If you hear St. Paul & the Broken Bones sight unseen, the Alabama neo-soul band conjures images of Al Green sweating while crooning. Singer Paul Janeway chuckles when asked about listeners’ preconceptions about his appearance before they see his band live. “When we started, there were assumptions I wouldn’t look the way I do,” he says. “It’s fun to surprise people.”
WOmXn Fest is coming to the Magic City during a busy Miami Art Week. The one-day event, hosted by Crass Lips Records, will present a diverse lineup of all-womxn performers, bands, musicians, and vendors, creating a safe space in the experimental, queer-friendly Little Haiti venue 229. Behind the festival is Period…
Are you still pretending you’re coming to Miami during Art Basel and the satellite events for the cultural experience? If you really want to get familiar with the local culture, there’s really no better way to experience it than at night. Miami might not be the best at many things,…
It’s an unusually cool August night in downtown Miami, and the hum of cars racing past on the nearby MacArthur Causeway is muted by a boisterous crowd wearing sky-high platform shoes, glitter, and heavy eyeliner. Close to 1 a.m., as the horde cracks hand fans, Jupiter Velvet, bathed in a…
“Vertigo,” the lead single off hip-hop duo Atmosphere’s new album, “Mi Vida Local,” contains sobering observations about climate change or the nuclear apocalypse or whatever happens to be threatening humanity’s existence at the moment. “I might be the last generation of grandparents,” one line goes…
In April 1985, Prince played the finale of his iconic Purple Rain tour at the Orange Bowl in Miami. The glamorous Sheila E. was by his side. After the show, Prince suggested they start their next musical phase with a new look: short hair.
The creak of a door opening in a new venue in Miami is like a drop of blood in a shark-infested ocean: All of the city’s night crawlers can hear the sound a mile away. But the noise is even louder when the new spot occupies the former space of one of Miami’s most beloved venues. In July 2017, the owners of Bardot…
Atmosphere, Eons, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, November 26 through December 2.
These are the five best concerts for in Miami this weekend.
Local acts INVT, True Vine, Sister System, Jonny From Space, and other will celebrate the United States’ foremost consumerist holiday in style by bringing it back to basics.
“Degenerate” typically has a negative connotation. Google says the word means someone who’s “lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable.” For Travis Egedy, better known as the electronic artist Pictureplane, being called a degenerate is a “badge of honor.” Egedy even invoked the word to title his latest album.
Free Dystopia fuses rock, hip-hop, and soul to create an alluring new genre South Florida needs.
Robert Glasper has come a long way. Sometimes talent isn’t enough to launch an artist into the mainstream, so the jazz pianist fused his melodic compositions with hip-hop collaborations and made a name for himself.
You spent the weekend jogging the Rickenbacker Causeway in preparation for the caloric destruction that’s about to go down. But now it’s time to switch gears and concentrate on the real task at hand: figuring out how to cope with the upcoming stress of the holiday. Thanksgiving weekend in Miami has been historically one of the best for parties, so now you need to decide where to spend it. From South Miami to Mid-Beach, here are the top ten Thanksgiving weekend parties in Miami-Dade. Choose wisely.
Amara La Negra comes across as a relentlessly, unapologetically positive figure. She constantly Instagrams herself dancing. She posts photos of the Halloween costumes that fans made to honor her. She stands on stages with her fist clutched defiantly in the air. But the Miami-raised singer, actress, and reality TV star…
Gami dreams of one day spinning at Space. The 23-year-old Miami native wants to hoist her city out of its tech-house and EDM rut and explore new ideas bubbling up in dance music. “There’s not a huge interest in the music that I’m bringing into the city yet,” Gami laments…
The word kunst means to “art” in German and comes dangerously close to reading like a vulgar term for genitalia in English. Odds are the eccentric Miami drag performer who adopted the word as a stage name is thrilled and tickled by this seemingly contradictory duality. Kunst has taken an…
Elton John, Playboi Carti, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, November 19 through 25.
Growing up in Ramat Gan, Israel, was pretty safe, musician Tamar Dart explains. Even so, she remembers as a child being evacuated from her home when scud missiles fell during the Gulf War. “Growing up [there] is tense; people are severely affected by the politics,” she says. But listening to Western music…
It wasn’t always guaranteed that the guitar would be the instrument associated with rock ‘n’ roll. At the birth of the rock era, piano men such as Little Richard and Ray Charles made hips shake and hearts ache by hollering while tickling ivories instead of plucking strings. Elvis even had a piano-playing rival…
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
It all came down to money. Commissioners Joe Carollo and Keon Hardemon basically wanted Ultra Music Festival to pay a much higher fee to use Miami Marine Stadium and Virginia Key Beach Park for its 2019 edition. The festival agreed to pay $2 million, and Hardemon insisted a large part of that money go to the struggling Virginia Key Beach Park Trust.
