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.
Last month, when a band named after the Pixies song “Debaser” was announced the night before the Pixies were in town to coheadline a tour with Weezer, the hint seemed pretty clear: The Pixies were using an alias, which happened to be the name of one of their most popular songs. Although there was no official confirmation, enough people took a leap of faith to sell out the room. They were amply rewarded with an action-packed set that was almost like a riddle or an SAT math question. How can a rock band play 41 songs in two hours?
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.
At the new and improved Frost Museum of Science, Laser Fridays offer banging tunes paired with searing lasers the first and third Friday of every month from 7 p.m. to midnight. The formats range from Depeche Mode to Pink Floyd to Bob Marley to electronic dance music.
I got into the indie-rock legends not long after they had broken up in 1993. It took a couple listens for me to fall into their spell of the dynamic that inspired Nirvana, Radiohead, and every other band of the era. Their music had no dead spots. It was all energy and drive. The lyrics, though, were what kept me coming back. They were mysterious enough that it was hard to know what singer Black Francis was hollering about.
Their sound is a collage that evokes strong imagery — empty stretches of desert highway, forgotten civilizations, lonely planets suspended in space.
Summer in Miami means torrential downpours, stifling heat, and swarming mosquitoes. But many other cities welcome the sunny season. The French, in fact, have been celebrating Fête de la Musique every June 21 since 1982 to welcome summer. City by city, this tradition has spread with Make Music Day, a…
Perhaps one of the most epic rock tours in recent years will kick off in West Palm Beach June 22. This summer, dual headliners the Pixies and Weezer, on a 30-stop trek across the United States, will thrill generations of music fans. The bands’ combined catalogue includes dozens of classics that inspired hundreds…
With only one year under its belt, the amount of coups the Perfect Trip: Miami Psych Fest has been able to pull off for its second edition is almost absurd: besides expanding to occupy both the Ground and Floyd along with netting seemingly miraculous gets on the lineup, event organizer Adam Arritola (he prefers just to go by Adam) says word of the festival has already traveled out of Miami, garnering attention from the likes of the Big Ears and Vision Festivals in Knoxville, TN and Brooklyn respectively. What’s more, critic and anthromorphic meme Anthony Fantano – the internet’s busiest music nerd – recently gave the festival a shout-out during a live stream. While many festivals of a similar scale and ambition struggle out of the gate, Miami Psych Fest has had no problem asserting its identity or reaching its target audience.
Mount Kimbie, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Talib Kweli, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, June 11 through 17.
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.
Colombian singer Karol G played a six-song set that included hits such as “Ahora Me Llama,” “Mi Cama,” and “Pineapple.”
A crucial part of Rüfüs Du Sol’s charm is the uplifting quality of the music. Since the release of the Australian electronic trio’s first full-length album, Atlas, in 2014, it has forged ahead with a sound that’s as sweeping in emotion as in scope, enveloping listeners and concertgoers in immaculately produced soundscapes and dreamy vocals courtesy of guitarist Tyrone Lindqvist.
Of the Miami-born-and-bred acts you won’t see performing at Floyd or Electric Pickle, Crud is among the most exciting. Since 2015, the three-piece has been consistently serving up riffs of the heaviest variety, assailing listeners’ ears — in the best way possible — with the band’s preferred blend of death doom and sludge metal.
Berlin-based electronic artist Zoè Zanias, known simply as Zanias, believes music is what separates us from other animals. She spent much of her childhood trekking through the rainforest with her mother, a tropical biologist, and falling asleep to the sounds of the jungle. Beautiful though exotic bird songs, she says, lack a key element: rhythm.
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.
Last night, Dua Lipa returned to Miami, to Bayfront Park, for the first time since last year, when she was in the Magic City to film the video for her breakout hit, “New Rules.”
Lil Pump, Ski Mask the Slump God, Smokepurpp, and Wifisfuneral made the list this year.
The Pen & The Piano Tour hits Revolution Live this Friday.
Miami’s best electronic act? Get Face, a 25-year-old kid from Tampa. The city’s top dance club? Treehouse Miami. The finest band? Viniloversus, Venezuelan musicians who had “built a sizable following in their native South American nation and were already Latin Grammy winners by the time economic and political turmoil forced them to emigrate to the United States.”
