Just when Downtown Miami’s dearth of Swedish dance-pop divas was starting to get a little embarrassing, Grand Central is here to save the day with an announcement of new additions to their summer lineup. Five new shows have been added for June: Just Blaze; Munchi; Digitalism; Flosstradamus and Drop the…
Armin van Buuren. He spent four consecutive years atop DJ Magazine’s top 100 list of the most popular DJs on the planet, a feat no other jock has accomplished in the British rag’s history. Broadcasting to 26 countries and over 15 million people each week, his radio show, A State…
See the full 36-photo slideshow of Rusko at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Rusko With DJ Sigma Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday, May 19, 2012 Better Than: Making out with a tree. Any talk about dubstep in its current, wildly popular and commercially viable form, always devolves into hand-wringing. But if anyone…
See also “Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell Comments on Tom Gabel’s Transgender Announcement” — plus the Fillmore’s full Facebook photo album from Jane’s Addiction in Miami. Jane’s Addiction With The Duke Spirit Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, May 18, 2012 Better Than: Remembering that Ritual de lo Habitual came out in 1990…
See also “Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell Comments on Tom Gabel’s Transgender Announcement.” When Jane’s Addiction brings its rock party to the Fillmore Miami Beach tonight, it will be a homecoming show for the band’s frontman, Perry Farrell. “I moved to Miami Beach when I was about fourteen, shortly after my…
English rock band The Duke Spirit is due to open for Jane’s Addiction at the Fillmore Miami Beach this Friday. But right now, singer Leila Moss and her crew are lost somewhere outside of Daytona Beach with an angry gas station attendant on their tail. “We have no idea where…
Just three days after the United States turns the big 2-3-6, BlackPlanet Radio, the U.S. Army, and other sponsors are throwing a post-Independence Day bash in Miami-Dade County featuring performances by some of America’s biggest rappers. It’s called the Radio One Fest and it’ll be going down Saturday, July 7,…
Steve Aoki at Grand Central May 17
Stevie B at Club 50 at Viceroy Miami May 18
Ana Tijoux at PAX Miami May 19
Alesso at LIV Nightclub May 23
Shave the sides of your head right after buying Skrillex tickets on Saturday morning and it will have grown back by the time his show hits Mansion on September 28. But you’ll still have tickets to see Skrillex unleash his magical diarrheic iPod. For such an intimate gig, it’s almost…
Miamians are addicts. They can’t get enough bottle poppin’. They can’t get enough of lookin’ pretty. And they certainly can’t get enough fist-pumpin’. Thankfully, they live in the dance music capital of the United States. So there’s a never-ending onslaught of sets from the best of the best in house,…
See the full 26-photo slideshow of Wilco at the Fillmore Miami Beach — plus “Wilco’s John Stirratt on the Music Industry, Piracy, and Southern Manners.” Last night, Chicago-based alternative country rock band Wilco performed at the Fillmore Miami Beach for a packed house. Founders Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, and company…
Over the last year, Italian DJ-production duo Tale of Us has exploded. And Miami was essentially ground zero, with the pair’s sudden, massive international success riding on the heels of two infectious floor bombs — the remixes of Thugfucker’s “Disco Gnome” and WhoMadeWho’s “Every Minute Alone” — that broke out…
Since the mid-’90s, Miami Beach has welcomed some of hip-hop’s biggest names during Memorial Day Weekend for an alcohol-fueled, four-day throwdown, commonly referred to as Urban Beach Week. It began as a South Beach fashion event and eventually became an intercity celebration of black culture, complete with comedy shows and…
Before he tackles Warsaw at UMF Poland or co-headlines Hackney Weekend in London with the likes of Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kasabian, Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello will swing through South Beach to get his Miami fix. The 29-year-old DJ is performing live at Amnesia Miami on Friday, June 1. But…
The debate over the merit — or lack thereof — of various Miami venues for live music recurs pretty much every day across the local blogosphere and social media landscape. One day, it’s commercial radio rock that’s getting the shaft. The next day, it’s all bands, indie rock or not…
All hail Annie Clark, indie rock’s patron saint of distortion and raw spirit. Clark, known by fans as St. Vincent, is set to make her Miami debut at The Stage on May 31. But just because she’s new to our city by the sea doesn’t mean this lady hasn’t been…
The Beach Boys are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. But a year before Brian Wilson, his brothers, and a cousin embarked on their Surfin’ Safari, Roberto Carlos was already redefining South American music. Though Brazil’s pop rock movement kicked off in the 1950s, Carlos is considered one the pioneers…
The Heavy Pets With The London Souls The Stage Miami Friday, May 11, 2012 Better Than: Maybe ever. This past weekend marked the first time that Fort Lauderdale’s ambassadors of tropic-infused jam rock, The Heavy Pets, returned to their deep-rooted fanbase since an acclaimed New Years Eve show at the…
Remember all those minimal techno gems from 2005? Neither does anyone else. That’s because minimal is mostly dull, monotonous, nondescript dance-floor fodder. If you ask us, it takes melodies and hooks to truly distinguish a dance track and give it the kind of timelessness imbued in the baroque cosmic disco…
