When Macy Gray takes the stage with Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble at the Arsht Center this Saturday, it’ll mark her first performance with an orchestra in a long time. But nearly 20 years into her career, she doesn’t stress moments like these. And, as she tells it, she’s ridden out the ebbs and flows of her music career with that same ease.
The children’s voices on the airwaves summoning you to Santa’s Enchanted Forest are a good indicator that the holidays are here. The temperature has dropped below 70, and the ironic Christmas sweaters are coming out in full force. Before the stresses of the holidays get you down, check out this list of the hottest parties…
It’s time to dress up your boat in its holiday finest and get ready to party at the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade. This year’s theme is ’80s rock, and Grammy-winning musician Huey Lewis will take the helm as grand marshal.
That whole ice-skating thing at Rockefeller Center in NYC can just step aside. While those peeps up North freeze while falling on ice, Miami is converting one of its parks into a bayside, old-school, rollerskating jam. Take that, Northerners! Bayskate Miami is back for a fourth year. And after a spooky, Halloween-inspired skating spectacle in 2017, a holiday shindig is set to happen this month.
What does R&B sound like today? The once-dying genre filled with sexual innuendos and soulful riffs has quickly modernized into a fusion of several elements. Chilling vocals and sassy wordplay are no longer revered; instead, fans love the way an artist tells a love story. They want something they can sing off-key at the top of their lungs and dedicate to their exes…
With 2018 quickly coming to an end, it’s time to look forward to what 2019 will bring — including the music festival season. Leading the charge will be III Points, which switched dates from October to February, skipping 2018 altogether. The date change should help the sixth edition of the festival avoid…
Jingle Ball might seem childish, but there’s room for adults at the coveted holiday-themed pop concert.
According to Buddhist philosophy, humans live in an individual world created by subjective thoughts and perceptions. We are continuously re-creating our “self” through our experiences and choices, trapped in samsara — an endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth — until we are able to liberate ourselves from our illusions and find awakening through enlightenment…
Y100’s Jingle Ball, Macy Gray with Nu Deco Ensemble, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, December 10 through 16.
When Marc Martel started a rock band with friends from Bible college in the desolate plains of Saskatchewan, Canada, he wasn’t looking for a record deal. But he got one. Martel took his degree in worship ministry and headed to Nashville, where his band Downthere enjoyed moderate success. Even so,…
Jamaican reggae icon Buju Banton was living in South Florida in 2009 when he was picked up on gun and attempted cocaine-possession charges, but after reviewing the evidence in the case, New Times writer Chris Sweeney found that Banton had likely been set up by a corrupt informant. That reporting led to a Tampa judge’s decision to throw out Banton’s gun-possession convictions.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
“Young Thug as Paintings” is a viral Instagram account pairing existing photos of the Atlanta rapper with fine art depicting subjects in similar poses.
“I have a love-hate relationship with Miami,” Rick Moon says. His new video, “Cracker Jack,” set to debut with a party at Gramps Saturday, December 15, exemplifies his mixed feelings about his adopted hometown. In the video for “Cracker Jack,” a psychedelic, Flaming Lips-esque song that will be the opening track on his forthcoming album, Moon is clad in an absurd mask while about to enter a surprise party. Instead of reveling in a good time, he finds himself arrested and on trial before taking the stage to jam.
The Tel Aviv-based DJ/producer duo of Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi talk touring internationally and returning to Miami for the second edition of Rakastella.
Like a “one in, one out” door at a busy nightclub, German DJ-producer Matthias Meyer is set to depart Berlin in two days for a U.S. and Brazil mini-tour. His girlfriend returns on the same day, at the same time. Like two love boats passing in the night, they will…
Renowned hip-hop photographer Jonathan Mannion rolls out a stunning collection of 665 Polaroid photos of hip-hop artists such as Jay-Z, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Outkast, and Ludacris.
No word can elicit a universally euphoric reaction better than “free.” From game-day merch giveaways to bottomless brunches on work’s dime, everything is better when the price is zero. But during the decadent Miami Art Week — when cover charges are as common as celeb sightings — finding an event that doesn’t require the equivalent of a car payment is akin to stumbling upon a pot of gold.
As a little girl, musician Emily Estefan would hang out near the seven-player horn section at her mother’s concerts. “When you have your feet on a floor that’s vibrating just because of people playing, everybody contributing to a sound, and creating this kind of energetic wall… that feeling of creation between so many people — that’s the best feeling in the world.” That energy and power, she says, are her spirituality.
Why would anyone pay to see a show of Christmas songs when every Walgreens speaker has been blasting the same carols since Halloween? The best answer is because it’s Brian Wilson singing The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album in its entirety. Though the 1964 record doesn’t have the cachet of Pet Sounds…
If you live in Miami, you couldn’t miss the Marlins’ rebranding campaign. Earlier this month, everything from street murals to Twitter teases hinted a new look was coming to Florida’s Major League Baseball team. The promotion was titled #OurColores, and after much anticipation and guessing by fans and the media, those colors were revealed: Caliente Red, Miami Blue, Midnight Black, and Slate Gray.
The Miami-base curator wants people to engage with art in a manner befitting the 21st Century, to have a sensory experience worth sharing on Instagram.
