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…
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.
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…
Can’t feel your face? That’s called a Tuesday at any Miami bar. For the rest of America, Canadian pop and R&B crooner the Weeknd introduced the wonders of cocaine via his breakthrough album, 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness. He’ll be back in South Florida Wednesday to support his latest album, Starboy…
Because his highly anticipate summer tour won’t stop in the Sunshine State, Kendrick Lamar made sure to deliver the realest set that he’s ever done in Miami for all his fans who might miss out on his Damn tour.
By the time musical movements are given a name, their moment has passed. This is true whether you’re talking rockabilly, the British Invasion, or punk rock. Forty years ago, bands like X in Los Angeles and the Damned in England were codifying what punk meant, long before it had a uniform…
The initial announcement for Dope Entertainment’s third-annual Rolling Loud, which is set to take place this weekend, was exciting. The flyer listed Kendrick Lamar, Future, Lil Wayne, Young Thug, and many others, making the fest a hypebeast’s dream. But something was missing from the dozens of acts listed: women.
Hip-hop has a long history of social and political commentary, but the genre has been slow to embrace artists who don’t fit neatly into its hypermasculine mold. After all, hip-hop coined the phrases “pause” and “no homo” to deflect criticism of behavior that might be perceived as queer.
Sure, Tech N9ne has teamed up with the greatest acts in hip-hop and rock in the studio, but don’t expect them to come through for his Strictly Strange tour.
The words “bluegrass music” can conjure images of the hills of Appalachia. But Anders Beck says another kind of community might also come to mind. His band, Greensky Bluegrass, was formed in the midsize Midwest town of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Will Rolling Loud ascend to the pantheon of great Miami music festivals when it takes over Bayfront Park this weekend? Audiences will be the judge. There’s no doubt the event has one of the most impressive hip-hop lineups of any festival in the country. A$AP Rocky, Mac Miller, Lil Wayne,…
Though Gucci Mane was missing from the music scene for three years, he jumped right back into place with new music but still performed classics for die-hard fans.
Coachella made headlines in that other sunny state, but South Florida is no slouch on the festival circuit. With the development of newer events such as Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, III Points, and Rolling Loud and the evolution of mainstays such as Ultra, the original Miami megafest, South Florida offers a wide range of genres and artists at big gatherings.
What is it about the ’60s? Why does that decade still seem to affect music more than any other? Guitarist and keyboardist Adam Smith believes he has the answer.
It’s been a long, strange trip for Dope Entertainment’s Rolling Loud, which begins Friday in Bayfront Park. The rambunctious weekend-long music festival born at Soho Studios in Wynwood in 2015 has since mutated into the most highly anticipated hip-hop event in the state, and quite possibly the nation.
“I went to the beach, and swam with the jellyfish, ‘cause I didn’t give a fuck,” a shirtless, off-key Flea crooned into the microphone during an impromptu song he seemingly made up on the spot just for the American Airlines Arena crowd. It was at once an homage to our…
The lyrics of one-hit wonders’ songs get stuck in your head. The names of the artists who recorded them usually don’t. Admit it: You don’t know who recorded “La Macarena” or “Tootsee Roll.” Some songs inspire dance crazes that seem to pop out of the cosmos, belonging to us all equally and democratically rather than associating them with a particular person.
Hip-hop heads, your week has finally arrived. Rolling Loud is bringing together some of the best contemporary hip-hop acts at Bayfront Park for a three-day bonanza. It’s still unclear how Dope Entertainment puts together the most enviable lineup of the year, but who cares? The bad news is…
There was a moment last year where Gucci Mane, the Atlanta-born hip-hop superstar, became not just a celebrity, but a role model. It was in an interview with Vogue magazine, a pairing of publication and subject that would have been unthinkable just three years before, when he was convicted for…
