Otto Yliperttula is a man of few words but many, many sounds. Under the stage name Yotto, the 31-year-old Finnish producer makes melodies warm enough to heat a hearth in winter and dark enough to penetrate the underground. His DJ sets span the spectrum of electronic music.
Ultra Music Festival always does it big. And because there’s a 20th anniversary to celebrate this year, you can only imagine what a flashy, beat-droppin’ spectacle it will be.
Choosing where to go on a regular Miami weekend is hard enough. Miami Music Week turns that conundrum into a Sophie’s choice. Allow this writer, an MMW veteran, to impart some sage advice: Don’t try to make it to every party. Unless you can fast-track Elon Musk’s Hyperloop within the…
Mario Giancarlo believes the trick to getting into South by Southwest was embracing his native language, Spanish.
If Jason Mraz, who is set to play the Arsht Center tonight, were to decorate his car with bumper stickers, none would read “WWJD?” However, there is a very good chance there might be a “WWMRD?”
Singer-songwriter Mai Tatro of the band Moonlight Drive-In is only 18 years old, but she has years of live-music gigs under her belt. Tatro has been writing and singing her own songs since she was 13, and her vocals are powerful, yet she’s all too familiar with the difficulties of scoring bookings for a band fronted by a young woman.
Jonny White is on a mission. As a cofounder of the electronic duo Art Department, he has spent nearly a decade vitalizing dance floors, from behind the booth or piped through speakers, in meccas such as Ibiza and Berlin. The group’s 2010 hit, “Without You,” earned widespread acclaim as dance track…
By any measure of success, Little Dragon has had an enviable career. Since its formation in 1996, the Gothenburg, Sweden-based synth-pop band has traveled the world, cultivated a devoted following, and collaborated with its musical heroes, as well as inspired a new generation of artists.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z will return to Hard Rock Stadium Friday, August 31.
A couple of nights ago, hundreds of Vero Beach baby-boomers piled into the Emerson Center, an 800-seat Unitarian church-cum-concert-hall, for a postprandial show by four men dressed as the Beatles. As the musicians — wearing matching suits, floppy wigs, and silly grins — took the stage, the audience erupted in shrieks. A woman in an Abbey Road shirt shouted from the nosebleeds: “I love you, Paul!”
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez doesn’t want to be forever cast as “the activist rapper,” though he acknowledges his music career and work as an environmental advocate parallel and support each another.
Miami Music Week doesn’t start for a few days, but pre-MMW parties will begin taking over venues around town well before the official festivities kick off. Pace yourself, though — St. Patrick’s Day is this Saturday, and if you’re looking for live music, Las Rosas’ full night of sets by Jacuzzi Boys, the Woolly Bushmen, and Dama Vicke might do the trick. Living legends Anita Baker, Chaka Khan, and Smokey Robinson will play Hard Rock Stadium for Jazz in the Gardens, and Jason Mraz will hit the Arsht Center stage this week.
It’s been about a decade since Shaq donned the Heat jersey, but he misses Miami so much he’s coming back in the biggest way possible. Shaq’s Fun House is an invite-only, all-night dance-music throwdown that will be held during Miami Music Week at a secret warehouse in the heart of Wynwood.
It’s just past sunset in Kelly Lee Owens’ London apartment, and she’s palming a crystal while examining a pair of pigeons in the twilight when she’s asked about “Bird,” a kalimba-infused track from her eponymous 2017 album. To Owens, it’s a coincidence that gives meaning to an otherwise mundane moment.
The Woolly Bushmen, a rock outfit based in Orlando, is heavily influenced by classic rock ‘n’ roll bands such as the Animals, in addition to early rockabilly and punk.
After much speculation, Winter Music Conference has announced it will indeed return this year. The storied industry gathering will be a three-day conference at the Faena Forum in Miami Beach. It’s smaller in scale than past editions. Last year’s conference spanned four days, and it ran six days in 2011.
In a public info session for downtown residents, MPD and Ultra detailed their plans for responding to a “mass casualty” situation.
Pascal Arbez-Nicolas is the legendary French electronic dance music artist known as Vitalic, but he doesn’t consider himself a producer. He’s more of a songwriter who tells stories using the sound palette of techno house, he says, filtering his personal life through four-to-the-floor bangers with big kick drums and blasts of synthesizer.
After two public meetings with Miami Beach residents, the organizers of Miami Beach Pop Festival have decided to delay their proposal for the event. The three-day fest was originally planned to happen the weekend after Art Basel on the beach between Fifth and Tenth Streets and expected to attract 30,000 people per day.
It’s easy to overlook the artistic contributions of women in one’s own community. Miami is stacked with talented songwriters, singers, and musicians. Here’s a rundown of some of the city’s most impressive musos, including Native Youth, Michelle Grand of Ex Norwegian, Megan Morrison, Dama Vicke, and Savannah Cristina.
Suzi Analogue is a fashionista and a music gear-head: someone equally likely to dig through racks of neon clothing and crates of old vinyl records.
Few acts last as long as the indie-pop band Spoon has been around. The group, led by singer and lead songwriter Britt Daniel, formed 25 years ago in Austin, Texas, before the music business was thrown into an internet-induced death spiral. Though the bandmates have weathered the changing tides of…
