brooklyn tonight at the Southpaw @ 125 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Directions here. Doors open 10PM. $15, advance tickets here.

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Blowoff NYC Photo Recap

If you don’t want your photo in this slideshow, just email me. Full-screen versions of these pics are here.

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Tonight: Blowoff At The Highline Ballroom

Bob Mould and Rich Morel’s Blowoff party returns to NYC tonight at the Highline Ballroom in Chelsea at 431 W.16th Street. Doors open at 11:30pm. $15 advance, $20 at the door. Advance tickets are available online. Having been to Blowoff parties in four cities now, I can tell you that the NYC parties are the wildest. I have no explanation …

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DC Blowoff Photo Recap

Sorry it took me a few days to get to it, but here’s the slideshow from Saturday’s Blowoff at DC’s 9:30 Club, featuring a guest appearance by Santa Bear. My favorite track of the night: a killer remix of Hey Champ’s Cold Dust Girl spun by Bob Mould. Full-screen versions of the photos are here. If you don’t want your …

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Blowoff NYC Photo Recap

Another great night at Blowoff last night with just about everybody I know in the tri-state area in attendance. Musical highlights: Bob Mould spinning a ripping remix of Yelle’s Ce Jue and Rich Morel playing his own Shoe Gazer Disco. If you don’t want to appear in the above slideshow, please email me. RELATED: Here’s the most recent San Francisco …

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Tonight: Blowoff At The Highline Ballroom

Blowoff’s beary beer-soaked band of bouncy brutes returns to Manhattan tonight at the Highline Ballroom. Doors open at 11:30pm, advance tickets are here. Next week I’ll happen to be in DC when Blowoff returns to the mothership at the 9:30 Club, making it four Blowoffs in four cities in five weeks for me. What’s the bear version of a Deadhead?

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Blowoff San Francisco Photo Recap

Here’s a slideshow of last night’s sweaty shenanigans. Go here for full-screen versions of the shots. If you don’t want your photo included here, please email me.

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Tonight: Blowoff San Francisco

Serendipitilicious = happening to be in San Francisco on the same weekend that Blowoff is in town. The fur begins to fly at Slim’s at 10PM. Every single person we ran into on the street today said they’re going, it should be a crazy night.

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Brooklyn Blowoff Photo Recap

This should make you feel better after the crap news of the weekend. The first Blowoff in Brooklyn was way crazier than I expected, as evidenced by the raucous behavior displayed in the above slideshow. Email me if you don’t want your mug shown and I’ll pull your photo. (Full-screen photos here.) There were lots of new faces in the …

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Tomorrow Night: Blowoff Brooklyn

Tomorrow night Bob Mould and Rich Morel bring their gonzo dance party to Park Slope’s Southpaw, their first Blowoff in Brooklyn. Doors open at 10pm, tickets $15. If you’re coming from Manhattan, you can use Hop Stop to plot your subway ride. I think the Atlantic Avenue stop on the 4 train is the closest station, somebody correct me if …

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The Mind Of Morel

Washington DC’s MetroWeekly has posted a lengthy interview with house music kingpin DJ Rich Morel in which Morel talks about performing with and producing for Cyndi Lauper, the famous Blowoff parties, and his fantastic new album, Death Of The Paperboy. An excerpt from Doug Rule’s The Mind Of Morel: MW: Your new album is called The Death of the Paperboy. …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the artist, this week’s fab Swag Tuesday giftie is The Death Of The Paperboy, the new and fantastic double CD by superstar remixer/DJ Rich Morel. If you’ve been to a dance club this century, you’ve shaken your groove thing to Morel’s chart-topping remixes for Cyndi Lauper, Yoko Ono, Depeche Mode, The Killers, Pet Shop Boys, New Order and …

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Morel & Ono Notch Dance #1

Since I now follow Rich Morel’s chart successes the way I used to track Donna Summer’s, I must mention that this week Morel has his seventh #1 Billboard dance hit with his remix of Yoko Ono’s Give Peace A Chance. At 75 years old, Ono is the oldest person to have a dance chart number one, of which this latest …

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