UK Boy Band ‘The Wanted’ Debut on Ellen

January 10th, 2012

Huge popstars in England with three #1 hits may soon be taking over the charts here in the US for 2012. ‘The Wanted’ are making their US Debut on the Ellen show today and planning a tour coming to your city soon. You may know them from the hit song “Glad You Came,” getting lots of airplay. This UK boy band is extremely handsome and can cast spells on us with their sexy voices. They are known as the Bad Boys of England. I wonder if any of them go our direction?

After a sold-out show at NYC’s Gramercy Theater in October, THE WANTED returns stateside for a 10-city U.S. tour kicking off in Orlando on January 17th. THE WANTED, which Flavour Magazine describes as “a new breed of boy band,” are already a massive hit in the U.K., and they’re slowly making a name for themselves across the world.
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Aussie Nervo DJ’s to Headline 3-D White Party Palm Springs

January 5th, 2012

Everyone is going 3-D these days. Pretty soon you will see 3-D on your Grindr app with boys just popping out at you in more ways than one. Jeffrey Sanker just announced today that his famous White Party in Palm Springs is taking it to the next level and making the party this April 6-9, a 3-D Event.

Known as the largest gay dance music festival in North America it expands into a whole new dimension the first or second weekend of April depending if you count Saturday as the weekend which most should. Who can turn down a vacation of sun-drenched mountain vistas and spectacular desert skies? Even flying into the Palm Beach Airport is a vacation in itself half of it is uncovered.

The White party has always amazed with it’s breakthrough talent which have included performances from Lady Gaga, Robyn, Ke$ha and Jennifer Lopez. “White Party 2012 is going to be a 3-D experience,” said Sanker. “Bigger and bolder LED and visual displays and immense stage and platform structures designed to stretch the limits of your imagination, the only lenses needed are your shades.”

2012 will have a line-up including some of the world’s most innovative icons in dance music, including Grammy nominees Dave Audé and Rosabel, as well as Billboard #1 remixers/producers Moto Blanco (UK), Wayne G, Manny Lehman, Hector Fonseca, Andy Almighty and red-hot rising stars such as DJs Grind, Pornstar, Chad Jack and more.

Australian global DJ sensation, NERVO, (NervoNation/SirusXM) is confirmed to headline Saturday night’s White Party, their first appearance at a gay music festival. Definitely the ones to watch, these outrageously beautiful and talented blond Aussie twins have collaborated with such heavy hitters as Afrojack and David Guetta and recently rocked IMS at Ibiza and Winter Music Conference. We are big fans of Sirus XM radio and pleased to see such mainstream dj’s come into the gay festival and hope they play gay house and not just mainstream. We have high hopes they will mix some gayness in the mix.
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Happy New Year 2012 from Weho!

January 1st, 2012

Thanks for your support over the years as the official gay blog of New Years’ Eve celebrations. We actually did not attended the Masterbeat party as planned but may join it tonight at Avalon. We did happen to step into Rage last night before the big countdown and had a great time dancing up on the stage. Here you can see the balloon drop at Rage nightclub in West Hollywood. The Rage number one song of 2011 was Rihanna “We Found Love in a Hopeless Place”. Such a perfect song to find love on NYE and there was plenty of that around. It was a great way to bring in the New Year of 2012 and the next morning was not so bad. Brunch at the Poolside of the London West Hollywood with a breathtaking view of the Hollywood hills…
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Hottest Gay New Years’ Eve 2012 Parties

December 17th, 2011

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We have been getting hundreds of messages and emails regarding what is going on this year for New Years Eve to bring on the end of time.  Well ok, 2012 but same thing!  Should we not make this the party event of the decade?  There is lot’s going on this year for New Years’ Eve including the annual Masterbeat party in LA which is our pick this time around.

