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Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Battle Creek's Brad Hoelscher shines at EDM Awards
Brad Hoelscher, a Battle Creek Central High School and Kellogg Community College alum, has won "Mixshow DJ of the Year." According to a community announcement, the award was presented March 28 at the Electronic Dance Music Awards at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach. This annual event coincides with the Ultra Music Festival and Winter Music Conference, showcasing top talent in Electronic Dance Music. Hoelscher, known as Bodega Brad, has previously won this award in 2018. He graduated from BCCHS in 1994 and later from KCC before moving to New York City to pursue a career in radio. He began his journey at 103.5-FM WKTU-NYC, starting in promotions and eventually becoming the Resident Mixshow DJ. More: FireKeepers Casino announces star-studded summer concert series Brad Hoelscher, known as Bodega Brad, a Battle Creek Central High School and Kellogg Community College alum, has won "Mixshow DJ of the Year." For the past 15 years, Bodega Brad has been the Mixshow DJ for the 5 p.m. "Weekend Kickoff Mix" and for Friday and Saturday nights on KTU-NYC, which is part of iHeartRadio. He is also a resident Mixshow DJ on Sirius/XM's Utopia Channel and hosts "Nurotic's House Party," a syndicated dance show from Chicago. We want your news: How to submit community announcements Fans can follow Bodega Brad on social media and listen to his mixes for free at For updates, go to his Instagram at This story was created by Janis Reeser, jreeser@ with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Journalists were involved in every step of the information gathering, review, editing and publishing process. Learn more at or share your thoughts at with our News Automation and AI team. This article originally appeared on Battle Creek Enquirer: Battle Creek's Brad Hoelscher wins 'Mixshow DJ of the Year'
Forbes
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Carl Cox Talks His Evolution Set At Ultra Music Festival
Carl Cox performs at Ultra Music festival 2025. Carl Cox: a name synonymous with dance music. As one of the industry's most legendary producers, it wouldn't be fair to categorize him into one genre, which many people do nowadays by saying he is a techno artist. Cox is not only a veteran of acid house, but he has also spun drum'n'bass, hardcore, soul and even trance—a genre he was said to perform during his F.A.C.T. days. But no matter what genre you say Cox is, one thing is for certain: he is an Ultra Music Festival mainstay. The festival, which took place this past weekend from March 28 to March 30, has been a home for Cox for the last 25 years. The tastemaker has been integral since Ultra's beginnings with his own stage, which now takes place at the festival's MegaStructure. His curated stage hosts some of the top names in the underground, with this year's lineup including Charlotte de Witte, Adam Beyer, Richie Hawtin, Four Tet, Solomun, Miss Monique and, of course, Cox himself. This year, Cox had something special for festival attendees—something few producers are capable of doing. His set used a combination of hardware and software to create and manipulate sounds in real time. This performance, dubbed Evolution, differs from his DJ sets and Hybrid performances. While his Hybrid sets, which are impressive in their own rights, are a combination of him DJing and using electronic components, his Evolution performance is a live set with no DJing whatsoever. Here, Cox took the time to share with Forbes the inspiration behind his Evolution set for Ultra, his partnership with the festival, the advice he would give his younger self and more. Lisa Kocay: In three words, what do you try to cultivate through your music and deejaying? Carl Cox: 'Passion, emotion, energy.' Kocay: For your Evolution show at Ultra, you will be using a combination of hardware and software to create and manipulate sounds in real-time, which differs from your DJ sets and Hybrid sets. What made you decide to do this performance style, which I imagine is challenging and complicated? Cox: 'Anything can go wrong at any moment. Any of the components can go down. It's not like a live band. This is like electronic music being performed by all these electronics. So as you know, anything can happen at any moment with this, but I have been doing electronic performances since 1990, 1991. 'When you are DJing, you are literally choosing other people's music, and you might have made some of your music on your own, you introduce and you play those. But when you're doing live electronic performances, it's everything that you've created, everything that you've made or that's in your mind's eye that you want people to listen to. So it's literally like having someone, a band making their album and then touring that album, because you've made that sound and that music for people to get connected with who you are as an individual. 