Music

Sure, Tech N9ne has teamed up with the greatest acts in hip-hop and rock in the studio, but don’t expect them to come through for his Strictly Strange tour.

The words “bluegrass music” can conjure images of the hills of Appalachia. But Anders Beck says another kind of community might also come to mind. His band, Greensky Bluegrass, was formed in the midsize Midwest town of Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Coachella made headlines in that other sunny state, but South Florida is no slouch on the festival circuit. With the development of newer events such as Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, III Points, and Rolling Loud and the evolution of mainstays such as Ultra, the original Miami megafest, South Florida offers a wide range of genres and artists at big gatherings.

Following a tragic 2016, Surfer Blood’s John Paul Pitts is learning to chill out. For many people in the United States, 2016 was a shit year. For John Paul Pitts, frontman and vocalist of Surfer Blood, it was an especially rough 12 months. Last May, founding band member and guitarist…

Desiigner’s Twitter feed is, above all else, loud. The New York rapper types in all capital letters, showing his excitement to share his fans’ love, the three new songs he dropped at once, and recent interviews he’s done with well-known radio hosts. His Instagram reflects the same, with emojis of fire…

Though he calls his current project “Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness,” Andrew McMahon is a man who knows exactly where he is, where he’s been, and where he’s going.

Two months and 38 states into their first national tour, members of the Magic City Hippies have evolved beyond the average bandmate relationship. “Before this tour we’d only ever been gone from Miami for a week,” drummer Pat Howard says. “On this tour we’ve become a brotherhood, with all the…

It finally happened, and it took only five years. Tortuga Music Festival, selling out once again, set a record for attendance this past weekend. More than 100,000 people filed through the gates of the country-music beach party. Held annually on Fort Lauderdale Beach since its inception in 2013, the fest this year featured headliners Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton, and Kenny Chesney. In short, Tortuga is big.

On the surface, the city of Miami is the polar opposite of Wasilla, Alaska, hometown of the alternative-rock band Portugal. The Man. The two cities are across a continent from each other, and Wasilla sees as many snowy days as Miami sees sunny ones. Alaska has vast forests and grand…

Since the early ’90s, South Florida has been a hotbed for DJs and electronic music. Hip-hop and rock are, arguably, tied for second place in the region’s musical popularity contest. But the politically bluer part of the Sunshine State is also home to an overwhelming number of country music fans…

Shovels & Rope, performing at Culture Room, balanced caring for their newborn and recording their latest album, Little Seeds.

As grownups living out their teenage rock-star dreams, it’s only right that the five guys who make up We the Kings named their band after the Bradenton middle school they attended. “We all went to Martha B. King Middle School,” keyboardist Coley O’Toole confirms. “Travis Clark and Hunter Thomsen started…

Dallas Green was born with an interesting story to his name. “That’s true,” the Canadian singer-songwriter says of the origin of his moniker. “My mom wanted to name me something else, I guess a plainer name, and my dad wasn’t going for it.” Instead, his parents named their son after…

Brace yourself. Winter is coming. Like all pop culture phenomena, Game of Thrones will not allow itself to be bound to one medium. What began as A Song of Ice and Fire — a series of fantasy books written by George R.R. Martin — Game of Thrones was unleashed onto…

Too few female performers mar an otherwise exciting Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival lineup.

If football is life, the New England Patriots give breath to every living Bostonian. And Ken Casey, the raspy voice behind the Celtic punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys, is no exception. “I feel so great about the Pats winning the Super Bowl,” Casey brags of the Patriots’ victory over the Atlanta…

Describing David Grisman means figuring out how to explain how he combines bluegrass, klezmer, jam bands, and jazz. But that’s what the virtuoso mandolin player has done in a 50-year career during which he has played with, among others, fiddler Vassar Clements, French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, klezmer clarinetist Andy Statman, and close friend Jerry Garcia — the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist.

With only days to go, general-admission three-day passes to the 2017 Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival are sold out. Still available, though, are the four-day Portal Passes for $279. It’s a bargain compared to Florida’s other mammoth festival, Ultra, whose tickets normally retail for about 400 bucks apiece. So what…