A quick glance at Bigg D’s Wikipedia page shows an impressive resume. He wrote songs for Mariah Carey and produced music for Rick Ross, Jamie Foxx, and Jennifer Lopez. But midway through an interview with New Times, he dropped a bomb revealing his Miami musical bona fides. “You know that Miami…
Calle Ocho Music Festival, 9 Mile Music Festival, Jazz in the Gardens, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, March 4 through 10.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
Remember the band Squares from the ’80s? No? Well, don’t feel too bad — neither does anyone else. The group never released an album. “We were the hardest-working, least successful band of the early ’80s,” says Squares guitarist and vocalist Joe Satriani, laughing. A 15-time Grammy nominee, Satriani has since…
Every misfit’s hero, every mother’s friend, and every bully’s nightmare, P!nk has been disrupting the status quo for decades. Her 2001 single “Don’t Let Me Get Me,” from the album Missundaztood, was the soundtrack of my teenage years. Almost 20 years later, now that I’m a mother, she still grabs my…
On any given weekend, Wynwood — Miami’s former industrial district turned trendy arts hub — is crawling with revelers in search of a fun spot to party and a selfie in front of a mural. Though the most exclusive clubs are still primarily located in Miami Beach, the mainland is where the real fun happens.
In 1990, when Miami radio station 99 Jamz (WEDR) erected a 100,000-watt transmitter, its newly boosted signal carried not only across South Florida but also, with enough ingenuity and patience, to the gritty, coastal Havana suburb Alamar. Over the phone on a late-February afternoon, one of the pioneers of hip-hop in Cuba…
The 32-year-old multi-instrumentalist and electronic music producer known onstage as Kill Paris sources sounds from houseplants and has gigged for pork chops and mashed potatoes.
There are artists who sing about partying, artists who sing about gangs, and artists who sing about cats. Then there are the ones who change the world. Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Gary Clark Jr. hopes to be one of the latter. Since 2011, Clark has brandished his passions through searing…
The event was founded in 1993 by Cedella Booker Marley, Julian Marley’s grandmother, as a tribute to her iconic son Bob Marley and to carry on his mission of “teaching the people through music.”
Pink, CNCO, Matthew Dear, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, February 25 through March 3.
John Williams, composer of indelible scores for films including the Star Wars franchise, Indiana Jones, and Jurassic Park, will conduct New World Symphony fellows at the organization’s 2019 gala on Saturday, March 2. The event will be screened on the wall outside the New World Center at Soundscape Park for the public to view for free.
A tiny, smoke-filled dive bar inauspiciously christened the Club has gained a steady following of South Florida’s young, alternative, and arts-inclined.
These are the five best concerts in Miami this weekend.
The members of CNCO dress like a boy band. They stare seductively at the camera like a boy band. But unlike their predecessors who sang bubblegum pop, this Latin quintet has taken on reggaeton.
Life can be hard for a Miami club kid. It’s not all champagne and bathroom-stall snow showers. Sometimes your favorite place is marked by developers and reduced to rubble overnight. Sometimes you love a place but no one else seems to care, and it slowly fades into nothingness, prompting half-hearted queries like, “Is that place even still open?”
Backroom Sessions partners with the Miami-Dade Fair & Exposition for its new Boulevard Stage.
On March 29, 1969, “Time of the Season” by English rock group the Zombies hit number one on the American Cashbox singles chart — despite the band having broken up 18 months earlier. Fifty years later to the day, on March 29, 2019, the Zombies, with founding members…
Miami’s love affair with electronic music spans generations. Synthetic electronic sounds and industrial rhythms have been bouncing around the Magic City for several decades, and in that time, countless locals have stepped forth to share their personal spins on the form. From the thundering booty bass of Uncle Luke and 2 Live Crew to the raunchy electroclash of Avenue D, there’s a long and rich history of Miami-based artists blowing minds and speakers.
The days of Madonna sightings and Versace parties are gone, but the South Beach nightclub scene rages on. The players change and institutions come and go. Velvet ropes line the street, then vanish, only to return under new blinking signs. The music shifts, styles evolve, but the energy and excitement remain.
You’d think curating the festivities for the makeshift roller rink at III Points last weekend would be enough for Otto Von Schirach and Notorious Nastie in their never-ending quest to keep South Florida weird, but according to them, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Next weekend will bring their Project Pat’s Trap Attack, a three-night extravaganza that will mix music, art, a yacht party, Project Pat, and madness.
That’s a wrap on the sixth edition of III Points. So was the 16-month wait worth it? In short, yes. The new February date proved to be a smart move. Temperatures were much milder, and any worry that the festival would suffer crowd shortages during the busy Presidents’ Day weekend…
