Uno, dos, tres, cuatro. Before he became the Grammy-winning star who counts beats onstage, Juanes counted sheep on his father’s hacienda. When the singer born Juan Estebán Aristizábal Vásquez was just a boy, his father, a rancher, would invite him and his five siblings to mount horses and count livestock…
It’s been nearly a decade since the iconic concert Rock the Bells brought hip-hop’s greatest acts together for a night of epic performances. In 2008, monumental MCs such as A Tribe Called Quest, the Pharcyde, Nas, MF Doom, Rakim, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, De La Soul, Method Man & Redman, Immortal Technique, Little Brother, Raekwon, and Ghostface Killah congregated at Bayfront Park to deliver classics live in front of thousands of fans.
Since 2013, EDM fans have packed a stadium in Split, Croatia, yearly to dance to the likes of Armin van Buuren, Deadmau5, and David Guetta, all under the familiar, glowing U-shaped icon of Miami’s Ultra Music Festival. But the European fest isn’t actually run by the promoters behind South Florida’s famous dance bash; they simply license the name to the Croatian party.
Inspired by the Goonies’ treasure hunt, El Chapo’s tunnel system, and Burning Man, Wolf + Lamb’s rural retreat is under construction 150 miles north of the duo’s Brooklyn home. The 100-acre Dreamland isn’t an escape from reality; that leap was made 20 years ago, when the band entered the surreal…
When the South Florida pop-punk pioneers of New Found Glory take the stage at Revolution Live Friday, May 12, they’ll celebrate 20 years together as a band. But drummer Cyrus Bolooki wants to be clear: This is not just another nostalgia tour. Unlike some of its early-’00s peers, New Found…
One of the curses of being a millennial is that 60 years’ worth of musicians got to go through the dictionary and cherry-pick their act’s name before you got around to it. So when Abel Makkonen Tesfaye wanted to christen his dark R&B project the Weekend but discovered there was already a Canadian band that had copyrighted the name, he didn’t give up.
It’s been a bittersweet few weeks for Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek. Shortly before the two Chicagoans set off on their latest U.S. tour with their band Whitney, their respective girlfriends broke up with them. The tour has been great. The band is as solid as ever and has sold out shows all down the…
At Dope Entertainment’s third-annual Rolling Loud Festival in Bayfront Park, winners were dressed in thongs and fishnets, and losers spilled their beer on someone else’s shoes while running between the two stages. The festival didn’t end up underwater due to rain as it did in its first year, and there was no pay-for-play stage as in the second year, so Dope Entertainment was a winner this year. But there were a few losers who don’t get a pass.
Can’t feel your face? That’s called a Tuesday at any Miami bar. For the rest of America, Canadian pop and R&B crooner the Weeknd introduced the wonders of cocaine via his breakthrough album, 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness. He’ll be back in South Florida Wednesday to support his latest album, Starboy…
The music isn’t the only thing loud at Rolling Loud’s third-annual music festival. The marijuana-themed hip-hop show spanned three days and brought out kids who spent their life savings on tickets, groupies who would do anything to get back stage, and stoners who stashed overpacked blunts in their socks.
Because his highly anticipate summer tour won’t stop in the Sunshine State, Kendrick Lamar made sure to deliver the realest set that he’s ever done in Miami for all his fans who might miss out on his Damn tour.
By the time musical movements are given a name, their moment has passed. This is true whether you’re talking rockabilly, the British Invasion, or punk rock. Forty years ago, bands like X in Los Angeles and the Damned in England were codifying what punk meant, long before it had a uniform…
The initial announcement for Dope Entertainment’s third-annual Rolling Loud, which is set to take place this weekend, was exciting. The flyer listed Kendrick Lamar, Future, Lil Wayne, Young Thug, and many others, making the fest a hypebeast’s dream. But something was missing from the dozens of acts listed: women.
Hip-hop has a long history of social and political commentary, but the genre has been slow to embrace artists who don’t fit neatly into its hypermasculine mold. After all, hip-hop coined the phrases “pause” and “no homo” to deflect criticism of behavior that might be perceived as queer.
Sure, Tech N9ne has teamed up with the greatest acts in hip-hop and rock in the studio, but don’t expect them to come through for his Strictly Strange tour.
The words “bluegrass music” can conjure images of the hills of Appalachia. But Anders Beck says another kind of community might also come to mind. His band, Greensky Bluegrass, was formed in the midsize Midwest town of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Will Rolling Loud ascend to the pantheon of great Miami music festivals when it takes over Bayfront Park this weekend? Audiences will be the judge. There’s no doubt the event has one of the most impressive hip-hop lineups of any festival in the country. A$AP Rocky, Mac Miller, Lil Wayne,…
A scene in Back to the Future shows Michael J. Fox getting knocked on his ass by a comically gigantic amp after playing a single power chord on his guitar. For crowds attending a live Deaf Poets show, it can sometimes feel like that scene is on loop, with audiences willingly returning over and over again for the abuse, happy to be knocked on their asses.
South Florida boasts massive stadiums and arenas that seat thousands of fans and are ideal for catching chart-topping tours with impressive pyrotechnics, impeccable sound, and insane visuals. Then there are intimate spots that offer music lovers an equally unforgettable experience.
Though Gucci Mane was missing from the music scene for three years, he jumped right back into place with new music but still performed classics for die-hard fans.
Coachella made headlines in that other sunny state, but South Florida is no slouch on the festival circuit. With the development of newer events such as Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, III Points, and Rolling Loud and the evolution of mainstays such as Ultra, the original Miami megafest, South Florida offers a wide range of genres and artists at big gatherings.
What is it about the ’60s? Why does that decade still seem to affect music more than any other? Guitarist and keyboardist Adam Smith believes he has the answer.
