The importance of friends has always been a cornerstone of dance music and culture. For as joyous as shuffling your feet to your favorite songs on mind-altering substances might be, few things can match the high of glancing up from the dance floor to find you’re surrounded by those who…
The Remyz doesn’t sound like a typical Miami band, but it might just be one of the most Miami acts playing in the city right now. The five-piece lineup includes a Bahamian frontman, a Colombian bassist, an African-American drummer, a Puerto Rican guitarist, and a Dominican guitarist. They all attended…
Grassroots, it could be said, is a response to and beachside respite from the ills that plague modern-day festivals.
Last summer, Tyler the Creator seemingly made a startling personal admission on his latest album, Flower Boy. It came in the exact middle, the seventh song of 14 tracks, “Garden Shed.” “Them feelings that I was guardin’/Heavy on my mind/All my friends lost/They couldn’t see the signs,” he writes. “Truth…
Rufus Wainwright is not your typical musician. Apart from having a voice that is evocative, sultry sweet, luscious and classically iconic, Wainwright is one of the most eclectically capable musicians around. His repertoire ranges from the baroque pop Want One and Want Two, to his own opera, Prima Donna, which is…
The International Noise Conference brings the weirdness back to Churchill’s starting Monday, and local favorites battle it out for a chance on the big stage at Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival at 1306 on Thursday. Legendary songwriter Van Morrison plays two back-to-back shows at the James L. Knight Center mid-week, and Snarky Puppy curates and headlines its GroundUp Music Festival at the North Beach Bandshell once again. Nicky Jam and Plan B round out the week at the American Airlines Arena on Saturday.
Lana Del Rey returned to the BB&T Center on her LA to the Moon Tour Thursday night. A grateful mob of mostly women fawned over her every move. At the outset, it was a challenge to comprehend this fanaticism, but by evening’s end, it was plain to see what fuels her lust for life and fans’ lust for her.
Youngr plays music with a crazy charisma. His vocal delivery is effortlessly cool, and so is the way he seamlessly switches instruments, building songs layer by layer in real time with exuberance.
“I’m feeling a greater responsibility than before to show as many people as I can the beauty and the artistry and the genius that comes from the Haitian culture and Haiti,” classical pianist Marianne Parker says.
When Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino booked three Philadelphia bands to play Super Beach Poolside Party during Super Bowl weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles hadn’t yet made it to the big game. “Eagles fans have been through so much disappointment,” says Jeff Tomrell, multi-instrumentalist for the band Go Go Gadjet…
The Goo Goo Dolls have seen it firsthand and often: In times of tragedy and hardship, music has a way of bringing people together. In October 2001, they played the Concert for New York City alongside luminaries such as Paul McCartney, the Who, and David Bowie to honor the first responders who died during the September 11 attacks…
When the Verve Pipe performs at the Abdo New River Room at the Broward Center this Thursday, it will be the first time in years that founder and lead singer Brian Vander Ark will play a Florida gig that isn’t in someone’s living room. “I’ve been batting people away for…
With less than two months to go until Miami Music Week, the party announcements are beginning to drip out. Highlights already include Above & Beyond’s return to the RC Cola Plant, Adam Beyer and Cirez D’s Soho Studios takeover, and the Rapture Music Festival in Virginia Key Beach Park.
A recent meme popularized (maybe even created) by music writer Dan Ozzi poses as a multiple-choice survey. The query is as follows: “You’re a punk dude over 30. Choose your path: CrossFit, barbershop culture, craft beer, MMA, Facebook rants, enamel pins, Tinder creeping.” Funny and topical, sure, but also timely because it forces into perspective the aging environs of South Florida’s punk-rock third wave.
Acting as a sort of festival within a festival, Ultra Music Festival’s Resistance will return next month to take over two stages at Bayfront Park: the Carl Cox Megastructure and the Arcadia Spider. Yesterday, Ultra announced the Resistance lineup, which includes a mixture of acts that were previously announced in the Phase 1 lineup and a few surprises.
The song is a harmonic blend of sun-kissed psychedelia, like a breezy day spent tripping on acid at the beach.
Since her major-label debut, Born to Die, Lana Del Rey has been fascinated with the concept of death. That fixation served her well on her latest record, the ironically named Lust for Life. The opening lines of the title track find Del Rey crooning, “Climb up the ‘H’/Of the Hollywood…
Neo-noir chanteuse Lana Del Rey returns to South Florida with newcomer Kali Uchis, and The Voice alum Chris Mann brings Broadway’s most beloved tunes to the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center. If you’re more into guitar gods, Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, and Phil Collen will turn their axes up to 11 in Pompano.
During his childhood in Belize, bassist Al Ovando grew up surrounded by music. His father played guitar and he and his brothers had a family band. Even as a child, Ovando took the reins, setting up equipment and tending to instruments that needed repair. Now, as an adult, he’s the…
Last night amazing dancers, half nude, turned the stage of the Knight Concert Hall of the Adrienne Arsht Center into a fusillade of athleticism, color, and beauty. There was old-timey, contemporary, and timeless gyration that brought the audience to two standing ovations and at times left even veteran dance…
Twenty years ago, Jose Elias watched A Joyful Noise, a documentary about the life and music of experimental jazz great Sun Ra. The film made a significant impact on Elias at the time, and birthed the labor of love he’d contribute to his community for the next two decades and…
Even as the world’s tilted off its axis and freakish aberrations have occurred with increasing regularity, there are thankfully still a few natural laws that have held firm; just as water is wet and grass is green, They Might Be Giants are still releasing new music and touring. Although it…
