When the Jets and the Sharks rumbled for control of their New York City neighborhood, a young Steve Vai watched in awe. Tony’s love affair with Maria, the sister of a rival gang member, ended tragically, but it spawned one of the greatest guitarists in modern history.
If you hear St. Paul & the Broken Bones sight unseen, the Alabama neo-soul band conjures images of Al Green sweating while crooning. Singer Paul Janeway chuckles when asked about listeners’ preconceptions about his appearance before they see his band live. “When we started, there were assumptions I wouldn’t look the way I do,” he says. “It’s fun to surprise people.”
“Vertigo,” the lead single off hip-hop duo Atmosphere’s new album, “Mi Vida Local,” contains sobering observations about climate change or the nuclear apocalypse or whatever happens to be threatening humanity’s existence at the moment. “I might be the last generation of grandparents,” one line goes…
Atmosphere, Eons, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, November 26 through December 2.
These are the five best concerts for in Miami this weekend.
Local acts INVT, True Vine, Sister System, Jonny From Space, and other will celebrate the United States’ foremost consumerist holiday in style by bringing it back to basics.
“Degenerate” typically has a negative connotation. Google says the word means someone who’s “lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable.” For Travis Egedy, better known as the electronic artist Pictureplane, being called a degenerate is a “badge of honor.” Egedy even invoked the word to title his latest album.
Elton John, Playboi Carti, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, November 19 through 25.
It wasn’t always guaranteed that the guitar would be the instrument associated with rock ‘n’ roll. At the birth of the rock era, piano men such as Little Richard and Ray Charles made hips shake and hearts ache by hollering while tickling ivories instead of plucking strings. Elvis even had a piano-playing rival…
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
It all came down to money. Commissioners Joe Carollo and Keon Hardemon basically wanted Ultra Music Festival to pay a much higher fee to use Miami Marine Stadium and Virginia Key Beach Park for its 2019 edition. The festival agreed to pay $2 million, and Hardemon insisted a large part of that money go to the struggling Virginia Key Beach Park Trust.
Over the weekend, the Village of Key Biscayne released a video concerning Ultra Music Festival’s possible move to Virginia Key. In it, Mayor-elect Mike Davey resorted to scaremongering to warn that Ultra was “evicted” from Bayfront Park because of “environmental destruction, noise, and increase in alcohol- and drug-related violence.”
They are teaming up with other musicians to perform as a supergroup, the Unknown Legends, to play each musician’s songs and covers of Lucinda Williams, Harry Nilsson, and others. The show is called the First Waltz, a title inspired by the Band’s live collaborative Thanksgiving performance, the Last Waltz.
The members of Butterfly Snapple gather around a kitchen counter in the South Miami home of Diego Melgar and John Small, the band’s guitarist and electronic-synth player. Melgar pours everyone a glass of Trader Joe’s Merlot. The quartet makes jokes and trades stories while sipping the wine…
The Virginia Key-based music festival has carved a comfortable niche for itself in Miami’s musical landscape, and with support from the likes of Chromeo, M.I.A., and other acts, the 2018 edition stood out from other Magic City festivals.
Drake, Marc Anthony, Tech N9ne, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, November 12 through 18.
Mumble rap may be hot, but Bas’ smooth flow and playful lyrics are even hotter.
Nobody thinks of Utah as a hotbed for beats, but Late Night Alumni’s John Hancock says that preconception is dead wrong. “Utah has a lot of music,” he says from his Salt Lake City home. “A lot of DJs come through on the way to California. It has a great indie-rock scene too, with Neon Trees and Imagine Dragons getting their start here.” His Late Night Alumni, which straddles electronic and indie rock, is a good ambassador for the state of Utah music.
It was more than two decades ago that Steven Toth was coined “Mr. Entertainment.” “I used to juggle and do handstands for a band called One-Eyed Kings,” the Hollywood native tells New Times. After short stints with the band Lee County Oswald, Toth found himself with a surplus of songs he’d written, and thus Mr. Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers were born.
David “Dave 1” Macklovitch of Chromeo talks Miami; the electro-funk duo’s past, present, and future; and performing live “at the intersection of contemporary art and Spinal Tap.”
Twenty One Pilots hit the stage Sunday, November 4, for a sold-out show at the BB&T Center, with opening acts Awolnation and Max Frost.
House of Creatives Festival, Travis Scott, and more of the best concerts in Miami November 5 through 11.
