Fillmore

Fillmore Miami Beach Won't Be Bulldozed! Developers to "Preserve" After Public Outcry

The panic alarm had sounded. It was time to save the Fillmore Miami Beach. "In case you haven't heard, here's the situation," Sweat Records' Lauren "Lolo" Reskin warned local music fans in a call to action earlier this month. "Two companies have proposals on the table to completely renovate the Mia ... More >>

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

When was the last time you got down on your knees and kissed Miami? What, never? Well, get down and start kissing, because this town loves you. Do you understand how lucky you are to be here? Supreme talent comes through this place every day. It's just not natural for a music-lover to have to pick ... More >>

Cake Mafioso

Pretty Lights: "I Had No Idea It'd Get This Big, Rolling Stone and 10,000-Person Shows"

Pretty Lights (AKA Derek Vincent Smith) has come a long way in a relatively short time. Since 2006, he's built a musical empire with his friends and labelmates at Pretty Lights Music, stirring up what many consider to be a whole new genre in the process. His blend of natural rhythms and electron ... More >>

Passion Pit Cancels Summer Tour Dates, Still Playing South Florida on October 23

Two weeks of tour dates have just been canceled by Passion Pit. And the reason: Frontman Michael Angelakos needs "to take the time to work on improving [his] mental health." So far, most of the tour remains intact, including Passion Pit's South Florida show at the Hollywood ArtsPark on October 23. ... More >>

Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell Comments on Tom Gabel's Transgender Announcement

Last week, Against Me! singer Tom Gabel announced that she is transgendered and beginning life as a woman. Coincidentally, his band played the Lollapalooza festival in 2010 and that festival's organizer, Perry Farrell, is bringing Jane's Addiction to the Fillmore Miami Beach this Friday. Farrell ... More >>

Mimosa at Revolution Live March 15

Jane's Addiction Announce Concert at the Fillmore Miami Beach on May 18

​Even after 27 years, four albums, and a few line-up changes, Jane's Addiction is holding on strong. In fact, Perry Farrell and company's latest album, The Great Escape Artist, made it to the third spot on Billboard rock chart. So rather than kick the habit in 2012, these '90s alt-rock gods are k ... More >>

Wilco Announces Southeast U.S. Tour With Concert at Fillmore Miami Beach on May 15

​Can you handle The Whole Love? 'Cause Wilco's ready to give it to you. Earlier today via wilcoworld.net, the Chicago alt-country crew announced its intention to lay the "Art of Almost" and "Standing O" on six cities across the Southeast U.S., including stops in states like Arkansas, Alabama, Mi ... More >>

Social Distortion at the Fillmore November 4

Space Terrace Goes (Almost) All Ages With Steve Angello's Thanksgiving Party

Photo by Yesenia Hernandez​Forget about your parents' stupid rock 'n' roll. That shit's for old people. If 2011 at the Fillmore has taught us anything, it's that the house is never more packed and awesome than during the monthly Honeymoon Series party, when the room quakes with entertaining, dar ... More >>

Six Craziest Moments From Odd Future's Halloween Show in Miami

Photo by Ian Witlen​Halloween's known as a holiday for freaks. Crazy shit goes down, people lose their inhibitions and let loose. For one night every year, you can be whomever you want -- be it a werewolf, skinhead, or the Virgin Mary -- and no one's going to judge you for it. That was the vibe ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets for Odd Future at the Fillmore Miami Beach?

​Yesterday, Crossfade squealed, "We hate you, Odd Future." And we meant it. In fact, we loathe Tyler and crew with the face-melting intensity of a meth lab explosion. And that's why we bought six sale copies of Goblin, snatched up a shitload of official Odd Future tour merchandise (sticker set, k ... More >>

Underground Rebel Bingo Club Takes Over the Fillmore Miami Beach This Friday

Courtesy of Rebel BingoB-I-N-G ... Oh.​"It's bingo, sort of, but not like you've seen it before. We made up our own rules, because we don't know how to play ACTUAL bingo. This is Rebel Bingo. It's not nice and it's not fair. Do not bring your grandma." That's the way the cryptic press release for ... More >>

Sting Announces Back to Bass Tour With Miami Concert at the Fillmore November 12

​Hey Roxanne, wanna spend a few hours with Sting, getting stripped down and raw? And no, unfortunately, we're not talking about running a bath, lighting a circle of fertility candles, and prepping for a private exhibition of the former Police frontman's mastery of tantric pleasure principles. We ... More >>

