Miami Music Events

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Coconut Grove Block Party Commodore Plaza	Sat., November 21, 6:00pm	Coconut Grove / Key Biscayne	Festivals Music
After a long week of writing TPS reports and suffering through discussions about a prolonged recession, you’ll need to recharge, refresh, and reload. Or forget. Drive your Toyota Corolla to Coconut Grove and cruise by the cocky peacocks wandering in traffic on Tigertail Avenue while you... More >>

The 97th Anniversary Party, Day 2 Tobacco Road	Sat., November 21, 6:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
Getting old sucks. I mean seriously. Remember what it was like being able to stay up all night drinking, then rolling into work the next day with nothing more than a cup of Starbucks and mixed visions of the previous one's debauchery and those of the one to come dancing behind your glazed eyes,... More >>

The 6th Annual Organic Hip Hop Artist Showcase African Heritage Cultural Arts Center	Sat., November 21, 7:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
Every year, the Organic Hip Hop Conference rallies conscious troops from all over the continent and beyond for a weekend of fighting for better communities through activism, vegetarianism, and music. Sponsored by nonprofit organization Difference Makers and Urban America newspaper, the 2009... More >>

Alhambra Orchestra 20th Anniversary German American Social Club	Sat., November 21, 7:00pm	West Dade / Hialeah	Music
Since 1990, the Alhambra Orchestra has performed high-class music throughout Miami-Dade County. The orchestra gives amateurs a chance to be heard and provides Miami-Dade residents with a way to get their live classical music fix without emptying their bank accounts, says Jody Atwood, a longtime... More >>

Caliente! Festival American Airlines Arena	Sat., November 21, 7:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music
Listen up, fellow Latinos. The Calle Ocho festival isn’t until March, and we don’t want you sitting around until then. So this Saturday, make your way to the American Airlines Arena for the 15th annual Caliente! Festival, featuring Latin American and Caribbean beats that are sure to... More >>

Arboles Libres Sweat Records	Sat., November 21, 8:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
This past February, as a trifle, two buddies got together to jam through free-form guitar exercises while smoking a bowl for the good of mankind. It should have been a one-time thing, but it took root, grew wildly, and flowered excessively. Now, almost a year later, that early impermanent duo... More >>

Jackson Browne The Fillmore Miami Beach	Sat., November 21, 8:00pm	South Beach	Music Nightlife
As both the precocious bard and poet laureate of the Laurel Canyon elite, Jackson Browne created a late-'60s/early-'70s repertoire that found him standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the other notables of the day. Alongside peers such as Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Crosby, Stills, Nash &... More >>

Ruben Blades James L. Knight Center	Sat., November 21, 8:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music
There are few artists in Latin music — or in any genre, for that matter — as prolific and ubiquitously talented as Rubén Blades. He's a singer and a songwriter. He's an actor. He's even a lawyer and a politician. And if all of that sounds like exaggeration, check his IMDb page... More >>

Septeto Nacional Hoy Como Ayer	Sat., November 21, 10:30pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
If time between shows is any indication, you may have to wait another 76 years to catch Cuba's legendary Septeto Nacional on yanqui shores again. The band made its last U.S. appearance at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, where it won a Gold Medal by spreading the Afro-Cuban music made popular... More >>

PIG: Pig Is Good Harvey's By The Bay	Sun., November 22, 3:15pm	North Dade	Food & Drink Music
After God warmed up by making man and woman, he set his sights on creating a truly perfect creature — the pig. What part of the Great and Holy Pig is not tasty? Hoofs? Tasty. Tail? Tasty. Nose? Tasty. If the finger-wagging vegan right wing is correct and humans were not meant to barbecue... More >>

Julian Marley and the Uprising Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts	Sun., November 22, 8:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music
There are some last names in pop culture that resonate beyond just celebrity status. They evoke emotions, nostalgia, and even the feelings of an entire era. In music, think Lennon or Dylan, and of course Marley. So imagine bearing that name and trying to live up to its powerful artistic legacy.... More >>

Back Seat Betty Love Hate Lounge	Every week Monday, 10:00pm	South Beach	Music Nightlife
Take off that shiny shirt and wash the Nice 'n' Smooth from your hair, because Mondays are for no-fuss partying. Hell, it's bad enough you had to interrupt your weekend debauchery to show up for work. This Monday night, bring your beginning-of-the-week angst to Love Hate Lounge for its newest... More >>

