When you hear that Raekwon, a founding member of the legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan, is coming to Miami July 30, your first question will of course be “Where?” The city doesn’t have an enormous number of live music venues, but you’d probably guess quite a few sites before thinking of Churchill’s Pub.
How many hits does it take to make us overlook an artist’s dark side?
Prince Royce returns with a Spanish-language bachata album featuring Shakira, Gente de Zona, Zendaya, and Chris Brown.
Contrary to popular belief, South Florida’s music scene is alive and well in the summertime.
Bachaco recently signed on for a residency at the Hard Rock Café at Bayside. The band will begin rocking the downtown Miami venue the first Wednesday of every month beginning September 6.
In case you were unaware, bachata is back, and Prince Royce is giving it a pop twist. The Dominican-American Bronx native will stop by Bayfront Park Amphitheater this Sunday, July 30. He’s on tour in support of his fifth album, the appropriately titled Five. If you want to get a taste of another part of the world…
The way Darryl “DMC” McDaniels tells it, hip-hop wouldn’t exist without comic books. There sure as hell wouldn’t be any Run DMC, McDaniels’ legendary group that overcame numerous hurdles to bring rap into the mainstream. “I was a Catholic school kid in Queens who got straight As and wore…
Miami has both a burgeoning entertainment sector and serious social problems. Young Musicians Unite (YMU) is a nonprofit music program that hopes to use one to solve the other. YMU pairs at-risk adolescents from Overtown and Wynwood with professional musicians. “YMU provides consistency, leadership, and support for our students,” says…
Poet, journalist, musician, scenester — all that and more. Adam Matza has been a member of South Florida’s music scene in one shape or another for a handful of decades. Now he has a new gig: integral member of the tricounty noise music scene, as both host and performer. After…
Last September, precocious 18-year-old and Seventeen magazine cover boy Shawn Mendes sold out Madison Square Garden’s nearly 21,000 seats. This Wednesday, he will unleash his boyish charms and angsty, lovelorn pop hits on Miami. And though he hasn’t quite broken MSG numbers with this week’s concert at the American Airlines…
It has been more than eight years since Eric Garcia’s anti-blues band Juke put together a recording its founder has felt proud to share. “I haven’t liked anything we recorded since the first album,” Garcia tells New Times. That record, Lungbutter – The Blues Basement Tapes, is the only album he believes captures the spirit of Juke, which in essence reflects Garcia’s love for blues music and his hatred for what it has become.
Our music scene has experienced a resurgence within the last year, with new venues quietly popping up around town. While some of our favorite places have been casualties of our ever-evolving music scene, most recently the legendary Jazid on South Beach, we hope these new spots will fill the crater-sized holes of the fallen.
“I think probably what’s happened is that society has just sort of caught up to the things I’ve been complaining about for years,” Isbell says. “Had my last record come out now, I think people would feel the same way.”
Five years ago, Lebron James and Dwyane Wade were still with the Miami Heat and we re-elected Barack Obama. In retrospect, it feels like a simpler, safer time to have been alive. But just because we’re in a social nosedive doesn’t mean 2012’s legacy doesn’t live on. Take Cheap Miami,…
Oski Gonzalez is a man of many opinions. No topic gets him as fired up as what it takes to put on a music festival. The former booker at Tobacco Road, Gonzalez has put together bills for shows up and down South Florida for more than a dozen years. As…
On July 25, an international pop music mega-star will swoop down upon American Airlines Arena. He’s sold millions of albums and drawn countless screaming fans to his side, and it’s likely you’ve never even heard of him. His name is G-Dragon, and he’s the most popular singer in South Korea…
Following an exciting debut that brought some much-needed post-election salve to Miami vis-a-vis the Flaming Lips and Crystal Castles, House of Creatives Music Festival will be returning to Miami on November 11 and 12 for a second weekend of quality tunes and sand-seeped toes. Although the lineup for this year’s iteration…
Latin music fest MegaRumba may have changed its location, but it’s still the same massive block party. This year, organizers moved the festival from Tropical Park to Mana Wynwood and expanded from a Colombian Independence Day celebration to one for all nationalities — Latinos in particular. Nevertheless, Miami’s Colombian-American community…
What do you picture when you hear the word “Brochella”? Frat boys, perhaps? Glistening biceps coming out of pastel tank tops atop board shorts that are tragically also a pastel color? At BroLife Music Group’s Brochella Weekend, that couldn’t be much further from the truth. Head to the BroLife website…
Singer-songwriter Victoria Blue is embracing the unknown these days. In a not-so-distant past life in marketing, she quit her day job, sold her house, and got to work building a solo singing career. Blue wrote and recorded for the first time at just 11 years old. Her family’s neighbor…
Without doubt, the highlight this week is Kehlani’s show at Culture Room on Monday, July 17. The R&B singer is riding high on the strength of her debut album, SweetSexySavage. Seems South Florida is liking what it’s heard so far, because the show is sold out. This being…
Here’s the not-so-subtle secret to Pink Floyd’s success and perennial popularity: by merging the grandiosity of progressive rock with the everyday concerns of the working man and the dorm room philosopher, the unlikely English quartet struck a chord with just about anyone with a semblance of compassion or intellectual curiosity…
