Before summer comes to a close and we begrudgingly ease ourselves back to reality, Fool’s Gold Records is bringing back their Labor Day extravaganza for one last hurrah.

Now in its second year, Fool’s Gold Day Off has all the elements of a perfect summer day – a barbeque, drinks, and a killer soundtrack courtesy of Juicy J, Danny Brown, Just Blaze, the Brothers Macklovitch (A-Trak & Dave1), Araabmuzik, Cubic Zirconia, Party Supplies and Nick Catchdubs.

What more could you ask for? An afterparty? No problem. The party will continue with the Fool’s Gold Night Off at Westway with music by the Brothers Macklovitch and Just Blaze.

So there you have it: the perfect summer send-off. Make sure you get there early, last year’s event reached capacity before nightfall. And if you need a soundtrack to get you psyched CLICK HERE to check out Danny Brown’s XXX mixtape, and HERE for Party Supplies’ Firecrackers mixtape.

Next Wednesday, May 11, Trouble & Bass favorite Drop The Lime will debut his full live show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. As anybody familiar with Drop The Lime knows, his musical talent and personal swagger pretty much guarantees that his live show will be something that is not to be missed. Opening for DTL will be New York locals Cubic Zirconia who will be performing live, as well as Trouble & Bass DJs.

Drop The Lime has been honing his craft for years. From humble beginnings as a choirboy to a childhood obsession with 50s rock’n’roll, the New York local has been experimenting with sound for years via the underground electronic scene of Kid 606’s TigerBeat6 label, Mad Decent and French label Institubes (under his alter ego “Curses!”). Drop The Lime’s influences range from Brian Eno to rockabilly (he’s well known for his 50s doo wop and soul sets) to Sonic Youth to Wu Tang but things don’t just stop there. He has been running Trouble & Bass since 2006, and anyone who’s been to one of their parties knows that this crew is made up of the DJs who are defining a new New York sound.

2009 was a big year for Drop the Lime. He released two huge club hits, “Devils Eyes” and “Set Me Free”, the combined force of which helped him topple the likes of Phoenix, Florence & The Machine and The XX as “Most Blogged Artist on the Planet” (Hype Machine). Luca took his unique style of DJing around the globe, farther afield than ever before, crisscrossing North America many times as well Europe, China, Singapore and Australia. Drop The Lime has continued his quest to be one of the world’s leading DJ/producers, with a slew of singles including the mind blowing “Sex Sax”, which tore up dance floors around the globe and was remixed ferociously by the likes of Sinden and Bart B More to much support. As a follow up to “Sex Sax” came ”Hot As Hell”, a track that takes it’s inspiration from the 1950’s rock’n’roll and the rockabilly sound Drop The Lime grew up on. A real original sound that he is making his own, the conjunction of Rockabilly and dance music is innovation personified. His full length album “Enter the Night” will be released September 12 and has already been hailed by Mixmag as “a hellraising, rockabilly road trip.

Get your advance tickets HERE.

Cubic Zirconia kick off their winter tour with Machinedrum and Popo.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL ALBUM BY STEPHEN PETER

This Friday, September 24, our lovely friends over at Good Peoples present a one-off party from one of the hottest UK labels LuckyMe, based out of Glasgow, Scotland. This is an event so legendary it is only fitting that it take place in our very own Chinatown mini-mall turned rave hub, otherwise known as 88 Palace.

LuckyMe started in the summer of 2007 as a pipe dream to run a hip-hop group in a place that wasn’t on the map for hip-hop at the time. They went to the best clubs in the vicinity and thereby got caught up in other music whether it was underground dance music, techno, jazz, pop or rock. They ran parties in and around the Glasgow School of Art and Stereo. Simply put, they weren’t trying to do something innovative and different, but were just doing their thing. In July 2007 they started the label, artist collective and website as it exists today.

Since then, LuckyMe has become one of the world’s leading young crews, fusing hip-hop and new electronic club music. Us New Yorkers are lucky enough to have the crew cruise through our city this weekend for a rare event featuring their A-list starting line-up of Hudson Mohawke and Rustie who will be spinning back to back with support from Mike Slott, The Blessings and some of the most exciting new producers and DJs traveling in from around the world: Lunice, Jacques Greene, Eclair Fifi, Machinedrum, Cubic Zirconia, and Azelia Banks. In short, you’ll be kicking yourself for months to come if you dare to skip this awesome influx of European talent, so start plotting your route into the heart of Chinatown and beat bliss today.

A limited number of $10 advanced tickets can be purchased HERE, after which the price rises to $15. We also have two tickets to give away to one lucky winner; just fill out the form below to enter!