Ernest Barteldes

As Brazil makes headlines across the globe due to raging Amazon forest fires and the controversial leadership of President Jair Bolsonaro, Daniela Mercury’s Fillmore Miami Beach concert is taking on a deeper resonance.

Listening to Novalima, fans will find similarities between the modern Afro-Peruvian group and the highly percussive sounds heard every night in Calle Ocho nightclubs. After all, both Peru and Cuba have a long history of blending the music of formerly enslaved Africans with the drums of native people to create...

Djavan at Fillmore Miami Beach October 29

Throughout his 50-year career, Brazilian superstar Roberto Carlos has been the biggest-selling artist in his native country. Starting out as a bossa nova crooner in the early '60s, he first achieved recognition when he led a group of scruffy rockers who called themselves the Jovem Guarda (Portuguese for "young guard"),...

The controversy over same-sex marriage has clearly inspired Poseidon and the Bitter Bug, the Indigo Girls' first independently released album in two decades. The fierce track "Love of Our Lives" points an accusatory finger at the passing of Proposition 8 in California while also celebrating the "new revolution" that has...