L.A.-based rockers make music with very little wasted motion, instrumentally or lyrically — they get to the point.

Like any rapper who relies on producers to make beats, Kendrick Lamar has had plenty of help along the way.

YMU helps at-risk youth in underserved communities such as Overtown, Wynwood, and Little Haiti to pursue the long-term vision of practicing music to perform it.

The songwriter known as Bahamas says he works best while he’s out of his element.

Many students of hip-hop consider Ras Kass one of the most lyrically gifted and intellectually challenging rappers of all time. Never heard of him? Well, his career-long refusal to operate within music industry paradigms probably explains why he isn’t a household name like Tupac or Snoop Dogg.

Grouplove has always come across as a synth-pop band in the studio but performs with the energy, excitement, and loudness of a rock band.

Josh Homme, with his greased hair, leather jacket, and devil-may-care attitude, is the last of a nearly extinct breed.

If the headliners are are any indication, Fort Rock will totally melt faces in South Florida. Here are five acts to watch this year.

Co-frontman Scott McMicken feels apprehensive about Dr. Dog’s upcoming tour because he doesn’t know how the mellower material will go over with longtime fans.

El-P and Killer Mike acknowledge that opening for one of the planet’s biggest pop icons isn’t anything like playing a nightclub for a few hundred people.

Jason Yarger is the singer, guitarist, and primary driver behind Hunny’s emo-tinged sound.

Miami’s globetrotting house DJ Cedric Gervais first made waves by debuting his controversial song “Molly” at Ultra Music Festival 2012. The next year, his remix of Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness” became a massive hit on pop radio, going double-platinum in the United States and earning him a Grammy. The song’s runaway success was nothing Gervais could have planned.

Each February, tech-house producer Loco Dice makes a pilgrimage to Thailand, where he spends nearly three weeks training under muay thai masters and with pro fighters from around the world. He also meditates and cleanses his body in preparation for playing more than 100 concerts per year.

The five-member group from Los Angeles formed in 1999, but it wasn’t until five or six years ago that fans and critics began considering the bandmates “vintage reggae revivalists.”