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Correction: A previous version of this story misidenfitied Dan White. It also mistakenly said that Imogen Heap developed her gloves with a team at MIT. The idea for the gloves was sparked by a visit to MIT but Heap's gloves were developed by a team of researchers and artists in the U.K.  This version has been corrected. The DJ had the dance floor going bananas, but Daniel Fernandez de Cordova was nonplussed: "This guy was just pecking away at his computer for about two hours ....

Every Tuesday, the Going Out Gurus highlight the week's best DJs, bands, dance nights and parties. Find a longer list of events at www.goingoutguide.com . Outlaws There are few bars in Washington where hipster 20-somethings whoop and stomp their feet when the DJ puts on Alabama's "Dixieland Delight" or rush to the makeshift dance floor as soon as they hear the first notes of Alan Jackson's "Chattahoochee. " That's the magic of the monthly Outlaws party, which celebrates its second anniversary at Marx Cafe this week.

The stage was set with monster speakers and an electronic turntable in a strip mall parking lot, between the Little Caesars Pizza and E-Glam Beauty Supply. The party's headliner was Diamond Kuts, a waify 20-something hip-hop DJ who favors big hoop earrings and, in the past few weeks, has become a fresh part of President Obama's bid for reelection. "You didn't come out here to see me," she shouted to roughly 100 fans, who snapped photos with their cellphones and had clearly come to see her. "We're not here for...

LAS VEGAS — To step into club XS at the Wynn Las Vegas is to enter the dreamscape of a modern artist with fetishes for gold and bronze and bodies in motion. A golden-plated frieze made from casts of nude women sits atop a shimmering staircase. Waves of electronic dance music grow louder with each downward step toward a pulsating, football field-sized club where lasers cut the air above thousands of dancers. The revelers take their cues from the famous DJs onstage who are known to surf the crowd in...

NEW YORK — As much as pop stars delight designers by attending their fashion shows, a last-minute drop-in can wreak havoc for the show's DJ. When Beyonce turned up at J. Crew's spring 2012 presentation Tuesday, Kris Bones had to think fast in the sound booth — and mix faster. "They didn't tell me till literally she was just coming in," said Bones, 40, a London-based DJ whose clients this week have included DKNY, Prabal Gurung and Loden Dager. "It was a last-minute thing, so I just pulled up bits and...

If you think happy hour is just about hopping downtown or among the Foggy Bottom bars, think north instead. Thanks to a few fresh ideas, good food and, of course, cheap specials, you can enjoy a happy hour in Bethesda every day of the workweek. -- Fritz Hahn Black's Bar and Kitchen blacksbarandkitchen.com 7750 Woodmont Ave., 301-652-5525 The daily happy hour at Black's is one of the best in Bethesda. On a recent Friday visit, elbow room was at a premium, and tables were packed with groups of...

LAS VEGAS — To step into club XS at the Wynn Las Vegas is to enter the dreamscape of a modern artist with fetishes for gold and bronze and bodies in motion. A golden-plated frieze made from casts of nude women sits atop a shimmering staircase. Waves of electronic dance music grow louder with each downward step toward a pulsating, football field-sized club where lasers cut the air above thousands of dancers. The revelers take their cues from the famous DJs onstage who are known to surf the crowd in...

Karlheinz Brandenburg , credited with at least jointly "inventing" MP3, has joined with a German development bank to invest in DJTunes , a European music download site offering house, techno, trance and electro tracks in that very file format. DJTunes targets DJs, club-goers and labels and claims over 300,000 tracks, all in the DRM-free format that is beloved of DJs for its lack of copyright locks - if not exactly for its high fidelity. The site lets users upload and...

Every Tuesday, the Going Out Gurus highlight the week's best DJs, bands, dance nights and parties. Find a longer list of events at www.goingoutguide.com . Outlaws There are few bars in Washington where hipster 20-somethings whoop and stomp their feet when the DJ puts on Alabama's "Dixieland Delight" or rush to the makeshift dance floor as soon as they hear the first notes of Alan Jackson's "Chattahoochee. " That's the magic of the monthly Outlaws party, which celebrates its second anniversary at Marx Cafe this week.

