Concerts

Although he isn’t quite yet a household name, Khalid already has a double-platinum debut single in “Location” and a gold-certified debut record in American Teen.

In the span of only three years, Carpenter has made the jump from folk-tinged acoustic pop music to radio-ready songs such as her latest single, “Why,” which deals with decidedly teenage subject matter but gives Carpenter’s music a contemporary and mature upgrade.

The theory of alternate realities posits that right next to this reality are infinite universes, together comprising everything that exists. If that’s true, somewhere out there is a reality where every rock star dresses like a superhero. This is a world where no lip comes near a microphone without lipstick on it, where no T-shirts or jeans are allowed onstage, where Insane Clown Posse is not an outlier laughingstock but the norm in a society in which every rocker is decked out in outlandish costumes, makeup, and wigs.

Steely Dan evokes seediness and glamour in equal measure, conjuring imagery of fabulous, decadent cities and the pained, dysfunctional folks who occupy them. Naturally, they’re a perfect fit for Miami’s aesthetic.

Sunday evening, while most of North America was entrenched in the continuing legends of Game of Thrones (and Rick and Morty), one man furthered his own legacy in Miami. Wu-Tang Clan member and “mafia rap” veteran Raekwon the Chef brought the Wild Tour to Churchill’s Pub.

When the 2016 Grammy nominations were announced in December, the Album of the Year category listed some no-brainers: Beyoncé, with her pop-cultural seismic event Lemonade; eventual winner Adele, who’d previously won the award for her once-in-a-decade album, 21; and staples like Drake and Justin Bieber, who appeared less for their latest albums than as an acknowledgment of their chart domination and cultural influence. The fifth nominee, alt-country singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson, was met with a resounding, “Who?”

From Khalid’s sold-out show at the Fillmore Miami Beach to Bob Moses’ DJ set at Space, here’s your guide to music in Miami this week.

Imagine a hot, steamy weekend night at a Hialeah house party as you lounge poolside. The grill is fired up with patiently marinated and spiced meats, sizzling and smoking. There are some spare ribs and jerk chicken, and on the side sit perfectly seasoned black beans and rice, along with Puerto…

In the Martin Scorsese-produced Amazon documentary about the Grateful Dead, Long Strange Trip, biographer Dennis McNally calls the group “the most American of all bands.” He deduces that if you take all the individual members’ backgrounds and sounds “and you dissolve egos with acid and stir vigorously,” you get the Dead.

Most bands playing ’80s nights don’t really know the ’80s. They might have studied old Adam Ant MTV videos, seen Valley Girl a few hundred times, or binge-watched Glow, but they weren’t there for the ’80s. Erotic Exotic does not have that problem. “We started in 1981,” original member Johnny Aguiló reminisces. “I had just graduated from South Miami High School and we were all working at a record distribution company. We started off as a New Wave band, but then we discovered drum machines.”

The mid-’90s was a period of transition for rock music. The grunge subgenre that exploded at the beginning of the decade was in decline after its reluctant leader, Kurt Cobain, died.

Khalid knows you don’t need radio support when you have SoundCloud.

How many hits does it take to make us overlook an artist’s dark side?

Prince Royce returns with a Spanish-language bachata album featuring Shakira, Gente de Zona, Zendaya, and Chris Brown.

In case you were unaware, bachata is back, and Prince Royce is giving it a pop twist. The Dominican-American Bronx native will stop by Bayfront Park Amphitheater this Sunday, July 30. He’s on tour in support of his fifth album, the appropriately titled Five. If you want to get a taste of another part of the world…

It has been more than eight years since Eric Garcia’s anti-blues band Juke put together a recording its founder has felt proud to share. “I haven’t liked anything we recorded since the first album,” Garcia tells New Times. That record, Lungbutter – The Blues Basement Tapes, is the only album he believes captures the spirit of Juke, which in essence reflects Garcia’s love for blues music and his hatred for what it has become.

“I think probably what’s happened is that society has just sort of caught up to the things I’ve been complaining about for years,” Isbell says. “Had my last record come out now, I think people would feel the same way.”

On July 25, an international pop music mega-star will swoop down upon American Airlines Arena. He’s sold millions of albums and drawn countless screaming fans to his side, and it’s likely you’ve never even heard of him. His name is G-Dragon, and he’s the most popular singer in South Korea…

Latin music fest MegaRumba may have changed its location, but it’s still the same massive block party. This year, organizers moved the festival from Tropical Park to Mana Wynwood and expanded from a Colombian Independence Day celebration to one for all nationalities — Latinos in particular. Nevertheless, Miami’s Colombian-American community…

Without doubt, the highlight this week is Kehlani’s show at Culture Room on Monday, July 17. The R&B singer is riding high on the strength of her debut album, SweetSexySavage. Seems South Florida is liking what it’s heard so far, because the show is sold out. This being…