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?”

Khalid knows you don’t need radio support when you have SoundCloud.

Prince Royce returns with a Spanish-language bachata album featuring Shakira, Gente de Zona, Zendaya, and Chris Brown.

“I think probably what’s happened is that society has just sort of caught up to the things I’ve been complaining about for years,” Isbell says. “Had my last record come out now, I think people would feel the same way.”

Latin music fest MegaRumba may have changed its location, but it’s still the same massive block party. This year, organizers moved the festival from Tropical Park to Mana Wynwood and expanded from a Colombian Independence Day celebration to one for all nationalities — Latinos in particular. Nevertheless, Miami’s Colombian-American community…

Cultural icons never die. As generation after generation outgrows teenybopper fixations and digs deeper into record store bins, the timeless work of beloved artists is renewed era after era and time after time. But immortality comes at a cost, and its price is often caricature. Prince’s death and the subsequent outpouring of tribute showed us that the seminal genius of a generation, who spent decades bending genres in the studio, in the end became frozen in amber as the Purple One in a studded latex jacket and ruffled shirt.

Local nonprofit PAXy brings Wake Up Miami! performances to the Government Center station Monday mornings from July through December.