During the very early portion of New Year’s Eve, the final 24 hours of 2015 were being celebrated in typical Miami party fashion: waiting in an anaconda of a line before entering a club and taking enough selfies to fill a high school yearbook. Perhaps the clamor at LIV was somewhat…
On January 1, you’ll roll over in bed ready to swear off the booze forever. But when it comes to hangovers, we tend to have the memory of a goldfish, so on January 2, we’re guessing you’ll be ready to kiss and make up with your ol’ pal whiskey. Showskii…
10. NYE 2016 with Pamela Anderson. Music by DJs Breezy, Mikey Rawk, Avistra, and Paul E. Thursday, December 31, 9 p.m. Fifty at the Viceroy Hotel, 485 Brickell Ave., Miami; 305-503-4417; viceroymiami.com. General admission tickets cost $100 plus fees via wantickets.com, and include open bar from 9 p.m. to midnight and a champagne toast; VIP packages are also…
If there are two acts that smile more on stage than Imagine Dragons and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, their dentist deserves a raise. And the free show Wednesday night on the sands of South Beach gave a projected 20,000 plenty of reason to smile back. The event was a pep…
We’re strange creatures, us humans. Each time our planet completes another circle around the sun, we put on sparkly clothes, drink too much champagne, and try to find someone to connect lips with. Is it a ritual that makes sense? Not really. But it’s a tradition, and there’s no place…
Last night, Jews and gentiles alike gathered at the modern musical cathedral that is the Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for a special performance by Matisyahu. The reggae loving, Jewish beatboxer was back in South Florida celebrating the ten-year anniversary of his breakthrough album, Live at Stubb’s…
Having begun the year with a record about how frustrating it is to live in the 21st Century, Hot Chip will be doing its best to welcome 2016 on a more uplifting note. On New Year’s Eve, the London-based synth-pop maestros will perform a DJ set at Bardot. Following Jamie…
Spoken from first hand knowledge, Jam Cruise is insane. These people come from all over the country to, once a year, get together, leave all fucks ashore, and have a blast. In a year full of more music cruises than fish in the sea, this one stands out as one of…
Wherever you might stand politically on this year’s historic thawing of U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relations, one positive outcome we can probably all agree on is the freshly opened floodgate of cultural exchange. Case in point: El Tropicana de Cuba will perform its first stateside show in more than three decades at…
These days, that familiar expression, “What’s old is new again” seems especially apt. Communal combos like the Punch Brothers, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Donna the Buffalo have proven that axiom time and time again by combining a traditional sensibility and reverence for their roots with a modern, energized approach that’s…
Speaking on behalf of everyone everywhere, people love to hate Pitbull. He’s like your crazy uncle that you secretly enjoy listening to but don’t wan’t to introduce to your friends. Like, if we still had iPods, Pitbull would be on all of ours, but we’d try and hide his songs…
The British have some funky ways. They call cookies “biscuits” and eat meat pies. They still sing “God Save the Queen” in 2015, when most people find themselves losing faith in both God and the queen. When a Brit gets “pissed,” he gets drunk, not angry, and he might ask…
Growing up, my family celebrated both Hanukkah and Christmas. My father, a Jew, helped us light the Menorah. My mother, a catholic, decorated the Christmas tree. And me, a greedy little materialistic boy with a sweet tooth, ate cake and opened presents until I passed out upon on a pile…
This New Year’s Eve, you could do worse than your own private table on South Beach with four of your closest friends, two alcoholic bottles of your choice, and the best seat in the house to a midnight fireworks display. Actually, you could do a lot worse. Like, imagine no…
Matisyahu was as singular an artist as there’s ever been: a Hasidic Jew, long beard and forelocks included, unearthing the Judaic underpinnings of Rastafarian reggae and reconnecting them to his faith. But when Matisyahu the man (born Matthew Miller — he adopted the Hebrew moniker in 2001) broke away from…
Though it’s a country smaller than California, few places match Italy’s appreciation for the finer things in life. Nobody shells out the big bucks for luxurious North Korean leather, after all. Italians have an astute attention to detail and a brilliant eye for design. Sports cars from the small towns…
Five… Four… Three.. Two… One… ¡Dale! That’s how Pitbull will be ringin’ in 2016 at Bayfront Park for his New Year’s Eve Revolution countdown. Televised nationally on FOX, the pachanga will headline the two-day Norwegian Worldwide Food & Wine Party that’s serving as Miami’s definitive New Year’s Eve countdown. But of…
Los Herederos, an afro-Cuban band based in Miami, have made it their job to share Yoruba culture with the world. “My grandma always said I would inherit something. Of course, in that moment I was too small and did not understand. As I grew older, I started realizing, wow, I…
It’s easy to shove Miami music into a corner. Perhaps you think it’s all Latin rhythms or DJs in big, loud clubs. But the music in Miami, like the city itself, is stunningly diverse. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up the best songs Miami musicians have released this year…
The last time Abel Tesfaye visited Florida, he was adjusting to stardom and attempting to establish his onstage identity. Touring for his second studio LP, Kiss Land, under his drugs and sex obsessed alter ego, The Weeknd, Tesfaye was, at that time, a little stiff. Most of the movement came…
If you find yourself in Walmart this week searching for Rick Ross’ eighth studio album Black Market, you may have a hard time finding it. Walmart reportedly pulled Ross’ album from shelves earlier last week and it’s not available on their website either. Various outlets started reporting the story this…
10. Red Nectar. Presented by Ladies Night. Wednesday, December 23, 10 p.m. Kill Your Idol, 222 Española Way, Miami Beach; 305-534-1009; facebook.com/killyouridolmiami. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up. From folding denim at American Apparel to shredding it at a club near you, Red Nectar is on top of its game. Although the two-year-old band…
