Lady Gaga’s Halftime Protest Was Politics Done Her Way
Lady Gaga’s halftime-show protest was a continuation of her career activism.
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Too Much Love Kicks Off Monthly Rock ‘n’ Roll Celebration at the Anderson
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…
Dama Vicke Resurfaces With a New Video and Beyoncé-Style Plans for Her EP
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 2017 Music Lineup Will Rock the Bayfront
Coconut Grove Arts Festival music lineup includes Greyhounds, Locos por Juana, Electric Kif, and Patrick & the Swayzees.
SunPress Vinyl Record-Pressing Plant Opens at Historic Final Vinyal Location
Artists can learn about the legendary reggae label and how to get their own vinyl records pressed.
Jesse Marco, DJ to Fashion’s Superstar Designers, Takes the Decks at LIV
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?
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Miami Singer Native Youth Revives R&B for a New Generation
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…
Renaissance Artist Phoebe Legere Takes Her One-Woman Show to Luna Star Cafe
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 Ten Best Music Events Coming to Miami in 2017
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.
Eons Embraces Uncertainty on New Single, “See You Soon”
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…
Vnusamr Empowers Women on EP In This Church
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.
“Dirty Stayout” by Dorothy’s Surrender Is the Walk-of-Shame Anthem Miami Deserves
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.
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The 20 Best Miami Songs of 2016
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.
The Voice‘s Paxton Ingram Won’t Quit Calling Miami Home
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…
John Nichols Aims to Redeem 2016 With a New Collaborative Album
It’s time to wrap up another year, and with its passing comes time to reflect on personal growth and the year that was — and, oh, what a year it was. 2016 was a parody of a bad year, with a fiercely divisive election and deaths of luminaries and…
Wax Is OK With Being Sort of Famous
With the advent of social media, our culture’s come to know nontraditional ways of attaining varying levels of fame and the unique artists that often take advantage of those unconventional paths to success. These avenues weren’t available decades or even years ago. And because of that, some rocket from the depths…
Edan Archer’s New EP Is a Southern-Gothic Fever Dream
“I look like a flower, but smell like an ashtray,” sings Gainesville-raised Miami transplant Edan Archer on her new single, “Cutthroat.” It’s the closing track on new her alt-country EP, Cruel Mother. Not only is the lyric an apt summation of Archer’s eagerness to challenge modern expectations of femininity in…
RnBae Wants to Teach Miami How to Love Again
It’s hard to believe the world continued spinning after such a monumental loss, but 2016 marked 15 years since Aaliyah’s shocking death. It’s interesting to ponder what the Princess of R&B’s music might have sounded like today, in a world where singers forgo an individual, signature sound and turn to…
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Josephine Phoenix Looks Beyond Her Reality-TV Fame
In real life, Josephine Phoenix looks a lot like a TV writer’s storyboard blueprint of a hippie character. Her waist-length, curly red hair cascades down, mirroring the breezy, flowing fabrics she uses to drape her petite frame. And she’s likely to wax poetic about “the feminine divine” and gypsy life.
VOWWS Sound Off on the Dreaded ’80s Retro Label: “I Fucking Hate Genre Descriptions”
The sound of Australian-turned-LA-transplants, VOWWS, is a guitar-heavy, strung-out take on industrial music with nods to your favorite ’80s goth kings. Thing is, they didn’t exactly plan it that way. “If I go to another DJ night and they play the fucking Cure I’m going to kill myself,” laughs Rizz,…
Miami’s Venus Rising Challenges Gender Roles Through Drum and Dance
The past week’s fracturing of the political climate and escalation of dangerous rhetoric against marginalized groups across the country has left many wondering how to heal the wounds between neighbors and friends and even within ourselves in the aftermath of an unprecedented election season. Talk of self-care and…
Ten Miami Music Charities That’ll Make You Feel a Little Better About the World Right Now
No matter how you’re feeling about last Tuesday’s election results, we’re all in dire need of some positivity to wash off the ick from nearly two years of the ugliest presidential contest in modern American history. They say all politics is local, and tomorrow, Thursday, November 17, the Miami Foundation…