To bring the world’s youngest heavy metal band on stage as the headline act at some music festivals may seem strange, but not at Restore the Music Festival.
This winter, a soft, humble plea for closure came on the radio.
The question everyone was waiting for was finally asked: “How you like your eggs?” “Fried or fertilized!” responded the crowd.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis continue to fight for equal rights.
The Grammy Awards brought some of music’s biggest stars together to sing, dance and get a little funky — emphasis on the last part.
From flooding our feeds with album release dates to shamelessly countdown-ing singles, music artists have had to get more creative to get fans to actually buy their work. Here are the five most notable ways artists have dropped albums:
Vinyl might be too mainstream.
Indie rockers came out in droves for Florida’s first Coastline Festival — featuring bands like Matt and Kim, Two Door Cinema Club and Passion Pit.
With an upcoming album, a full headlining tour with reggae group Ballyhoo! and a new record deal, it’s possible Passafire is having its most successful year yet.
Last week, Minneapolis-based band Motion City Soundtrack — whose songs you set to autoplay on your MySpace pages, whose lyrics you scrawled on your arms during that boring ninth-grade history class and whose very name stirs up memories of checkerboard Vans and middle school dances — played at High Dive with Relient K and Driver Friendly.
You never notice the way the crowd synchronizes at a concert when you’re in it: the flux and flow of the bodies like blood to the pulse of the music, the crowd surfers skimming over the mass.
Multiple stages, carnival rides and state-of-the-art production will be taking over Orlando’s Tinker Field Nov. 8 and 9. For the third year in a row, Electric Daisy Carnival is returning to Florida.
Fest, an annual punk music festival, has gotten so big that this year it officially started with a Pre-Fest in Ybor City on Tuesday.
Interview with bass guitarist Kevin Williams:
Interview with Matt from Matt & Kim:
As Passion Pit wraps up its 2013 touring stops, the Avenue spoke with keyboardist and guitar player Ian Hultquist before the band’s trip to South Florida as Coastline’s headline act.
Tom Odell is a 22-year-old up-and-coming singer-songwriter from Britain who fits the stereotype of the pained, sensitive, broken-hearted male whose emotions are so heavy they can only be processed alone, hunched over his instrument.
Guess who’s back, back again?
I sat down with up-and-coming, Brooklyn-based group Snowmine after its first show in Florida on Tuesday night in Tallahassee.
Alt-rock ensemble Panic! at the Disco hasn’t released an album for two years (since 2011’s “Vices & Virtues”) but its signature sound has yet to fade. “Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!” is classic Panic! — melodic, slightly biting and bursting with energy. Front man Brendon Urie is as honest as ever with his lyrics, and the overall record (while maintaining a more pop-friendly edge) is on par with the band’s shiny, theatrics-ridden discography.
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