Is it October yet? III Points announced its 2017 lineup this morning, and music fans won’t be disappointed. The list of performers at this year’s three-day festival adds an impressive roster of talent to III Points’ previously announced headliners, Gorillaz and the xx. Not that you needed more reasons…
Ahead of his show at Floyd Miami, the German sound artist explains how he transformed an old LP into a new one using one simple trick.
Mau and Ricky Montaner are tired of talking about their famous father. The 23- and 26-year-old songwriters have grown up in the shadow of one of the most beloved ballad singers in Latin music: Venezuela’s Latin Grammy-winning Ricardo Montaner, who has sold more than 22 million albums around the world…
How does Christmas with Katy Perry sound to you? The soon-to be American Idol judge, known for big songs and big productions, announced this morning that her new album, Witness, will be released June 9 by Capitol Records. On September 7, she will start a US tour that should arrive…
The xx joins Gorillaz on III Points’ 2017 lineup, which will be released in full tomorrow morning.
Forgive the cliche, but Phoenix has risen once again, stronger than ever. This past weekend in Miami, they brought with them some truly dazzling fireworks to illuminate their return. The band hasn’t yet released its forthcoming album, Ti Amo, due out in June and their first in four years. But…
If you missed Kendrick Lamar’s epic Rolling Loud set earlier this month, you’re in luck. The rapper has extended his Damn tour, opting to finish the packed two-month schedule at Miami’s American Airlines Arena.
The legacy of Bob Marley carries on with the Wailers, including original members Junior Marvin and Donald Kinsey, along with newcomer Josh Barrett.
A definite path or set of circumstances leads most musicians to their sound. Miami’s Twelve’Len, who broke through to a national audience via his 2016 album, Fri(end)s, and its standout single, “Star Dust,” wears his influences, as well as on the titles of his records, on his sleeve.
Even as summer looms over Miami, the music isn’t slowing. This Thursday, indie folk rockers the Head and the Heart will stop by the Fillmore Miami Beach. The band is on tour supporting its third album, Signs of Light, which also happens to mark the group’s major-label debut…
Plenty of men have stood on a stage under contorting neon lights and boasted about how great, talented, rich, and sexually desirable they are. But no one has done it with such graceful humility as the Weeknd. His performance at the BB&T Center in Sunrise felt like some kind of surreal confession of stardom.
Promoters are the unsung heroes of the music world. While we happily gaze in awe at every rock band onstage or bump-and-grind to the sounds of the latest DJ, we rarely think of the people behind the scenes who work to bring our present and future faves all the way down to Miami. And in the city’s male-dominated party industry, we don’t often expect to encounter women.
Nuclear Valdez, one of the heavyweight bands of the late ’80s and ’90s Miami rock scene, is back with a vinyl collection of unreleased demos.
Leave your inhibitions at the door and pick up the mike. Miami boasts a number of stages for both seasoned performers and first-timers to showcase their talents. The open mikes of the 305 provide a platform for our locally grown musicians, spoken-word artists, poets, and comedians. Spectators, you can earn your…
Rod Reiter’s gig at Churchill’s falls on May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. “I grew up when homophobia was a normal thing,” he says. “I got abuse in high school in Boca Raton just for being friends with a gay kid. In my lifetime, homophobia’s thankfully…
Uno, dos, tres, cuatro. Before he became the Grammy-winning star who counts beats onstage, Juanes counted sheep on his father’s hacienda. When the singer born Juan Estebán Aristizábal Vásquez was just a boy, his father, a rancher, would invite him and his five siblings to mount horses and count livestock…
It’s been nearly a decade since the iconic concert Rock the Bells brought hip-hop’s greatest acts together for a night of epic performances. In 2008, monumental MCs such as A Tribe Called Quest, the Pharcyde, Nas, MF Doom, Rakim, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, De La Soul, Method Man & Redman, Immortal Technique, Little Brother, Raekwon, and Ghostface Killah congregated at Bayfront Park to deliver classics live in front of thousands of fans.
Since 2013, EDM fans have packed a stadium in Split, Croatia, yearly to dance to the likes of Armin van Buuren, Deadmau5, and David Guetta, all under the familiar, glowing U-shaped icon of Miami’s Ultra Music Festival. But the European fest isn’t actually run by the promoters behind South Florida’s famous dance bash; they simply license the name to the Croatian party.
Inspired by the Goonies’ treasure hunt, El Chapo’s tunnel system, and Burning Man, Wolf + Lamb’s rural retreat is under construction 150 miles north of the duo’s Brooklyn home. The 100-acre Dreamland isn’t an escape from reality; that leap was made 20 years ago, when the band entered the surreal…
When the South Florida pop-punk pioneers of New Found Glory take the stage at Revolution Live Friday, May 12, they’ll celebrate 20 years together as a band. But drummer Cyrus Bolooki wants to be clear: This is not just another nostalgia tour. Unlike some of its early-’00s peers, New Found…
One of the curses of being a millennial is that 60 years’ worth of musicians got to go through the dictionary and cherry-pick their act’s name before you got around to it. So when Abel Makkonen Tesfaye wanted to christen his dark R&B project the Weekend but discovered there was already a Canadian band that had copyrighted the name, he didn’t give up.
It’s been a bittersweet few weeks for Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek. Shortly before the two Chicagoans set off on their latest U.S. tour with their band Whitney, their respective girlfriends broke up with them. The tour has been great. The band is as solid as ever and has sold out shows all down the…
