LANY Extends Its Electropop Map to South Florida

LANY is a deceptive name for a band formed in Nashville, Tennessee. Pronounced lay-nee, an acronym for “Los Angeles New York,” the group at first glance looks and sounds like the ultra-urban minimalist Instagram fodder touted by one-word bands these days. But its relatable, warm sound also offers comfort, like…

South Florida’s Ten Best Music Festivals

People don’t typically think of cityscapes or any place near concrete buildings as the ideal setting for a music festival, but in many ways Miami is the optimal locale to host a gathering of music and art freaks. The Magic City boasts plenty of event spaces and venues, such as Mana Wynwood and the North Beach Bandshell, that have become go-to spots for festivals both large and small.

Deaf Poets Talk Touring and Peyote Coyote Partnership

Fresh off a successful spring tour for their recently released album, Lost in Magic City, Miami’s Deaf Poets are not content to sit around. They’re gassing up and hitting the road once again to shatter a few eardrums around the rest of Florida, and they’re taking some hometown friends with…

The Members of Social Distortion Are Punk Rock’s Greatest Storytellers

Started in Southern California in 1978 by a teenaged Mike Ness, Social Distortion was inspired by the Sex Pistols and the Rolling Stones. Listen to the band’s catalog of seven albums, released sporadically over the past 34 years, and you’ll hear the rebellious spirit of those influences. But lyrically, Social Distortion takes an approach that’s different from that of those two British acts.

What the World Needs Now Is Mariah Carey, Music’s Elle Woods

Forty-seven-year-old Mariah Carey is casually splayed out on her kitchen counter wearing only a boob-strangling negligé in a particularly entertaining scene from her new TV show, Mariah’s World. The E! reality series premiered last December and follows her antics during her Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour. In the scene, as in…

Guns N’ Roses’ Anti-Fashion Style Paved the Way for Grunge

The theory of alternate realities posits that right next to this reality are infinite universes, together comprising everything that exists. If that’s true, somewhere out there is a reality where every rock star dresses like a superhero. This is a world where no lip comes near a microphone without lipstick on it, where no T-shirts or jeans are allowed onstage, where Insane Clown Posse is not an outlier laughingstock but the norm in a society in which every rocker is decked out in outlandish costumes, makeup, and wigs.

Comics Set the Foundation for DMC of Run-DMC

The way Darryl “DMC” McDaniels tells it, hip-hop wouldn’t exist without comic books. There sure as hell wouldn’t be any Run DMC, McDaniels’ legendary group that overcame numerous hurdles to bring rap into the mainstream. “I was a Catholic school kid in Queens who got straight As and wore…

Why Shawn Mendes and Other Web Stars Are the Future of Pop Music

Last September, precocious 18-year-old and Seventeen magazine cover boy Shawn Mendes sold out Madison Square Garden’s nearly 21,000 seats. This Wednesday, he will unleash his boyish charms and angsty, lovelorn pop hits on Miami. And though he hasn’t quite broken MSG numbers with this week’s concert at the American Airlines…

BroLife Music Group’s Brochella Weekend Coming to Broward

What do you picture when you hear the word “Brochella”? Frat boys, perhaps? Glistening biceps coming out of pastel tank tops atop board shorts that are tragically also a pastel color? At BroLife Music Group’s Brochella Weekend, that couldn’t be much further from the truth. Head to the BroLife website…

NKOTB’s Total Package Tour Is the Ultimate Political Escape

The last presidential election separated the red and blue states, demarcating two very different American lifestyles. There’s the America that wants its big red Solo cups full of something sweet or boozy, its tanks filled with gas, and its guns on its hips. Then there’s the America that dreams of…

The Weeknd Will Croon Until You Can’t Feel Your Face

One of the curses of being a millennial is that 60 years’ worth of musicians got to go through the dictionary and cherry-pick their act’s name before you got around to it. So when Abel Makkonen Tesfaye wanted to christen his dark R&B project the Weekend but discovered there was already a Canadian band that had copyrighted the name, he didn’t give up.