Music

Poison was more rose than thorn in the beginning.

When will domestic abusers such as Chris Brown get their reckoning?

Boy George is calling from Australia, where he’s finalizing filming as a coach on that country’s seventh season of The Voice. He’s purportedly on the phone to discuss his and Culture Club’s upcoming summer tour with the B-52’s and Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins, but he has something else on his mind: wedding cakes.

Bed Scene, SunGhosts, Cedric Gervais, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, June 25 through July 1.

Last night, West Palm Beach was the launching pad for this summer’s Weezer and Pixies double-headliner tour. Fans were privy to a trifecta of bands that made for the perfect evening of rock ‘n’ roll, simultaneously presenting the past, present, and future of rock.

The uniquely Miami DJ/producer has been making dope EDM going on three decades.

What a cover of Toto’s “Africa” can mean for the music industry.

At the new and improved Frost Museum of Science, Laser Fridays offer banging tunes paired with searing lasers the first and third Friday of every month from 7 p.m. to midnight. The formats range from Depeche Mode to Pink Floyd to Bob Marley to electronic dance music.

I got into the indie-rock legends not long after they had broken up in 1993. It took a couple listens for me to fall into their spell of the dynamic that inspired Nirvana, Radiohead, and every other band of the era. Their music had no dead spots. It was all energy and drive. The lyrics, though, were what kept me coming back. They were mysterious enough that it was hard to know what singer Black Francis was hollering about.

Their sound is a collage that evokes strong imagery — empty stretches of desert highway, forgotten civilizations, lonely planets suspended in space.

Summer in Miami means torrential downpours, stifling heat, and swarming mosquitoes. But many other cities welcome the sunny season. The French, in fact, have been celebrating Fête de la Musique every June 21 since 1982 to welcome summer. City by city, this tradition has spread with Make Music Day, a…

With only one year under its belt, the amount of coups the Perfect Trip: Miami Psych Fest has been able to pull off for its second edition is almost absurd: besides expanding to occupy both the Ground and Floyd along with netting seemingly miraculous gets on the lineup, event organizer Adam Arritola (he prefers just to go by Adam) says word of the festival has already traveled out of Miami, garnering attention from the likes of the Big Ears and Vision Festivals in Knoxville, TN and Brooklyn respectively. What’s more, critic and anthromorphic meme Anthony Fantano – the internet’s busiest music nerd – recently gave the festival a shout-out during a live stream. While many festivals of a similar scale and ambition struggle out of the gate, Miami Psych Fest has had no problem asserting its identity or reaching its target audience.

Mount Kimbie, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Talib Kweli, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, June 11 through 17.

Colombian singer Karol G played a six-song set that included hits such as “Ahora Me Llama,” “Mi Cama,” and “Pineapple.”

A crucial part of Rüfüs Du Sol’s charm is the uplifting quality of the music. Since the release of the Australian electronic trio’s first full-length album, Atlas, in 2014, it has forged ahead with a sound that’s as sweeping in emotion as in scope, enveloping listeners and concertgoers in immaculately produced soundscapes and dreamy vocals courtesy of guitarist Tyrone Lindqvist.