Miami has a new piece of Nashville, with Writers in the Round. The singer-songwriter event is held every second Wednesday of the month at Bar Nancy. Juan Turros, one of the founding members of local group Suénalo, was inspired after a trip to Nashville with his wife, Denise. The two…
Sam Smith, Chromeo, De La Ghetto, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 9 to July 15.
There is a famous line from Kurt Vonnegut’s time-traveling World War II satire Slaughterhouse-Five, which reads, “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.” It’s an ironic sentiment the author believes to be the perfect epitaph for his gravestone. For both Vonnegut and humanity, this is of course untrue, and no one…
Tired of the distractions of living in downtown Los Angeles, Caleb Cornett is renting his childhood friend’s house in Kentucky to finish his new, as-yet untitled album.
When Jim Crow laws were still in effect in South Florida, the greatest black performers of the era came to perform on South Beach. But they weren’t welcome to spend their nights at the ritzy hotels where they entertained. Instead, musicians like Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Josephine Baker, Cab…
For the performers at last night’s Pompano Beach Amphitheater concert, the show was more than just an excuse to cash in on nostalgia for the decade of synths and big hair.
The Wu-Tang veteran discusses rap’s new era of turbulence.
GZA, Erasure, Andhim, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 2 to July 8.
The “Chains of Love” performers have chained themselves to the Magic City.
It’s 4 p.m. in Croatia, and Mark Kinchen, better known as the producer and DJ MK, is jet-lagged and just waking up. He began the week at Electric Forest in Michigan, then flew to Croatia for Hideout Festival, jetted back to Michigan for weekend two of Electric Forest, then headed to New York, and soon will hit Miami for his MK Presents Area 10 Pool Party at the Delano Beach Club this Sunday, July 1. It’s safe to say Kinchen, a veteran dance musician, is in demand.
Poison was more rose than thorn in the beginning.
When will domestic abusers such as Chris Brown get their reckoning?
Boy George is calling from Australia, where he’s finalizing filming as a coach on that country’s seventh season of The Voice. He’s purportedly on the phone to discuss his and Culture Club’s upcoming summer tour with the B-52’s and Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins, but he has something else on his mind: wedding cakes.
Bed Scene, SunGhosts, Cedric Gervais, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, June 25 through July 1.
Last night, West Palm Beach was the launching pad for this summer’s Weezer and Pixies double-headliner tour. Fans were privy to a trifecta of bands that made for the perfect evening of rock ‘n’ roll, simultaneously presenting the past, present, and future of rock.
The uniquely Miami DJ/producer has been making dope EDM going on three decades.
What a cover of Toto’s “Africa” can mean for the music industry.
At the new and improved Frost Museum of Science, Laser Fridays offer banging tunes paired with searing lasers the first and third Friday of every month from 7 p.m. to midnight. The formats range from Depeche Mode to Pink Floyd to Bob Marley to electronic dance music.
I got into the indie-rock legends not long after they had broken up in 1993. It took a couple listens for me to fall into their spell of the dynamic that inspired Nirvana, Radiohead, and every other band of the era. Their music had no dead spots. It was all energy and drive. The lyrics, though, were what kept me coming back. They were mysterious enough that it was hard to know what singer Black Francis was hollering about.
Their sound is a collage that evokes strong imagery — empty stretches of desert highway, forgotten civilizations, lonely planets suspended in space.
Summer in Miami means torrential downpours, stifling heat, and swarming mosquitoes. But many other cities welcome the sunny season. The French, in fact, have been celebrating Fête de la Musique every June 21 since 1982 to welcome summer. City by city, this tradition has spread with Make Music Day, a…
With only one year under its belt, the amount of coups the Perfect Trip: Miami Psych Fest has been able to pull off for its second edition is almost absurd: besides expanding to occupy both the Ground and Floyd along with netting seemingly miraculous gets on the lineup, event organizer Adam Arritola (he prefers just to go by Adam) says word of the festival has already traveled out of Miami, garnering attention from the likes of the Big Ears and Vision Festivals in Knoxville, TN and Brooklyn respectively. What’s more, critic and anthromorphic meme Anthony Fantano – the internet’s busiest music nerd – recently gave the festival a shout-out during a live stream. While many festivals of a similar scale and ambition struggle out of the gate, Miami Psych Fest has had no problem asserting its identity or reaching its target audience.
