Critic's Notebook

The ’80s-inspired genre synthwave finally gets its own night in Miami.

There will be an open-casket viewing.

Call it Miami’s little festival that can and will: House of Creatives (HOC) has announced it will return for a third edition at Virginia Key Beach Park November 10 and 11.

At 18 years old, DaniLeigh captured the attention of the late Prince, who recruited her to direct the music video for his 2014 single “Breakfast Can Wait.”

At the age of 16, Ash Reiter, the singer/guitarist of the dreamy psych-rock band Sugar Candy Mountain, tooled around Sonoma County while listening to impressionable music that would eventually lead her to start one of the genre’s most refreshing bands. “We would just drive out to the beach and listen to Beatles records, which is about as good as any introduction to psychedelic music you can get,” Reiter reminisces.

On a recent Wednesday morning at Miami Beach’s Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, a group of 18 string musicians has gathered for a three-day intensive of lessons, mock auditions, and performance psychology seminars. After a welcome breakfast and staff introductions, JT Kane, New World Symphony’s dean of visiting faculty and orchestra manager…

After trading in frigid New York winters for sweltering Miami summers, Alyx Ander has found that the switch agrees with him — and his music career.

Fans suffered in the rain for merch that wasn’t even there at this campfire catastrophe.

It may be a listening party for his Kids See Ghost project with Kid Cudi.

The Las Vegas-based singer, songwriter, and record producer will perform during Communitea Dance, a Pride Month event to honor LGBTQ youth in South Florida.

The corner house on a rich but unremarkable street in Parkland, about four miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, belongs to a scrawny 20-year-old with a tree tattoo in the middle of his forehead. He stands about five feet six inches tall and weighs 125 pounds with shoes on…

From shredding the gospel of rock ‘n’ roll to co-owning and operating the music label BUFU (By Us for Us) Records, Ben Katzman is ready to rock at any given moment. Listeners can always count on Katzman’s DeGreaser to bring the party in true Miami fashion. And if there’s one thing we could all use in 2018…

Xela Zaid, AKA Alex Diaz, has struggled to regain his independence after surviving a stroke.

Augie Pink and June Summer have recorded about half a dozen tracks as Baby City Club and intend to drop them as singles in a deliberate manner.

The service will no longer curate the troubled rapper’s music.

Maybe you don’t know Cake outside of the 1996 single “The Distance” or the 1998 hit “Short Skirt Long Jacket,” but the band’s repertoire is worth exploring in depth.

Despite being a hugely popular rapper, Kodak Black doesn’t seem to have very high self-esteem. He’s caught flack in the past for saying he doesn’t like to date women with his own skin tone. Apparently, he’s also not a fan of his own birth name, Dieuson Octave, either. So he…

The most 2018 rap story imaginable.

When you dub yourself a psychedelic rock band, the look can be just as crucial as the sound. If you’ve ever seen the local space rockers of Jaialai play live, you’ve experienced their dedication to pleasing audience’s eyes as well as the ears with the help of their light artist and honorary fifth member, Mikihumo. Now the Miami-based band is bringing its brand of trippiness to a pair of music videos.

Purple rose petals covered the floor at Gramps Wynwood while the R&B duo BluLine the Artist whispered sweet nothings into my ear. I swear we locked eyes as they harmonized. I felt they were only singing to me, but when their pop-driven R&B music stopped, my trance was broken.

Video of him striking the woman surfaced just after the rapper was released from house arrest.