Despite more than 400 shows on its roster since its inception four years ago, Atlanta’s three-piece Chew consistently delivers a high-energy live performance laden with spacey psychedelic instrumental sounds that reverb off the walls and straight into your brain. Cofounders of the hard-hitting band are Brett Reagan (guitar/electronics) and Sarah “Snare-Uh” Wilson (drums)…
Sonny & Cher’s 1965 song “I Got You Babe” blares each morning from the clock radio of Bill Murray’s character in the 1993 comedy classic “Groundhog Day.” Asked why he chose that song, writer Danny Rubin said that after several replays, “it would drive you crazy!” But wasn’t there always something also charming about the song?…
Big names top the list of performers at the Pegasus World Cup Invitational, a thoroughbred horserace in its third year of merging the sport with music.
Sweat Records’ Lauren “Lolo” Reskin lists her picks for local up-and-coming acts to look out for in 2019.
It all started with a scheduling conflict. “The band Steve Jr. from New York were touring their new album. They hit me up about playing in Miami,” Ricardo Guerrero, who produces a series of shows called Death to the Sun, tells New Times. “I reached out to Churchill’s, and they told me that Gordo [Emmanuel Nanni, who promotes Hardcore for Punx] already had the date reserved for a punk show…”
The group released only two albums, but they are considered massively influential in the emo-rock genre, leaving sonic traces that lead to the likes of Blink 182 and Jimmy Eat World.
A permanent vacation sure sounds nice. In most cases, it happens only to Mega Millions winners and trust fund babies. But in Coconut Grove, an all-new event — Permanent Vacation — is coming for everyone to experience. The beachy celebration, presenting some of the neighborhood’s…
New Order, Mineral, Steve Aoki, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, January 7 through 13.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
Released 35 years ago last May, New Order’s iconic LP “Power, Corruption & Lies” wasn’t the influential English band’s first album. But the sophomore effort marked the group’s clear transition from its moody punk origins as Joy Division to an extroverted, effervescent dance act. A pioneer of postpunk, electro-pop, proto-rave, dance-rock, and a whole umbrella of enduring club styles, New Order has been credited with “inventing the ’80s” and “changing music forever.”
“My father played trumpet, so we always listened to jazz. I don’t think there was any choice in the matter,” says Dee Dee Bridgewater, the Grammy- and Tony-winning jazz singer. Taking a break from entertaining her family and watching Martha Stewart on TV the morning of Christmas Eve, Bridgewater speaks with New Times…
J Balvin, Alesso, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, December 31 through January 6.
At times, Miami music fans feel shafted when some of their favorite artists and tours don’t make their way to the depths of Florida. But this year, that was hardly the case. Among the tons of shows Miami got to witness in 2018, choosing the ten best felt nearly impossible. From large arena shows to intimate club ones, each show displayed a specialness that will forever live on as some of the best the Magic City has ever seen. From TLC to Hinds, here are the ten best concerts of 2018.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
Local musicians, artists, and creatives will converge on an Allapattah warehouse to celebrate the city and one another.
“Tancred started out as a side project. My big three influences were the Cure, Portishead, and Letters to Cleo. I’d been listening to them since I was 11, and they always get me to want to write music,” explains Jess Abbott, the onetime guitarist for the indie-rock band Now Now. “I named [Tancred] after a character in a children’s book series…
“I like to say hip-hop was born when I was in my mother’s womb,” Black Thought says by phone right before he and his band the Roots take the stage as house band for The Tonight Show. “I was born in October 1971. It was documented that August 1971 was when Kool Herc created the culture of hip-hop.”
G-Eazy, the Roots, Ty Dolla $ign, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, December 24 through 30.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
If all you wanted for Christmas was a supersize lineup of EDM’s biggest heavy-hitters, Ultra Music Festival has granted your wish.
The bloated list of artists headed to South Florida in 2019 is a testament to the progress made over the past few years in drawing talent to the region. Here’s a look at the most anticipated tours headed to South Florida in 2019.
Earn a spot dancing with the Ultra Angels next spring. And from there, the world can be yours.
