Writers in the Round Gives Bar Nancy a Local Feel

Miami has a new piece of Nashville, with Writers in the Round. The singer-songwriter event is held every second Wednesday of the month at Bar Nancy. Juan Turros, one of the founding members of local group Suénalo, was inspired after a trip to Nashville with his wife, Denise. The two…

Sam Smith’s Seven Saddest Sad Bastard Songs

There is a famous line from Kurt Vonnegut’s time-traveling World War II satire Slaughterhouse-Five, which reads, “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.” It’s an ironic sentiment the author believes to be the perfect epitaph for his gravestone. For both Vonnegut and humanity, this is of course untrue, and no one…

Estelle Is Bringing the Fun to Overtown Music and Arts Festival 2018

When Jim Crow laws were still in effect in South Florida, the greatest black performers of the era came to perform on South Beach. But they weren’t welcome to spend their nights at the ritzy hotels where they entertained. Instead, musicians like Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Josephine Baker, Cab…

MK on Working With Pitbull and Braving the Changing Waters of Dance Music

It’s 4 p.m. in Croatia, and Mark Kinchen, better known as the producer and DJ MK, is jet-lagged and just waking up. He began the week at Electric Forest in Michigan, then flew to Croatia for Hideout Festival, jetted back to Michigan for weekend two of Electric Forest, then headed to New York, and soon will hit Miami for his MK Presents Area 10 Pool Party at the Delano Beach Club this Sunday, July 1. It’s safe to say Kinchen, a veteran dance musician, is in demand.

Boy George on Gay Wedding Cakes and Getting Along With Culture Club

Boy George is calling from Australia, where he’s finalizing filming as a coach on that country’s seventh season of The Voice. He’s purportedly on the phone to discuss his and Culture Club’s upcoming summer tour with the B-52’s and Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins, but he has something else on his mind: wedding cakes.

Weezer and Pixies Rocked Coral Sky With Nostalgia

Last night, West Palm Beach was the launching pad for this summer’s Weezer and Pixies double-headliner tour. Fans were privy to a trifecta of bands that made for the perfect evening of rock ‘n’ roll, simultaneously presenting the past, present, and future of rock.

How Not to Interpret the Pixies

I got into the indie-rock legends not long after they had broken up in 1993. It took a couple listens for me to fall into their spell of the dynamic that inspired Nirvana, Radiohead, and every other band of the era. Their music had no dead spots. It was all energy and drive. The lyrics, though, were what kept me coming back. They were mysterious enough that it was hard to know what singer Black Francis was hollering about.

The Perfect Trip: Miami Psych Fest Brings the Weird and Avant-Garde to Downtown Miami

With only one year under its belt, the amount of coups the Perfect Trip: Miami Psych Fest has been able to pull off for its second edition is almost absurd: besides expanding to occupy both the Ground and Floyd along with netting seemingly miraculous gets on the lineup, event organizer Adam Arritola (he prefers just to go by Adam) says word of the festival has already traveled out of Miami, garnering attention from the likes of the Big Ears and Vision Festivals in Knoxville, TN and Brooklyn respectively. What’s more, critic and anthromorphic meme Anthony Fantano – the internet’s busiest music nerd – recently gave the festival a shout-out during a live stream. While many festivals of a similar scale and ambition struggle out of the gate, Miami Psych Fest has had no problem asserting its identity or reaching its target audience.