Rolling Loud 2019 Day One: Cardi B, Migos, Rae Sremmurd, and Others

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,…

Here Are the Rolling Loud 2019 Set Times

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…

Tame Impala Delivered an Unabashed Spectacle to Miami Beach

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.

Rüfüs Du Sol Brings a Surprising Live Show to Bayfront Park

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…

Interpol’s Daniel Kessler on Upcoming EP: “It’s a Fresh New Take”

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…

Inaugural Miami Beach Pop Festival Coming in November

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…

How Tame Impala Taught Me to Love Pop Music

“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.