Concerts

Deniz Kurtel at Electric Pickle April 29

Antibalas at North Beach Bandshell April 30

Carnivores at Propaganda April 29

Miami Reggae Festival at Peacock Park April 30

Miami is totally obsessed with Steve Angello. And obviously, the Swedish House Mafia member and Size Records label boss loves us back. How can we tell? Well, Stevie dropped the first hint when he and his fellow Mafia men — Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso — co-dedicated a song to us…

Think you’re down with Afrobeat? Well, if you’re not familiar with Antibalas, then you haven’t sampled the real deal. But the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival is going to change all that next weekend. Based out of Brooklyn, the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra has straight-up hijacked the boogie from the Bronx. And while…

Amaury Gutiérrez, like so many of Miami’s own citizens, is a Cuban immigrant, an exile who was forced to choose between his homeland and his dream, between the life he knew and the life he sought, between his roots and his freedom. The singer-songwriter from Santa Clara studied music in…

It’s not very often that you hear about Denmark’s contributions to world music, let alone EDM. There was the sickly sweet ’90s bubblegum Eurodance of Aqua, an act that eluded even our guiltiest pleasure. And more recently, the dark electronica forays of Trentemøller. Then there’s Danish DJ-producer Kasper Bjørke, who…

It doesn’t take a connoisseur to know that Brazilian music offers some of the most soothing and sensual sounds you’re ever likely to find. And we’re not just talking “The Girl from Ipanema” here. From rhythmic samba to bossa nova, which has influenced some of our own jazz greats, to…

Mary Anne Hobbs’ Road Warrior Tour With Mary Anne Hobbs, Dr. Strangeloop, Gonjasufi, Lorn, and Take Friday, April 22, 2011 The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Any of the usual stale club music fare going on wherever else! OK, we’ll just admit that Mary Anne Hobbs is our number-one female DJ…

​Last night’s Borscht Film Festival edition of Cinema Sounds #8 at O Cinema deviated slightly from the usual format. Amid movie clips scored by bands, there was a poetry reading by Abel Folgar as part of O, Miami, followed by a screening of “Roosters,” a video depicting a graphic cockfight…

Out in the sloping, snaking streets of Coconut Grove, there are 10,000 Jah-blessed soldiers gathering for a peaceful revolution and they’re chanting the opening lines of the Rockaz MVMT mantra: “We are universal people/Young, strong, focused/Modern sages/Armed with sounds and phrases/Using music as our shield/Embracing this battlefield/Called life/Spreading love and…

The reputation of UK DJ Lee Burridge spans the entire globe, from Hong Kong and Thailand’s local EDM scenes, which he helped foster throughout the ’90s, to the Burning Man Festival in Nevada, which inspired his free-spirited Get Weird parties. Boasting a genre-bending amalgamation of styles, from progressive house and…

Assholeparade at Churchill’s Pub April 22

Ramadanman and Zed Bias at Eve April 23

Rise Against and Bad Religion at Sunset Cove Amphitheater April 23

Tango Conspiracy at Bardot April 27 for Heineken TransAtlantic Festival

Usher with Akon at BankAtlantic Center April 27

London DJ-producer and Hessle Audio label chief Ramadanman (AKA David Kennedy) was schooled during dubstep’s first wave and he has since become one of the most recognized names on the international scene.Last year’s invitation to spearhead a new installment of Fabric’s prestigious compilation series with FabricLive56 is testament to both…

Sweatstock 2011 With Panic Bomber, Beings, Lil Daggers, Little Beard, Furious Dudes, and Others Sweat Records and Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, April 16, 2011 Better Than: Loitering in a Walmart parking lot for 19 hours. Now despite the fact that the vast majority of America’s music consumers prefer to procure…

Who would win a bare-knuckle cage fight between Ringo Starr and Keith Richards? We’re not sure. Richards has survived every narcotic known to man, and Ringo is the greatest pop music drummer ever. We’re pretty sure they’d just punch each other in the face till they ran out of breath,…

To some, laser light shows are like watching a Windows 95 screensaver on repeat for an hour. Those people are, clearly, not high. The tokers and tab-droppers of the world, meanwhile, know that laser shows are awesome and come second only to peanut butter-marshmallow-banana sandwiches. But at garage-y local band…