When Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino booked three Philadelphia bands to play Super Beach Poolside Party during Super Bowl weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles hadn’t yet made it to the big game. “Eagles fans have been through so much disappointment,” says Jeff Tomrell, multi-instrumentalist for the band Go Go Gadjet…
The Goo Goo Dolls have seen it firsthand and often: In times of tragedy and hardship, music has a way of bringing people together. In October 2001, they played the Concert for New York City alongside luminaries such as Paul McCartney, the Who, and David Bowie to honor the first responders who died during the September 11 attacks…
When the Verve Pipe performs at the Abdo New River Room at the Broward Center this Thursday, it will be the first time in years that founder and lead singer Brian Vander Ark will play a Florida gig that isn’t in someone’s living room. “I’ve been batting people away for…
With less than two months to go until Miami Music Week, the party announcements are beginning to drip out. Highlights already include Above & Beyond’s return to the RC Cola Plant, Adam Beyer and Cirez D’s Soho Studios takeover, and the Rapture Music Festival in Virginia Key Beach Park.
A recent meme popularized (maybe even created) by music writer Dan Ozzi poses as a multiple-choice survey. The query is as follows: “You’re a punk dude over 30. Choose your path: CrossFit, barbershop culture, craft beer, MMA, Facebook rants, enamel pins, Tinder creeping.” Funny and topical, sure, but also timely because it forces into perspective the aging environs of South Florida’s punk-rock third wave.
Acting as a sort of festival within a festival, Ultra Music Festival’s Resistance will return next month to take over two stages at Bayfront Park: the Carl Cox Megastructure and the Arcadia Spider. Yesterday, Ultra announced the Resistance lineup, which includes a mixture of acts that were previously announced in the Phase 1 lineup and a few surprises.
The song is a harmonic blend of sun-kissed psychedelia, like a breezy day spent tripping on acid at the beach.
The 2018 Grammys are over. Kendrick Lamar got screwed. Bruno Mars won maybe a little bigger than he should have. And Miami pretty much got skunked. But as the Washington Post pointed out this past weekend, the Grammys have always been bad at choosing winners or moving beyond the curve.
It was difficult to guess which brand of hippie or freak you’d find at the survivalist weekend festival Love Burn, Florida’s only official Burning Man event. Was this just another generation of wasted kids like the ones Pete Townshend maligned in the Who’s “Baba O Riley”? Or were they truly looking for deeper connections with art, with one another, and with nature?
Since her major-label debut, Born to Die, Lana Del Rey has been fascinated with the concept of death. That fixation served her well on her latest record, the ironically named Lust for Life. The opening lines of the title track find Del Rey crooning, “Climb up the ‘H’/Of the Hollywood…
Neo-noir chanteuse Lana Del Rey returns to South Florida with newcomer Kali Uchis, and The Voice alum Chris Mann brings Broadway’s most beloved tunes to the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. If you’re more into guitar gods, Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, and Phil Collen will turn their axes up to 11 in Pompano.
One month ahead of this year’s Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival, organizers have just announced their lineup for the festival’s annual PoWoW, a star-studded jam session tradition since the festival’s inaugural weekend in 2016. This year’s session will be led by Snoop Dogg in collaboration with…
Robbie Elias was about to quit the music business when his father-in-law suggested he watch a music documentary. “It had Phil Spector in it,” Elias recollects. “He started talking about making the Ronettes song ‘Be My Baby.’ It got me digging into soul and pop music from the ’60s.” After…
During his childhood in Belize, bassist Al Ovando grew up surrounded by music. His father played guitar and he and his brothers had a family band. Even as a child, Ovando took the reins, setting up equipment and tending to instruments that needed repair. Now, as an adult, he’s the…
Last night amazing dancers, half nude, turned the stage of the Knight Concert Hall of the Adrienne Arsht Center into a fusillade of athleticism, color, and beauty. There was old-timey, contemporary, and timeless gyration that brought the audience to two standing ovations and at times left even veteran dance…
Twenty years ago, Jose Elias watched A Joyful Noise, a documentary about the life and music of experimental jazz great Sun Ra. The film made a significant impact on Elias at the time, and birthed the labor of love he’d contribute to his community for the next two decades and…
Even as the world’s tilted off its axis and freakish aberrations have occurred with increasing regularity, there are thankfully still a few natural laws that have held firm; just as water is wet and grass is green, They Might Be Giants are still releasing new music and touring. Although it…
Music legend Elton John announced yesterday in a surprise press conference that he’ll retire from touring after a three-year “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour around the world. John, whose career spans more than half a century and over 30 albums, will take one last victory lap in South Florida with…
If Miami knows one thing, its how to put on one hell of a drag show. Around town, you’ll catch some of South Florida’s best drag queens and kings performing all styles of drag for eager audiences from South Beach to downtown Miami. But before you venture out in search of charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent, keep this important rule in mind: Be sure to bring cash and tip the performers.
Cosmic Gate, Andrew Rayel, Emma Hewitt, Christina Novelli, Nifra and Grube & Hovsepian will flex trance muscle at Club Space on Thursday, January 25.
On the heels of a number-one album, the Killers have a ‘Wonderful’ evening in Miami.
Remember the “Axis of Evil”? That’s what George Bush called North Korea, Iran, and Iraq back in 2002. It was hateful, ignorant, and in some ways led to today’s tumultuous times. The Rhythm Foundation’s Axis of Love concert series seeks to counter this by employing cultural diplomacy to move the…