'It's the reason why I'm doing this live and stepping out of the realms of being a DJ and into the realms of being an electronic live performance performer. And this is what I've been since 2020 to now, today, so nearly five years in doing this in and out. The Hybrid set was a combination between utilizing me being a DJ and then using electronic components to enhance my music outside of the realm of DJ, and the live is an absolutely electronic performance and no DJing aspects in that whatsoever—apart from how I actually mix these together, which is obviously my superpower, but it's out there as another level.' Carl Cox performs at Ultra in 2007. Kocay: You have a 25-year legacy with Ultra, which started two years after the inaugural festival. What have been the three main things that have been the key to success for your partnership with the festival? Cox: 'I think what's been really amazing with Ultra, in fact, right at the beginning, they gave me carte blanche on creating a festival within a festival. So I could have just been a headline artist and just played main stage for them, but that would've been too easy for me. I wanted to be able to have the ability to have people see another side of electronic music that could be seen under one roof or another side of the festival that you may not get to see. So I was the catalyst of being able to curate an area where you would hear different music, different sounds, different DJs play outside of the main stage area, which then became a very popular area for me, of course, and built on that premise. Ultra gave me the carte blanche to be able to exercise that because they weren't in a position to do that themselves because they were concentrating so much on the main stage. 'So main stage may have been major DJs who may have major pull, so they were really concentrating on that. But I've always said that the underground feeds the overground. So you need to have something of which people come in as an experience before you go run straight to the main stage, to hear all your hit records or all your favorite tunes, because the foundations of what we are doing has always come from the underground perspective. I wanted to represent that at Ultra and have people understand that maybe once you've gotten cultured into the main stage and you want to find out more about music, then you'll come over to see me based on what I curated in the sense of the DJs and the sound to have an experience of that.' Kocay: So what you're saying is really interesting about the underground and what it does to the overground. If you could pick one song for people to listen to who are getting into the underground, what would it be? Cox: 'It's kind of difficult to pinpoint what underground is because people have so many different perspectives on what the underground is, but most of the time, if you listen to someone like Richie Hawtin, for instance, he has always be the purveyor of underground music. So I would say if people really want to understand what the underground is, it'd be best to listen to someone like Richie Hawtin to get a perspective on that. Not one particular track.' Kocay: I read that you started your Playground camp as a way to celebrate Burning Man and its culture. In one sentence, what do you love most about Burning Man's culture? Cox: 'The creativity. There's so much creativity there. That was the thing that blew me away when I first went to Burning Man. Burning Man had been calling me to go for many, many years, and I thought, 'No, I'm not going, too dusty, too far away, not at the right time.' And then one day, I decided that I was going to go and just see it for myself. But when I got there, I just saw so much creativity. It's just incredible that people have such great ideas of what represents who they are, and you can see that in abundance when you go to Burning Man.' Carl Cox performs at Ultra in 2011. Kocay: That makes sense. I've been dying to go. Everyone I know says it's, like, life-changing, so hopefully, I make it one day soon. Cox: 'I hope so because at the moment, Burning Man is under threat based on finances. If this happens, it may not happen again. So, I hope they can pull it together because I love it. I've been going now for the last 15 years, and I can't see myself not missing a Burning Man ever again in my lifetime. But I found it life-changing when I went there. I want to be able to be a part of the community. I would like to be able to support and to basically give back in some ways to people's creativity of being in there with my music and sharing the love of music. That's the only reason why I'm there.' Kocay: Can you talk about the most exciting aspects of Carl Cox Motorsports? Cox: 'Carl Motorsports is built up on the premise of what I do as an individual for my drag racing efforts. I also race circuit cars, historic racing cars like Mustangs and Camaros and these kinds of cars. [I also do] hill climb racing as well. But Carl Motorsports also supports women in racing, for whether they're in sidecar racing [or] whether they are on solo bikes. We have two girls from New Zealand who were racing for me in the World Series this year. 'I'm very big supporter of road racing in Europe, in the shape of a guy called Michael Dunlop from the Dunlop Dynasty, who is an incredible racer, and also other people that I also support as well in that field of motor sports. 