Concerts

As a little girl, musician Emily Estefan would hang out near the seven-player horn section at her mother’s concerts. “When you have your feet on a floor that’s vibrating just because of people playing, everybody contributing to a sound, and creating this kind of energetic wall… that feeling of creation between so many people — that’s the best feeling in the world.” That energy and power, she says, are her spirituality.

Why would anyone pay to see a show of Christmas songs when every Walgreens speaker has been blasting the same carols since Halloween? The best answer is because it’s Brian Wilson singing The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album in its entirety. Though the 1964 record doesn’t have the cachet of Pet Sounds…

Art Basel shows, Ultra Naté, G-Eazy, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, December 2 through 9.

These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne Girardi started her sensual and irreverent music project Erika Jayne when she was the 35-year-old mother of a teenager. Twelve years later, her latest banger, “XXPEN$IVE,” has more than 16 million YouTube views and a hook that repeats, “It’s expensive to me.”…

When the Jets and the Sharks rumbled for control of their New York City neighborhood, a young Steve Vai watched in awe. Tony’s love affair with Maria, the sister of a rival gang member, ended tragically, but it spawned one of the greatest guitarists in modern history.

If you hear St. Paul & the Broken Bones sight unseen, the Alabama neo-soul band conjures images of Al Green sweating while crooning. Singer Paul Janeway chuckles when asked about listeners’ preconceptions about his appearance before they see his band live. “When we started, there were assumptions I wouldn’t look the way I do,” he says. “It’s fun to surprise people.”

“Vertigo,” the lead single off hip-hop duo Atmosphere’s new album, “Mi Vida Local,” contains sobering observations about climate change or the nuclear apocalypse or whatever happens to be threatening humanity’s existence at the moment. “I might be the last generation of grandparents,” one line goes…

Atmosphere, Eons, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, November 26 through December 2.

Local acts INVT, True Vine, Sister System, Jonny From Space, and other will celebrate the United States’ foremost consumerist holiday in style by bringing it back to basics.

“Degenerate” typically has a negative connotation. Google says the word means someone who’s “lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable.” For Travis Egedy, better known as the electronic artist Pictureplane, being called a degenerate is a “badge of honor.” Egedy even invoked the word to title his latest album.

Elton John, Playboi Carti, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, November 19 through 25.

These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.

It all came down to money. Commissioners Joe Carollo and Keon Hardemon basically wanted Ultra Music Festival to pay a much higher fee to use Miami Marine Stadium and Virginia Key Beach Park for its 2019 edition. The festival agreed to pay $2 million, and Hardemon insisted a large part of that money go to the struggling Virginia Key Beach Park Trust.

Over the weekend, the Village of Key Biscayne released a video concerning Ultra Music Festival’s possible move to Virginia Key. In it, Mayor-elect Mike Davey resorted to scaremongering to warn that Ultra was “evicted” from Bayfront Park because of “environmental destruction, noise, and increase in alcohol- and drug-related violence.”

They are teaming up with other musicians to perform as a supergroup, the Unknown Legends, to play each musician’s songs and covers of Lucinda Williams, Harry Nilsson, and others. The show is called the First Waltz, a title inspired by the Band’s live collaborative Thanksgiving performance, the Last Waltz.

The members of Butterfly Snapple gather around a kitchen counter in the South Miami home of Diego Melgar and John Small, the band’s guitarist and electronic-synth player. Melgar pours everyone a glass of Trader Joe’s Merlot. The quartet makes jokes and trades stories while sipping the wine…

The Virginia Key-based music festival has carved a comfortable niche for itself in Miami’s musical landscape, and with support from the likes of Chromeo, M.I.A., and other acts, the 2018 edition stood out from other Magic City festivals.

Drake, Marc Anthony, Tech N9ne, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, November 12 through 18.

Mumble rap may be hot, but Bas’ smooth flow and playful lyrics are even hotter.