When the South Florida pop-punk pioneers of New Found Glory take the stage at Revolution Live Friday, May 12, they’ll celebrate 20 years together as a band. But drummer Cyrus Bolooki wants to be clear: This is not just another nostalgia tour. Unlike some of its early-’00s peers, New Found…
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.
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.
It’s that time of the year again. Those of us who suffer from vinyl fever will trek to IKEA for new shelving units to store the dozens of records we plan to lug home this Saturday, April 22. Record Store Day (RSD), a sacred holiday for vinyl enthusiasts, artists, and music fans, marks its tenth anniversary celebrating independently owned record stores.
Every year, Record Store Day invites vinyl fanatics, collectors, and even casual music fans to visit their local independent record store to shop for exclusive releases from acts across all genres and from all over the world. This year, if you can find them, you can nab limited releases by…
Lake Worth’s Everymen is a difficult band to pin down. Their sound is an amalgamation of attitudes and instruments that can best be described as “folk-punk” but that transcends both of those genres. It’s a sound they’ve tirelessly shared on tour with the rest of the nation, and even Europe, for years.
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…
Broward rapper Xali Unknwn gives an inside look at his studio process at Bay Eight Studios.
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…
