Concerts

R. Kelly’s Black and White VIP Party at Revolution Live October 2

Mickey Avalon at LIV October 5

Black Star’s Mos Def and Talib Kweli With Jay Rock, Black Bobby, and DJ D-Up Presented by Rock the Bells Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Better Than: Most Tuesdays on God’s great spaceship, Earth. Time travel can be a really good time. Especially when you’re talking about taking…

“Metal is alive and kicking down here,” says Jean Saiz, guitarist and co-growler for guttural sludge trio Shroud Eater. Her endorsement of Miami’s assorted, metal-derived, extreme music comes with the clarification that recent activity — like the rise of Shroud Eater’s practice space b/w metal clubhouse venue, Beezelbub’s Cave (Miami’s…

He’s a rapper. He’s a scholar. He’s the next candidate for the President of Hip-Hop. In just a couple of hours, Miami-via-D.C. rap mastermind, Square Biz label boss, and Harvard grad Larry Harris Jr., known on the streets and in the studios as Black Bobby, will be holding down the…

Let’s get wild and reconcile with our freaky side, the Midwest’s illest rap crew, The Cool Kids, are bringing heavy beats and dope lyrics to Eve next month on Sunday, October 23. Chuck Inglish and Sir Michael Rocks broke onto the scene the way so many groups do these days…

Topping the list of artists we’d never expect to see at the Fillmore Miami Beach, Korn just announced a November 9 engagement at the house Jackie Gleason Live Nation built. Thirteen years ago, Jonathan Davis and company released its big breakthrough album, Follow the Leader. It debuted atop the Billboard…

Sandwiched between The Script’s Science & Faith Tour and Ballet Etudes presents Giselle: A Gala in Honor of Dagmar Moradillos, the Fillmore Miami Beach continues its eclectic lineup with a Grammy-winning rock en Español superstar. Andrés Calamaro is one of Argentina’s biggest musical success stories. He broke onto the scene…

Peter Bjorn and John All You Can Eat Tour Bardot Miami Friday, September 23, 2011 Better Than: Fancy food and show tunes. All hopped up on carbohydrates, squeezed into their best mature and sexy hipster gear, and still stuffed full of gourment grilled cheese, several hundred music-and-munchie fanatics flocked to…

Almost exactly 12 months ago, Miami music scene veteran and Dreaming in Stereo frontman Fernando Perdomo founded his very own label, giving it the most appropriate moniker — Forward Motion Records — that he could conjure up. “The label is very aptly named,” Perdomo says. “It’s all about small victories…

With Neon Indian and Yelle already slated to visit the city during the week of Art Basel Miami Beach, you can bet there’s still plenty of music to be announced over the next couple of months.Of course, being at the center of the action on all this Basel tomfoolery, Electric…

Roy Neil Hunter looks like he’s 17. But that’s OK, since the main mastermind behind the band Meat is merely a fresh, young 24. This musician has played in other Miami bands with mouth-watering names like Strawberry Dirt, Sparkling Purple Mango, and Ice Cream. We’re honestly starting to think these…

A little known fact about Crossfade is that we’re degenerate gamblers. We’ve been dropping mad bills on Magic City Casino’s maquinitas ever since the joint introduced Vegas-style slots. But aside from free parking and a few comped dinners, we haven’t won shit. Really, though, who cares? Win or lose, Magic…

For years, Boise Bob and his Backyard Band have brought ​swampy, raucous, hootenanny energy to the people of Miami and Fort Lauderdale. And this Friday, they’ll be playing washtub basses, fiddles, and banjos at Churchill’s Pub’s American Roots Festival where hillbilly heritage and knee-slapping will be celebrated openly. “We play…

Trina at Mansion September 22

Rey Ruiz at the Fillmore Miami Beach September 22

Blink-182 at the Cruzan Amphitheatre September 23

Digable Planets’ Doodlebug at the Loft at Grand Central September 23

Slick Rick at Eve September 24

Trey Songz at King of Diamonds September 24

Cameron Crowe’s rock doc Pearl Jam Twenty, which premiered last night at a packed Tower Theater, fittingly begins with aerial shots of Seattle. Then it quickly cuts to footage from a local television interview of the band when it was just starting out. Frontman Eddie Vedder sits with his band…

See the full 35-photo Chromeo at Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow. Night Falls Tour Chromeo With Mayer Hawthorne and the County, and Sammy Bananas Fillmore Miami Beach September 20, 2011 Better Than: Cornichons on a ham sandwich. Chromeo loves Chromeo. And Chromeo should love Chromeo because Chromeo is one of the…