Remember those black-and-white parental advisory stickers? The music industry used to slap them on CDs to warn parents about explicit content. Well, you can thank Judas Priest for them — at least in part. Priest’s “Eat Me Alive,” along with songs by Prince, Def Leppard, Madonna, and the Disney-princess-like Sheena…
What’s the minimum number of screens in your peripheral at any given moment? When’s the last time you watched a movie or read a book without also intermittently scrolling your Instagram feed? It takes a lot to hold our attention, especially for a postmillennial generation known for partying less and choosing the safety of…
Judas Priest, Steve Aoki, Macy Gray, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, April 29 through May 5.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
With the end in sight for Miami’s most beloved alternative venue — 229 Warehouse — Sister System and other Miami DJs are bringing in outside help to throw down one more time.
The Wynwood Yard is not long for this world, but before its gates close for good, owners say they’re planning one “epic final weekend.” YardFest: Farewell to The Wynwood Yard is a three-day extravaganza aiming to celebrate everything that was good about the open-air space. From May 3-5, over a…
Ten notable dates and selectors Miami clubgoers should mark on their calendars.
I spent the summer of 1999 in Seoul mesmerized by the K-pop music videos that ran on repeat on the TV set in my grandparents’ high-rise apartment. I swooned over the members of the then-popular boy band H.O.T., and I yearned to be in a girl group like S.E.S or…
What do Los Amigos Invisibles and Aterciopelados have in common? The former is a Venezuelan group that plays tropical pop spiked with funk, disco, and acid jazz. The latter is a Colombian rock band specializing in punk and the native folk sounds of its Andean homeland. But though their styles…
The energetic, Grammy-nominated tropical-rock group is joined on the track by the legendary reggae musician and producer Freddie McGregor
The first thing you notice about Turkuaz is the colors: Each band member — and there are nine of them — wears a different bright hue when performing. “It started when we were looking for some kind of cohesive wardrobe to have, but each member really has their own vibe,…
The fourth-annual III Joints allowed stoners to party under disco balls.
Imogen Heap, Method Man and Redman, Danay Suarez, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, April 22 through 28.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
Imogen Heap knows what it’s like to be a successful musician and mentor to the world’s biggest pop stars even as she remains anonymous to entire swaths of the human population.
The Living Room opened in the Faena Hotel at the end of 2015, but it wasn’t until recently that the gathering space found its musical niche, explains Alejandro Listo, Faena’s entertainment director. “The first idea was to have one band play the entire week. After a while, we decided every night was something different. We added more bands and more bands, and suddenly we have 20 bands rotating.”
The experimental local label marked Record Store Day 2019 with its first physical release.
Michael Orta, the celebrated jazz pianist who taught for 26 years at Florida International University, graduated from Miami Dade College and University of Miami thanks to full music scholarships. Now, four months after Orta’s death from brain cancer at the age of 56, his jazz colleagues have found the perfect…
For any 4/20 enthusiast, Kaya Fest is a must-do. Created in 2017 by Stephen Marley, the Grammy-winning reggae musician and son of Bob Marley, the event offers a combination of cannabis education and topnotch music performances. This year’s lineup includes Sean Paul, Busta Rhymes, and a special guest performance by Pitbull…
You don’t typically see a guy lugging a piano into a punk club, but in the late ’90s, with his eponymous alt-rock band Ben Folds Five, the musical mastermind and keys guy used to do just that. It was those displays of grit, along with addictive pop songs such as “Brick,”…
Brothers Richard (on vocals) and Tim Butler (on bass) were fascinated with the contrast between the primal edginess of punk and the smooth sophistication of art rock. So the band — which formed in the Butler family living room — melded these styles together, creating an attractive fusion of atmospheric rock splashed with waves of pop throughout its melodies and saxophone hooks.
The 21-year-old singer-songwriter has recently been getting plenty of positive attention for his broken-hearted psych-folk songs.
