Okeechobee Music Festival 2017’s Biggest Schedule Matchups

With only days to go, general-admission three-day passes to the 2017 Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival are sold out. Still available, though, are the four-day Portal Passes for $279. It’s a bargain compared to Florida’s other mammoth festival, Ultra, whose tickets normally retail for about 400 bucks apiece. So what…

Concert of the Week: Thelma and the Sleaze at Churchill’s Pub

This coming weekend, the center of Florida’s entertainment universe will be at the Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival far from the city. The four-day event brings together some bright young things and a slew of classic acts. However, for those poor souls left behind during this musical rapture, we have…

Angel Olsen Unveils Her Real Self at 1306

Angel Olsen is caustic and refreshingly candid. Coming off a relentless tour schedule in support of last year’s My Woman, she offers the same honesty that has endeared her to audiences since her breakthrough release, 2014’s Burn Your Fire for No Witness. She describes her involvement in “Our First Hundred…

Sting Brings His Tantric-Sex-Length Song Titles to the Fillmore

For a man who shortened his stage name to Sting, Gordon Sumner sure does seem to have a thing for wordy song titles. With his great New Wave band the Police, he burdened radio DJs with weighty names such as “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” and, most brazen, “When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around.” His solo career, with hits such as “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” and “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You,” showed no more appreciation for brevity.

Animal Collective Stages a Coral Orgy for Ocean Preservation

The only thing shocking or scandalous about Coral Orgy is that it took this long for such a title to pop up in Animal Collective’s repertoire. Browsing through the band’s discography and song titles is an extended exercise in absurdity and surrealism, with names pulled straight from the pages of…

Concert of the Week: Sting at the Fillmore Miami Beach

The mention of Sting, who will play the Fillmore this Saturday, often elicits a face-contorting “ew” or an apathetic shrug from nonbelievers. He doesn’t always get credit for a three-decade solo career that began with his departure from the Police in 1984.

Best Free Concert of the Weekend: Killmama and Boxwood at Kill Your Idol

Pinball competitions, inexpensive drinks, and live rock don’t sound bad for a Sunday night, right? Now add free admission. Local record label Cheap Miami says, “Sundays are for rock ‘n’ roll, cheap drinks, and a killer time,” and we couldn’t agree more. If you’re looking for a cool way to say goodbye to the weekend or if you’re among the lucky ones who don’t have to work Monday, this is the perfect plan.

Inferion Celebrates 20 Years of Metal During Kryptonite Metal Fest

Urban Dictionary, the old bastion of the English language and Her Spellings and Grammars that it is, defines “inferion” as: “A person with low intellect and amazingly poor moral judgement. Often times [sic] ignores that which discomforts them and clutches to useless ideals for no reason. They have low…

MSTRKRFT Has Rediscovered the Joy of the DJ Booth

Sometimes between late-night DJ sets and loud, sweaty rock shows; plane boardings and landings; hotel showers and studio sessions that blur into one another and out of society at large, Jesse F. Keeler thinks to himself: “What am I gonna do after I live this life?” Then, before he can answer, he finds himself reinspired and reinvigorated, and suddenly he’s back in the studio or standing behind another set of turntables, and he’s doing what he’s always done: his best at making it up as he goes.

Why Donald Trump Wanted Flo Rida at His Inauguration

In January, when starfucker-in-chief Donald Trump was looking for some music acts more famous than 3 Doors Down to play his inauguration concert, a vicious rumor was going around that local boy made good Flo Rida had agreed to perform for $1 million. The story circulated so widely that it…

Metallica Bringing WorldWired Tour to Hard Rock Stadium July 7

All that anyone could talk after Sunday night’s Grammys was James Hetfield’s microphone issues or Laverne Cox forgetting to namedrop the band in the introduction. But in metal circles, the real controversy was Metallica sharing the stage with Lady Gaga for a performance of “Moth Into Flame.” Setting aside that cries of…

Nu Deco Ensemble Wants to Up the Classical Music Game

Midway through Nu Deco Ensemble’s second season, cofounder Jacomo Bairos couldn’t be more pleased with the 21st-century chamber orchestra’s success. “It has exceeded all our expectations.” he tells New Times. “We never expected such loyal audiences. We’ve been selling out our concerts, so people who love us now know they…

Concert of the Week: Dashboard Confessional at Revolution Live

A trio of concerts taking place in Broward stands out, each offering something different. The marquee event finds a South Florida native returning home for the third year in a row. Chris Carrabba and Dashboard Confessional will be at Revolution Live this Wednesday. The lovelorn group best known for songs such as “Hands Down” and “Stolen” is headed back to its roots at a spot that, according to Carrabba in a recent interview with New Times, is an old haunt.

Rick Ross Joins 9 Mile Music Festival’s All-Star Lineup

Just days after dropping his goals for “Summer 17,” Rick Ross has been added to the lineup of the 24th-annual 9 Mile Music Festival, the reggae-based fest hitting Miami in March. The MMG boss plans to infiltrate the stage along with headliners DMX, Julian Marley, Capleton, and others.

Chris Carrabba Brings Dashboard Confessional Home to South Florida

“That address is a landmark for me,” Chris Carrabba, the lead singer of emo superband Dashboard Confessional, says of Revolution Live, the location of the group’s February 15 show. “Years before it was Revolution, when it used to be the Edge, I saw Fugazi there. We were in line to see Nirvana but had to leave before we could get in for band rehearsal. I saw Jawbreaker there, and I remember thinking, If I work as hard as they do, I could make it.”