Reggae legends The Wailers are set to perform at High Dive this week for what is expected to be a sold-out crowd.
My dad bought me a set of tickets for my last birthday that he hyped up for weeks leading up to their reveal. He’d ask me what I wanted for my birthday, to which I’d reply with the names of expensive music gear I knew he wouldn’t recognize. Then he’d say something like, “Well I got you something even better. A set of tickets that are going to blow your mind.”
We The Kings reached fame in 2007 with their self-titled full length album, and 10 years later, the band is back without too many changes.
An identity crisis has never sounded so good. At this point in his career, Drake could rap the alphabet and it’d chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
In the first three months of 2017, we’ve seen amazing releases from artists like Drake, Ed Sheeran, Future and many more. However, 2017 has also already had some lackluster music. Here are some 2017 releases to keep off your playlist:
Indie rock fans will be able to catch New Orleans-based band Generationals on Sunday at the High Dive as the band begins its spring 2017 tour.
South Carolina-based artist Zach Deputy will be bringing his talents to Gainesville with a concert at Heartwood Soundstage tonight.
Bass-heavy artists Eptic, Must Die! and Gentlemens Club are set to welcome students back from Spring Break with a concert tonight at the Florida Theatre, located at 233 W. University Ave.
Ed Sheeran — ‘Divide’
In his debut Gainesville performance, City and Colour is playing at the Florida Theatre on Sunday.
If you haven’t been keeping up with the latest music, you’ve come to the right place. The past two weeks have been stacked with releases. Get caught up with everything you should be listening to by checking out these projects:
Before we had Ed Sheeran’s acoustics, James Bay’s raspy vocals or Shawn Mendes’ catchy lyrics, we had the smooth guitar stylings of John Mayer. With tunes like “Your Body is a Wonderland” and “Waiting on the World to Change,” girls around the world swooned and sighed as Mayer picked his guitar with an effortless presence.
This weekend, the Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival will take place at Sunshine Grove in Okeechobee, Florida. The event will be the festival’s second annual iteration, with performances starting today at 4 p.m. and running until 6 a.m. Monday.
Heartwood Soundstage, Gainesville’s newest music venue and live recording studio, is set to open this weekend with the Heartwood Music Festival, a multi-stage, all-ages event that will run from noon to 2 a.m. Saturday.
The Varsity Vocals International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella South Quarterfinal will take place in the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday at 7 p.m., with the event wrapping at 11 p.m.
Indie pop-punk band Lemuria’s debut album, “Get Better,” may be 10 years old, but it’s the band’s use of gut-wrenchingly honest lyrics to combat themes of hope and loss that make the album stand the test of time.
First Magnitude Brewing Company is celebrating soul with the three B’s — beer, blues and barbecue.
This Saturday, Gainesville’s own Umoja Orchestra will be reuniting after a seven-year hiatus to play at The Wooly downtown.
3LAU, a progressive house and electro DJ, has taken the world by storm since 2011 with his remixes and original songs and is set to perform at the Florida Theatre on Friday. The show, which is presented by Lucid Nightlife, will take place from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
They might seem like an unlikely crew, a chemistry professor, a student and a drum instructor, but one thing — their appreciation of the Beatles’ music — brings them together.
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