Cuban singer Danay Suarez was born a poet. She doesn’t speak in sound bites, as many singers in the digital age do in interviews. Instead, she answers questions about her music and message with all the thoughtfulness and seriousness of someone giving a speech at the United Nations, occasionally sprinkling…
Lucinda Williams talks writing about heartbreak, loss, and politics.
Elastic Bond has never been the kind of band to concern itself with limits, be they conventions of genre, language, instrumentation, or influences within the group’s music. Songwriters Sofy Encanto, from Honduras, and Andres Ponce, from Venezuela, exist in two spaces at once, influenced by the music they heard growing…
As empty bottles pile up on the corners of tables, wine enthusiasts walking in for a tapas meal at Boca Raton’s Vino Wine Bar on Thursday nights are treated to singer Kendra Erika’s chameleonic musical transformation. Erika begins the night singing jazz standards and the songs of today’s retro-inspired divas — Sade, Amy Winehouse, Adele. But as the night progresses…
Greyhounds hope to bridge audience and genre gaps when they headline Day 2 of the Coconut Grove Arts Festival.
Some women make it look easy. Businesswomen, artists, mothers, partners, friends. Sometimes all at once. A woman can inhabit many lives in just one day while traversing a minefield of societal expectations: Be soft but not weak. Strong but not emasculative. Sexy but chaste. Honest but not biting. Throughout her…
In its quest for “good TV,” the Grammys ignore some of today’s best artists.
To live in Miami is to live in paradise. While the rest of the country gets up at the crack of dawn to shovel their cars out of the snow and endure freezing temperatures, a mid-February beach day isn’t out of the question for a South Floridian. And the organizers…
Lady Gaga’s halftime-show protest was a continuation of her career activism.
Miami is a city overrun with DJs, clubs, and the expensive cocktails that come with the territory. With the revolving door of bar openings and closings that has accompanied Miami’s development boom, it’s been difficult to find a dive bar that feels like home — the kind you frequent…
Singer-songwriter Dama Vicke has always felt a connection to the world of film. Before her former band became known as Dear Darling, its name was Huma Rojo — a reference to the sought-after actress in Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother. Though she does not have a formal acting background,…
Coconut Grove Arts Festival music lineup includes Greyhounds, Locos por Juana, Electric Kif, and Patrick & the Swayzees.
Artists can learn about the legendary reggae label and how to get their own vinyl records pressed.
New York DJ Jesse Marco can barely muffle his chuckles during an early-afternoon phone interview. He tries to whisper his laughter, but his cell phone picks up the sound. Marco has likely had this same conversation dozens of times before with music journalists, fans, and other DJs. What are his thoughts on the rise of superstar DJs, and is it his goal to attain that status?
A little more than a year ago, Gabriela Guerrero’s mother showed her a flyer for a Vevo DJing competition sponsored by Tiësto and encouraged her to register. Guerrero had messed around with her stepfather’s DJ equipment here and there, but had minimal experience in the booth. Still, she decided to…
Some artists reflect in their work the world they see around them. Others aim to change the world around them into a futuristic alternative. Over the past three decades, Phoebe Legere has proven herself to be the latter in her work as a singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and painter.
The year is already shaping up to be a banner one for live music in Miami: Homegrown festivals are popping up with growing frequency, and more artists are recognizing that making the trek to the Magic City is worth it. Here are some of the coming year’s most exciting opportunities.
Five years ago, when Johnny Deezal was living in rough-and-tumble New York City, he traipsed from sublet to sublet with one constant in his life: his portable home studio setup. “I guess I went there to discover myself musically as a solo artist. Everywhere I would go I’d…
On an early weekday afternoon, Vnusamr runs late to a scheduled interview about her forthcoming EP, In This Church, so she hops on the phone for questions instead. She apologizes and explains that while she’s promoting the album, due out this month, she’s already working on her next project and lost track of time in the studio.
The first time viewers see lead singer Megan Morrison in Dorothy’s Surrender’s new music video for the band’s song “Dirty Stayout,” she’s onstage playing to a sweaty, raucous Churchill’s crowd. When viewers see her offstage, she’s in her fishnets chugging Jameson from the bottle in broad daylight.
For all the awful stuff that happened this year, rest assured of one thing: Miami’s music scene is alive and well. Whether it’s dance, hip-hop, rock, metal, or everything in between, 305’s artists made themselves heard with an amazing body of work that had listeners in awe. If your knowledge of Miami music goes only as far as Pitbull and Rick Ross, now is the time to get to know the acts who actually made the most of 2016.
As a singer who’s made it to primetime, Paxton Ingram has learned to improvise both onstage and off. He’s quick to pull out a stick of incense from his backpack and light it during stressful moments like, for instance, when his interviewer is 45 minutes late and panicked because she…
