Miami bass, the Magic City’s signature sound, owes a lot to a couple of robots from Düsseldorf. Kraftwerk’s influence on dance music cannot be understated. And more than 30 years later, tracks such as “It’s More Fun to Compute” and “Trans-Europe Express” are still DJ favorites to cut and sample…
The Neighbourhood are that band. They’re the Americans who spell their name the British way and they insist on every photo or video taken of them to be in black and white. Here’s the thing though: they actually have legit reasons for their approach. They treat the band as an…
Billy Idol. With London Souls. Monday, September 21, 8 p.m. Hard Rock Live, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood; 954-797-5531; hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com. Tickets cost $55 to $75 plus fees via ticketmaster.com. Billy Idol may be an ’80s punk rock legend, but the spiked, platinum blond lad is sick of “Dancing With [Himself].” That’s why he’s bringing his 34-year…
Raised on her parents’ Prince and Whitney Houston records, Oly has had a long relationship with music. The Los Angeles native and long time Miami resident put out her EP, A Hot Hooray, in 2004, which had its songs picked up by the MTV show South of Nowhere and the…
D’Angelo’s highly anticipated show at the Fillmore Miami Beach has been cancelled. Fans who bought tickets to the show, which was scheduled for October 6 at 9 p.m., were sent an email from Ticket Master this morning saying the following: Hi live event fan, Unfortunately, your upcoming event was canceled…
Kasper Bjørke had it pretty good during the 2000s as one half of dance pop duo Filur. Along with vocalist Tomas Barford, the pair certainly enjoyed its share of commercial success in Europe with hit singles like “I Want You,” one of Denmark’s top music exports in 2005. But alas,…
In the world of electronica, Bonobo is a mellow monkey among men. We mean that in the best sense. As other artists float around in airy imbalance, Simon Green samples sounds – both industrial and organic – with layered structures as secure as they are ethereal. The 39-year-old English musician,…
Did you go so hard during Ultra 2015 that you just now woke up? Oh man, you really went for it, huh? Don’t worry. It’s going to be okay. We’ll fill you in on what you missed. Miley Cyrus has basically been naked since you lost consciousness, Kim Kardashian tried…
“Story is a challenge, and maybe the most challenging club to play in Miami because of the mixture of core dance music fans and fringe fans or people just in town on vacation,” Arty says. The 25-year-old DJ is the most popular thing to come out of Russia since vodka…
Nicole Moudaber has a complicated relationship with the media. On one hand, they’re responsible for her big break. On the other hand, they got her arrested. Since entering the music scene in the Middle East in the ’90s, Moudaber has been on an upward trajectory — a product of passion…
Death to the Sun 5 should benefit those with short attention spans. It’s almost like a musical equivalent of speed-dating. Over the course of the ten-hour underground music festival at the North Beach Bandshell, 27 musical acts will hit the stage from noon to 10 p.m. The concert’s organizer, Ricardo…
Eric Garcia has a serious problem with Miami. Like so many of us who call Dade County home, the lead singer and harp virtuoso of the blues band Juke has a love/hate relationship with Miami. Lately, its been teetering towards the hate end of the spectrum. Fortunately for him, he’s…
S&T: Skinny Dip Takeover. With Pazmal, the Gamma Bot, Telescope Thieves, Leon the Lion, Pirate Stereo, Santiago Caballero, and BirdyPop. Hosted by Norma Now. Tuesday, September 15, 10 p.m. Bardot, 3456 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-576-7750; bardotmiami.com. Ages 21 and up. The only thing better than Slap & Tickle on a Tuesday is a Skinny…
The rap game has never been more competitive than it is today. Fueled by a flood of millennials and teens nostalgic for the OG beats that made-up their childhood soundtracks, rappers have never had to work harder to please evermore discerning audiences. A byproduct of all the competition is the…
When Fool’s Gold Day Off rolls into Wynwood, it will have come a long way from its humble beginnings. “Day Off started as a party in a Soho parking lot five years ago,” A-Trak remembers. He would know. The 33-year-old Canadian DJ has been there from the start. After all, he…
At the end of this month, the loudest party on the high seas will chug its way from Miami to the Bahamas, leaving a trail of head-banging dolphins in its path. Motörhead’s annual Motörboat Cruise is departing on September 28 with bands like Slayer, Crobot, Anthrax, Exodus, and — we…
Don’t underestimate the force of 20,000 teenage girls screaming in unison at the top of their lungs. When the lights cut out at the AAA at precisely 9 p.m. on Wednesday night, the sheer force of the shrieks rip through the arena like a shotgun blast, powerful enough to put…
There’s something exciting about witnessing the birth of a band. Perhaps you’re seeing the beginning of something great — something you’ll tell your grandchildren years from now, when you’re old and gray and trying to figure out how to work that damn iPod97. The Hours Strange is a new duo…
Bosco’s introduction to music began pretty conventionally. Raised in Savannah, Georgia, the Fool’s Gold prodigy started off singing and acting in church choirs and plays. From there she joined middle- and high-school choruses, eventually competed in local talent shows, and then attended the Savannah College of Art and Design while…
The strings off his acoustic guitar strum softly as the camera pans to show a room full of comfortable couples and soon-to-be smiling lovers. Jamie Lawson makes his way to the stool in the center of the room and begins singing, “It was only a smile/But my heart it went…
Bethany Cosentino was rifling through the basement of her parents’ house a couple of weeks ago and came across her high-school journal. She hesitantly cracked it open and began reading. “I had to stop,” she laughs. Audibly cringing over the phone, she reveals the culprit: boyfriend drama. “It was something…
Ed Sheeran. With Christina Perri and Jamie Lawson. Wednesday, September 9, 7:30 p.m. American Airlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 786-777-1000; aaarena.com. Tickets cost $56.50 to $66.50 plus fees via ticketmaster.com. The last time British ginger Ed Sheeran hit the stage at the American Airlines Arena, he was getting the crowd pumped and ready for Taylor Swift’s…
