Critic's Notebook

Rakastella has announced its second tier of performers.

The former downtown dance club will be reborn as a festival during Miami Art Week.

In a sign of how far they’ve come, Magic City Hippies recently rubbed elbows with big-name bands like The Strokes and Tame Impala at Lollapalooza in Chicago.

Dorys Bello and Eli Oviedo of the Miami band Dracula grew up singing in Spanish before they could speak English. Bello’s parents are Cuban immigrants, and Oviedo is from Honduras. Onstage, the two 34-year-olds (pictured above) harmonize side-by-side while Oviedo strums the guitar. His light eyes glimmer as he sings…

For the past several years, Twyn has been impressing local audiences through live sets that rely on looping and improvisation.

The inaugural Miami Beach Pop Festival has announced its daily artist lineups. Also, single-day tickets will be available.

Prospectt says his versatility and lyricism set him apart from the average SoundCloud rapper.

iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina’s 2019 headliners include Jennifer Lopez, Daddy Yankee, and Ozuna.

Since the early 2000s, songwriter and producer Andre Christopher Lyon has been best known as Dre, of the prolific production duo Cool & Dre. The Grammy-winning Miami producers worked on some of the defining hip-hop hits of the past two decades, including the Game’s “Hate It or Love It” and Fat Joe…

Insomniac’s partnership with Space places it in the territory of its closest direct competitor in Miami: Ultra Music Festival.

The City of Miami has decided to bring Ultra Music Festival back to Bayfront Park.

Miami Girls Rock Camp’s mission is simple: Use music and performance as a platform to promote self-esteem, community, and creative expression.

New World Symphony co-founder and artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas will receive one of the nation’s highest artistic honors in December.

There’s a Disney World for salseros, and it doesn’t take four hours to get there. The Miami Salsa Congress, now in its 18th year, is back with a salsa extravaganza July 20 through 28. The event, which is expected to draw 5,000 attendees, will offer classes, parties, workshops, and live bands.

Following the success of “Call Me Maybe,” Jepsen delivered one of the most surprising and well-received pop records of the decade, 2015’s “Emotion.”

The path leading to Rick Moon’s apartment is lush and green. It’s 1 p.m., the sun is high, the temperature is full-on summer, and the flat horizon of Biscayne Bay glitters behind an equally tranquil community swimming pool shaded with palm trees.

In anticipation of the album drop, former bassist and current guitarist Jonathan Nuñez spoke with New Times about what it took to make the record, the state of the band after 15 years together, and how being from Miami defines its members.

Carlo Barbacci has always strayed off the beaten path. Born in Peru’s capital of Lima, the musician and producer has made life decisions that have often pissed off his parents. At age 19, he toured with Los Rigbys — a Peruvian Beatles cover band that in 2014 won a competition to be named the best Beatles band in Latin America.

For 13 years, dance music duo Afrobeta has been unfurling its delightful tentacles from its Miami home into the world, delivering a titillating, tropical sound to all corners of the planet. Members Christina “Cuci” Amador and Tony Smurphio have performed their superfun and catchy music at Glastonbury, Space Ibiza, Burning Man,…

Wifi winks at the traditionalists who dismiss him based on stylistic divergence, despite his newfound prominence in South Florida’s outside-the-box hip-hop scene.

Twins Big and Lil — AKA MurdaRich — may have had a rough childhood, but it fueled their music career and saved their lives.

Following a quiet 2019, Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival (OMF) is poised to make a comeback in 2020. Rumors have been swirling for months about the festival’s return, but thanks to public records and sources, it’s become clear the portal will be opening again next year. Online, fans and EDM…