Social Distortion Come Back to the Fillmore Miami Beach November 4

​Shredding hard and stalking America's highways since 1978, SoCal punk crew Social Distortion has survived several lifetimes of hard living. Lesser punks than SxDx frontman and founder Mike Ness would've fallen down, folded, and rolled over into the gutter by now. But 33 years later, the man's s ... More >>

MartyParty Talks Smoking Purple Pot, Making Purple Music, and Freaking Out on Fun

​For millennia, only a supersmall slice of the world's human population could legitimately claim to have rocked out to the color spectrum. Of course, we're talking about those special party people with the strange neurological condition known as synesthesia. And, uh, certain recreational weed smo ... More >>

Atmosphere Announce Miami Show at the Fillmore September 16

​And the live show announcements just keep pouring in. Early yesterday, Sweat Records announced that Ted Leo and the Pharmacists will be performing at Churchill's Pub. And word on the street is the Junior Boys will be making their first stop in the Magic City since they played the Vagabond in Oc ... More >>

Chromeo Bring Hot Mess to the Fillmore Miami Beach September 20

Chromeo​Another big show announcement: Vocoder-obsessed duo Chromeo announced they'll be performing at the Fillmore Miami Beach on September 20 as part of the LG Ones to Watch Tour.Oddly enough, they've been "ones to watch" basically since their first release, 2004's She's In Control. Their latest ... More >>

Girl Talk on Top 40, Sampling Songs He Hates, and Aspiring to Be as Bombastic as Kiss

Photo by Paul SobotaGirl Talk, AKA Gregg Gillis.​Read Crossfade's full feature article "The Spastic Science! Girl Talk Is All About Confetti, Sweat, and Scientific Rigor." Gearing up for the Girl Talk experience at the Fillmore Miami Beach this Thursday and Friday, we've slipped into our wettest ... More >>

Caligula Brings the Wobble for The Corruption Mixtape

​The wobbly bass line is just as important to dupstep as analog sounds were to French electro-house. So you can't fault Caligula, the local dynamic duo of Obi Tawil and Mike Larson, for always featuring it prominently. However, with The Rise EP, which was released in March, Tawil and Larson ... More >>

The Miniature Pretty Lights Mob Scene at the Fillmore Miami Beach

Photo by Marta Xochilt PerezParty dude and label boss Pretty Lights.​See the full 23-photo Pretty Lights at the Fillmore Miami Beach slideshow. It's Miami Music Week! How do we know? 'Cause Denver party dude and record label boss Pretty Lights (AKA Derek Vincent Smith) confirmed it last night a ... More >>

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Played an Empty Fillmore, Thousands Missed Best Show Ever

Photo by Marta Xochilt Perez​ See the full 30-photo Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings slideshow. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings The Fillmore Miami Beach Sunday, March 20, 2011 Better Than: Anything that's ever happened to me. Despite the fact I previewed this show with a music feature in last ... More >>

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Bringing Full-Bodied Funk to the Fillmore

​We've always wanted to just hop in a time machine and transport ourselves back to the height of a different musical era -- you know, jazz in the '20s, British pop in the '60s, funk and R&B music in the '70s. Well, now thanks to Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, we can get a taste of down-and- ... More >>

Flogging Molly Brings Brash Irish Anthems to the Fillmore Miami Beach February 12

​It's ironic that for bands like Black 47 and the Dropkick Murphys, the words Irish and insurgency have become practically synonymous, especially since these two outfits actually hail from New York and Boston respectively, cities that are separated by several thousand miles from the Emerald Isles. ... More >>

Random Night at Arkadia During Basel Week

Victor Gonzalez iPhone picSunny Singh likes to bang on the drum all day.​The beauty of Art Basel week is the spontaneity of it. One minute you can be having tempura eggplant before a special indie-pop DJ set at Bardot, then all of a sudden you're in a Haitian man's cab listening to Creole talk-rad ... More >>

Wolf Parade Keeps the Howl Alive at the Fillmore November 10

​Back in the early 2000s, cool kids everywhere became obsessed with all kinds of lupine creatures. Maybe it was irony. Maybe it was rabies. Or maybe the moon had slipped off axis. Whatever the cause, almost everyone between the ages of 16 and 28 was wearing a howling wolf's head t-shirt and naming ... More >>

Her Maj-Nasty

LCD Soundsystem Afterparty With Overthrow Tonight at Florida Room

Will it be you, James Murphy, spinning tonight at Florida Room?​Going to the LCD Soundsystem show tonight at the Fillmore? Well, the party don't stop after the house lights have be turned on. Head on over to the Florida Room where Overthrow is hosting the concert after-party. Also on the bill: "DF ... More >>