Relaxing poolside with a cold drink in hand while a DJ spins party tunes — there are few ways to make a warm summer weekend more enjoyable. Washington has embraced the Vegas/Miami pool-party ethos in recent years, letting crowds work on their tans and splash around while enjoying all the night-life trappings. Both the Capitol Skyline Hotel and Donovan House hotel have new promoters and DJs at their pools this year, so we decided to take them both for a spin. When is it and what...

Every Tuesday, the Going Out Gurus highlight the week's best DJs, bands, dance nights and parties. Find a longer list of events at www.goingoutguide.com. Arbor Day Beer Festival In honor of Arbor Day, all three locations of Pizzeria Paradiso will serve beers that have been aged with wood or matured in wooden barrels. Beer director Greg Jasgur has been putting kegs aside for months, so you'll find rare treats from such big-time breweries as Stone, Allagash, Glazen Toren and 3 Stars.

Correction: A previous version of this story misidenfitied Dan White. It also mistakenly said that Imogen Heap developed her gloves with a team at MIT. The idea for the gloves was sparked by a visit to MIT but Heap's gloves were developed by a team of researchers and artists in the U.K.  This version has been corrected. The DJ had the dance floor going bananas, but Daniel Fernandez de Cordova was nonplussed: "This guy was just pecking away at his computer for about two...

T hey came here to dance to big sounds, deep into the tiny hours. So they peel off their bulky winter jackets at the coat check like 2,000 Clark Kents and stride onto the dance floor, faces fixed with sequins, ears pierced with golf tees, garments aglow with chemiluminescent piping. It's the second-to-last Saturday night of 2012 at Echostage , a massive new club on Queens Chapel Road NE, just north of New York Ave. In three short months, the venue has already hosted some of the...

When you heard Jamal Muhammad spin jazz on WPFW, you didn't simply hear music. You heard the enthusiasm and passion of a man who had lived the jazz life — and had the stories that went with it. Muhammad, who died at 77 on Feb. 5 from hepatitis, had been a fixture at the leftist-leaning, listener-supported station (89.3 FM) for more than 25 years. He often talked over the records — anticipating a hot solo with a "Yeah, yeah, come in and blow" — and between songs recounted his...

Congratulations, Washington. You've survived convention-viewing parties, debate-watching drinking games and endless political attack ads . The end is in sight. Now, there's just the little matter of election night. No matter whom you vote for, bars and restaurants are throwing open their doors, turning on the TVs and inviting you to watch the results roll in. The partisan and politically charged atmosphere at Capitol Hill bars can be fun, but there are plenty of other options out...

Walk by the corner of 14th and U streets NW on a weekend night, and you'll hear bubbly, joyful dance music blasting out of a new nightclub called Tropicalia. What makes this basement bar stand out from other recent arrivals in the neighborhood is that several times a week, the sounds drawing crowds onto the dance floor come from musicians instead of a DJ. It's easy to understand why bars shy away from live music: It's expensive to install a stage, lights and a sound system, let alone pay a group of musicians, when a DJ...

Currently on the first leg of his North American "Magic 8 Ball Tour," champion turntablist A-Trak hit U Street Music Hall on Tuesday night for a sold-out show of hip-hop and house music, topped with a human touch. Born Alain Macklovitch, the 29-year-old Montreal native and younger brother to Chromeo frontman David Macklovitch isn't new to the DJ circuit. He came on the scene in 1997 when he became the youngest person to win the Disco Mix Club's World DJ Championship at age 15, and then rode shotgun with Kanye West...

When Fuzz launched a microblogging service for music aficionados called Blip.fm last May, no one in the company expected it to rise above the status of an experiment. But before long, Blip.fm's traffic began to eclipse that of Fuzz's main site, which provides an altogether different service for bands that want to cultivate their fan base. Fuzz's attention has now turned primarily to Blip.fm as a result of its popularity, although it will continue to maintain its other service as well.