Music

Both admirably attempt to put human faces on the social justice and sexual harassment issues roiling the nation.

Austin is known for its guitar music. Few people think of the Texas capital as an EDM hot spot, but electronic geniuses Tritonal call it home. “I came from a Texan musical family,” explains one half of the duo, Chad Cisneros. “My grandparents played guitar and piano. They had my mom and her sisters cut records as a family band of gospel and Christian music.”

Few names in indie rock (dare we say “emo”?) can evoke the same reaction as mentioning the Kinsella brothers. Mike, Tim, and Nate have all played in bands acknowledged as towering influences: Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Owen, and the often-gushed-about American Football. Even a cover of that band’s 1999 album…

Janet Jackson, Kesha and Macklemore, Panic! at the Disco, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 30 through August 5.

The 48-minute companion video for Janelle Monáe’s 2018 album, Dirty Computer, begins with projections of a naked man and woman, then cuts to projections of them clothed in white tracksuits emblazoned with the letter “D.” “You were dirty if you looked different,” she says. “You were dirty if you refused to…

Britney Spears’ fans are special. They don’t push or shove to get into their seats at the arena. They have no problem spending their life savings on overpriced tour T-shirts. They wait patiently in food lines that stretch well past the box office, and they come dressed like her in her “…Baby One More Time” music video…

One day, you’re a young punk, body-surfing shirtless across a sweaty crowd of high schoolers. The next, you’re worrying about your own kid behaving like a little punk in his seventh-period history class. Life is impermanent and ever-changing. Time can temper and mold even the most hard-core into mortgage-having, child-rearing,…

It seemed outrageous in 1994 when lead singer Billy Corgan said the Smashing Pumpkins were influenced by ’70s  dinosaur rock like Boston and Electric Light Orchestra. His most faithful fans figured he was being ironic. Those were the kind of older acts his alternative-rock peers like Nirvana and Radiohead openly mocked…

Britney Spears invented pop music. No, she didn’t singlehandedly construct the genre, but she did a damn good job of bringing up-tempo melodies and hair flips to a multicultural audience in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Her singles “…Baby One More Time,” “Toxic,” “Sometimes,” and “Crazy” topped charts…

“Rare. Very rare.” No, Counting Crows’ longtime frontman, Adam Duritz, isn’t talking about how he likes his steak. He’s appreciating his band’s time in the biz, which hits the quarter-century mark this year. To celebrate, the California-bred seven-piece is hitting the road with fellow multiplatinum rock band Live for the 25 Years and Counting tour.

Britney Spears, Janelle Monae, Rod Stewart with Cyndi Lauper, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 23 through 29.

Are you leaving your mom’s house, your job, or even the club with a bag of someone’s mango oversupply? Then you know it’s summer in Miami. These smooth, juicy fruits have inspired Miami’s bold party-starter Afrobeta to pen a song that “goes out to all the mangos out there.” The duo was kind enough to let New Times premiere this delicious tune today. It’s a thank-you to fans who voted Afrobeta Readers’ Choice winner in the 2018 Best of Miami issue.

Musicians come and go, often leaving a trail of mediocrity and failed dreams. Not Otto Von Schirach. He’s been making beats from his hometown of Miami and spreading mystical messages worldwide for almost 20 years to fans frothing at the mouth to express themselves by shaking their asses…