There’s something about living away from the heart of Miami that gives these bands the space and ambition to succeed and be heard — perhaps it’s the lack of distractions like weekend all-nighters at Las Rosas or happy hour at Gramps. Many of these bands consistently venture to downtown, Wynwood, and Miami Beach to play gigs, and they are not to be missed.
Last year, the two revisited their musical partnership and released a new EP, Apart, a high-production affair that puts Johansson and Yorn’s fun chemistry on full display.
About six months ago, the local photographer launched his 3:05 clothing brand on Instagram, and it quickly gained traction among local R&B and hip-hop artists.
“Everybody’s always talking about L.A. and New York, but Miami’s got some cute shit too,” says Gami, DJ and founder of the “ultra-femme/trans” creative collective Internet Friends. Along with fellow DJ and cofounder Keanu Orange, Internet Friends is on a mission to draw more visibility to the city’s ongoing queer, underground music scene while being a “platform for artists to express themselves.”
Do you already have plans for 4/20? If you do, you might want to break them. Kaya Fest just announced the lineup for its Bayfront Park Amphitheater spectacle, and it falls on one of the most irie days of the year: April 20.
Gladys Knight, Matisyahu, Cheap Trick, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, January 21 through 27.
There were seven DJs on the bill for Life in Color this past Saturday night, but the main attraction for the thousands of people in attendance was the paint. Gallons of colorful liquid sprayed onto the crowd during the DJ sets. Men on the stage could barely control hoses spewing pink, orange, yellow, and green flumes. Vendors even sold paint for $5 a pop to attendees who wanted to add even more color to everyone’s complexions.
Miami has an electronic music festival in Ultra, a hip-hop festival in Rolling Loud, and an everything-in-between festival in III Points. But the region’s most popular genre of music — Latin — has remained underserved. That is until now. Fuego Music Festival was just announced. It’s billed as “the first East Coast two-day Latin music festival.”
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
With their weekly Saturday-night party, Relic, Travis Rogers and his partner Fiin wanted to fill a void they saw in Miami: an electronic music party specializing in local talent. “We want to organically grow a night that was about the music,” Fiin tells New Times. “People want to come to…
Wigwood is less than three weeks away. So if you see a fierce giant squid out of the water and click-clacking in heels to the mainland, do not be alarmed.
What composes life in Wynwood? Art. Food. Fashion. Drinks. And music. So why don’t we have an annual festival that celebrates all these wonderful things and call it the Wynwood Life Festival? Perfecto! The Wynwood Life Festival is back for a seventh year, kicking off the afternoon of Friday,…
The band’s heaviest moments deliver absolutely pulverizing, end-of-all-things metal riffage. It’s just that the contrast between the light and dark turns is starker than ever before.
More than 3,000 attendees are expected to gather at Historic Virginia Key Beach Park for a communal art experience.
Sometimes you reach a point where you’re pretty convinced you’ve seen it all. But in Miami, we’re always looking for new ways to reinvent the party wheel. Rather than become jaded by the same old nightlife offerings week after week, creative collective Late for Work came together this past October with one mission: to create unique experiences.
“There’s so many similarities to making it in football and making it in music,” T-RO, a onetime wide receiver and tight end at Southern California’s Mt. San Antonio College, tells New Times. “Football made my music career easier because I didn’t need to install discipline. I was coachable when I came into the rap game…
In honor of Redman’s concert at Blackbird Ordinary this Thursday, New Times has listed some of his finest moments in cannabis.
Cher, Redman, Chew, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, January 14 through 20.
Country music is steeped in female voices, from Patsy Cline to Reba McEntire, Shania Twain, and Faith Hill. But not since the Dixie Chicks burst onto the scene in 1998 has an all-female trio experienced such widespread success. “It really happened organically for us, and the timing was just right,” Runaway June lead…
New Order has a bit of a crush on Miami, and based on the response at last night’s sold-out show at the Fillmore, the feeling is mutual. The influential British New Wave group responsible for enduring dance-rock masterpieces such as “Blue Monday” and “Bizarre Love Triangle” announced a Miami stop on the heels of a rescheduled Chile tour date in early December. Within days of going on sale, tickets to the January 12 show had sold out.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
In 2003, a 24-year-old Wesley Pentz, along with DJ Low Budget, started a series of parties and mixtapes dubbed Hollertronix. Based out of Philadelphia, Pentz quickly began getting the underground American dance scene buzzing with a mishmash of styles and genres that on paper seemed disjointed, but somehow the duo made it work…
