Concerts

These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.

It all came down to money. Commissioners Joe Carollo and Keon Hardemon basically wanted Ultra Music Festival to pay a much higher fee to use Miami Marine Stadium and Virginia Key Beach Park for its 2019 edition. The festival agreed to pay $2 million, and Hardemon insisted a large part of that money go to the struggling Virginia Key Beach Park Trust.

Over the weekend, the Village of Key Biscayne released a video concerning Ultra Music Festival’s possible move to Virginia Key. In it, Mayor-elect Mike Davey resorted to scaremongering to warn that Ultra was “evicted” from Bayfront Park because of “environmental destruction, noise, and increase in alcohol- and drug-related violence.”

They are teaming up with other musicians to perform as a supergroup, the Unknown Legends, to play each musician’s songs and covers of Lucinda Williams, Harry Nilsson, and others. The show is called the First Waltz, a title inspired by the Band’s live collaborative Thanksgiving performance, the Last Waltz.

The members of Butterfly Snapple gather around a kitchen counter in the South Miami home of Diego Melgar and John Small, the band’s guitarist and electronic-synth player. Melgar pours everyone a glass of Trader Joe’s Merlot. The quartet makes jokes and trades stories while sipping the wine…

The Virginia Key-based music festival has carved a comfortable niche for itself in Miami’s musical landscape, and with support from the likes of Chromeo, M.I.A., and other acts, the 2018 edition stood out from other Magic City festivals.

Drake, Marc Anthony, Tech N9ne, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, November 12 through 18.

Mumble rap may be hot, but Bas’ smooth flow and playful lyrics are even hotter.

Nobody thinks of Utah as a hotbed for beats, but Late Night Alumni’s John Hancock says that preconception is dead wrong. “Utah has a lot of music,” he says from his Salt Lake City home. “A lot of DJs come through on the way to California. It has a great indie-rock scene too, with Neon Trees and Imagine Dragons getting their start here.” His Late Night Alumni, which straddles electronic and indie rock, is a good ambassador for the state of Utah music.

It was more than two decades ago that Steven Toth was coined “Mr. Entertainment.” “I used to juggle and do handstands for a band called One-Eyed Kings,” the Hollywood native tells New Times. After short stints with the band Lee County Oswald, Toth found himself with a surplus of songs he’d written, and thus Mr. Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers were born.

David “Dave 1” Macklovitch of Chromeo talks Miami; the electro-funk duo’s past, present, and future; and performing live “at the intersection of contemporary art and Spinal Tap.”

Twenty One Pilots hit the stage Sunday, November 4, for a sold-out show at the BB&T Center, with opening acts Awolnation and Max Frost.

House of Creatives Festival, Travis Scott, and more of the best concerts in Miami November 5 through 11.

After the City of Miami effectively denied Ultra Music Festival a permit to return to its longtime home at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami, the question has been where will the festival go? Well, it seems since the September 27 refusal, festival organizers have been devising a plan to move Ultra to Virginia Key Beach Park and Miami Marine Stadium.

Tobi Lou won’t fit in a box, and the last thing you will call him is an R&B singer. He’s much more.

There’s something nostalgic and pure about old-school salsa that no contemporary musical genre has been able to duplicate, but Spanish flamenco artist Diego el Cigala has reimagined the classic salsa sound in a new documentary, Indestructible: The Soul of Salsa.

Despite writing and recording a seven-album catalogue of original music, Pond just can’t escape comparisons to Tame Impala.

Hemsworth isn’t interested in scoring the next big club hit. His music is subtler and more immersive; it’s best enjoyed in headphones.

Sure, Miami Art Week is about art. But it has also turned into one of the best weeks for music. As with Miami Music Week, acts from across the globe flock to the 305 to enjoy the mild December weather and take advantage of the buzz surrounding Art Basel.

Since its founding in 1997 in Chicago, Dark Star Orchestra (DSO) has encapsulated the Grateful Dead era for more than 2,800 shows. This Saturday, November 3, DSO is set to headline Revolution Live’s new street festival, Night of the Dead, celebrating Día de los Muertos with mariachi performers, calavera puppets, family-friendly art activities, and other diversions.

In an alternate universe, we would just now be coming down from the high of III Points. But in reality, Miami is eagerly awaiting the festival’s return. This past May, III Points announced it would skip 2018 and return in February 2019. The fest debuted in 2012 and quickly carved out a space in Miami for local acts to share the stage with internationally acclaimed artists…

J Balvin brought out the legends for this last North American stop on the Vibras Tour.