What the World Needs Now Is Mariah Carey, Music’s Elle Woods

Forty-seven-year-old Mariah Carey is casually splayed out on her kitchen counter wearing only a boob-strangling negligé in a particularly entertaining scene from her new TV show, Mariah’s World. The E! reality series premiered last December and follows her antics during her Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour. In the scene, as in…

The Best Concerts in Miami This Week, August 7-13

Guns N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle” is an ode to the City of Angels, where the spotlight can burn those who aren’t careful. But the song might as well be about Miami, a city where if the shady characters don’t get you, the alligators will. Feel free to sing…

Wynwood Fear Factory 2017 Lineup: DJ Snake, Wiz Khalifa, Porter Robinson, and Others

Yes, we’re still in the depths of another record-hot Miami summer, but it’s never too early to think about fall, especially when it comes to Halloween. Even if you haven’t even begun to consider a costume idea or weighed your party options, the folks at Diskolab are here to give you something to do the weekend ahead of All Saints’ Day: It’s Wynwood Fear Factory, y’all.

Miami’s Five Best Suburban Live Music Venues

Busting a mission (if this phrase isn’t in your vocab, see BuzzFeed’s “How Miami Are You, Bro?”) to keep abreast of Miami’s cultural offerings is a regular pastime of any suburban dweller. Though a good number of our city’s famed music venues are either downtown or on the Beach, these stressful treks from the ‘burbs entail serious mental preparation to deal with the traffic warfare.

Sunshine and Soul Festival Shows Overtown Artists Some Love

Iyanna the Model, better known as Iyanna James-Stephenson, set out to remedy this outsourcing of talent by creating her own festival spotlighting local artists and musicians as well as the historic contributions of Overtown’s creatives. The result is Sunshine and Soul, an art, music, and soul food festival presenting local singers, painters, dancers, spoken-word artists, live painting performances, and even a fashion show.

Guns N’ Roses’ Anti-Fashion Style Paved the Way for Grunge

The theory of alternate realities posits that right next to this reality are infinite universes, together comprising everything that exists. If that’s true, somewhere out there is a reality where every rock star dresses like a superhero. This is a world where no lip comes near a microphone without lipstick on it, where no T-shirts or jeans are allowed onstage, where Insane Clown Posse is not an outlier laughingstock but the norm in a society in which every rocker is decked out in outlandish costumes, makeup, and wigs.

Sturgill Simpson Opening for Guns N’ Roses Makes Perfect Sense

When the 2016 Grammy nominations were announced in December, the Album of the Year category listed some no-brainers: Beyoncé, with her pop-cultural seismic event Lemonade; eventual winner Adele, who’d previously won the award for her once-in-a-decade album, 21; and staples like Drake and Justin Bieber, who appeared less for their latest albums than as an acknowledgment of their chart domination and cultural influence. The fifth nominee, alt-country singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson, was met with a resounding, “Who?”

Miami’s Five Best Rock Clubs

Rock ‘n’ roll is alive and well in South Florida. Don’t let the megaclub lasers blind you to the fact that there are plenty of places to get drenched in sweat and beer and enjoy a night of great live music ranging from punk to metal to hardcore to garage and everything else in between. It’s no secret that Miami likes to party hard. Though it has a reputation for nightlife, bottle service, and DJs, the Magic City also boasts thriving rock clubs minus the red velvet ropes. Here are Miami’s five best rock clubs.

Unlimited Devotion Is Reanimating the Grateful Dead at Wynwood Yard

In the Martin Scorsese-produced Amazon documentary about the Grateful Dead, Long Strange Trip, biographer Dennis McNally calls the group “the most American of all bands.” He deduces that if you take all the individual members’ backgrounds and sounds “and you dissolve egos with acid and stir vigorously,” you get the Dead.

Erotic Exotic Will Flash You Back to the ’80s

Most bands playing ’80s nights don’t really know the ’80s. They might have studied old Adam Ant MTV videos, seen Valley Girl a few hundred times, or binge-watched Glow, but they weren’t there for the ’80s. Erotic Exotic does not have that problem. “We started in 1981,” original member Johnny Aguiló reminisces. “I had just graduated from South Miami High School and we were all working at a record distribution company. We started off as a New Wave band, but then we discovered drum machines.”

Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon Cooks Up a Show at Churchill’s

The Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon the Chef is a man of many talents; he’s rap’s premier mafioso, responsible for the crown jewel of the genre, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…; and he has one of the most distinct names in the game, which lends itself to online sketches as well as features in Food & Wine magazine.