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Published on October 29th, 2018

If you think of raw DIY creativity in hip hop, you think of Atmosphere. With their blunt lyricism and bracing homemade beats, twin pillars Slug »

Published on October 13th, 2018

Twenty-one is a milestone: A gateway in years lived to legalized drinking and gambling; and the first full turn around the sun after completing that »

Published on October 13th, 2018

While people might roll their eyes at the mention of a cover band, they might want to give Miami’s Ordinary Boys: The Smiths & Morrissey »

Published on October 13th, 2018

  Ween is the best band. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t familiar with their catalog; they are your new favorite band now, full stop. »

Published on October 13th, 2018

It’s odd to think that the Breeders, whose power resides in their unmatched sibling chemistry, began life at the dawn of the 1990s without one »

Published on October 2nd, 2018

Omaha, Nebraska is, for most people, less a destination than a middle-America reference point. But it’s also the longtime home of Saddle Creek, the Great »

Published on October 2nd, 2018

With two founding members from Palm Beach County, it’s a homecoming of sorts any time Brooklyn-based Hypoluxo plays South Florida. The band is in the »

Published on October 1st, 2018

A good scare is a great thing for Jan Valentine of Technique Records in Miami, who is helping Technique to open Viral Video, a section »

Published on October 1st, 2018

“I find myself very influenced by the weather and the seasons,” says modern troubadour Andy Dale Petty.  “A certain song emerges when you’re driving in »

Published on September 13th, 2018

Say their names together, and Father John Misty and King Tuff sound like a “Lord of the Rings” tribute. In fact, they’re pseudonymous singer-songwriters and »

Published on September 13th, 2018

Ah … unrequited love. It’s the driving force behind humanity’s most heartfelt arts and, sometimes, the safest way to sigh over bygone affections that never »

Published on September 7th, 2018

Before Eddie Vedder, before Radiohead, before Local Natives, there was Talking Heads, and, essentially, there was David Byrne. Leader of the powerhouse group that influenced »