What does R&B sound like today? The once-dying genre filled with sexual innuendos and soulful riffs has quickly modernized into a fusion of several elements. Chilling vocals and sassy wordplay are no longer revered; instead, fans love the way an artist tells a love story. They want something they can sing off-key at the top of their lungs and dedicate to their exes…
With 2018 quickly coming to an end, it’s time to look forward to what 2019 will bring — including the music festival season. Leading the charge will be III Points, which switched dates from October to February, skipping 2018 altogether. The date change should help the sixth edition of the festival avoid…
Jingle Ball might seem childish, but there’s room for adults at the coveted holiday-themed pop concert.
Y100’s Jingle Ball, Macy Gray with Nu Deco Ensemble, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, December 10 through 16.
When Marc Martel started a rock band with friends from Bible college in the desolate plains of Saskatchewan, Canada, he wasn’t looking for a record deal. But he got one. Martel took his degree in worship ministry and headed to Nashville, where his band Downthere enjoyed moderate success. Even so,…
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
“I have a love-hate relationship with Miami,” Rick Moon says. His new video, “Cracker Jack,” set to debut with a party at Gramps Saturday, December 15, exemplifies his mixed feelings about his adopted hometown. In the video for “Cracker Jack,” a psychedelic, Flaming Lips-esque song that will be the opening track on his forthcoming album, Moon is clad in an absurd mask while about to enter a surprise party. Instead of reveling in a good time, he finds himself arrested and on trial before taking the stage to jam.
The Tel Aviv-based DJ/producer duo of Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi talk touring internationally and returning to Miami for the second edition of Rakastella.
Like a “one in, one out” door at a busy nightclub, German DJ-producer Matthias Meyer is set to depart Berlin in two days for a U.S. and Brazil mini-tour. His girlfriend returns on the same day, at the same time. Like two love boats passing in the night, they will…
As a little girl, musician Emily Estefan would hang out near the seven-player horn section at her mother’s concerts. “When you have your feet on a floor that’s vibrating just because of people playing, everybody contributing to a sound, and creating this kind of energetic wall… that feeling of creation between so many people — that’s the best feeling in the world.” That energy and power, she says, are her spirituality.
Why would anyone pay to see a show of Christmas songs when every Walgreens speaker has been blasting the same carols since Halloween? The best answer is because it’s Brian Wilson singing The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album in its entirety. Though the 1964 record doesn’t have the cachet of Pet Sounds…
Art Basel shows, Ultra Naté, G-Eazy, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, December 2 through 9.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne Girardi started her sensual and irreverent music project Erika Jayne when she was the 35-year-old mother of a teenager. Twelve years later, her latest banger, “XXPEN$IVE,” has more than 16 million YouTube views and a hook that repeats, “It’s expensive to me.”…
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.