Pagliacci and Suor Angelica Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts	Sat., November 14, 8:00pm more dates/times	Miami / Central Dade	Music Opera Theater
Composer Pierre Boulez once said that the solution to the declining audience for opera was to blow up the opera houses, the kind of overly dramatic line that, quite frankly, belongs in an opera. If drama’s your thing, you can’t do better than the original pairing of one-act operas... More >>

Porn to Be A Star Dream	Every week Tuesday, 10:00pm	South Beach	Music Nightlife
There are those lucky few born for the loftiest pursuits, such as the office of the President of the United States of America. Then, there are others, even luckier, who were put on this Earth to get their weewees and vajayjays wet in exchange for cash money. The rest of us just watch. Now, if... More >>

Megadeth Revolution Live	Wed., November 25, 6:00pm	Fort Lauderdale	Music Nightlife
One of the most tragicomic moments in the 2004 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster features not the band but rather Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. In a touchy-feely on-camera counseling session, Mustaine reveals some major inferiority issues with Metallica's drummer, Lars Ulrich. He... More >>

Joe Arroyo The Fillmore Miami Beach	Wed., November 25, 8:00pm	South Beach	Music Nightlife
Ask any salsa lover worth his salt (or white powder of more dubious origin) which is the hardest hitting, most hip swinging salsa track of all time and a heated debate is likely to ensue. But you can bet your ass that Joe Arroyo's "Rebelion" would be in the mix. The lyric may seem racy in these... More >>

Dynamix II Respectable Street	Wed., November 25, 9:00pm	Central Palm	Music Nightlife
If you weren't skulking around dirty South Florida clubs in the '90s and early '00s, you probably don't know about the duo sometimes referred to as Miami's electro-bass overlords. But if you were a club kid covered in glitter, hair slicked back in tight buns, dodging projectile glow sticks and... More >>

80s Prom The Vagabond	Wed., November 25, 9:30pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music Parties & Receptions
The ’80s brought Reaganomics, Rubik’s Cube, New Coke, Madonna, the end of the Cold War, high-tops, Swatches, and teased hair. They're all awesome, so it’s no wonder that local indie record store Sweat Records holds an annual ode to the decade with its ’80s Prom. Already in... More >>

Annie LIV	Wed., November 25, 10:00pm	South Beach	Music Nightlife
Mark this as a must: Annie, who is best known for her tracks "Chewing Gum" and "I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me," will be making a quick stop at LIV in Miami Beach November 25 for a DJ set alongside Ross One and Contra. We'd really like for this to have been a live performance, but let's hope she... More >>

DJ T Electric Pickle	Wed., November 25, 10:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
Proof that music journalists are sometimes good for something, Thomas Koch, AKA DJ T, made his true mark in the industry by founding Groove magazine some 20 years ago. With Koch at the helm as editor and publisher, it quickly became the bible in his native Germany for everything related to... More >>

Steve Aoki Mansion	Wed., November 25, 10:00pm	South Beach	Music Nightlife
Why does aging Cali club kid Steve Aoki always seem to be everywhere all the time? He's like some kind of superhuman funhouse mirror, multiplying his slick indie-slouch image a million and one times throughout the mediated universe. It's kinda creepy ... Wherever I look (music mags, dark... More >>

(((SHAKE))) The Vagabond	Every week Thursday	Miami / Central Dade	Art Music Nightlife Parties & Receptions
Local music impresario José El Rey declares, “I’ll be there, and I’m more than enough for all the ladies to come. There will be woofers installed in special devices.” What’s he talkin’ ’bout? It’s Shake, a new party that’ll have you fiending... More >>

ArtOfficial Jazid	Fri., November 27, 10:00pm	South Beach	Music Nightlife
Ladies, if you’re on the market for fun, men, and party music, and there’s even a sliver of a shard of a chance that this as-yet-hypothetical hookup could develop into full-blown domestic bliss with babies and a refrigerator, listen up. First, a few prerequisites: (1) He’s gotta... More >>

Quality Control 1020 Music Boxx	Sat., November 28, 10:00pm	South Beach	Music Nightlife
No matter how well known and lusted over the South Beach club scene is, if you’re a local, it can still feel a tad overrated, even sometimes predictable. We become so used to openings, debuts, and special events that we get a bit jaded. Yet there’s always a chance the new place will... More >>

R. Kelly James L. Knight Center	Sat., November 28, 8:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music
Though legend says he stole his style from another shiny-headed, combat-boot-wearing R&B crooner, R. Kelly delivers timeless tunes about going halvsies on a baby or making women’s bodies go “toot, toot” and “beep, beep” that have proven he’s the only chrome dome... More >>