Iron & Wine Show Announced at the Fillmore Miami Beach

via his MySpace page​We like to lay claim on musicians whenever we can. If they've lived in South Florida for more than a few months, went to school here, had a girlfriend from here, or even their dog lived here, we like to think they're ours. So it should come as no surprise that we consider Sout ... More >>

Deftones

Video: Yeasayer Releases Video for "Madder Red" with Kristen Bell and a Creepy, Disfigured Pet -- Watch it Here

​Not all pets are cute and cuddly -- we get that.  But we've never seen a "pet" as ugly as the one in Yeasayer's just-released video for "Madder Red."The creature in the video looks like a big wad of someone's insides, equipped with a bruised eye, bloody mouth, and it oozes green goo, to boot ... More >>

Around Town: Lil Jon, Comics Convention, Paulina Rubio, and Father's Day Hogs

Worth his crunk weight in gold.​Friday Lil Jon crunks up the volume at Mansion tonight, where he'll perform a guest-DJ set. BYO chalice and maybe he'll fill it up with some of his pimp juice. Now that we have Mike Stanton, see what the Florida Marlins can do against the Tampa Bay Rays. The ... More >>

Around Town: Cold War Kids, Hold Steady, Cuba Nostalgia, and Yann Martel

Straws are fun. So are the ladies of Black Blondie.​What's the plan this weekend? Huddle up. Club kids, make a beeline for Space's 10-year Anniversary party. Hipsters, stampede the Cold War Kids/Hold Steady concert then barter your labels at Swap Miami. Older Cubans, flip through old yearbooks and ... More >>

Around Town: Exxotica, Michael Franti, Wyclef Jean, Prefuse 73, and Major Lazer

​Is this the final cultural push before Miami goes silent for the Summer? This weekend has a series of multi-day events that will leave you scrambling to decide what to do. There's a porn expo, Haitian music fest, Mexican film festival, hip-hop conference, lesbian beach parties, and the opening we ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: "Factory" by Band of Horses, Playing the Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, April 28

photo by Christopher Wilson​Next Wednesday's show at the Fillmore Miami Beach by Band of Horses caps off a pretty awesome April at the venue. The show also marks, however, a preview for fans of the ex-Seattle/now South Carolina band's third studio album, the upcoming Infinite Arms. It drops on Col ... More >>

Around Town This Weekend: Obama's Fav Jazz Singer, Five Years of Sweat, and Plenty of Pride and Beer

Yesterday, we asked the copy machine if we could head home early from the office. We're ready for the weekend. Bring on the deep-toned plucks of an upright bass, the rainbow-hued parades and parties, all-you-can-drink beer, a trip to Miami's fabled Cuban food meccas, and a night of indie blues-rock. ... More >>

Concert Review: The Arctic Monkeys at the Fillmore Miami Beach, April 1

Photo by Ian WitlenClick here to view photos from this event.​The Arctic MonkeysThe Fillmore Miami BeachThursday, April 1, 2010Better Than: Northern English food (black pudding, anyone?)The Review:Last night's debut Miami show by the Sheffield, England rock outfit the Arctic Monkeys gave plenty to ... More >>

The Arctic Monkeys school Miami in the best of northern Brit rock

Q&A With Nick O'Malley of the Arctic Monkeys, Playing the Fillmore Miami Beach Tomorrow Night

The Arctic Monkeys, with bassist Turner second from right.​Thursday's show at the Fillmore marks the Arctic Monkeys' first performance in Miami Beach, but the Sheffield, England rockers already count a famous local resident as an unlikely fan: Diddy. About this time last year, the band was in New ... More >>

Concert Announcements: Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, and David Gray

via Flickr User Between a Rock​It's certainly no secret that jam bands are in love with visiting South Florida. In fact, it seems like every band with a nouveau-hippie following makes it down here at least once a year, so it's rarely big news. This announcement though, it'll make some fans go weak ... More >>

The ABFF Drops into Town

Cheech And Chong Rap "For All The Niggas Out There"

Cheech and Chong are funny dudes. They did a show for the South Beach Comedy Festival at the Fillmore on South Beach. They have been recording albums since the 1970's so I took the opportunity to ask them some music-related questions. Enjoy.

Over the Weekend - My Morning Jacket, Club Jupiña Colada and Roger Sanchez

Crazy Fingers Forever

Chick Corea and Return to Forever bring jazz to The Fillmore.

Over The Weekend - 2 Live Crew, Ringo Starr and Armin van Buuren

All Is Fair in Love

Two of R&B’s hottest stars align at The Fillmore.

Throwback Tuesdays: Cynic - "I'm But a Wave To...."

Yo Quiero Ballet

Who knew there were lakes in Cuba?

Oh What a Night

It’s a culture vulture’s dream come true