For hip-hop lovers, Rolling Loud’s annual festival is like Christmas. Every year, the biggest names in rap draw thousands of fans to Miami-Dade to smoke marijuana, rage, and party to the greatest hits. The festival made it back to Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, creating overwhelming traffic, Instagram-worthy moments,…
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
The Miami New Drama production, playing April 25 to May 19, captures the spirit of the town through singer Betsayda Machado and La Parranda El Clavo, a real-life eight-person party band from a small village in Barlovento, Venezuela.
Shake up your Saturday night with the Afro-Cuban House Experiment (A.C.H.É.), a unique live show that mixes electronic beats, old-school Latin percussion, hypnotic singing and chanting, traditional religious dancers, a horn section, and plenty of positive vibes.
Are you ready for Rolling Loud this weekend? Not if you haven’t planned your itinerary. This year, the festival is bringing scores of rap and hip-hop artists – 164 in all – to Hard Rock Stadium for a three-day smorgasbord of music. That means you’ll have to make some difficult…
If the Fillmore Miami Beach seems like a small venue for a recent Coachella headliner, that’s because it is. Fresh off headlining slots at Atlanta’s Shaky Knees and the aforementioned megafest, the Australian psych-pop sensation Tame Impala visited the Fillmore Tuesday night for an intimate first-ever show in Miami.
For those not familiar with some of the new additions to the Rolling Loud lineup, DaBaby is definitely one to know. The rapper from Charlotte, North Carolina, has been making major waves this year and already boasts a rabid fan base that will undoubtedly be lit at his May 10…
It seems every child star has the same career trajectory: modeling, acting, making music, then failing miserably and posting #ThrowbackThursday photos of their time in the limelight. It also seems being a child star is not easy. The public has the pleasure of watching these young people grow up…
New genre, same old mistakes.
The Material Girl is returning to Miami. Yesterday, Madonna announced her Madame X tour, a series of short residencies in major cities across the U.S. as well as London and Paris. Kicking off in New York City, the tour will run through Chicago and Los Angeles before moving on to…
Fans of Rüfüs Du Sol’s music know and love indie-dance and deep-house hits such as “Treat You Better,” “You Were Right,” “Sundream” and “Underwater,” which can be heard on such outlets as Sirius XM’s “Chill” radio station. But those who have yet to see the live show are in for…
Tame Impala, Interpol, Kali Uchis, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, May 6 through 12.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
Could one of these rappers be the next big thing?
With his sweetheart smile and bad-boy biceps, Jake Miller looks like the pop star that record labels could only dream of sculpting. But he has more than good looks and catchy hooks: He has a backbone. Originally a rapper from Weston, Florida, Miller etched his name onto the Billboard charts…
Interpol is one of the hardest-working low-key bands on the indie scene. So it’s no surprise that when the trio completed its sixth album, Marauder, there was plenty of leftover material. Last August, the bandmates released Marauder, on which they collaborated with Flaming Lips and MGMT producer Dave Fridmann. Interpol guitarist and…
Four years ago, the inaugural Rolling Loud festival was a humble one-day event held in Wynwood. Schoolboy Q, riding high on the success of his Kendrick Lamar-featuring hit “Collard Greens,” headlined a bill that included Juicy J, Action Bronson, Curren$y, and a pre-Rodeo Travis Scott. That’s nothing to scoff at…
Last year, a group of music festival veterans announced plans to stage a three-day event on the sands of South Beach. Originally scheduled for 2018, the festival was delayed due to concerns from residents and city officials. That seems to have been sorted out, because…
Talking to Sam Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet, you’d never guess he was the bassist of the biggest young rock band to emerge in decades. The 20-year-old speaks humbly and philosophically about his success. That’s a feat for someone so young, especially after the band’s first full-length album…
“New Person, Same Old Mistakes” was covered by Rihanna, and he’s since collaborated with the likes of Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson and Travis Scott — the kinds of artists I probably would have sneered at before I fell in love with Currents.
“I want to talk about real shit.” Yungblud, AKA Dominic Harrison, explains what drove him, a Brit, to write a song called “Machine Gun (Fuck the NRA).” He’s speaking to New Times by phone from Los Angeles in the most charming accent this side of Peppa Pig. “I want to…
Remember those black-and-white parental advisory stickers? The music industry used to slap them on CDs to warn parents about explicit content. Well, you can thank Judas Priest for them — at least in part. Priest’s “Eat Me Alive,” along with songs by Prince, Def Leppard, Madonna, and the Disney-princess-like Sheena…
