Music

If you’re looking for someone to blame on the psych rock renaissance, you can cast the first stone at Alex Maas. Singing for the band The Black Angels Maas has taken audiences on cosmic sonic journeys since 2004.  But while The Black Angels’ home base of Austin, Texas is now…

El-P and Killer Mike acknowledge that opening for one of the planet’s biggest pop icons isn’t anything like playing a nightclub for a few hundred people.

Cardi B’s long-awaited debut album drops Friday, and you’re invited to the celebration she’s throwing at E11even. The artist will perform at the world-famous nightclub hours after her inspiration, TLC, performs at the Miami-Dade County Fair. Make it a double feature of badass women in hip-hop and R&B.

DJ Khaled brought out Fat Joe, Bryson Tiller, Kent Jones, Kehlani, J. Balvin, and Luis Fonsi at the American Airlines Arena last night.

LG, guitarist and singer of Thelma and the Sleaze, has three goals every time her rock band hits the stage. “I want people to get turned on as a sexual experience. I want people to be a little frightened wondering if I’m going to hit them. And I want people after the show to go home and want to play their guitar to make rock ‘n’ roll to share with the world.”

Seminal American hardcore band the Cro-Mags brings a second age of quarrel to South Florida with John Joseph at the helm.

Jason Yarger is the singer, guitarist, and primary driver behind Hunny’s emo-tinged sound.

Big Freedia might just be the most resilient, hardest-grinding artist alive. Over the past decade, the New Orleans-born-and-based bounce artist has withstood trumped-up criminal charges, family tragedy, and mixed audience reception to become a beloved international party host and MC. She’s been sampled by the queen of pop herself, Beyoncé,…

The weather was beautiful, the music was awesome, and the bullshit level was rather high at this past weekend’s Ultra. Following a great New Times tradition, we rate what worked and what didn’t. Winner: The Resistance Arcadia Spider Stage. This stage has been bringing the heat – literally and…

Why does Ale Campos pronounce her band’s name, Smvt, as smut? “When I first started the band, it was me playing aggressive music by myself,” she says. “It was really heavy. Smut was the most intense, gross word I could think of to describe those feelings,” Campos explained. Campos is Miami born…

The final day of Ultra included shows by original headliners Rabbit in the Moon and a live show — that’s right, a live show — by the Wailers, strange as it may seem. On the Arcadia Resistance Stage Sunday night, Jackmaster, Eats Everything, Skream, and Seth Troxler did amazing work as…

Now that Ultra Music Festival and Miami Music Week have come and gone, you may be looking for your next musical fix. Some Ultra artists, like GTA, are hanging around town a little longer to quell your festival withdrawals. A huge party led by the Queen of Bounce Big Freedia is on the horizon this Friday, while Demi Lovato and DJ Khaled take over the AAA and legendary drummer and Prince collaborator Sheila E. plays a free (yes, free) show at Palm Court in the Design District.

And on the second day, the dance music gods sent down a constellation of pop stars. Yes, Ultra Music Festival kept pumping out the beats on Saturday, March 24. While there were no major surprises on Day Two (Daft Punk isn’t coming, people), festivalgoers still got a few guest appearances,…

Ultra Music Festival’s 20th edition hasn’t even wrapped up, and the festival has already quietly announced the dates for its 2019 event. The dance music festival will be returning March 29, 30, and 31, 2019, at Bayfront Park — that’s according to the festival guides handed out to attendees Friday…