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The Fillmore Is Saved: New Convention Center Deals Will Keep Jackie Gleason Theater

When Portman-CMC, one of two finalists for a billion-dollar Miami Beach Convention Center renovation, unveiled plans to raze the historic Jackie Gleason Theater and replace it with a hotel, residents were not shy about slamming the idea. More than 1,200 people signed on to a "Save the Fillmore" Face ... More >>

Save the Fillmore Miami Beach! Sweat Records' Tips to Preserve the Jackie Gleason Theater

"In case you haven't heard, here's the situation," Sweat Records' Lauren "Lolo" Reskin writes on the record shop's blog. "Two companies have proposals on the table to completely renovate the Miami Beach Convention Center site. "South Beach ACE wants to preserve the Fillmore Miami Beach and make it ... More >>

Ellie Goulding by the Numbers: From Lights and Halcyon to Ex-BF Skrillex

Ellie Goulding is the sweet-voiced crooner cooking up hits from the other side of the Atlantic. And she's hitting the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach on Wednesday, January 16. But what do you really know about her anyway? Sure, you know all the lyrics to her hit song "Lights." Well, you know the ... More >>

Matt & Kim Talks Basel, Art School, and Music

Matt & Kim should be commended for coming through on rescheduling a show they had to cancel after singer/keyboardist Matt lost his voice while on tour, a few months ago. What band suffers an illness, cancels a show, promises a make-up date, but never follows through? Most all of them, but not ... More >>

Matt & Kim Announce 2012 Lightning Tour With Fillmore Miami Beach Show on October 14

To quote adorable guy-girl indie poppers Matt & Kim: Oooh-oooh-oooh-woo, oooh-woo, oooh-woo ... Just a few minutes ago, the perpetually psyched tag team ("Matt plays keys! Kim plays drums!") announced their 38-date Lightning Tour via Twitter, expressing an overwhelming level of excitement with ... More >>

Andrew Bird, Chris Issak Added to Fillmore Miami Beach 2012 Concert Schedule

The geographical disadvantage that has historically plagued Miami's live music scene is seemingly dissipating. Touring indie acts are traveling further south than ever before, logging the extra 250 miles from Orlando or Tampa to play shows in Miami-Dade. While venues like Bardot and Grand Central ... More >>

Hooters Swimsuit Pageant Coming to Fillmore Miami Beach June 23

Hooters, famous for chicken wings and hot chicks, will host the 16th Annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant at The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater June 23 at 10 p.m. The event will be broadcast on FX and to all Hooters restaurants live. Competing for a $50,000 first place p ... More >>

Beach House at Fillmore Miami Beach May 8

Beach House's Victoria Legrand on Bloom, New Songs, and Practicing Musical Magic

In its recent music issue, Entertainment Weekly declared Baltimore-based dream pop duo Beach House to be one of the 30 greatest bands working today. Though the duo was number 30, the list also included the legendary Bruce Springsteen and pop sensation Adele. "I saw that thing, and it kinda freaked ... More >>

Afrojack Announces Jacked Summer 2012 Tour With Miami Show at Bayfront Park on June 16

Dutch DJ-producer Afrojack just announced his Jacked summer tour with a stop at Miami's Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park on Saturday, June 16, and it's being billed as his most ambitious roadtrip to date. It's not hard to see why he's bringing the big guns -- boasting 30 headlining shows, a Gr ... More >>

Ghetto Booty-Poppin'

Rusko Announces Show at the Fillmore Miami Beach on May 19

​Odd Future? Snow Patrol? Now Rusko? Holy shit, the Fillmore's like Miami's United Nations of live music. Moments ago, Crossfade's inbox was slapped with a show announcement: Dubstep disc jockey and record producer Rusko is headed to South Beach in May! Following the commercial and critical su ... More >>

Lenny Kravitz Announces First US Tour in Five Years, (Funk) Rocks Miami Beach February 25

​Christmas came early indeed. According to a press release sent moments ago to Crossfade, Lenny Kravitz "is pleased to announce dates for his first American tour in five years!" Best of all, dude's got a gig in the Big Mango. The "nearly 20-city tour" kicks off at New York City's Radio City Mu ... More >>

Korn Announces November 9 Show at the Fillmore Miami Beach

​Topping the list of artists we'd never expect to see at the Fillmore Miami Beach, Korn just announced a November 9 engagement at the house Jackie Gleason Live Nation built. Thirteen years ago, Jonathan Davis and company released its big breakthrough album, Follow the Leader. It debuted atop the ... More >>

