Concerts

Jared McFarlin, AKA Party Thieves, was a 9-percenter. He earned a scholarship to attend West Point and play football for the Army Black Knights. He was high-school standout in football and basketball and was a member of the National Honor Society. As a college freshman, the 6-foot-5 wide receiver from Monroe, New York, caught seven passes for 74 yards and a touchdown. His sophomore campaign didn’t happen thanks to knee injuries that ended his football career. His Army career was also over: Those same knee injuries prevented him from serving.

Last month, when everyone on Facebook was making lists of the top ten albums they liked as a teenager, a lot of people who came of age in the ’90s seemed to have amnesia. The Pixies? Wu-Tang Clan? That’s your selective memory (or hipster ego) talking. Meanwhile, a lot of…

If you’re one of those people who complain about the dead Miami music scene, you probably don’t go out to support local bands. Indie bands and artists have always supported one another, and Snowmoon — the female-fronted local rock band by Jessie Allen, Andy Rodriguez, and Noel Hernandez attests — to this truth.

Did David Crosby, who will play the North Beach Bandshell this Sunday, always want to be a musician? “I wanted to be an actor once, but, yeah, I wanted to make music.” Is it true Dennis Hopper based his character in Easy Rider on Crosby? “Yeah.” Was he offended by…

You might expect Jermaine Dupri to be a little off his game when he performs at LIV this Friday. The legendary music producer and rapper is an Atlanta native and a longtime Falcons fan. He was even onstage for a halftime performance with Ludacris and Jeezy during the NFC Championship…

When Barclay Crenshaw first began mixing hip-hop sets, it was for an in-house radio show at his Detroit high school, and fans weren’t exactly clogging the airwaves. “We could never get anybody to listen,” he laughs, “so we would buy a takeout pizza every week and give it to the…

Rock ‘n’ roll narratives are played out. The stories that permeate the rock canon have been regurgitated time and again, from the forward-thinking but troubled young artist who can’t outrun his own demons, to the established musician who mounts an unlikely comeback, and everything in between. There’s nothing new under…

John Legend will open a tour in Miami May 12 at Bayfront Park Amphitheatre, the artist announced today. The 38-year-old singer-songwriter, who is married to model Chrissy Teigen, will start the Darkness and Light tour in Miami and then travel to more than two dozen cities before ending in New Orleans in June.

Rick Astley is back to remind us he’s good for more than just a joke.

Lamebot is the solo project of a local electronic musician, DJ, and producer who dresses in an outfit that’s a cross between an Image Comics vigilante and the Marvel supervillain Doctor Doom.

The Coathangers make fun music for pissed-off people. Seeing as the band — then consisting of Meredith Franco, Julia Kugel, Stephanie Luke, and Candice Jones — was conceived after an anti-Bush rally in the (relatively) halcyon days of 2006, it follows that a strong irreverent streak would follow. Early in the group’s history, this meant baking cookies and bringing along prizes for audience members at shows, to say nothing of their ballsy, impassioned onstage antics.

In a time when drops are celebrated over lyrics, pop is high art, and Migos is compared to the Beatles, rock ‘n’ roll sits perched on the edge of its death bed complaining of achy bones. It often seems the great guitar poets of bygone days spent their lives partying instead of procreating, especially in Miami, where most live musical entertainment plugs into Serato.

When you’re the son of a famous father, it’s all but inevitable that comparisons will be drawn between you and your dad. And when your name is Guthrie — as in Woody Guthrie, the iconic folk singer — certain expectations inevitably follow. Arlo Guthrie has built a formidable career filled with classic albums, but the turmoil that’s gripping the nation inevitably prompts questions about what his pops would do.

Every year, the International Noise Conference descends upon Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti for a week of alien frequencies, outré performance art, and late-night debauchery. After more than a decade of bizarre and frequently brilliant shows, the event has endeared itself to attendees and performers from Florida and beyond. It’s…

It was much like the line at Coyo Taco during Art Basel. About 2,500 neon-clad Groove Cruise passengers eagerly waited at Terminal D in PortMiami last week. An ocean of spandex, leopard print, and odd costumes was ready to flood the Carnival Victory, aimed for Turks and Caicos. Because 96 hours of dance music isn’t enough, some blasted beats from wireless speakers and held portable club lighting as they waited.

Singer-songwriter Dama Vicke has always felt a connection to the world of film. Before her former band became known as Dear Darling, its name was Huma Rojo — a reference to the sought-after actress in Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother. Though she does not have a formal acting background,…

In a 1973 interview with Dick Cavett, Marlon Brando claimed that all people were constantly performing, not just out of habit but out of necessity. “We couldn’t survive a second if we weren’t able to act,” he said. “Acting is a survival mechanism; it’s a social lubricant. We act to…

This past September, Red Bull Sound Select took over the Hangar in downtown Miami for three days of music headlined by A$AP Ferg, AlunaGeorge, and Cashmere Cat. The mission of the event was to showcase both established acts and relative newcomers, all at an affordable $15 per show. Things must have…

His sounds like a stage name. Like “Sid Vicious” or “Johnny Thunders,” “Kurt Vile” seems like a name dreamed up for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But the frontman for the Violators was given his badass name at birth, making it almost inevitable that he’d one…

If you’re a music fan in need of some good news this morning, you’re in luck. The III Points festival has announced its 2017 dates, with tickets going on sale Tuesday morning. This year’s festival of music, art, and technology will take place Oct. 13-15. III Points Prophet Passes will…

Mild temperatures and cloudy skies greeted the crowds Saturday afternoon as they walked onto the sand adjacent to the North Beach Bandshell. By the entrance, a large tent held about a dozen stalls offering food and drinks from top Miami purveyors. About 500 feet south of the large tent…

Over the course of four years and three albums, Kurt Vile established himself as an indie-rock darling. The trek took 20 years, lots of CD-Rs, and a successful run as one-half of the acclaimed indie act War on Drugs.