Drum ’n’ bass might not be the hippest beat on the planet, but it’s bound to come back into vogue, right? When it does, ELEMENTS will be here. For more than eight years, the jungle/drum ’n’ bass Thursday night has been pumping away at the PHOENIX LANDING (512 Mass Ave, Cambridge; 617.576.6260), and there’s no end in sight. Resident DJs CROOK and LENORE have the most devoted fans in the Hub, and their long-rooted connections give them an advantage. Four times a year they bring in a DJ from the lauded drum ’n’ bass collective Metalheadz; October 25 it’ll be Hospital recording artist COMMIX.
Okay, what about Halloween? Props to the Happy Endings crew and to Bassic, but Halloween at ESTATE (1 Boylston Place, Boston; 617.351.7000) figures to be the best party of 2007. The night is promoted by FUTURE CLASSIC, a production team that’s bringing ?UESTLOVE to UNDERBAR (275 Tremont St, Boston; 617.292.7122) on October 1 and DJ BABU to the REVOLUTION ROCK BAR (200 High St, Boston; 617.261.4200) on October 5. The All Souls night features the hustling sounds of SOULCLAP, who have their hands everywhere in the Hub, plus the coolest, most-radical DJ team in Boston, HEARTHROB, whose alternate-Tuesday scene at Middlesex Lounge is the wildest dance party I’ve seen. The Hearthrob line-up includes two of Boston’s top DJs, RED FOXXX and BALTIMORODER, as well as the Providence nightlife kingpin MORGAN LOUIS and Hearthrob founder/“CEO” SENSITIVE HAND.
And we haven’t even gotten to the headliner. That would be Chicago’s FELIX DA HOUSECAT. From his genre-defining collaboration with Miss Kittin to the groundbreaking single “In the Dark We Live (Thee Lite),” there is hardly a bigger name in dance music. What with his status, the serious love of Soulclap, and the Basstown overlords of Hearthrob, this party should be selling out right about now.
Related:
Persian gulf, Bounty, World music, More 
- Persian gulf
Another “Festival of Films from Iran” opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Bush Administration still hasn’t started bombing Tehran.
- Bounty
It’s payback time for Boston’s blues and roots music scene.
- World music
There’s more to Boston’s classical music scene than the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
- The future of an illusion
When I first realized that movies would, for better or worse, dominate my imagination forever, I really gave no thought to the forces at work creating these transfiguring images on a screen.
- Sooner or later?
While interviewing Paul Greengrass, I was determined not to ask the question that has dogged United 93 like a tag line: “Is it too soon?” It didn’t matter; within five minutes he would ask it himself.
- Dirty politics
The last resort of the true patriot is a fart joke.
- Finding Amanda
Matthew Broderick sleepwalks through Peter Tolan’s debut film as a hack TV writer with a gambling addiction.
- Cherchez les femmes
Women have always dominated French cinema — just not from behind the camera.
- One sings, one doesn’t
This year, at least one element in “Boston Film Festival” is no longer true.
- The Unknown Woman
Tornatore leaves behind the G-rated sentiment of Cinema Paradiso in this exploitative 2006 thriller.
- Review: Precious
If you thought Celie in Alice Walker's The Color Purple had a tough time of it, wait till you get a load of Precious.
- Less
Topics:
Music Features
, Robert Pinsky, Steve Smith, Morgan Louis, More
, Robert Pinsky, Steve Smith, Morgan Louis, Hall & Oates, Miss Kittin, Gym Class Heroes, Luscious Jackson, Less