Odd Future Announces Halloween Show at the Fillmore Miami Beach

​Last night, Tyler the Creator tweeted the meaty schedule for hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All's upcoming Golf Wang Tour 2011. Not only will the raunchy sultans of swag be performing here in the 305 on Halloween night, but the show is another in a steady stream of solid F ... More >>

Brazilian Rapper Marcelo D2 Rips Into the Fillmore Miami Beach July 22

​They say that music is the universal language. And it's a damned good thing. Because otherwise, you might miss out on Brazilian rapper Marcelo D2. Unless, of course, you happen to speak Portuguese. In any case, it'd be a shame if you missed the opportunity to be exposed to this hip-hopper's ste ... More >>

Borgore Drags the Honeymoon Series to a Dark Dance Dungeon June 17

​Have you ever had one of those really fun nightmares where everyone's dancing at superspeed while eating loads of bad drugs, shrieking like overloaded human synths, and playing 32-bit video games in rubber underwear? Well, you've obviously never passed out at 5 a.m. with Borgore's "Nympho," "Gl ... More >>

The Honeymoon Series with Zeds Dead at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 5

The Moon Is Out! Live Nation and Embrace Team Up for the Honeymoon Series

Photo by Marta Xochilt PerezThe neo-raver, grandchild of the hippies.​The Honeymoon Series begins this Saturday with Datsik, continuing with Zeds Dead May 5 and Borgore June 17. Back in the LSD-soaked '60s, a big boxy San Francisco building named the Fillmore Auditorium was routinely overrun by l ... More >>

Girl Talk Announces Second Gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 20

​A month and a half ago, hyperkinetic copyright prankster and Illegal Art label boss Girl Talk (AKA Greg Gillis) revealed that he was "extending his pheremone-soaked North American spree by scheduling another 38 sweaty encounters, including a gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 19." Immediately ... More >>

Our List of Miami's Best Concerts of 2010

No, crazy conductor Lenny Bernstein didn't make the cut. (For one thing, he's dead.)​Maybe you're the kind of high-minded individual who enjoys the occasional night out at the opera. Or maybe you spend every Saturday night losing your mind to murder thrash in an abandoned Coconut Grove bomb shel ... More >>

Social Distortion at the Fillmore Miami Beach, November 13

Photo by Edvill, via Wikimedia Commons​With Frank Turner and LuceroThe Fillmore Miami BeachSaturday, November 13, 2010Better than: An '80s punk show in a burned-out dive bar in East L.A. Some genres are built for longevity, but you wouldn't think punk rock would be one of 'em. The hard-charging e ... More >>

Robyn's Tour Kickoff at the Fillmore Miami Beach, November 5

Photo by Ian Witlen​View photos from Robyn's Fillmore Miami Beach concert.RobynWith BFGF and Natalia KillsFriday, November 5, 2010The Fillmore Miami BeachBetter than: The Eurovision song contest.Perhaps it was the excitement of launching her first extensive North American tour, but Robyn didn't le ... More >>

Phoenix Announces Fillmore Miami Beach Show

​We've broken our "1" key over here typing out exclamation marks regarding all of Live Nation's recent bookings, especially at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Suffice it to say, Fillmore, we love you, keep being awesome. Here's another awesome, never-thought-it-would-happen show to add to your coming fa ... More >>

MGMT, Serj Tankian, Louis C.K. Announce Fillmore Miami Beach Dates (Not Together)

via facebook.com/mgmtMGMT does the Fillmore Miami Beach a couple week after Yeasayer.​Here are three more nuggets of awesomeness from New Times' Best Endangered Live Music Venue, the Fillmore Miami Beach. Nearly every week brings a new announcement of a major act there, and one more chip away at B ... More >>

Zouk, There It Is

The Deftones Play the Fillmore Miami Beach August 25, Opening Act is Baroness!

The Fillmore Miami Beach has been absolutely slaying with its indie-type bookings lately, but here's a new announcement from the venue to make a thinking-man's metal fan weep tears of joy. Sacramento legends Deftones will headline the venue on August 25, the band's first show in South Florida in a ... More >>

Hombres

Moving Units: Radio-Active Records' Top 5 Releases for April 27-May 3

No confirmation if Caribou's album title is a nod to Surfer Blood​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records  graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.Hole is officially back. And, er, so is C ... More >>

Cuban Singer Omara Portuondo Cancels Show; Old Exiles Rejoice

via jazzfestwienPortuondo​Ever since the Los Van Van concert last month went by without a hitch, cantankerous anti-Castro activists here have been itching for some kind of PR victory. They just got it today: bolero singer Omara Portuondo canceled her March 2 concert at The Fillmore in Miami Beach ... More >>

