The Best Concerts in Miami This Week
Sam Smith, Chromeo, De La Ghetto, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 9 to July 15.
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Miami Hip-Hop Group Raptilia Militia Pays Tribute to Late Marlins Pitcher José Fernández
September will mark the two year anniversary of the death of iconic Miami Marlins pitcher José Fernández, after a tragic boating accident off the coast of Miami Beach. Fernández not only left behind his family, a then-pregnant girlfriend and a baseball organization starved for young talent, but also a legacy…
Will Spanish-Language Rock Ever Break Through in the U.S.?
When Luis Fonsi’s song “Despacito” topped the U.S. singles charts for a significant part of 2017, there was talk it might lead to a multicultural epiphany — that America was finally ready to open its ears to Spanish language songs. But though the success of “Despacito” might turn out to…
Sam Smith’s Seven Saddest Sad Bastard Songs
There is a famous line from Kurt Vonnegut’s time-traveling World War II satire Slaughterhouse-Five, which reads, “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.” It’s an ironic sentiment the author believes to be the perfect epitaph for his gravestone. For both Vonnegut and humanity, this is of course untrue, and no one…
LA-Based Producer Amtrac Finds Inspiration Back Home in Kentucky
Tired of the distractions of living in downtown Los Angeles, Caleb Cornett is renting his childhood friend’s house in Kentucky to finish his new, as-yet untitled album.
Del Pelson Pens South Florida’s Catchiest Summer Anthem of 2018
“Take me to the water, in your new rover/ I’ll grab the surfboard and invite some friends over for tacos and ice cream,” Del Pelson frontman Cal Nelson croons on the band’s stand-out track “Tacos & Ice Cream.” The warm, summer-centric song off the group’s latest release, Wide World EP, is perhaps South Florida’s catchiest summer anthem of 2018.
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Estelle Is Bringing the Fun to Overtown Music and Arts Festival 2018
When Jim Crow laws were still in effect in South Florida, the greatest black performers of the era came to perform on South Beach. But they weren’t welcome to spend their nights at the ritzy hotels where they entertained. Instead, musicians like Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Josephine Baker, Cab…
Tom Bailey, the B-52’s, and Boy George & Culture Club Power Through Five-Hour Show in Pompano
For the performers at last night’s Pompano Beach Amphitheater concert, the show was more than just an excuse to cash in on nostalgia for the decade of synths and big hair.
GZA, Hip-Hop’s Old Master, Looks Down on the New Age of Rap
The Wu-Tang veteran discusses rap’s new era of turbulence.
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The Best Concerts in Miami This Week
GZA, Erasure, Andhim, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 2 to July 8.
Miami’s Ten Best Fourth of July 2018 Parties
America has been showing its flaws lately. Though the nation has never been perfect, it seems like more people are waking up to the fact that “liberty and justice for all” doesn’t really mean for all.
Erasure’s Andy Bell Was Fated to Play and Stay in Miami
The “Chains of Love” performers have chained themselves to the Magic City.
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BSO Hunting for Second Person of Interest in XXXTentacion Murder
Robert Allen was seen outside Riva Motorsports around the time the murder occurred.
MK on Working With Pitbull and Braving the Changing Waters of Dance Music
It’s 4 p.m. in Croatia, and Mark Kinchen, better known as the producer and DJ MK, is jet-lagged and just waking up. He began the week at Electric Forest in Michigan, then flew to Croatia for Hideout Festival, jetted back to Michigan for weekend two of Electric Forest, then headed to New York, and soon will hit Miami for his MK Presents Area 10 Pool Party at the Delano Beach Club this Sunday, July 1. It’s safe to say Kinchen, a veteran dance musician, is in demand.
At XXXTentacion’s Memorial, Fans Gather to Pay Respects to the Rapper
Huge lines formed to see the slain performer.
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Poison’s Bobby Dall on the Band’s Glam-Rock Early Days
Poison was more rose than thorn in the beginning.
In the #MeToo Era, Is Chris Brown Still Untouchable?
When will domestic abusers such as Chris Brown get their reckoning?
XXXTentacion’s “Sad!” Tops the Billboard Hot 100
This is the first time an artist has posthumously topped the Hot 100 since the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money, Mo Problems” in 1997, more than 20 years ago.
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Boy George on Gay Wedding Cakes and Getting Along With Culture Club
Boy George is calling from Australia, where he’s finalizing filming as a coach on that country’s seventh season of The Voice. He’s purportedly on the phone to discuss his and Culture Club’s upcoming summer tour with the B-52’s and Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins, but he has something else on his mind: wedding cakes.
Beach City Synth Gets Retro-Futuristic at Las Rosas
The ’80s-inspired genre synthwave finally gets its own night in Miami.
XXXTentacion Memorial to Be Held at BB&T Center
There will be an open-casket viewing.
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The Best Concerts in Miami This Week
Bed Scene, SunGhosts, Cedric Gervais, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, June 25 through July 1.