Brandon Flowers Cancels His Show at the Fillmore Miami Beach

Brandon Flowers has cancelled his show at the Fillmore Miami Beach that was supposed to take place next Wednesday, August 19, at the Fillmore Miami Beach. In fact, he’s cancelled a whole string of shows this week — six in total — so at least we can take comfort in…

Official Grown-Up Colleen Green Comes to Gramps This Sunday

Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you get exactly what you wish for. In the case of indie rocker Colleen Green, homegirl is getting just what she wanted. In her latest LP, I Want to Grow Up, Green reflects on the millennial struggle of being broke and single and, well, growing up…

’80s Hitmaker Howard Jones Finds Ways to Reinvent Himself

Forget the fact it’s been nearly 30 years since Howard Jones wrote the songs that made him a radio staple. With a string of chart triumphs including tracks such as “New Song,” “Life in One Day,” “Like to Get to Know You Well,” “No One Is to Blame,” “Hide and…

UZ Continues to Keep the Trap World on Its Toes

Trap is kind of old hat. The 808-driven, drug-smuggler sound has been a hip-hop staple for 20-plus years. Even its most recent takeover of the EDM world is a phenomenon pushing four years, a lifetime in trend-speak. It seems whatever can happen in trap already has — unless you’re talking…

Weird Al Yankovic Breaks Down the Formula for a Good Parody Song

Of all the guys who’ve been singing songs since the ’80s, Weird Al Yankovic is one of the most adaptable and resilient. This makes him remarkably still relevant. The tales surrounding his album Mandatory Fun are the stuff of modern-day myths. After his label told him it couldn’t afford to…

Miami’s Five Best Concerts This Week

Travi$ Scott. Presented by Who’s Who and Vybenation. Friday, August 14, 6 to 10 p.m. Grand Central, 697 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-377-2277; grandcentralmiami.com. Tickets cost $30 plus fees via ticketmaster.com. All ages. He growls. He flashes gold grills with fangs. He’s Travi$ Scott. And this week, the 23-year-old Houston rapper — who just so…

Jack Ü to Headline Life in Color Festival

There’s no better place to pop your cherry than Miami, and Skrillex is about to find out. The dubstep dynamo is set to make his Life in Color debut as one-half of the upcoming festival’s first officially announced headliner; Jack Ü. The dream-team duo pits Skrilly against Florida’s own Diplo…

Miami’s Ten Under $10 Weekend Party Guide

Psychemagik. With Patrick Walsh. Friday, August 7, 10 p.m. The Electric Pickle, 2826 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-456-5613; electricpicklemiami.com. Admission is free before midnight with RSVP via eventbrite.com.  “Music is the celestial sound,” Psychemagik writes on their Facebook description, “and it is sound that controls the whole universe.” Experience the mystical vibes of the…

Christopher Crisci Remains Appleseed Cast’s Constant

The story of Kansas’ Appleseed Cast is not lacking in complexity or dramatic shifts. Over 18 years and several lineup changes, the band’s sound today hardly resembles the emo-tinged one that put the group on the map. But through it all, founding member Christopher Crisci has retained a singular hold…

Afrobeta to Debut New Album at Libertine

The walls were so thin at their old place Afrobeta could hear the parade of hookers marching in and out of their neighbor’s apartment. Luckily, the Miami natives invited us to their new home/studio for this interview. Their friend AholSniffsGlue’s ubiquitous artwork covers a wall next to the new and…