Concerts

Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Otto Von Schirach, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, August 13 through 19.

Filing into Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale to see the seminal emo act American Football, you’d be forgiven for not knowing the band’s highly influential debut came out nearly 20 years ago. Here was a crowd of fresh-faced youngsters piled in to watch a group of guys who could be these kids’ dads play music suffused with melancholy and beats that rarely surpass a steady 120 BPM.

This country does not do earnestness well. We would rather turn you into a meme than lend you an understanding ear. We have trouble digesting sincerity unless it’s wrapped in something less vulnerable. Perhaps that’s part of the reason some folks have so much trouble with J. Cole. His…

Li Saumet and Simón Mejía of Bomba Estéreo will bring their signature electro-tropical sound to the Fillmore on Saturday, August 11. The Colombians, known for their eclectic style and expressive political lyrics, are fresh off the European leg of their tour, which is called Jungla. The band has evolved by staying…

Being the Juliet to a handsome Romeo, having her lover march in on a white horse and beg for her forgiveness, professing her love to a man during his wedding to another woman: Taylor Swift, ever the romantic, loves a good fairy tale. Her most meticulous and longest-running fantasy, though,…

Matar Zohan knows how to bring the funk. Plain and simple, the 28-year-old London-born virtuoso is one of the last proponents of the nearly extinct art of originality. His past projects have run the gamut from collaborations with Kill the Noise and the Knocks, to an ambitious and widely satisfying…

Jermaine Cole’s latest project, KOD, channels pure artistry. It’s inspired by an artist who doesn’t stray from lyrical consistency, Kendrick Lamar. Cole witnessed Lamar’s work onstage in Detroit during the Damn Tour, which left both fans and Cole himself coveting the encore. These artists, who lead the hip-hop generation, have two…

Today, I drove past a hip-looking young woman with short black bangs, concentrating on her phone. She was  standing on the corner of a street lined with cool stores and was wearing a Def Leppard crop-top with leopard-print short sleeves and a high waisted skirt. I wondered: Is she wearing the…

Since 1995, Warped Tour has excelled in blending the demands of American boardrooms and corporate sponsorships with the shifting cultures of alternative lifestyles. While simultaneously surviving because of partnerships with Vans, Journeys, and Monster, Warped Tour was always the most DIY of festivals. Sure, it was held…

Bomba Estéreo, Imagine Dragons, Pentatonix, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, August 6 through August 12.

No matter their feelings toward Kesha, no one wanted to sit through a Macklemore concert.

The band joins 3OH!3, Reel Big Fish, Pennywise, Simple Plan, and others at Coral Sky Amphitheatre this Sunday for the final scheduled Warped Tour date.

Dan Le Batard is a longtime Miami sports columnist, ESPN radio personality, and TV host. He started as a reporter with the Miami Herald in 1990. A University of Miami graduate, he earned stripes (and criticism) for his early-’90s reporting of the Hurricanes football scandals. Then, as the Herald declined, he started a radio and TV career…

In a few short days, Vans Warped Tour will wrap up a two-decade summer odyssey across America. The last day of the venerated festival is Sunday, August 5, and will be held at Coral Sky Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach.

Both admirably attempt to put human faces on the social justice and sexual harassment issues roiling the nation.

Austin is known for its guitar music. Few people think of the Texas capital as an EDM hot spot, but electronic geniuses Tritonal call it home. “I came from a Texan musical family,” explains one half of the duo, Chad Cisneros. “My grandparents played guitar and piano. They had my mom and her sisters cut records as a family band of gospel and Christian music.”

Few names in indie rock (dare we say “emo”?) can evoke the same reaction as mentioning the Kinsella brothers. Mike, Tim, and Nate have all played in bands acknowledged as towering influences: Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Owen, and the often-gushed-about American Football. Even a cover of that band’s 1999 album…

Janet Jackson, Kesha and Macklemore, Panic! at the Disco, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 30 through August 5.

The 48-minute companion video for Janelle Monáe’s 2018 album, Dirty Computer, begins with projections of a naked man and woman, then cuts to projections of them clothed in white tracksuits emblazoned with the letter “D.” “You were dirty if you looked different,” she says. “You were dirty if you refused to…

Britney Spears’ fans are special. They don’t push or shove to get into their seats at the arena. They have no problem spending their life savings on overpriced tour T-shirts. They wait patiently in food lines that stretch well past the box office, and they come dressed like her in her “…Baby One More Time” music video…

One day, you’re a young punk, body-surfing shirtless across a sweaty crowd of high schoolers. The next, you’re worrying about your own kid behaving like a little punk in his seventh-period history class. Life is impermanent and ever-changing. Time can temper and mold even the most hard-core into mortgage-having, child-rearing,…

It seemed outrageous in 1994 when lead singer Billy Corgan said the Smashing Pumpkins were influenced by ’70s  dinosaur rock like Boston and Electric Light Orchestra. His most faithful fans figured he was being ironic. Those were the kind of older acts his alternative-rock peers like Nirvana and Radiohead openly mocked…