Millionyoung Donates Proceeds From His Latest Single to Hurricane Relief

“Don’t go outside/You’ll get swept up,” Millionyoung sings on his new standalone single, “Huracán.” Like many people in South Florida, the solo chillwave artist (real name Mike Diaz) spent the early morning hours of September 10 staying away from windows. He didn’t want to watch the destruction of Hurricane Irma…

Miami Music Trends That Need to Die Now

Labor Day means we’ve officially bid farewell to summer. We don’t have falling leaves or cooler temperatures to announce the arrival of fall, but the days do get shorter, and with that come longer nights and the chance to head out on the town and enjoy our city’s world-famous nightlife…

Lauryn Hill and Nas Prove ’90s Hip-Hop Will Never Die

If you’re old enough, you can recollect that in the ’90s, baby-boomers wouldn’t stop boasting how old-time rock ‘n’ roll was best. “Bob Dylan, the Doors, Woodstock, that was when rock was rock,” they’d tell you. The old-timers would keep their radios locked on classic-rock stations playing the same hundred songs in constant rotation and save their money for anytime the Moody Blues or Donovan would come to town.

Front 242 Ditched the Guitars and Invented Something New

As keyboardist for the celebrated electronic group Front 242, Patrick Codenys is no stranger to unknown territory. For instance, when the band plays the inaugural show at the Ground, a new midsize venue taking up part of Club Space on Eleventh Street in downtown Miami, it’ll come with some colorful…

The Best Concerts in Miami This Week, September 18-24

With Irma already feeling like a distant memory for most of Miami, the city is quickly getting back into the swing of things. This week, Arcade Fire finally keeps its promise of returning to Miami after the band’s two secret show, and so far only South Florida appearances, in 2013…

Depeche Mode Brought Sex and Cigarettes to the AAA

For one night, the American Airlines Arena reeked of cigarettes. Walking to the arena from Biscayne Boulevard, concertgoers could see handlers milling about the balcony like eyeliner-clad gargoyles spilling smoke and ashes from their open mouths. The occasion for such a morbid gathering — Depeche Mode’s Miami stop on its Global Spirit tour…

Miami Nightclubs Struggle to Recover From Hurricane Irma

Longtime promoter Aramis Lorie is used to hurricanes. He’s been through Andrew, Wilma, and Katrina. But Irma definitely threw him for a loop. He couldn’t leave his aging parents behind, and he was afraid of abandoning his bar, 1306, located in the quickly gentrifying but still somewhat industrial part of North Miami Avenue just north of the I-195 overpass.