Concerts

Steve Miller Band at Sun Life Stadium

LCD Soundsystem at Fillmore Miami Beach

Addax is an anomaly on the Miami music scene. For starters, the band’s style of rock has very little ’80s or synth-pop influence. It’s more inspired by late-’90s rock, but still Addax doesn’t just sound like a female-fronted Incubus. Sure, the major elements are arpeggios, unique time signatures, and poetic…

Over the past year since releasing his strip club friendly “Peek-A-Boo” in 2009, Jigg has been working on his High Grade project, which is rumored to be a mixtape, then later confirmed to be an album packed with original material. The Liberty City native has received a great response to…

Most people will remember Frankie Pointless from his old days in Miami rock with the outfit Splat, a pop-punk band that touted the best in excess that dear old Coconut Grove had to offer. They gave the hippies and Bahamians a run for their money when they held down at…

The collabo project can be tricky, especially when the key cogs of the two separate sides seem to come from different places. Sometimes it works, and other times it doesn’t. In the case of Kingsley and Perdomo, the thing is a total success. The end result of this pairing between…

Thrash kings Anthrax, anchored by famously outspoken guitarist Scott Ian, land in Miami this Sunday as special guests on a tour with Slayer and Megadeth. Or at least, that’s the plan. If we learned anything from this week’s Miami New Times print music feature, it’s that Ian doesn’t take any…

Spilling blood in the streets is a common theme of both skating hard and rocking the fuck out. And often, these two extreme activities get tangled up and mashed together, breeding dangerous fun. Example: This Saturday’s Vice Magazine book launch bash at Bar for Full Bleed: New York City Skate…

The internet is a loose-lipped, mischievous bitch. If you’ve got a secret, do not tell her. She’s always slipping gooey gobs of gossip into our inbox and whispering dirty little nuggets of hearsay in foreign ears. That girl just can’t be trusted. Anyway, latest rumor out her mouth: On November…

View photos of Shakira at American Airlines Arena here.Shakira American Airlines Arena Monday, September 27, 2009 Better Than: Driving to Palm Beach for a show, or Palm Beach in general. I’d be lying if I told you I’m familiar with the Shakira brand. Sure, I had heard some of her…

Photo by Bob GruenThe Independents circa ’97.​We’re a little sick and tired of people sportin’ mall-bought Ramones t-shirts just to be ironic. Most of those kids have no idea who Sheena is, let alone that she was a punk rocker. They weren’t enrolled in rock ‘n’ roll high school, they…

It’s been a big week for local tropi-pop outfit Local 34. Only seven days ago, they were in L.A. to perform as part of the Viva Tu Musica With 5 competition, sponsored by Wrigley’s 5 Gum. The band and four others were selected by fans online and performed before a…

Aside from being an unfunny overplayed joke, the term “no homo,” as used by Lil Wayne, is hip-hop’s admission of homophobia. When Lil Wayne says Tevin Campbell, No Homo, Black Rambo in “Feel Me,” he really needs us to know he is not gay. He mans it up a little…

Come October 6th, music snobs will face a conundrum of epic proportions: See the much-lauded LCD Soundsystem at the Fillmore, or see Bob Dylan, oft-panned of late for his incomprehensible vocals, at Nova Southeastern University. For many, this is a no-brainer: LCD is in their prime while Bob Dylan is,…

Q-Tip and the Roots With D-Nice, Daniel Merriweather, Kat DeLuna, secret guest Eve, and supa secret guest Bobby Brown Saturday, September 25, 2010 Ice Palace Better than: A bottle of Hennessy all to yourself. At exactly 11:26 p.m., the Roots rolled out onto the stage through a smoky purple haze…

via their MySpace page​You might remember how ecstatic we got when we heard about a private party Hennessy was throwing with the Roots. Then we heard all about how RSVPing was “no guarantee” that we’d actually get accepted to be on the list. Wait, what?We wondered how exactly the good…

With Lil Wayne’s street date — November 5, bitches! — only 41 days away, the world better start preparing for a monsoon deluge of strange and skeezy spitting over spacey creep beats. Now, we’ve already been warned about Mr. Carter’s plans to make it rain with I Am Not a…

Coming off a couple of consecutive East Coast tours, the dudes in Jacobs Ladder — Oren, Sammy, and Brian — were totally tired. After more than a half-thousand shows and countless hours of midnight driving, the road had finally worn them down to cold, hard bone. “We’ve been doing this…

Dâm-Funk The Vagabond Thursday, September 23, 2010 Better Than: Getting the high score on Miss Pac-Man while listening to Purple Rain. In an alternate universe, James Brown is John Lennon, Parliament Funkadelic is Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson is still making songs like “Rock With You,” and g-funk is grunge. On…

Next Saturday, you’re gonna be bumming around Miami International Mall anyway, right? So between stocking up on day-glo shoelaces, stuffing your face full of Cinnabon, and shoplifting calling cards from the One Stop Shop … Why not check out Mr. Nicole Richie (AKA Joel Madden) and his brother Benji of Good…

It’s almost the end of the week. And $2 PBRs, sloppy babes, dark dudes, and dirty leather jackets sounds like a good time. Well, start counting down the hours — roughly 10 — until 30 NE 14th Street fills with all your favorite Friday shit. For tomorrow night, Fridays at…

We here in Miami treat our homegrown party boys like kings of the club. And local house head Oscar G wears one of Miami’s biggest, shiniest crowns. He’s led a thousand wild warehouse orgies at Space, launched Billboard destroyers (“Fired Up” with Ralph Falcon) and underground booty bombs, and repped…