Miami’s Ten Can’t-Miss Concerts of the Week

10. Red Nectar. Presented by Ladies Night. Wednesday, December 23, 10 p.m. Kill Your Idol, 222 Española Way, Miami Beach; 305-534-1009; facebook.com/killyouridolmiami. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up. From folding denim at American Apparel to shredding it at a club near you, Red Nectar is on top of its game. Although the two-year-old band…

For Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano, It Was Noise at First Sight

If asked to name two formative musicians who’ve opened the floodgates for noise and experimental music today, you would be hard-pressed to come up with two better entries than Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano. Free-form guitarist Orcutt brought his avant-garde din to the Magic City in the late ‘80s and…

Miami’s Concert Pick of the Weekend: Matador at Heart

Gavin Lynch – the electronic musician otherwise known as Matador – started young and started standard. After frequenting a number of local teen discos in his native Dundalk, Ireland, Lynch turned to his own turntables, began constructing a record collection, and commuting long distances (like over an hour to Dublin)…

How the Weeknd’s Unique Brand of Narcissism Paid Off

Pay better attention to your Classics professor, for the Greeks really knew how to create lasting myths and character types. Take Narcissus, the boy who loved himself. Strikingly handsome and thoroughly vain, Narcissus was lured to a still pool where he fell for his reflection. According to different tellings of…

Adele Announces Two Miami Shows in 2016

“Hello from the other side.” Of the pond, that is. That’s how Adele greeted her 24.3 million Twitter followers this morning as the singer announced her first North American tour in five years. Back in late November, the singer revealed via a minute-and-20-second video that she was “of course coming…

Miami’s Ten Can’t-Miss Concerts of the Week

10. Scraping Teeth with Bad Dream House, B.C., Michelle Forever, Randy Piro, and Smut. Wednesday, December 16, 9 p.m. Churchill’s Pub, 5501 NE 2nd Ave., Miami; 305-757-1807; churchillspub.com. Admission is free. Only “the worst band in America” will pay you to see their show. No, really. Miami’s Scraping Teeth was given the title by Spin…

Drake Is Coming to E11even for New Year’s Eve 2016

What a time to be in Miami. New Year’s Eve in the Magic City is always a big deal, and this year is no different. Pitbull, Questlove, and the Weeknd are but a slice of the artists coming to town on December 31, but the biggest name on the 2016 marquee…

Miami’s Best Concert of the Weekend: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Oh, Cleveland. You may sometimes be derided as a desolate wasteland of snow and pale people, but you’ve given us some great things. You gave us LeBron (though you did eventually take him back). And you also helped grow Nine Inch Nails. But maybe best of all you birthed Bone…

Ultra Expands to Its 19th Country, Brazil

“Ultra Music Festival” is a name you either love to hear or hate. Our music editor spent the better half of a weekend coming to terms with the event that all but overruns Miami every March. Others eagerly blow $300 on tickets plus a few bucks here and there for…

Gramps’ Friday Nite Live Will Start Your Weekend Off Right

Psychomagic’s latest record came together fast — maybe too fast. “We only had three weeks to write the songs and three days to record it,” singer and guitarist Steven Fusco says. But they were able to pull it off. The album, Bad Ideas, mixes and matches garage rock with psychedelia…

For Corey Jones’ Band, the Music Must Go On

Corey Jones called his older brother to let him know he’d be late. His SUV had broken down near the southbound I-95 exit ramp to PGA Boulevard. It was 2:52 a.m., and Corey had pulled onto the shoulder to wait for help. His older brother, Clinton Jr., would call back…

305 Fest Is Two Days of Loud, Unfiltered Miami Rock

With two nights featuring over two dozen bands, 305 Fest aims to be a showcase for all that is punk and hardcore about South Florida. The night’s roster will include just about every face from the local scene you could imagine, as well as some out of town legends, like…

Basside’s New Single Is the Most Miami Thing We’ve Seen in a While

“Welcome to Miami, no bras, no panties.” That must have been the line Carolina Villalba, dressed loudly in a tiny neon green bathing suit, dropped on the unsuspecting tourists from Atlanta lounging on South Beach. It’s exactly the sentiment she and Linda Attias represent with their rap duo Basside, and…

Mind Against Prepares for Life and Death’s Fourth Art Basel Showcase

Life and Death isn’t a label known for playing by the rules. Founded by Manfredi Romano (DJ Tennis) and Greg Oreck (50% of New York’s Thugfucker), the label has a reputation for producing dark, psychedelic  tunes, tracks that take time to burrow deep inside your brain, to foreign regions dance music rarely…

Simeon Coxe on the Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Silver Apples

You may not know the Yeats poem from which Silver Apples took its name, but chances are you’ve felt the group’s influence stretching across the globe, inspiring the creation of genres like krautrock and the use of experimental electronics in music. The outré duo of instrumentalist Simeon Coxe and drummer…