Concerts

Andrew W.K. at Revolution Live April 7

See also “Best Coast’s Guide to Local Eats Across America” and “Best Coast Ranks Other Coasts, Survives Slayer Riot, Can’t Punch Out Glenn Danzig.” We failed you, Miami. We’re sorry. News that Bethany Consentino’s Best Coast would hit the road later this year in support of their upcoming LP, The…

What is potentially the absolute last headline we’d gamble on reading just popped into our inbox. “GRAMMY WINNER BON IVER @ THE FILLMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Yes, that’s 47 exclamation points preceded by what may be the best news we’ve heard this month. Granted, we’re only two days deep into April, but a…

Eyehategod’s first song at Churchill’s opened a portal to hell. The whole club was transported to a world of fire and brimstone, demons and evil. And you thought the bathrooms were bad before. For an hour-and-a-half, the New Orleans sludge combo kept Miami so far underground, we actually saw the…

The Roots Adrienne Arsht Center Saturday, March 31, 2012 Better Than: Just about anything else that was going on in Miami on Saturday night. It was certainly the finest tuba anywhere in Miami Saturday night. Aside from for Questlove’s drums, Damon “Tuba Gooding Jr.” Bryson’s cheeks expanded to fill the…

Snow Patrol With Ed Sheeran Friday, March 30, 2011 Fillmore Miami Beach Better Than: Crying alone to that same Snow Patrol song for the billionth time. Slapping the hands of his rapturous audience, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody was nearly pulled from the stage mid-verse. As he stumbled to regain…

What happens when you introduce a Cuban basketball star to weed, percussion, and the Marley family?You get Johnny Dread, a rasta music ambassador since 1987 when he started playing drums in the band Copacetic with lead singer Julian Marley. Their album “Ghetto Rock” hit number-seven spot on Billboard’s reggae charts…

Gareth Campesinos isn’t stupid. The 26-year-old frontman of Welsh indie outfit Los Campesinos! realizes that you’re illegally downloading music and there’s not a whole lot he can do about it. However, “there comes a time when people have to accept if they’re going to illegally download music,” Campesinos tells Pitchfork,…

The members of New Orleans sludge metal band Eyehategod don’t worship Satan. They don’t kill virgins, hang them upside down over a tub, and wash themselves in blood. They don’t dance inside circles of fire during full moons at midnight. They don’t castrate babies, put hamsters in blenders, or microwave…

Peanut Butter Wolf at Bardot March 29

Mike Dece’s 1996 Album Release Party at Sweat Records March 30

I Am the Avalanche at Speakeasy Lounge March 31

The Roots at the Adrienne Arsht Center March 31

Astrea Corporation at Dada March 31

The air was thick with love (or at least lust) at Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week’s pool parties. Apparently, scantily-clad people deep into intoxicating substances tend to attract each other like horny human magnets. Nowhere else on Earth is there such a shit-ton of popular music, spectacular pools,…

Confetti, smoke machines, champagne, birthday cakes, an inflatable raft, and crowd surfing. It isn’t surprising to find all this stuff at one of Steve Aoki’s performances. He’s known for hyping the crowd up with his crazy stunts. But Aoki dialed it up to 11 for his set at Ultra Music…

Woah, wait a minute. What happened this weekend? We thought we were in Miami. But as soon as we crossed over Biscayne Boulevard we found ourselves in the middle of EDM insanity. We were surrounded by thousands of colorful, crazy-eyed people-creatures. Some of them had furry ears and tails, some…

There’s house concerts. Then there’s Deadmau5. As one of the closing events to the week-long spectacle known as Winter Music Confererence and Miami Music Week, tickets at the door for Deadmau5’s gig ran $150. But that didn’t stop thousands of house music junkies from packing Amnesia Miami’s dancefloor and VIP…

Check out Crossfade’s 76-photo recap from day one of Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel Miami 2012. Relocating from last year’s tent on the beach, Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel enjoyed two very successful nights at Dowtown Miami’s recently completed Grand Central Park. Opening for SHM on both nights were Calvn…

Ultra Music Festival’s MC introduced David Guetta as “the man that means more to electric dance music than anyone in the United States.” Hmm, of all time? Definitely not. At the moment? You could make a strong argument for that. Is he the DJ currently making the most money off…

Magnetic Man is a collabo between three dubstep dudes from the UK — DJs Benga, Skream, and Artwork — who met at a record store in the ’90s and have been raging ever since. They’re all big-name DJs and producers in their own right. As Magnetic Man, though, Benga, Skream,…

Read Crossfade’s recap of M83’s two-song set at Ultra 2012. Ultra Music Festival is over. But we’re still wondering about one thing: Will M83 be returning to Miami to make up for a ridiculously shortened Ultra set marred by technical difficulties? Well, in a contrite statement that we just received…