Music

If you bought tickets through Ticketmaster between October 21, 1999, and February 27, 2013, there’s a good chance you are owed free tickets. As part of a settlement for the Schlesinger v. Ticketmaster class action lawsuit, Ticketmaster agreed to provide free vouchers and discount codes for select events…

A lot has happened in the past two years. In 2016, Barack Obama was president, fake news was an oxymoron, and the South Florida rock ‘n’ rollers of Beach Day played their most recent hometown show. “I moved to Detroit,” singer/guitarist Kimmy Drake explains. For someone who grew up in Kendall…

In 1999, when I attended Florida International University, everyone, including the three other women living in my dingy dorm apartment, was obsessed with The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Many songs on the album spoke directly to us. At the South Beach and Coconut Grove clubs where we underagers drank in our microminis, lip liner, and stacked platform sandals, we shouted the words to “Doo-Wop (That Thing),” only half digesting Hill’s empowering message.

Here are a few things most Latin American countries have in common: great music, delicious food, beautiful women, and rumbas — parties that go from sunset to sunrise. And just in time for Colombian Independence Day, MegaRumba is inviting Colombians and all of their neighbors to celebrate their independencia.

Astari Nite, MegaRumba 2018, Premios Juventud, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 16 through 22.

If there’s one thing that can be said definitively about Sam Smith, it’s that he does not hide. Smith is the sort of man who long ago introduced his heart to his sleeve and never looked back. His feelings bleed from his music, particularly his lyrics. Emotionally, Smith is an open book that rarely shuts.

Archie Hamilton plays in Leeds, U.K., on July 14, and then it’s across the pond for Miami on Thursday, July 19, at Floyd. August is huge with a date at Electric Island Festival in Toronto, and September is Berlin for one of the best clubs in the world, Kater Blau.

It’s the classic “desert island” question: If you were stranded alone on a remote, tropical destination with only one album to keep you company, which would you choose? I’d never given the question much thought before last September, when news reports and mayors predicted  Hurricane Irma would be a “nuclear”…

Most fans headed out to see Sam Smith at the American Airlines Arena this weekend are likely unfamiliar with curly-haired, country-singing opening act Cam, but they probably know at least one of her songs by heart. Camaron Ochs, better known by her stage name, cowrote the penultimate track “Palace” on…

Miami has a new piece of Nashville, with Writers in the Round. The singer-songwriter event is held every second Wednesday of the month at Bar Nancy. Juan Turros, one of the founding members of local group Suénalo, was inspired after a trip to Nashville with his wife, Denise. The two…