Miami Music Trends That Need to Die Now

Labor Day means we’ve officially bid farewell to summer. We don’t have falling leaves or cooler temperatures to announce the arrival of fall, but the days do get shorter, and with that come longer nights and the chance to head out on the town and enjoy our city’s world-famous nightlife…

Lauryn Hill and Nas Prove ’90s Hip-Hop Will Never Die

If you’re old enough, you can recollect that in the ’90s, baby-boomers wouldn’t stop boasting how old-time rock ‘n’ roll was best. “Bob Dylan, the Doors, Woodstock, that was when rock was rock,” they’d tell you. The old-timers would keep their radios locked on classic-rock stations playing the same hundred songs in constant rotation and save their money for anytime the Moody Blues or Donovan would come to town.

Front 242 Ditched the Guitars and Invented Something New

As keyboardist for the celebrated electronic group Front 242, Patrick Codenys is no stranger to unknown territory. For instance, when the band plays the inaugural show at the Ground, a new midsize venue taking up part of Club Space on Eleventh Street in downtown Miami, it’ll come with some colorful…

The Best Concerts in Miami This Week, September 18-24

With Irma already feeling like a distant memory for most of Miami, the city is quickly getting back into the swing of things. This week, Arcade Fire finally keeps its promise of returning to Miami after the band’s two secret show, and so far only South Florida appearances, in 2013…

Depeche Mode Brought Sex and Cigarettes to the AAA

For one night, the American Airlines Arena reeked of cigarettes. Walking to the arena from Biscayne Boulevard, concertgoers could see handlers milling about the balcony like eyeliner-clad gargoyles spilling smoke and ashes from their open mouths. The occasion for such a morbid gathering — Depeche Mode’s Miami stop on its Global Spirit tour…

Miami Nightclubs Struggle to Recover From Hurricane Irma

Longtime promoter Aramis Lorie is used to hurricanes. He’s been through Andrew, Wilma, and Katrina. But Irma definitely threw him for a loop. He couldn’t leave his aging parents behind, and he was afraid of abandoning his bar, 1306, located in the quickly gentrifying but still somewhat industrial part of North Miami Avenue just north of the I-195 overpass.

Depeche Mode’s Friday Concert at AAA Will Go On as Planned

As the storm clouds of Hurricane Irma have receded, so have the clouds of mystery surrounding the status of Depeche Mode’s Miami performance: the show will go on. The seminal dark synthpop band announced on Twitter that the Miami date of their Global Spirit World Tour on Friday, September 15,…

The Best Concerts in Miami This Week, September 13-17

Hurricane Irma has come and gone. You’ve spent a week worrying, preparing, stocking up on bottled water, and struggling with your hurricane shutters. Now that the storm has passed, it’s time to party. These are the best shows still coming to town this week, Irma be damned.

Miami Bars and Nightclubs Open After Irma

This weekend, the effects of Hurricane Irma stormed into South Florida, threatening coastal areas with a storm surge that blew refrigerators clear out into the road in the Keys and turned Brickell streets into Venetian canals. Also within the storm’s targets: the array of nightclubs that have made Miami famous…

Mac’s Club Deuce Will Stay Open as Long “as It Is Legal”

A fixture of South Beach and a hub for those who still chase their liquor with drags from their cigarette, Mac’s Club Deuce has long provided a makeshift home to the displaced, whether it be by natural disaster or by the doldrums of life.But as Hurricane Irma approaches and the prospect of a mandatory evacuation looms over Miami-Dade County, some patrons — and indeed the bar itself – aren’t looking to take the chances taken by their booze-inclined forebears.