Music

Opening for Waxahatchee at Gramps November 14, Ought has channeled the Zeitgeist in an era when rock’s relevance has waned.

Music has played such a big role in Joseph Mount’s life that it’s easy for him to think of instruments as people with personalities. The drums, for instance, are like an easygoing, affable drinking buddy. He considers the bass guitar more serious and thoughtful — maybe someone who abstains from…

House-music DJ/producer Josh Butler was a regular on the dance floor before moving to the DJ throne. For the self-admitted raver, his college experience in Leeds was of the six-year variety. Like the legendary house parties there, undergrad careers extend past the standard time frame.

Before they were slinging mud at each other on escalating dis tracks, Jay-Z and onetime mentor Jaz-O were collaborating on one of Jaz-O’s more successful singles, “Hawaiian Sophie.” It’s the sort of goofy, good-time pop rap from the late ’80s that’s almost embarrassing if it weren’t for some truly smooth…

Robby Robb is on a mission to make a music festival that celebrates local bands — whether they’re from Miami or somewhere else. This November 18, Robb will inaugurate his Imaginary Radio Music & Arts Festival at Gramps.

Jay-Z’s 4:44 Tour finally makes it to Miami this Sunday. It’s in support of his 13th album of the same name, which, like Magna Carta Holy Grail, wasn’t teased with any singles before release. But then again, when you inhabit the upper echelons of superstardom like Shawn Carter does, you don’t have to bother with singles.

It has a long and storied history, first as Miami Beach Municipal Auditorium, then the Theater of Performing Arts, and later the Jackie Gleason Theater. But 2017 is the tenth year the building at 1700 Washington Ave. has been known as the Fillmore Miami Beach. To mark the occasion…

Juan Carlos Girl, a legally blind local activist and Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy, is suing Ultra Music Festival. He claims the festival’s website and live events are inaccessible to visually impaired patrons, which violates Title III of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

Catch three Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees at this weekend’s RockFest 80’s.

According to NME, QTY is the NBT. That sentence might not make sense to many, but Dan Lardner, the lead singer of NYC two-piece QTY, would probably love it. Joined by guitarist and longtime friend and collaborator Alex Niemetz, the 27-year-old Lardner will make his first trip to Florida as…

One of John Gregory’s great recent frustrations in life was that he couldn’t find a drum ‘n’ bass night in Miami. “I’d been doing events all over South Florida and I found the last couple years there really wasn’t anything I wanted to go to,” the man who was in…

It can’t be easy to be a soft-spoken singer-songwriter today in America, with our appetite for screaming pundits, whirlwind synth, and infinite streams of information. But Sam Beam has made a success of it under the moniker Iron & Wine. With Beam’s whispery vocals and guitar, Iron & Wine has…

The man who sang youth anthems such as “My Generation” and “The Kids Are Alright” is now 73 years old, but the Who’s Roger Daltrey approaches performing his classics the same as always. “When I sing ‘Baba O’Riley,’ a song I’ve sung a thousand times, I’m singing it for the first time. That’s always been my method. I have to sing them like it’s the first time.”

The legendary rap group will perform at Mana Wynwood as part of III Points’ Basel concert series.