If you bought tickets through Ticketmaster between October 21, 1999, and February 27, 2013, there’s a good chance you are owed free tickets. As part of a settlement for the Schlesinger v. Ticketmaster class action lawsuit, Ticketmaster agreed to provide free vouchers and discount codes for select events…
A lot has happened in the past two years. In 2016, Barack Obama was president, fake news was an oxymoron, and the South Florida rock ‘n’ rollers of Beach Day played their most recent hometown show. “I moved to Detroit,” singer/guitarist Kimmy Drake explains. For someone who grew up in Kendall…
In 1999, when I attended Florida International University, everyone, including the three other women living in my dingy dorm apartment, was obsessed with The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Many songs on the album spoke directly to us. At the South Beach and Coconut Grove clubs where we underagers drank in our microminis, lip liner, and stacked platform sandals, we shouted the words to “Doo-Wop (That Thing),” only half digesting Hill’s empowering message.
Here are a few things most Latin American countries have in common: great music, delicious food, beautiful women, and rumbas — parties that go from sunset to sunrise. And just in time for Colombian Independence Day, MegaRumba is inviting Colombians and all of their neighbors to celebrate their independencia.
Astari Nite, MegaRumba 2018, Premios Juventud, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 16 through 22.
If there’s one thing that can be said definitively about Sam Smith, it’s that he does not hide. Smith is the sort of man who long ago introduced his heart to his sleeve and never looked back. His feelings bleed from his music, particularly his lyrics. Emotionally, Smith is an open book that rarely shuts.
Archie Hamilton plays in Leeds, U.K., on July 14, and then it’s across the pond for Miami on Thursday, July 19, at Floyd. August is huge with a date at Electric Island Festival in Toronto, and September is Berlin for one of the best clubs in the world, Kater Blau.
Miami’s Cesar Santalo is an artist on the rise and is growing his following organically with tens of thousands of streams on Spotify. Santalo categorizes himself as an R&B singer and mixes in a bit of hip-hop with his sound. The 19-year-old self-released a 12-song EP in October 2017…
The rapper was jailed for an assault he allegedly committed in January.
At age 19, singer and performer Layla Bessito, also known as JuJu Pie, was totally broke and living in North Carolina. The Miami native’s mother had passed away the year before, and, she says, “I was faced with all of these emotions that I had repressed my whole life because she…
It’s the classic “desert island” question: If you were stranded alone on a remote, tropical destination with only one album to keep you company, which would you choose? I’d never given the question much thought before last September, when news reports and mayors predicted Hurricane Irma would be a “nuclear”…
Most fans headed out to see Sam Smith at the American Airlines Arena this weekend are likely unfamiliar with curly-haired, country-singing opening act Cam, but they probably know at least one of her songs by heart. Camaron Ochs, better known by her stage name, cowrote the penultimate track “Palace” on…
In 2015, New Times declared, “The weekly party has all but gone the way of the dinosaur in South Florida, killed not by a massive comet rocketing to Earth but by some combination of bottle service, a tourist-driven market, and a serious lack of people willing to take the risk…
Miami has a new piece of Nashville, with Writers in the Round. The singer-songwriter event is held every second Wednesday of the month at Bar Nancy. Juan Turros, one of the founding members of local group Suénalo, was inspired after a trip to Nashville with his wife, Denise. The two…
Following a successful first outing along the shores of Virginia Key Beach last year, Rakastella has announced the initial lineup for its forthcoming second edition in December. The brainchild of two internationally adored techno labels, Innervisions and Life and Death, along with local promoters PL0T, Secret Garden, and the…
To a generation of internet shut-ins and misfits, Yung Lean’s utterance of “Suicideyear” in his inimitable Swedish drawl on the track “Hurt” was the overture to an iconic moment in online history. The producer on the track, Suicideyear’s melodic and haunting sounds were for many their first introduction to the…
Behind a door in the back of Wynwood’s Coyo Taco is a dimly lit room with a full bar, a projector playing your tia’s favorite music videos, a DJ effortlessly blending Latin hits and hip-hop bangers, and a girl from Instagram moving her hips in heels higher than your hopes…
LunchMoney Lewis previews his upcoming album and shares some ideas and projects he’s working on.
The Rockadictos are a little frustrated. The trio has been playing in South Florida for about a decade, but hasn’t found Miami to be a great place for a rock band to establish a fan base. They say the scene for Latin rock groups pales in comparison with those for EDM…
Sam Smith, Chromeo, De La Ghetto, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 9 to July 15.
September will mark the two year anniversary of the death of iconic Miami Marlins pitcher José Fernández, after a tragic boating accident off the coast of Miami Beach. Fernández not only left behind his family, a then-pregnant girlfriend and a baseball organization starved for young talent, but also a legacy…
When Luis Fonsi’s song “Despacito” topped the U.S. singles charts for a significant part of 2017, there was talk it might lead to a multicultural epiphany — that America was finally ready to open its ears to Spanish language songs. But though the success of “Despacito” might turn out to…
