Concerts

Astari Nite, MegaRumba 2018, Premios Juventud, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 16 through 22.

If there’s one thing that can be said definitively about Sam Smith, it’s that he does not hide. Smith is the sort of man who long ago introduced his heart to his sleeve and never looked back. His feelings bleed from his music, particularly his lyrics. Emotionally, Smith is an open book that rarely shuts.

Archie Hamilton plays in Leeds, U.K., on July 14, and then it’s across the pond for Miami on Thursday, July 19, at Floyd. August is huge with a date at Electric Island Festival in Toronto, and September is Berlin for one of the best clubs in the world, Kater Blau.

It’s the classic “desert island” question: If you were stranded alone on a remote, tropical destination with only one album to keep you company, which would you choose? I’d never given the question much thought before last September, when news reports and mayors predicted  Hurricane Irma would be a “nuclear”…

Most fans headed out to see Sam Smith at the American Airlines Arena this weekend are likely unfamiliar with curly-haired, country-singing opening act Cam, but they probably know at least one of her songs by heart. Camaron Ochs, better known by her stage name, cowrote the penultimate track “Palace” on…

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.