Canadian hip-hop artist Nav will take the Fillmore Miami Beach stage next Thursday, June 20, and bring fellow Ontario rapper Killy with him. Nav has yet to cross into the mainstream, an issue he brought up in a recent Pitchfork article when he complained that paparazzi still don’t photograph him.
In just over a week, the inaugural Wynwood Pride Music Festival will take over the Wynwood Marketplace with a weekend of live music, drag performances, DJ sets, and other diversions to celebrate the full spectrum of diversity in Miami during National LGBTQ Pride Month. To help you better plan your weekend, we’ve rounded up a list of events taking place before and during the fest, as well as happenings at surrounding venues. Here are the ten best events during Wynwood Pride weekend.
Since jazz lost its place to rock ’n’ roll as the dance music of the day, oh, about 60 years ago, presenting it has become as much an art as a business. And with Miami’s privileged location, regular influx of tourists, diverse population, and plentiful attractions, few places offer the tantalizing opportunities and steep challenges for jazz artists and promoters as the Magic City.
On a typical day, blaring car horns and chattering pedestrians compose much of the soundscape in Miami-Dade County. On the Summer Solstice, however, residents and visitors can hear new tunes and melodies on the streets of Miami Beach, Kendall, and most other cities and neighborhoods south of the Broward County line.
n recent years, there’s one type of show that’s become practically unavoidable for concertgoers: the co-headlining tour. What was once a particularly rare practice among established acts has become one of the most common trends in live music, with team-up tours commanding summer rosters at venues around the country. South Florida alone has dozens of these shows slated for the next few months, from Korn & Alice in Chains to Beck & Cage the Elephant.
Miami’s former industrial district turned popular arts hub is pulling out the stops this June for its inaugural Wynwood Pride Music Festival, celebrating the full spectrum of diversity in Miami.
It’s fitting that as Marlon Sinvergüenza speaks with New Times, he’s planning to go to a “Weird Al” Yankovic concert. ‘Ho’s,” the newest video and song by Sinvergüenza’s electro duo, Seizure Machine, is heavily influenced by the comedy-parody legend.
About halfway through her set at American Airlines Arena Sunday night, Florence Welch, frontwoman of the beloved band Florence + the Machine, made a simple request of the audience.
New Times’ annual Best of Miami issue will be released online tomorrow morning, with hundreds of staff picks of the finest people, places, and culture that ruled South Florida in the past year. Can’t wait? Here’s a sneak peek at a few of the winners who have helped define Miami…
Electric Kif, Las Nubes, Twenty One Pilots, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, June 10 through 16.
Denzel Curry taps Miami staples Rick Ross, Ice Billion Berg, Kiddo Marv, Sam Sneak, and PlayThatBoiZay for his Miami-themed fourth album, Zuu.
These are the five best concerts in Miami May 31 through June 2.
Los Wizzards want to make you dance. Their rhythms and infectious sound are designed to make you do just that. And if you don’t, the local band’s members, starting with founder Wizzmer, might just go get you out of your seat.
Things are about to get a whole lot louder and hazier in Miami. The California stoner-doom metal trio Sleep will stop at Miami’s the Ground June 18 for its first South Florida show. The group, which was a cornerstone of Southern California’s early-’90s stoner-rock explosion, has a slow, heavy, and pummeling sound that helped to define an era of metal music.
Musician Frankie Midnite always looks at the bright side. He grew up in a rough part of Miami Gardens, but good music was always playing throughout his neighborhood. He doesn’t own a car, but waiting for the bus inspired his upcoming one-man concert-theatrical show hybrid, A Fool’s Love Stories. He…
Growing up in Germany, Christian Löffler was enchanted by music of both the electronic and analog varieties. “I found out about music software programs at 14. I wanted to learn everything. It took a while for me to find my strategies and concepts.” Löffler says.
Las Nubes will celebrate the release of their new album SMVT (an homage to the original band name) at the Allapattah venue the Bridge on Thursday, June 13, the day before the album is released everywhere, giving fans the first chance to hear SMVT and buy the record or tape.
Even before singer Michelle Forman had musical aspirations, the Miami native knew she wanted to help others. “Since I was a girl I felt I was supposed to do something bigger than me,” the longtime vocalist of Afro-Latin fusion band Suenalo said. “I was always sensitive to people suffering. I…
Fans in Miami are tired of shitty rap performances. Lip-syncing to mastered tracks and starting riots in the crowd to distract the audience from the fact that the artist is out of breath should no longer be tolerated.
Florence + the Machine, Weird Al Yankovic, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, June 3 through 9.
Ariana Grande’s Sweetener World Tour returned to the stage in Miami after the singer was forced to cancel two Florida shows due to a health emergency.
These are the five best concerts in Miami May 31 through June 2.
