“Are you on the list?” are the five dreaded words no partier wants to hear during Miami’s most anticipated week of the year. While it’s no secret that most of the hottest Miami Art Week events require direct Hilton lineage to gain entry, the rest of Miami is trying to find that one friend who claims to know the artist…
Art Basel shows, Ultra Naté, G-Eazy, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, December 2 through 9.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
Guy Gerber, Kaskade, Richie Hawtin, Zhu. It’s not preposterous to say Miami Art Week has turned into a Miami Music Week 2.0 of sorts. The city usually expects an influx of dance music’s heavy hitters to land on its sunny shores in March.
For those eagerly anticipating the 2019 edition of Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, there’s some bad news: It’s not happening. Thursday afternoon, the festival announced on its Facebook and Instagram pages what many had suspected because of the delay in announcing a lineup: There will be no…
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne Girardi started her sensual and irreverent music project Erika Jayne when she was the 35-year-old mother of a teenager. Twelve years later, her latest banger, “XXPEN$IVE,” has more than 16 million YouTube views and a hook that repeats, “It’s expensive to me.”…
Miami’s music scene is a melting pot of talented people. These musicians empower one another, elevate their craft, and promote the 305’s most promising sounds. They live, breathe, and embody creativity. In the spirit of Art Basel, New Times chatted with three musicians who are also visual artists. Without these inspiring creatives’ contributions, the Magic City’s burgeoning cultural community wouldn’t be what it is today.
When the Jets and the Sharks rumbled for control of their New York City neighborhood, a young Steve Vai watched in awe. Tony’s love affair with Maria, the sister of a rival gang member, ended tragically, but it spawned one of the greatest guitarists in modern history.
The busy season in Miami brings cooler weather, thirsty snowbirds, and a new cast of venues vying for a slice of the action. To help you get ahead on partying, New Times rounded up eight of the city’s most anticipated, unexpected, and buzz-worthy bar and nightclub openings. Now that Miami Art Week and Miami Music Week are just around the corner, consider this your fresh guide to local nightlife’s most wonderful time of the year.
If you hear St. Paul & the Broken Bones sight unseen, the Alabama neo-soul band conjures images of Al Green sweating while crooning. Singer Paul Janeway chuckles when asked about listeners’ preconceptions about his appearance before they see his band live. “When we started, there were assumptions I wouldn’t look the way I do,” he says. “It’s fun to surprise people.”
WOmXn Fest is coming to the Magic City during a busy Miami Art Week. The one-day event, hosted by Crass Lips Records, will present a diverse lineup of all-womxn performers, bands, musicians, and vendors, creating a safe space in the experimental, queer-friendly Little Haiti venue 229. Behind the festival is Period…
Are you still pretending you’re coming to Miami during Art Basel and the satellite events for the cultural experience? If you really want to get familiar with the local culture, there’s really no better way to experience it than at night. Miami might not be the best at many things,…
It’s an unusually cool August night in downtown Miami, and the hum of cars racing past on the nearby MacArthur Causeway is muted by a boisterous crowd wearing sky-high platform shoes, glitter, and heavy eyeliner. Close to 1 a.m., as the horde cracks hand fans, Jupiter Velvet, bathed in a…
“Vertigo,” the lead single off hip-hop duo Atmosphere’s new album, “Mi Vida Local,” contains sobering observations about climate change or the nuclear apocalypse or whatever happens to be threatening humanity’s existence at the moment. “I might be the last generation of grandparents,” one line goes…
In April 1985, Prince played the finale of his iconic Purple Rain tour at the Orange Bowl in Miami. The glamorous Sheila E. was by his side. After the show, Prince suggested they start their next musical phase with a new look: short hair.
The creak of a door opening in a new venue in Miami is like a drop of blood in a shark-infested ocean: All of the city’s night crawlers can hear the sound a mile away. But the noise is even louder when the new spot occupies the former space of one of Miami’s most beloved venues. In July 2017, the owners of Bardot…
Atmosphere, Eons, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, November 26 through December 2.
These are the five best concerts for in Miami this weekend.
Local acts INVT, True Vine, Sister System, Jonny From Space, and other will celebrate the United States’ foremost consumerist holiday in style by bringing it back to basics.
“Degenerate” typically has a negative connotation. Google says the word means someone who’s “lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable.” For Travis Egedy, better known as the electronic artist Pictureplane, being called a degenerate is a “badge of honor.” Egedy even invoked the word to title his latest album.
Free Dystopia fuses rock, hip-hop, and soul to create an alluring new genre South Florida needs.
Robert Glasper has come a long way. Sometimes talent isn’t enough to launch an artist into the mainstream, so the jazz pianist fused his melodic compositions with hip-hop collaborations and made a name for himself.
