It’s been five years since III Points made its debut, offering Miami a boutique music festival experience if there ever was one. Instead of concentrating on big names or mainstream trends, III Points has kept its focus squarely on the underground. At the same time, it has become one of the few local music festivals that allowed homegrown acts to share the stage with national ones.
This Saturday, Miamians will bear witness to a show more than 30 years in the making, courtesy of Lang Cook & the X-Y-Z Affair. When it was released in 1984, Cook’s debut LP, She’s Hot With 2,000 Watt’s, stood out as an oddity. The Miami native’s brand of spaced-out, synthesized funk…
YMU helps at-risk youth in underserved communities such as Overtown, Wynwood, and Little Haiti to pursue the long-term vision of practicing music to perform it.
HistoryMiami’s new exhibit, “Miami Rocks: The Miami Pop Festival, May 1968,” on display May 18 through September 30, pays homage to the vital role Miami played during a pivotal era in American music history. Michael Lang, the promoter behind Woodstock, also organized the Miami Pop Festival. He would later go on to say that “the seeds of Woodstock were sown” here.
The songwriter known as Bahamas says he works best while he’s out of his element.
For Justin Timberlake, the way forward is in the past. In January, Justin Timberlake told Zane Lowe of Beats 1 that after being labeled a pop artist despite his best attempts at crafting R&B records, he had a moment of clarity. “I just felt like, Let me do whatever the…
So much could have gone wrong at Rolling Loud 2018. Hard Rock Stadium had never seen an event of its size and scale, and the organizers had to build a small city in the parking lot to bring it all together. But mercifully, the weekend was disaster-free. Although there were early issues, the rest of the weekend went off without a hitch.
Aubrey & the Three Amigos Tour will stop at the AA Arena for two back-to-back dates in September.
Summer concert season is heating up with not one, but two South Florida shows by Justin Timberlake this week and a Saturday-night performance by Maluma at the American Airlines Arena. Ellen Allien will hit the decks at Floyd with Rex the Dog this Friday night, and New Found Glory will headline a benefit for the victims and survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
In hip-hop, what you wear sends a message, and that message is usually “I’m rich.”
Traffic, crowds, and bad design have made this year’s festival potentially dangerous.
Alternative R&B may not be mainstream but DVWEZ plans to keep her sound unique and break through mainstream radio regardless.
The service will no longer curate the troubled rapper’s music.
So many choices!
For almost a decade, Miami-born artist/producer/DJ Mike Diaz has remained at the forefront of the city’s indie music scene. Just don’t remind him of that fact — the milestone has yet to sink into his brain.
It’s not all about the chart-toppers at Hard Rock Stadium.
Rolling Loud adds more local and rising underground talent than in years past.
Tomorrow night, the Destiny Inn will open for business. More of an idea and an ethos than a location, the Destiny Inn — summoned in spirit by Floyd’s new monthly Thursday-night party, Live at the Destiny Inn — will offer an alternative to traditional Miami-nightlife fare, occupying a deliberately hazy middle ground between pulse-pounding techno thrills and the lull of ambient works.
What’s it like being sandwiched between Eminem and Portugal. The Man? Not too many people can answer that question, but Odesza has lived the experience. For two weekends in April, the Bellingham, Washington-bred electronic duo of Harrison Mills (AKA Catacombkid) and Clay Knight (AKA BeachesBeaches) shared the biggest stage at…
It’s been quite a year for Chris Carrabba. In February, his band Dashboard Confessional released its first album in nearly nine years, Crooked Shadows. It’s everything you’d imagine from a reemerged Dashboard. There are hints of romance, reflection, and classic angst, all conveyed in a slightly poppier and more modernized style than he’s employed in past work.
A Flock of Seagulls so thoroughly embodied the music and style of the 1980s that, in some ways, it has come to define the decade. The band’s New Wave sound and hilariously bad music videos (and hairdos) helped it become iconic. Lead singer, songwriter, and lone original member Mike Score…
Miami’s sunshine and swaying palm fronds are intoxicating. South Beach’s seductive ways convince its tricks — uh, visitors — that renting a Lamborghini is a good idea. Upside-down Corona bottles in margaritas lure prey to pimps, hoes, and blow black holes. Even Ellen Allien has considered its advances. She was so drunk…
