Last summer, Tyler the Creator seemingly made a startling personal admission on his latest album, Flower Boy. It came in the exact middle, the seventh song of 14 tracks, “Garden Shed.” “Them feelings that I was guardin’/Heavy on my mind/All my friends lost/They couldn’t see the signs,” he writes. “Truth…
For most performers, a headlining spot during Super Bowl halftime means a shot at attaining or cementing global superstardom. For Justin Timberlake, it meant a chance at redemption.
Rufus Wainwright is not your typical musician. Apart from having a voice that is evocative, sultry sweet, luscious and classically iconic, Wainwright is one of the most eclectically capable musicians around. His repertoire ranges from the baroque pop Want One and Want Two, to his own opera, Prima Donna, which is…
The International Noise Conference brings the weirdness back to Churchill’s starting Monday, and local favorites battle it out for a chance on the big stage at Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival at 1306 on Thursday. Legendary songwriter Van Morrison plays two back-to-back shows at the James L. Knight Center mid-week, and Snarky Puppy curates and headlines its GroundUp Music Festival at the North Beach Bandshell once again. Nicky Jam and Plan B round out the week at the American Airlines Arena on Saturday.
In Miami, few artists personify the power and potential of party culture and clubbing as well as Get Face. The artistic moniker of Tampa native Skyler Schubert, Get Face saw the release of his debut EP, Horns of a Beast, last week courtesy of local label Space Tapes. Named for the sea-dwelling monster in the Book of Revelation…
Lana Del Rey returned to the BB&T Center on her LA to the Moon Tour Thursday night. A grateful mob of mostly women fawned over her every move. At the outset, it was a challenge to comprehend this fanaticism, but by evening’s end, it was plain to see what fuels her lust for life and fans’ lust for her.
Youngr plays music with a crazy charisma. His vocal delivery is effortlessly cool, and so is the way he seamlessly switches instruments, building songs layer by layer in real time with exuberance.
Composer Samora Pinderhughes comes from a long lineage of activists and freedom fighters. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area by a socially conscious family; his uncle was a Black Panther and his grandmother was one of the first black professors to study genealogy.
Last year’s Rolling Loud music festival didn’t include enough female artists, and it pissed people off. In 2017, downtown’s Bayfront Park hosted the most hyped beast festival Miami has had to date. It included hip-hop staples Future, Migos, Post Malone, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Lil Wayne, and others but failed to acknowledge the women in hip-hop who have made strides in the male-dominated industry.
If you’ve felt a slight ringing in your ears the past few days, it’s because a certain clamorous time of year is upon us. The International Noise Conference (INC) will descend upon Churchill’s Pub for several nights of end-to-end insanity February 6 through 10. Think shrill feedback, outré performance art, weird fluids, and maybe even some melodies.
“I’m feeling a greater responsibility than before to show as many people as I can the beauty and the artistry and the genius that comes from the Haitian culture and Haiti,” classical pianist Marianne Parker says.
After a controversial yet successful third edition at Bayfront Park, Rolling Loud announced today that this year’s festival will take place Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, far from the NIMBYs who’ve taken up residence in the über-expensive condos along the downtown Miami stretch of Biscayne Boulevard.
When Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino booked three Philadelphia bands to play Super Beach Poolside Party during Super Bowl weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles hadn’t yet made it to the big game. “Eagles fans have been through so much disappointment,” says Jeff Tomrell, multi-instrumentalist for the band Go Go Gadjet…
The Goo Goo Dolls have seen it firsthand and often: In times of tragedy and hardship, music has a way of bringing people together. In October 2001, they played the Concert for New York City alongside luminaries such as Paul McCartney, the Who, and David Bowie to honor the first responders who died during the September 11 attacks…
When the Verve Pipe performs at the Abdo New River Room at the Broward Center this Thursday, it will be the first time in years that founder and lead singer Brian Vander Ark will play a Florida gig that isn’t in someone’s living room. “I’ve been batting people away for…
With less than two months to go until Miami Music Week, the party announcements are beginning to drip out. Highlights already include Above & Beyond’s return to the RC Cola Plant, Adam Beyer and Cirez D’s Soho Studios takeover, and the Rapture Music Festival in Virginia Key Beach Park.
A recent meme popularized (maybe even created) by music writer Dan Ozzi poses as a multiple-choice survey. The query is as follows: “You’re a punk dude over 30. Choose your path: CrossFit, barbershop culture, craft beer, MMA, Facebook rants, enamel pins, Tinder creeping.” Funny and topical, sure, but also timely because it forces into perspective the aging environs of South Florida’s punk-rock third wave.
Acting as a sort of festival within a festival, Ultra Music Festival’s Resistance will return next month to take over two stages at Bayfront Park: the Carl Cox Megastructure and the Arcadia Spider. Yesterday, Ultra announced the Resistance lineup, which includes a mixture of acts that were previously announced in the Phase 1 lineup and a few surprises.
The song is a harmonic blend of sun-kissed psychedelia, like a breezy day spent tripping on acid at the beach.
The 2018 Grammys are over. Kendrick Lamar got screwed. Bruno Mars won maybe a little bigger than he should have. And Miami pretty much got skunked. But as the Washington Post pointed out this past weekend, the Grammys have always been bad at choosing winners or moving beyond the curve.
It was difficult to guess which brand of hippie or freak you’d find at the survivalist weekend festival Love Burn, Florida’s only official Burning Man event. Was this just another generation of wasted kids like the ones Pete Townshend maligned in the Who’s “Baba O Riley”? Or were they truly looking for deeper connections with art, with one another, and with nature?
Since her major-label debut, Born to Die, Lana Del Rey has been fascinated with the concept of death. That fixation served her well on her latest record, the ironically named Lust for Life. The opening lines of the title track find Del Rey crooning, “Climb up the ‘H’/Of the Hollywood…
