“Rare. Very rare.” No, Counting Crows’ longtime frontman, Adam Duritz, isn’t talking about how he likes his steak. He’s appreciating his band’s time in the biz, which hits the quarter-century mark this year. To celebrate, the California-bred seven-piece is hitting the road with fellow multiplatinum rock band Live for the 25 Years and Counting tour.
Dirty Computer was written with young, queer, black women in mind. It’s a gift from Monáe to a community within a culture that takes and takes from black women but has only recently shown interest in crediting the community with mainstream reflections in television, music, and in the halls of revered museums and gallery spaces.
Britney Spears, Janelle Monae, Rod Stewart with Cyndi Lauper, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 23 through 29.
Are you leaving your mom’s house, your job, or even the club with a bag of someone’s mango oversupply? Then you know it’s summer in Miami. These smooth, juicy fruits have inspired Miami’s bold party-starter Afrobeta to pen a song that “goes out to all the mangos out there.” The duo was kind enough to let New Times premiere this delicious tune today. It’s a thank-you to fans who voted Afrobeta Readers’ Choice winner in the 2018 Best of Miami issue.
In the depths of West Kendall, just past the chain restaurants your parents love, lies a layer of pride buried beneath the surface of its residents. What’s cooking up behind its suburban corners isn’t just a really great happy hour at Bahama Breeze. There’s an untapped wealth of major talent on the rise.
Have you been dancing to the new Enrique Iglesias song featuring Pitbull, “Move to Miami”? Of course you have. It’s everywhere. And Nitti Gritti, the man who started the song, has come up with a new remix of it.
Musicians come and go, often leaving a trail of mediocrity and failed dreams. Not Otto Von Schirach. He’s been making beats from his hometown of Miami and spreading mystical messages worldwide for almost 20 years to fans frothing at the mouth to express themselves by shaking their asses…
Eelke Kleijn returns to Miami Friday, July 27, to play at the dark and cozy Do Not Sit On the Furniture, the perfect venue for his evolving sound.
Miami New Times has immediate openings for writers covering the world of Miami music. If you have a passion for local bands, attend every major tour that comes to town, know your techno from your trance, or keep a mental map of the best underground parties — or all of the above — New Times might be looking for you.
David I. Muir has a favorite among the 26 photos that will be on display during his upcoming exhibition, “Reggae Reel: Moments in Music.” It’s a picture he snapped of incarcerated reggae artist Buju Banton sitting onstage at Bayfront Park Amphitheater in 2011 when the singer was out on bail…
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…