We have selected Masterbeat’s party this year as our events of choice because they are in walking distance on the main night of mayhem and are not downtown at the Mayan anymore which was a hassle the past few years. Who wants to drive all over LA in a cab from Hollywood… not me! This year though the parties will be located in Hollywood and we are stoked!
December 31 – New Years Eve
The End of The World at Hollywood Palladium 6215 W. Sunset from 9pm to 5am
Masterbeat is thrilled to return to the incredible Hollywood Palladium (it has been since 2006) for our main event and the only place to be as the world comes to an end. Home to the world’s largest New Year’s Eve events of over 4000 people for Masterbeat NYE 2005 and 2006, the Hollywood Palladium has hosted the Grammy’s, the Frank Sinatra orchestra, Lawrence Welk show and almost every major rock band in the world as a concert venue. The Masterbeat 2006 New Year’s Eve event was the last event held at the Palladium before it was closed and then purchased by LiveNation for a major renovation, and now the venue hosts concerts and incredible super events to the world’s best DJ’s. Now restored to it’s original glory, Masterbeat will once again transform this one of a kind venue into LA’s own super-club, with the same thundering 4 point line array sound system we custom installed in 2005 and 2006, a full motion lighting and truss system, LED walls and projections, and a few special surprises.
The legendary duo of Rosabel return for their 3rd year as the headlining DJ’s for our main event.
First Dance starting December 31 and on until the New Year January 1st. – Arena Cafe 6655 Santa Monica Blvd from 4am until Noon.
It’s just a few blocks away… and the party will keep on going at one of LA’s hottest afterhours… Arena Cafe. We’re installing an all new sound system just for Masterbeat 2012… and the beats of everyone’s favorite afterhours DJ, Paulo.
Dancing until noon on New Year’s Day – this is the way to ring in the New Year.
Recovery-January 1 at Avalon Hollywood (you know the place that hosts Tigerheat on Thursday nights normally) located at 1735 Vine St or Hollywood and Vine area from 9pm until 6am.
Finally back in the lineup, our world famous closing party returns to Masterbeat 2012 – Recovery at Avalon.
DJ Brett Henrichsen made this event famous in 2007 and 2008, and is excited to return to man the turntables all night and take you on a musical journey from nightfall to dawn on the night of New Year’s Day at one of LA’s hottest clubs.
Monday is an official holiday, so don’t miss your chance to “recover” from the weekend and get one last dance in to celebrate 2012, and the fact that the world (hopefully) still exists.

Deborah Cox and DJ Tracy Young at Mansion South Beach Miami
The next best thing or may be even better who knows… is Deborah Cox and DJ Tracy Young. Yes, having Deborah Cox singing in the New Years’ sounds better than just about anything I know!!! This party will also feature DJ Kidd Madonny for Genesis IX at the Mansion in South Beach, Miami, FL. If only we could be on the east and west coasts at the same time!!

New York, NY
APOCALYPSE: NEW YEARS DAY 2012 @ Pier 94 NYC
Break the Dawn with BORIS Close the Day with VICTOR CALDERONE
More info can be found at apocalypsenye.com.

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Top 10 Dance Club Songs of 2011

December 15th, 2011

The last few weeks of the year and it is time for our annual dance music countdown. It has been a up and down year for music with many hot performances from our Mother Monster Lady Gaga and a tour from Erasure. Masterbeat.com, a site originated by DJ Brett Hendrickson who shut down its services which we used to base most of our charts from in our countdowns. We also used Billboard and some other sources from DJ friends we have but Masterbeat had charts from several DJ’s all-in-one place. We were sad to see it go but we understand iTunes, Amazon, and now Google music are very hard to compete with.

Our top songs of the year based on our experiences at the club and what people enjoyed listening to and not having to be in a drunk stupor to hear the mixes were the following:

1. Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People from the Torches album. This song was by far the most creative and grooviest song of the year. It was the most underrated song but played on radio more than we expected. Although the clubs played this song quite a bit it did not top the year end billboard dance charts which are normally ill-informed anyway.

2. Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn from her Body Talk album. We not only got the chance to see her perform at the White Party Palm Springs, on tour with Katy Perry, and then saw her DJ at a small venue in Dallas. Her dj sets were amazing. She only played one song of hers and that was Call Your Girlfriend and the mix of that was something that would make your natural ecstasy kick in. Sorry I do not have the official remix from Robyn but I was too busy “Dancing on my Own” and being the “Dance Hall Queen” to Shazam the mix.

3. Born This Way by Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga is always with us on the dancefloor and not only with this song but with the Edge of Glory and Judas which got a ton of dance play.

4. Til’ Death by Wynter Gordon from the With The Music I Die album. Wynter Gordon is not only a LOGO TV video favorite but she appeared at the White Party Palm Springs fabulously in 2011.

5. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) by Katy Perry from her Teenage Dream Album. This rocked the dancefloors and it was everyones favorite song to get drunk and dance around to and not feel guilty. She also had E.T. which was great when it first came out but like most Katy Perry songs they lose their touch after being played 1 million times on the radio.

6. Higher with Taio Cruz // Better Than Today by Kylie Minogue from her Better than Today album. Kylie had the best tour of 2011 based on the male dancers. Hands down she had the hottest dancers and the best set of anyone. Britney and Nicki Minaj were also on tour and it was the best we have seen from Britney but Kylie wins this one on the hot dancers. We really enjoyed the Higher mix with Taio Cruz although some places did not realize there was a song with Kylie and it was much, much better! Kylie also had Put Your Hands Up If You Feel Love Tonight on the charts from her Aphrodite album.

7. You Haven’t Seen The Last of Me by Cher. This is yet another underplayed dance mix. It brought out more emotions than any other song of the year for me and it truly was amazing when she sung this in her Burlesque movie. Why was this not played much throughout the year on the dancefloors or was I not at the right clubs? It did rank number 33 on the Billboard Dance charts for the end of the year but still.

8. Hollywood Tonight by Michael Jackson – one of the most underplayed songs but you could hear it on MyflexRadio and some other great events. It should have gotten lots more play!!

9. Party Rock Anthem LMFAO was just the most exciting song on the dancefloor this year because of the shuffle that went along with it but we preferred the Sexy and I know It sequel to this song. Really loved the shuffle. Ke$ha Blow was also a hot hot dancefloor motivating song.

10. Til’ The World Ends by Britney Spears. You know this song will be played as the last song of the year on New Years’ Eve. What song would be better than to dance until the world ends into 2012.
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Don’t Sit in PnP Santa’s Lap

December 9th, 2011

A friend sent me this and thought it was too funny.  iPNP app for the iPhone.  If you are unfamiliar with what PnP stands for it means Party and Play in the urban dictionary.  1 and a half stars is not worth $3 for this magical gift.  The funny thing about this is it’s in the Top 25 and I am sure it will make a few queens laugh at what naughty Santa is behind that.  Oh so many puns! What’s next the iPartybottom app?  Well you can just hit up partybottom.com for that.  Ho! Ho! Ho!

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Lady Gaga ‘Marry The Night’ Music Video Premier

December 1st, 2011

Almost nothing is more exciting than when Lady Gaga comes out with a new music video these days.  It’s like it rushes our hearts like an MTV World Premier Music Video like we used to get excited for.  Mother monster has been all over ABC for her Thanksgiving Special which was amazing and her performance last night with Sugarland for the Grammy Nominations concert.  Well tonight she strikes again with my favorite and her favorite song from the Born This Way Album. From her interview with Katie Couric on ABC our Mother Monster expressed that this video talks about her marrying her dreams such as her music and art career and pushing forward with it.  This should give us all motivation to get past the #itgetsbetter and actually push forward and drive ourselves further.  This song should be our motivation to succeed and show everyone we can do it. Here it is the music video premier of Lady Gaga’s Marry The Night:
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Telluride Gay Ski Week 2012

November 18th, 2011

StraightOut Media announced that The Peaks Resort & Spa in the Town of Mountain Village Colorado will be the Official Host Hotel for the February 25 – March 3, 2012 event named “T-12”. The first time the ski week has designated a single location as its main lodging partner and primary event venue. The Peaks will now host all daily Apre’ Ski events and late night lounge parties in addition to the White Night Party, which has become the week’s most popular event ­ attracting attendees as well as scores of local residents. The Peaks offers an assortment of the amenities; including a full-service spa, indoor and outdoor heated swimming pools, three unique on-site restaurants, and a T-12 Hospitality Concierge Center.

Also, for the first time, this top Gay Ski Week will be offering exclusive packages for lodging available only through its official website (telluridegayskiweek.com) or by calling toll free to 888-376-9770. This includes pricing for lodging at The Peaks, including lift tickets, rentals, and VIP party pass for the week called the “T-Pass” as well as additional discounts. In addition, exclusive packages at other Telluride lodges and condos will be available by request. Room rates offered at The Peaks start as low $169 (room only, double occupancy) and package rates start at $250 per person, per night. Packages include room accommodations, lift tickets, rentals and T-Pass, which provides access to the T-12 official parties.
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