Concerts

The British alt-pop star will light up Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale.

The Miami band Tamboka plays a unique fusion of flamenco, cumbia, swing, jazz, and bossa nova. According to guitarist Tyrone Iregui, the musical mixture came together in 2011 outside the Wynwood gallery Plant the Future. “I was friends with the owner,” Iregu recalls. “I said if I played music outside, I could bring people into the store. We got 200 people to come out and dance.”

Rides and rappers await at the RC Cola Plant the day before Thanksgiving.

Tortuga Music Festival announced its lineup for the three-day music festival and benefit in April, and it’s loaded with country stars and classic rock. The event, which benefits ocean environmental-related causes, will feature headliners Keith Urban, Florida Georgia Line, and Eric Church along with Snoop Dogg, Shaggy, Cheap Trick, and…

Songs with lyrics tend to be specific and topical, says Ramble Jon Krohn, who records and performs under the moniker RJD2. Purely instrumental music, though, is different for him. Without a vocalist telling the listener what to imagine and how to feel, everything is up for interpretation. “The beauty of…

If there is something orchestral and old-timey about the music of Grizzly Bear, it might be due to osmosis. That’s according to the band’s singer and founder, Ed Droste. “My mother was a music teacher, and her father was a music professor. From as long as I can remember, they would gather around the piano and we’d sing old songs like ‘A-Tisket A-Tasket.'”

Taylor Swift is having a busy month. She released her album Reputation last week, hot off the heels of its lead single, a love letter to Right Said Fred, “Look What You Made Me Do.” She performed on SNL Saturday night. She’s also made the time to sue a blogger who pointed out that Nazis are among her biggest fans.

Vicious traffic, nightmare parking, long security lines, crap weather – there were plenty of hurdles to clear Sunday night to get to American Airlines Arena, but it was well worth it to see the one and only, Jay-Z. This was the weekend for big events in Miami and just like…

After making its live debut in Miami in 2013, Grizzly Bear returns for another show. The band had been performing long before its appearance here four years ago and had released its debut album, Horn of Plenty, in 2004. Grizzly Bear is touring in support of its fifth LP, Painted Ruins. Catch the quartet at the Fillmore Miami Beach this Thursday.

Opening for Waxahatchee at Gramps November 14, Ought has channeled the Zeitgeist in an era when rock’s relevance has waned.

Music has played such a big role in Joseph Mount’s life that it’s easy for him to think of instruments as people with personalities. The drums, for instance, are like an easygoing, affable drinking buddy. He considers the bass guitar more serious and thoughtful — maybe someone who abstains from…

House-music DJ/producer Josh Butler was a regular on the dance floor before moving to the DJ throne. For the self-admitted raver, his college experience in Leeds was of the six-year variety. Like the legendary house parties there, undergrad careers extend past the standard time frame.

Before they were slinging mud at each other on escalating dis tracks, Jay-Z and onetime mentor Jaz-O were collaborating on one of Jaz-O’s more successful singles, “Hawaiian Sophie.” It’s the sort of goofy, good-time pop rap from the late ’80s that’s almost embarrassing if it weren’t for some truly smooth…

Robby Robb is on a mission to make a music festival that celebrates local bands — whether they’re from Miami or somewhere else. This November 18, Robb will inaugurate his Imaginary Radio Music & Arts Festival at Gramps.

Jay-Z’s 4:44 Tour finally makes it to Miami this Sunday. It’s in support of his 13th album of the same name, which, like Magna Carta Holy Grail, wasn’t teased with any singles before release. But then again, when you inhabit the upper echelons of superstardom like Shawn Carter does, you don’t have to bother with singles.

It has a long and storied history, first as Miami Beach Municipal Auditorium, then the Theater of Performing Arts, and later the Jackie Gleason Theater. But 2017 is the tenth year the building at 1700 Washington Ave. has been known as the Fillmore Miami Beach. To mark the occasion…

Juan Carlos Girl, a legally blind local activist and Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy, is suing Ultra Music Festival. He claims the festival’s website and live events are inaccessible to visually impaired patrons, which violates Title III of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

Catch three Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees at this weekend’s RockFest 80’s.

According to NME, QTY is the NBT. That sentence might not make sense to many, but Dan Lardner, the lead singer of NYC two-piece QTY, would probably love it. Joined by guitarist and longtime friend and collaborator Alex Niemetz, the 27-year-old Lardner will make his first trip to Florida as…

One of John Gregory’s great recent frustrations in life was that he couldn’t find a drum ‘n’ bass night in Miami. “I’d been doing events all over South Florida and I found the last couple years there really wasn’t anything I wanted to go to,” the man who was in…

It can’t be easy to be a soft-spoken singer-songwriter today in America, with our appetite for screaming pundits, whirlwind synth, and infinite streams of information. But Sam Beam has made a success of it under the moniker Iron & Wine. With Beam’s whispery vocals and guitar, Iron & Wine has…

The man who sang youth anthems such as “My Generation” and “The Kids Are Alright” is now 73 years old, but the Who’s Roger Daltrey approaches performing his classics the same as always. “When I sing ‘Baba O’Riley,’ a song I’ve sung a thousand times, I’m singing it for the first time. That’s always been my method. I have to sing them like it’s the first time.”