Lineup out now! Join us in Birmingham, Alabama to see Chris Stapleton, Arcade Fire, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, GRiZ and many more!
Tickets on Sale Friday, Jan 19 at 10am CT.
Learn more about our ticket options and payment plans here – slossfest.com/tickets
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Mike Floss capitalizes on his natural instincts with creativity and unmatched lyrical prowess. Growing up the under the guidance of his father and renown jazz musician, Rod McGaha, his roots were deeply planted in art and self-expression.
He attended the HBCU in his hometown, Tennessee State University, where in between the parties and classes, he began mastering his craft and developing his sound. “I can do a song with Yo Gotti and still get my wave in… then turn around and do J Dilla records with Erykah Badu and bring something young and refreshing to the culture.”
The Southern Creative, Mike Floss, is a college graduate, and in just a few years he has developed a brand and voice unlike any other. He has opened up for Future, Pusha T, Wale, Stalley, Yo Gotti, Dom Kennedy, Big K.R.I.T. and others. He has even traveled across the spectrum of music to do EDM shows with the duo Two Fresh in Nashville, Memphis, and Austin, TX at SXSW.
This rising underground king has created something new in the south and is rapidly expanding as his last two solo efforts, For the Rebels 1 & 2, were awarded Mixtape and Hip Hop…
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Picture yourself a young musician watching primetime television, a music awards show, and suddenly one of your idols and most respected musicians in the game premiers a commercial about a music service that features non other than…your music! Well that’s exactly what happened one night when someone pointed out a commercial for Jay-Z’s new streaming service, Tidal, during The Billboard Music Awards. The soundtrack to the commercial was “Dopeboy Dreaming,” by Nashville native and the son of a Jazz musician, Mike Floss. Since then, Mike has been busy. In between time putting pen to paper and recording, he’s managed to find time to tour with and open for artists like Future, Big K.R.I.T., Wale and Yo Gotti just to name a few. He’s been working with producers Syk Sense (Drake, Travis Scott, Kendrick Lamar) and Ducko McFli (Drake, Migos, Lil Yachty). He was active on the 2017 music festival circuit and a favorite at this year’s Sloss Music & Arts Festival.
You can see MusicBham’s exclusive interview with Mike Floss in this episode of Welcome to Monotonia from Sloss Music & Art’s Festival below. Then you can go see Mike perform live tonight, Friday,…
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We continue in the Welcome to Monotonia series this week, filmed live from this years’s Sloss Music & Arts Festival, with an interview and music from New Devils!
MusicBham’s very own Channing Estell was lucky enough to catch up with Sun Seeker, a crowd-favorite at this year’s Sloss Music & Arts Festival, and they are this week’s feature interview from Welcome to Monotonia. Sun Seeker’s Ep, Biddeford, is “Cosmic American Music” produced by Third Man Records. They return to Birmingham on Wednesday, September 13 to play Syndicate Lounge.
Also featured here is their latest video for “Won’t Keep Me Up…
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MusicBham and Welcome to Monotonia teamed up at this year’s Sloss Music and Arts Festival to present a series of live interviews from some of the best, new and up-and-coming artists to perform this year. In this episode MusicBham’s very on Lizzie Thrasher sits down with local act, Holy Youth.
The writing of the songs that became Heart Like a Levee started in a hotel room in Washington, DC , in January of 2015 during a powerful storm that dark- ened the East Coast. At that time I was feeling—more acutely than I had ever felt before—wrenched apart by my responsibilities to my family and to my music. Forgetting, momentarily, that for me, each exists only with the other. How could I forget? Though maybe my lapse was reasonable: I had just quit my job, the most recent and last, in a series of dead-end gigs stretching back 20 years, with the vow that my children would understand their father as a man in love with his world and the inventor of his own days. They would be rare in that regard. And then—driven by monthly bills and pure fear— I left for another tour, carrying a load of guilt that I could just barely lift. But in that snowy ho- tel room I found the refrain that became my compass: I was a dreamer, babe, when I set out on the road; but did I say I could…
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Hailing from Birmingham, AL, Ryan Howell and John McNaughton make up the experimental hip-hop duo known as Nerves Baddington. Ryan and John are 20-year veterans of the Birmingham music scene, having previously performed in several bands together since the late 1990s.
After their stint playing in various punk and hardcore bands Ryan turned to hip-hop and honed his skills as an MC with Birmingham group Abstract Chemistry and eventually relocated to Denver to pursue hip-hop full time. He attained considerable success under the Inkline moniker, sharing the stage with national acts such as Dilated Peoples, Hieroglyphics, The Pharcyde and Gnarls Barkley.
After returning to Birmingham, Ryan spent most of his time writing music for a solo Inkline album entitled Stones Cry (released 2014); he also wrote a handful of songs with a guitar that did not fit the Inkline aesthetic, but were crafted with the same brutal honesty and social commentary. Howell reached out to McNaughton and Nerves Baddington was born.
In their hometown of Birmingham, Nerves Baddington has continued to wow fans at all of the city’s favorite venues and have…
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Bio Jordan Kelley and Jason Huber — shake, stir, and serve up a tasty brew of dance, funk, rock, and electronic music. Think of a tattooed 21st century Parliament-Funkadelic primed for festival stages far and wide, and you’ve got a decent starting point. Straight out of Nashville, TN, the boys initially met at Middle Tennessee State University in 2010. Immediately bonding and forging a lifelong friendship, they like to call it, “The Unfuckwithable.”
“Our friendship has always been based on a mutual respect,” says Jason. “Jordan had an entire record written, but he wasn’t really playing shows. I was playing shows, but I didn’t really have many songs. It made sense to join forces on so many levels. Now, we live together, work together, and play together.”
After a handful of independent albums, CHERUB’s “Doses & Mimosas” began to organically generate serious buzz. It caught the attention of Columbia Records who signed the boys in 2013. A year later, they cooked up their full-length debut, ‘Year of the Caprese,’ and embarked on a whirlwind ride. Driven by the re-released breakout “Doses & Mimosas,” which racked up over…
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Sloss Music & Arts Festival is a two-day music and lifestyle event that takes place at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday, July 15th and Sunday, July 16th, 2017.
Sloss Fest is 40 bands on 4 stages plus craft beer & creative cocktails, arts & crafts, live iron pouring demonstrations, and much more.
Sloss Fest is a celebration of the unique, creative culture that makes life in Birmingham so unique.
NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS
CHARLES BRADLEY & HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES
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