Chris Marchant calls me from the “Well-Strung headquarters” — a four-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in Astoria, Queens, where he and three other gorgeous, chiseled gay men cohabit. Together, the guys hang out, hit the gym down the block, and listen to a mix of show tunes, Rihanna, and Adele while basking…
If you all, like us, were still trying to wrap your heads around the mind-melting mashup of artists already topping the bill at Florida’s latest music festival offering, Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, launching this spring, you might not be prepared for this morning’s third-wave lineup announcement. But here goes:…
“For me, it’s a little different,” says Will Swan, guitarist and founding member of posthardcore mainstays Dance Gavin Dance. “I always want to do this and write music and stuff, so I can’t really see myself doing anything else… It’s not like that for everybody in the band, though.” On…
If we had to pitch a new pseudoreality sitcom to the Disney Channel that could give the grown-up and moved-on Jonas Brothers a fair run for their money, we’d easily recommend the boys of Blast. Made up of bass player Benji Roberts (age 17), synth and percussionist Logan Moreno (age…
Chili, beer, and cowboy hats — these are the essence of the annual KISS 99.9 Chili Cook Off. Oh yeah, that and good old American country music. This year’s 31st-annual Cook Off will feature headliners Little Big Town, Jake Owen, and Chris Young as the ideal, twangy backdrop to the…
This morning, Okeechobee Festival has added a fresh batch of artists to its lineup. Bassnectar, the Avett Brothers, and Odesza round out the top of the bill, joining Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex, Future, Miguel, Fetty Wap, and Big Grams (Big Boi & Phantogram), who were announced last month as part of an eclectic…
Today marks the launch of Infinite Channel, a new web-based video platform created by a collective of local musicians and FAU commercial music students to “present and preserve real music.” With the goal of providing “content and exposure for bands that are invaluable to the South Florida music scene,” the…
While Miami’s had ample opportunity to move their bodies to the experimental, electro-pop sounds of Afrobeta in the near decade they’ve been a band, it’s not as often that we’re treated to a visit from the funky and unpredictable dance duo on our own turf. If you’ve never heard of…
Why is it that so many of the best things in life end up being the ones that were there all along, hidden in plain sight? Whether we’re staring at our phones too often to notice, or simply haven’t been looking in the right places, South Florida is home to…
Do you love music? Do you consider yourself “in-the-know” when it comes to the local scene, music history, your favorite genres, or what “the kids” are listening to these days? Do you find you have a lot of great ideas but not as many places to put them? Like Facebook…
Hey y’allll, it’s Boat Show weekend in Fort Laudy! Meaning it’s time to give the ol’ girl a nice spit shine, call up all yer sea dogs, and start prepping the coolers. If you’re among the elite locals who claim ownership to a water vessel with a motor, congratulations! You…
Everyone knows Florida as a strange place, one that’s churned out its share of boy bands, punk rockers, and booty-bass at varying points in its relatively brief musical history. A physically long state with what can often seem like a longer list of embarrassments to its name, Florida has carved…
It’s hard to tell whether Broncho’s Ryan Lindsey is joking when he explains the success of the band’s ear-wormish hit “Class Historian,” which has clocked nearly nine million plays on Spotify. “There’s an online course that’s not as expensive as the number I’m gonna give you when you think about…
When Brooklyn’s Pro Era poster child Joey Bada$$ talks about energy, he’s not just trying to get the crowd hyped. At 20, he might be young, but the rapper who’s known for his technical flow and old-school flavor is also pretty damn spiritual. When he’s not taking reporters crystal shopping…
Have you recovered yet? Because I’m not sure I have. I’m pretty sure I’m still attempting to claw myself out from under the toppling mountain of Drake memes that poured down on us this week in an endtimes-style deluge, except that I sort of just wanted it to keep raining…
Because the internet. #AubreyWanKenobi Drake’s uncanny ability to tap into the universal life source and repeatedly break the internet made us wonder whether he might be Illuminati, but now we realize he’s been using the Force all along. #TennisBling Tennis and Wii Sports… Drake is channeling two suburban bro pastimes…
“Corey was the first musician to unify the Miami, Homestead, and Fort Lauderdale church musicians with the Boynton, West Palm, even all the way up to Fort Pierce players,” says Carlton Williams, a piano player and good friend of Corey Jones, the 31-year-old church drummer who was shot and killed…
Circumstances surrounding the Sunday morning shooting death of 31-year-old local drummer Corey Jones by a Palm Beach Gardens police officer remain unclear as friend and family come together to express their sadness, confusion, frustration, and anger. Jones, a well-known South Florida musician who played at various local venues and churches,…
Ryahn (the “h” is silent) is only 17 years old, but she sings and plays guitar like a woman who has experienced. The Jamaican/Bahamian indie songstress first started playing music around five years ago, when her dad gifted her a $35 guitar off Amazon. “I was so excited when it finally came,…
Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar, and Skrillex have been announced as headliners for the highly anticipated new three-day festival Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, slated for March 4 to 6, 2016 at Florida’s Sunshine Grove. The event, which promises to be Florida’s biggest-ever camping festival, will include five diverse stages featuring…
DJ Hana was an anomaly back in 2005, when she first graced the cover of an April edition of New Times. Described by the writer as a “Valkyrie-esque she-jay” and one of South Florida’s first female DJs, the story reads a bit dated ten years on, though it is difficult to…
Hold on to your cowboy hats! Tortuga announced its 2016 lineup this morning, with Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, and Dierks Bentley topping the bill of Fort Lauderdale’s mega popular, now three-day country music festival on the beach. Taking place from April 15 to April 17, tens of thousands of fans are…
