Critic's Notebook

Ondatrópica recently dropped its sophomore album and will stop by the Floyd to give Miamians a taste of what the duo is all about.

Usually, a fresh-on-the-scene, up-and-coming band has to wait a while for the dream gig. They play locally for a while, build a set full of decent songs, and maybe record them if they can find the funds to lock down studio space. And then, finally, they get to open for a marquee name.

Deez Bands, Johnny Pickles, and Yung Stew, AKA the Doolie Gang, drop off their new single ahead of their debut mixtape, Not The Life We Chose.

It’s that time of the year again. Those of us who suffer from vinyl fever will trek to IKEA for new shelving units to store the dozens of records we plan to lug home this Saturday, April 22. Record Store Day (RSD), a sacred holiday for vinyl enthusiasts, artists, and music fans, marks its tenth anniversary celebrating independently owned record stores.

Every year, Record Store Day invites vinyl fanatics, collectors, and even casual music fans to visit their local independent record store to shop for exclusive releases from acts across all genres and from all over the world. This year, if you can find them, you can nab limited releases by…

Lake Worth’s Everymen is a difficult band to pin down. Their sound is an amalgamation of attitudes and instruments that can best be described as “folk-punk” but that transcends both of those genres. It’s a sound they’ve tirelessly shared on tour with the rest of the nation, and even Europe, for years.

Miami’s Bribery Corporation, a record label and fashion house, takes a creative approach to resistance under Trump.

Fans of the new generation of Dade County rappers, who came up during the booming internet age of Miami’s underground hip-hop scene, have watched artists like N3ll grow up and discover their own claims to fame. But while other Carol City rhymers, like Denzel Curry and Yung Simmie, have gained…

Elastic Bond’s “Honey Bun” explores what it means to connect as humans in the digital age.

This morning, the Bayfront Park Management Trust voted in favor of allowing the third edition of Rolling Loud to move forward. The vote comes after a city commissioner balked at the hip-hop festival over claims it was too close to Ultra and that he hadn’t been properly informed…

Miami’s Bayfront Park Management Trust has called a special meeting for next Tuesday, April 11, at 9 a.m. to decide the fate of the Rolling Loud Festival, which is among the South’s highest-profile hip-hop events this spring.

When singer Rino Cerbone and drummer Andrew Koussevitzky named their rock band Stellar Revival in 2008, they had no idea how apt that name would be almost a decade later. “We were in different bands in Miami,” Cerbone says of their formation. “I was in Copacetic, and Andrew was in…

Some music producers are in the game for the fame. DJ Khaled, Mike Will Made It, Zaytoven, Metro Boomin, and DJ Mustard add a tag — a producer’s signature drop — to the first two to six seconds of their songs, leaving their mark on the track and announcing their…

Broward rapper Xali Unknwn gives an inside look at his studio process at Bay Eight Studios.

Richard Shelter plans a screenplay, a book, and reunion weekend celebrating Miami’s ’80s punk heyday.

When Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin formed Nouvelle Vague, they inadvertently created the perfect amalgam of new and old. Though they had both been punk and New Wave aficionados, “in 2003, Marc dreamt one night of a Bossa Nova version of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart,’ sung by a Brazilian…

Jim Camacho launches his new web series and podcast on the art of songwriting and challenges his guests to write a song in 30 minutes.

It’s 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, and Westchester is relatively quiet. Somewhere in Brickell, a group of scantily dressed girls are doing shots in preparation for a wild night out, but 15 minutes west, in the grassy armpit of the Dolphin and Palmetto Expressways, leathery Cuban men gather on sun-bleached porches…

Spring break is officially here. With all the college students flooding Miami to party hard in downtown and get reckless on the beach, it’ll be hard to drown out all the mind-splitting EDM that will boom from every club in Dade County for the next month. Are you hip-hop heads looking for an easy escape route? Then search no further.

Deaf Poets return with a new album, Lost in the Magic City, and video for “Celestine.”

February has been filled with nothing but love from our hometown rappers and artists.