'I've always been into cars. I've always been into racing. I have always been into the idea of being involved in motor sports in some way but also laying down the foundation of what I actually do as an individual. People can see that I love cars. I'm a petrol head. I love speed. I love the energy of that.' Carl Cox performs at Ultra 2016. Kocay: If you could go back in time to when you first started making music and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be? Cox: 'I probably wouldn't change a thing. Life is full of decisions, and they could be good ones and bad ones. You just don't know until you make them. I had such an amazing time at school with my friends and making friends with my music. The way how I came through the music, the way how I danced to the music and how I was exposed to it—what I wanted to find out more about that, listening to radio shows and going to record stores and finding all this vinyl. It's to working in a record store, to going out and performing in pubs and clubs and events all over the end. Curating an event and doing so much in my growing up. 'And at the same time, I was at school racing and riding push bikes and staying out late, going to nightclubs [and] eventually all this sort of stuff. I can't see myself going back and saying, 'I shouldn't have done that,' because I think as a kid growing up, you should do that. So you learn about the aspects of what you did right or what you did wrong to learn by it and then to use that knowledge to make yourself a better person. It's kind of weird because I would like to go back and say, 'Okay, I shouldn't be eating Kentucky fried chicken,' but I should eat Kentucky fried chicken because it's delicious. 'I think you should go for all these things just so you learn and understand what you like and what you don't like in life. So I would say that I would not absolutely change a thing about my upbringing and what I did in life because I think I had a really great opportunity to know who I am as a person. I think when you learn so much in life, that's what makes you who you are.'
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
‘Literally Underwater': Miami Streets Flooded by Heavy Rains
The streets of Miami were flooded on Sunday, March 30, after heavy rainfall drenched South Florida. Footage of the Brickell neighborhood of Miami from X user @shaneyyricch shows cars attempting to drive through the high waters on some streets, while other streets seem to be fine. On one street in the clip, four people can be seen pushing a car through the floodwaters. 'Downtown Miami is literally underwater,' @shaneyyricch wrote on X. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Miami and the surrounding area through Sunday. The rain and flooding did lead to a temporary pause of the final day of the Ultra Music Festival, according to one report, but the event eventually went on as planned. Credit: @shaneyyricch via Storyful
CBS News
31-03-2025
- Climate
- CBS News
Clean up underway after rain caused patio ceiling collapse at University of Miami dorm
Clean up is underway after Sunday's heavy rain caused the partial collapse of a patio ceiling at a University of Miami dorm. Crews worked through the morning to clear the debris caused by the collapse at the Mahoney Pearson dorm. "It was pretty crazy. I didn't really think that that was gonna happen. Obviously, it's just the fact of the weather and they're old buildings, which is no excuse to say that they should have fallen down, but still, you know, things happen," UM student Dylan Prefontaine said. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. "It was raining and pouring and super windy, so i don't think anybody would be out there anyways, but you know, it was definitely scary to see," Prefontaine said. University officials said they are assessing the damage and trying to determine why the collapse happened. In Miami, some streets turned into streams. The doors of Kiki on the River had water rushing in as drivers navigated the flooded road. Near Northwest 15 Street and 7 Avenue, cars were stalled out as the roadways flooded. On Miami Beach, some residents were trapped in their homes by rising water levels. Those dining at the Versace Mansion on Ocean Drive ended up soaked as water poured down. Ultra Music Festival goers in Downtown Miami made the best of the rainy weather. Festival goers were seen diving into the mud puddles. The party was put on a brief pause because of the torrential rain. But after a short break, it continued. "Crappy weather, but you know, it's still worth it. The people, the music, the sounds, the set up," said Sylvio Prosser. "I mean it kind of sucks because I'd rather it be sunny but it's fine, it's Ultra day three so it'll be fun still," Rianna Hasbani said
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Severe weather causes delays, cancellations at TPA
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)— States across the United States experienced severe weather over the weekend that has impacted flights at the Tampa International Airport. Thousands of people don't have power in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana as severe weather swept through. As of 9 a.m. On Monday morning, TPA has 18 cancellations and 136 delays. 'Passengers should always check with their airlines for most up-to-date flight information,' TPA said. According to NBC affiliate WTVJ, Festival goers at the Ultra Music Festival experienced flooded streets on Sunday as thunderstorms went through. Tennessee experienced up to 70 mph winds with a chance of tornadoes and hail Sunday night. To check the status of your flight, visit their website. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
