When the 12th season of America’s Got Talent premieres on NBC tonight at 8, a Miamian will step into the spotlight. Yoli Mayor, a 21-year-old first-generation Cuban-American singer known locally as “the Cuban Adele,” will make her TV debut.
Even though we try to hide it, it’s clear – summer has officially started in Miami. But don’t walk away, because there are still plenty of concerts to get you through the next blistering months. This week you can relive the glory days with Brit Floyd, catch free shows from Holly Hunt and The Heavy Pets, or choke back your tears with Macy Gray.
The Baltimore group makes a triumphant, enchanting return to South Florida.
Shakira surprised Miami fans with a surprise, 2-song pop-up set at The Wynwood Yard last night in celebration of the release of her new album El Dorado, which dropped yesterday.
Around the turn of the century M.A.N.D.Y. was created and their story began. Their early release, “Put Put Put” must have sounded so proper at German nightclubs in 2001. It’s the ideal track to dress in all black and dance with stiff posture. “Body Language” was named “Ibiza Track of The Season” in 2005 which is like an Olympic Gold Medal for house music producers.
Actor Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael bring their band, the Bacon Brothers, to the Bahamas, Stuart, and Fort Myers.
A new rebirth of ska has begun. “Ska is on its 76th wave, and people are starting to connect with it again,” says Mick Rude, guitarist and vocalist for Spred the Dub. “Look at all the new Corona ads using Desmond Dekker to sell beer, the Specials on a Fidelity Investment commercial. It’s coming back around, and with every show there’s a few more people skankin’ than the last one.”
Miami’s art-rock five-piece Pans Permia is ever-changing. “Machinery,” the band’s newest lyric video and an exclusive release for Miami New Times, details humans’ ability to make up for our mortal deficits through technology.
DJ Chino AKA IAmChino describes his brand new sound and how he plans to pave his own lane in EDM with his latest single, “Amor,” featuring Chacal & Wisin.
Beach Day was the ideal name for a band from South Florida. Until it wasn’t. Typically, when a band feels a shift this major needs to occur, to rename the entirety of a project with years of time and effort already invested, it tends to be for one of…
When Miami based record producer Nick León was planning to start his own record label, his first thought was to ask III Points founder David Sinopoli for advice. “It was around this time last year I started thinking about all the musicians I knew, and I wanted to connect all…
Mellow soundscapes, balmy breezes, and scenic routes make an unpleasant commute bearable. Luckily, Miami supplies all three. Seafoam Walls’ lo-fi, bedroom-produced tracks bring comfort and ease to the Magic City. Turn this music up and let it melt the speakers. It’s that good.
This past December, shortly before Christmas, longtime musician Alex Diaz suffered a stroke. Diaz, better known to locals and fans of indie pop and avant noise as Xela Zaid, has been on the slow road to recovery with medical and therapy bills mounting.
Ever since DJ Khaled dropped a cryptic video advertising an event called Impact17, the event has been shrouded in mystery. Ads for the coming Miami event/conference/phenomenon, all showing DJ Khaled’s lovable face but not imparting much real information, have been popping up on the interwebs.
Danielle Bregoli, whose stint on Dr. Phil went viral last year, is taking her act on the road — specifically, the road to Fort Lauderdale. The Boynton Beach 14-year-old, whose claim to fame is the phrase “cash me ousside, how bow dah,” has announced two tour dates: at Broward’s Revolution Live July 8 and in Houston, Texas. Sold-out shows will reportedly earn her $50,000 apiece.
You might think karaoke is limited to cheap bars with crackling sound systems and slow Tuesday nights, but things are changing. “Bohemian Rhapsody” is starting to feel out of touch 25 years after its revival in Wayne’s World. N’Sync and Britney covers stopped being cute and ironic long before they became just sad. And, hey, except for board games, karaoke is the whitest way to pass time at a bar.
Memorial Day is the time we honor Americans who have lost their lives in battle. It’s also one of the few three-day weekends we regular folks get, so soak up the sun and the beer and have a good time. It’s not dishonorable. These are the moments our heroes fought so bravely to protect, right? Well, some of them anyway.
If you were disappointed by Beach House’s last South Florida show, guitarist Alex Scally wants to make it up to you. He says he’s terribly embarrassed by the way his duo performed five years ago.
Summer is almost here, and that means outdoor music has slowed. But it’s not over. Best of the Best Music Fest this Sunday will present Mavado, Aidonia, Konshens, Dexta Daps, Chris Martin, Spice, I-Octane, and others at Bayfront Park. Urban Beach Week moves to the mainland, baby. Here’s your music calendar for the week.
Author Ben Greenman will discuss his book Dig if You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God & Genius in the Music of Prince at Books & Books.
Rara is Haitian festival music played with drums, maracas, and bamboo trumpets, which are known as vaksen. Until recently, the music was always played by men. That changed when Dieuvella Etienne bucked tradition and formed the group that is now called Symbi Roots, the all-female rara troupe that has taken up residency in South Florida over the past couple of months.
Spanish-born Alejandra Fierro Eleta is most content surrounded by melodies from bygone days. Inside the massive Latin music archive she founded, she thumbs through albums kept in her late grandfather’s estate in the Spanish village of San Lorenzo del Escorial.