Novela Heartthrob Jencarlos Canela Performs Music at the Fillmore Miami Beach This Saturday

via livenation.com​It's easy to look at Jencarlos Canela and get the wrong impression. People have been mistaking him for a telenovela-actor-turned-musician since before he began storming the world of Latin pop with his hit single "Amor Quedate" last year. But there is one thing the first generati ... More >>

Concert Announcements: Rhythm Foundation Kicks Off the Year

​Fans of Rhythm Foundation's concert series regularly chock full of tasty selections of world music will be pleased to hear that the non-profit org that this year alone brought Zizek, Ximena Sariñana, Aterciopelados, Curumin and Cucu Diamantes to our fair shores has just released the first bits o ... More >>

Concert Announcements: The Mosh Lives II Tour at Culture Room and Air at Fillmore

via Flickr user Little02​Great news for people who are in to punching other people in the face during shows: Air is coming to the Fillmore in Miami. Air (which stands for Amour, Imagine, Reve, or Love, Imagination, Dream in the language of love) are probably best known in the states for their star ... More >>

Queen Latifah and Ensiferum Cancel Shows

via Flickr user forcefulally​Bad news for huge fans of Living Single. The star of the criminally underrated '90s sitcom has canceled her plans to show up at The Fillmore on November 17 (and the rest of her tour for that matter). No official reason was given, but here's to hoping that LS reunion is ... More >>

Our Music Recommendations From Among the Official Sleepless Night Events on Saturday

photo by Ben ThackerLanzallamas Monofonica play the Rhythm Foundation stage.​Sleepless Night returns this Saturday to Miami Beach. Staying up all night there is nothing new, but the event is way more high-falutin', asking you to stay awake for things like opera and experimental dance. That can see ... More >>

Live Nation Deal of the Week: No Service Fee plus Ultimate Access Passes

​It's Wednesday again, so Live Nation is rolling back some prices to make concert tickets just a little bit more affordable. This week, tickets for most shows at Cruzan Amphitheatre, Pompano Beach Amphitheatre, and The Fillmore Miami Beach are available at face value. No additional convenience fee ... More >>

Live Nation Offering $10 Tickets at Pompano, Cruzan, and Fillmore Today

​Want to go see the Pet Shop Boys, Blink 182, and REO Speedwagon for $30? It's possible if you buy your tickets today. Until 11:59 p.m., Live Nation is offering $10 all inclusive tickets to all shows at the Pompano Beach and Cruzan Amphitheaters and the Fillmore Miami Beach Theater. No additional ... More >>

Concert Announcements: Jewel, Bela Fleck, and Ghostface Killah

​Ghostface Killah, member and producer of The Wu-Tang clan, is stepping out on a solo tour promoting his upcoming album Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City. He'll be making a stop at Revolution Live on October 7. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.Singer/songwriter/actress Je ... More >>

Big Red

Sex-Ed 101 from Mike Epps

Friday night comedian Mike Epps performed at the Fillmore and as usual, his raucous conversational comedy was hilarious and he had the crowd in stitches for the majority of his hour-long (don't quote me on the length of time, thanks) set. He also dropped a few sexual pearls of wisdom on the crowd:Wo ... More >>

305 Fest Happens Friday to Sunday - Three Venues, Three Days, 45 Bands

305 Fest Flyer305Fest is happening this week at the Firefly, maybe some stuff at Goo and maybe one other place which I can't figure out yet. It seems like it costs 25 bucks for three days of at least 45 bands with a really incredible amount of variety in music from grind to almost jammy type stuff. ... More >>

The Marquee Will Read, “Puppet Show”

B-52's to Return to South Florida, This Time at the Fillmore Miami Beach on Feb. 7

Funplex, released last year, is the B-52's' first album in 16 years. It pumps up the volume, cranks the guitars, and rocks harder than anything the veteran group has done since its 1979 debut. There's nothing here as sweet or as catchy as "Roam" or "Love Shack," both of which made these unlikely new ... More >>

Q&A With John Legend, Performing at the Fillmore Miami Beach This Friday

New Times recently caught up with John Legend in between all kinds of action. After his high-profile appearances at the inaugural festivities, February will find the five-time Grammy winner playing Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, the NBA All-Star Game, and the Dubai International Jazz Festival. Oh, y ... More >>

No Canned Laughter

Simply real guffaws at the South Beach Comedy Festival

Last Night: My Morning Jacket at The Fillmore

Last Night: Jay-Z's Intimate Gig at the Fillmore

Hells Yeah

It’s NYE and we’re shaking it all night long!

Jam Bandy Goodness

Widespread Panic brings Birkenstock funk to the 305

Last Night: Ricky Martin at the Fillmore