Concerts

The legendary rap crew issued a barrage of hits during its Art Basel show.

Janet Jackson, especially during the Control era, laid out the blueprint by which the pop stars of today rebel against their creative limitations.

If you were were 13 to 16 years old in 2007, there’s a chance Paramore was then the most important band in the world to you. Maybe you read articles on WikiHow such as “How to Be a Scene Kid” and scribbled on your Chucks with a Sharpie. Maybe you even took a certain photo of Williams to the Regis salon at Dadeland Mall and told the stylist, “I want this haircut,” and regretted it for years.

Performance art will abound throughout Miami during the weekend of Art Basel, but few performers are as committed to putting on an insane show as Daikaiju, which will return to South Florida when it plays Saturday night at Kill Your Idol. The band’s show at the same venue this past October poured onto the street, where the band, audience, and pedestrians became entwined with volume and flames.

With wild performances, a tumultuous relationship, drugs, and genuine style, Royal Trux’s Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty offered an authentic alternative to ’90s alt rock. From 1987 to 2001, the then couple made beloved albums like Twin Infinitives and Pound for Pound and performed memorable antics that placed them in dictionary under “Fuck…

Did Björk just dab? Going into Mana Wynwood Tuesday night, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Björk’s DJ set. She’s not known as a DJ in the traditional sense of the word, and her live shows can feel frenetic on their own.

What’s keeping you at home during Miami Art Week? Is it that a lot of events are “by invitation only,” and the thought of having to schmooze your way in seems exhausting? Or is it the exorbitant prices some venues are charging? That’s why this week is so great. There’s something for every…

Every year, Art Basel Miami becomes a bigger, brighter clusterfuck of pretentious, velvet-roped, invite-only events. It makes sense. Art is all about speculation, and celebrity is all about exclusivity. But director Gil Green knows plenty of celebrities, and he thinks that whole A-list, expensive scene is just a racket. That’s…

For a classic hip-hop group, Wu-Tang Clan has remained surprisingly relevant, but not due to any new music the group has released — not to the public, at least. In 2015, they famously auctioned off the only pressing of their long-awaited LP, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, to the…

Just when you thought you had your Art Basel plans set, NADA Miami is blowing up your schedule. The fair announced yesterday that Mac McCaughan and Jim Wilbur of the North Carolina cult favorite Superchunk will play an acoustic set Thursday at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The show will mark the band’s first South Florida performance in more than 20 years.

This weekend, Riptide Music Festival took over Fort Lauderdale Beach for the second year. Organizers significantly expanded the event both artistically and geographically, showing their ambition to make the fest a mainstay.

The trance legends have sold out the RC Cola Plant twice already.

Lady Gaga’s fans go to great lengths for their favorite pop star.

Winners of Best Unknown Band in New Times’ Best of Miami 2017, J.M. and the Sweets offer the lofty vocal talents of the 24-year-old Josh Miles. This year, the band appeared in public significantly more around South Florida, thanks in large part to its debut EP, Sol Village. This young soul singer’s career will come full circle with an appearance at Arts Garage in Delray Beach December 10.

For about ten years, English DJ and producer Nic Fanciulli fretted over making a debut album of original music. In the meantime, he did what anyone would do: earn a residency in Ibiza, start a record label, launch a music festival, get nominated for a Grammy, and consistently hop around the globe like the dance music version of a Jules Verne character.

The Mavericks were nominated for two Grammy Awards earlier this week for their latest album Brand New Day, but in 1989 they made their live debut on the Churchill’s stage.

Last night, I rolled up to the Hangar at 9 p.m. and rushed to the entrance because I was worried about missing Lil Pump, who ended up not going on until 45 minutes after he was supposed to perform. In my Zen-like focus to see a rapper whose big thing is saying “Gucci Gang” 53 times in his hit song, I disregarded warning signs about what would happen to people who don’t pay for parking.

Just a year and a half ago, program director John O’Connell and his crew at 104.3 the Shark were gearing up for the radio station’s first foray into music festivals, Undertow Jam. The Shark quickly moved on to a second gathering, Riptide Music Festival, which returns this Saturday and Sunday, December 2 and 3, for what promises to be even more wildly successful.

This morning, the fest announced the lineup for next year’s camp-stravaganza, set for March 1 through 4. Other big names on the ticket are Foster the People, Leon Bridges, the Flaming Lips, and Zeds Dead.

Make no mistake: Jonathan Pierce has always been the creative force behind the Drums. Since the indie-pop band’s early days, he’s written all of the lyrics and most of the music. He maintained the collaborative façade partly because he feared vulnerability, he says. If the creative process was out in the open, any criticism of the music would reflect directly on him.

On her latest single, “Blissing Me,” Björk relishes the thought of once again being in love. “All of my mouth was kissing him/Now, into the air, I’m missing him.” She sounds practically giddy, which is a far cry from the songs on her 2015 album, Vulnicura, a deeply personal retelling…

Lady Gaga has been writing about her alleged sexual assault for years, so why did it take an interview revelation for people to start listening?