Concerts

Young Money Cash Money Billionaires at Mekka February 17

Bret Michaels at Hard Rock Live February 18

John Dahlback at Amnesia February 18

Authority Zero at Respectable Street February 18

What’s better than Dave Matthews Band concert? An aneurism? Hemorrhoids? Bio-terrorism? No, hater, two Dave Matthews Band concerts! The South Africa-born, Virginia-based dad-rocker, winemaker and occasional actor announced a multi-city summer tour earlier today, a cross-continental trek that’ll Crash into funk rock hotspots like Noblesville, Indiana, Scranton, Pennsylvania and Saratoga…

See the full 20-photo Drake at BankUnited Center slideshow. Drake’s Club Paradise Tour With ASAP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar BankUnited Center at University of Miami Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Better Than: Slightly dirty sweet talk that’s not set to million-dollar beats. Have you ever visited Club Paradise? In the words…

See the full 35-photo Sleigh Bells and Diplo at Grand Central slideshow. Diplo, Sleigh Bells, and Liturgy Grand Central Miami Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Better Than: A Valentine’s Day spent home alone, dancing with yourself to Diplo. On Valentine’s Day 2012, highly manicured young (and then some) adults swarmed like…

The Swedish House Mafia may be the top family in organized dance music. But they’ve got very little clout when it comes to striking deals with city officials. The Miami Herald reports that Miami-Dade County has “pulled the plug” on the Funkshion festival, a four-day, WMC party that would wrap…

Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It’s been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, “a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, New Order, and Fatboy…

Third World and Inner Circle share more than a few things in common: names of exactly equal length (two words, 11 letters); status as two of Jamaican reggae’s longest-running and best-known bands; Florida addresses. What’s more, at one time, they were essentially the same group. Third World founders Stephen “Cat”…

Reggae may be the world’s most perfect spliff-lighting music. But don’t forget its social imperative to promote justice in a world full of hate, tyranny, starvation, and unbound evil. Reggae is hope. And Ziggy Marley is coming to the Fillmore Miami Beach on May 9 to fill your soul with…

See the full 68-photo Bruise Cruise 2012 slideshow. After only 243 minutes aboard the Carnival Imagination, it had already been a busy day, chockablock with bruisin’, cruisin’, and boozin’, famous guy sightings, and doing megahits off the pina colada bong while almost tumbling overboard. And the boat hadn’t even left…

Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party, Day One With Blowfly, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, The Togas, Mikal Cronin, and Deaf Poets The Stage Miami Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Better Than: Not seeing an elderly dude talk to a 23-year-old girl about eating her pussy. Whoever tipped America up like a pachinko table,…

Sol Ruiz’s Album Fundraiser at PAX February 10

The Avett Brothers at Sunset Cove Amphitheater February 10

R3hab at LIV February 11

Sumsun at Speakeasy Lounge February 11

Sleigh Bells and Diplo at Grand Central February 14

The Virginia Key Grassroots Music Fest is almost here, and that means a stellar music lineup, camping in the cool winter beauty of the subtropics, and more hippies, rastas, and traveling kids than you can shake a beach at. Meanwhile at Jimbo’s, $2 beers, Southern rock and roll, and topless…

Brenton Brown knows how to hustle. Having come back to his native Miami after graduating from the University of Florida, he doesn’t let the haters throw him off his quest to be the next big rapper. Signed with new management, he just made a video for his song, “Lemme Know,”…

Tool is just one of those bands that inspires crazy cult-like fandom. Or a totally indifferent shrug of the shoulders. But according to our sister blog County Grind, last night’s show at the BankAtlantic Center was crawling with rabid devotees to the Temple of Tool. So what if most of…

For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn’t even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna’s 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who’d be totally willing to blow their entire…