Nothing is a given with Lauryn Hill or Nas, and the chance to see these two living legends co-headline is unquestionably a gift.

Who needs a band these days when you have a loop pedal? Not Ed Sheeran, apparently. Playing to a crowd that spanned generations and genders but skewed heavily toward young women and girls, the English singer-songwriter made it clear at his sold-out Wednesday-night concert at the American Airlines Arena that he’s the world’s biggest one-man band.

Paramore understands that the artists who stand the test of time are the shape-shifters.

Chris Martin is a ham. Fans have long known this. Like his fellow Brit, the knighted bassist of history’s most famous and fab band, Martin is a crowd pleaser. He asks the road crew to turn the house lights up to “get a good look” at everyone in the crowd, has the cameramen pan to every single section of Hard Rock Stadium, and repeatedly thanks the audience for braving rain, traffic, and the impending buzzkill of a Tuesday morning to come out to his band’s concert.

Did you spend all of your money on a vacation getaway this summer? Perhaps that wasn’t the best idea because you already live in paradise. If that’s the case, though, you’ll probably want to scrounge up some more cash to catch some of the concerts coming to South Florida in the remaining four months of 2017.

Louisville’s Bryson Tiller feels right at home in Miami.

It would be difficult to overstate Salt-N-Pepa’s significance for many of today’s biggest artists. Beyoncé could never have sung “Can you lick my Skittles/It’s the sweetest in the middle” if Salt-N-Pepa hadn’t rapped “Felt it in my hips so I dipped back to my bag of tricks…/Lick him like a…

Ivy Queen’s music gets the party going in all circles, but her songs are made by and for women.

Guns N’ Roses can act as hard as they want – and they do – but at their core they’re crowd-pleasers. They know their fans want raining pyro, climbing and jumping off stage monitors, and extended guitar solos, and they delivered handsomely to a melting audience.

In the span of only three years, Carpenter has made the jump from folk-tinged acoustic pop music to radio-ready songs such as her latest single, “Why,” which deals with decidedly teenage subject matter but gives Carpenter’s music a contemporary and mature upgrade.

When the 2016 Grammy nominations were announced in December, the Album of the Year category listed some no-brainers: Beyoncé, with her pop-cultural seismic event Lemonade; eventual winner Adele, who’d previously won the award for her once-in-a-decade album, 21; and staples like Drake and Justin Bieber, who appeared less for their latest albums than as an acknowledgment of their chart domination and cultural influence. The fifth nominee, alt-country singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson, was met with a resounding, “Who?”