Most fans headed out to see Sam Smith at the American Airlines Arena this weekend are likely unfamiliar with curly-haired, country-singing opening act Cam, but they probably know at least one of her songs by heart. Camaron Ochs, better known by her stage name, cowrote the penultimate track “Palace” on…
In 2015, New Times declared, “The weekly party has all but gone the way of the dinosaur in South Florida, killed not by a massive comet rocketing to Earth but by some combination of bottle service, a tourist-driven market, and a serious lack of people willing to take the risk…
Miami has a new piece of Nashville, with Writers in the Round. The singer-songwriter event is held every second Wednesday of the month at Bar Nancy. Juan Turros, one of the founding members of local group Suénalo, was inspired after a trip to Nashville with his wife, Denise. The two…
Following a successful first outing along the shores of Virginia Key Beach last year, Rakastella has announced the initial lineup for its forthcoming second edition in December. The brainchild of two internationally adored techno labels, Innervisions and Life and Death, along with local promoters PL0T, Secret Garden, and the…
To a generation of internet shut-ins and misfits, Yung Lean’s utterance of “Suicideyear” in his inimitable Swedish drawl on the track “Hurt” was the overture to an iconic moment in online history. The producer on the track, Suicideyear’s melodic and haunting sounds were for many their first introduction to the…
Behind a door in the back of Wynwood’s Coyo Taco is a dimly lit room with a full bar, a projector playing your tia’s favorite music videos, a DJ effortlessly blending Latin hits and hip-hop bangers, and a girl from Instagram moving her hips in heels higher than your hopes…
LunchMoney Lewis previews his upcoming album and shares some ideas and projects he’s working on.
The Rockadictos are a little frustrated. The trio has been playing in South Florida for about a decade, but hasn’t found Miami to be a great place for a rock band to establish a fan base. They say the scene for Latin rock groups pales in comparison with those for EDM…
Sam Smith, Chromeo, De La Ghetto, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 9 to July 15.
September will mark the two year anniversary of the death of iconic Miami Marlins pitcher José Fernández, after a tragic boating accident off the coast of Miami Beach. Fernández not only left behind his family, a then-pregnant girlfriend and a baseball organization starved for young talent, but also a legacy…
When Luis Fonsi’s song “Despacito” topped the U.S. singles charts for a significant part of 2017, there was talk it might lead to a multicultural epiphany — that America was finally ready to open its ears to Spanish language songs. But though the success of “Despacito” might turn out to…
There is a famous line from Kurt Vonnegut’s time-traveling World War II satire Slaughterhouse-Five, which reads, “Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.” It’s an ironic sentiment the author believes to be the perfect epitaph for his gravestone. For both Vonnegut and humanity, this is of course untrue, and no one…
Tired of the distractions of living in downtown Los Angeles, Caleb Cornett is renting his childhood friend’s house in Kentucky to finish his new, as-yet untitled album.
“Take me to the water, in your new rover/ I’ll grab the surfboard and invite some friends over for tacos and ice cream,” Del Pelson frontman Cal Nelson croons on the band’s stand-out track “Tacos & Ice Cream.” The warm, summer-centric song off the group’s latest release, Wide World EP, is perhaps South Florida’s catchiest summer anthem of 2018.
When Jim Crow laws were still in effect in South Florida, the greatest black performers of the era came to perform on South Beach. But they weren’t welcome to spend their nights at the ritzy hotels where they entertained. Instead, musicians like Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Josephine Baker, Cab…
For the performers at last night’s Pompano Beach Amphitheater concert, the show was more than just an excuse to cash in on nostalgia for the decade of synths and big hair.
The Wu-Tang veteran discusses rap’s new era of turbulence.
GZA, Erasure, Andhim, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 2 to July 8.
America has been showing its flaws lately. Though the nation has never been perfect, it seems like more people are waking up to the fact that “liberty and justice for all” doesn’t really mean for all.
The “Chains of Love” performers have chained themselves to the Magic City.
Robert Allen was seen outside Riva Motorsports around the time the murder occurred.
It’s 4 p.m. in Croatia, and Mark Kinchen, better known as the producer and DJ MK, is jet-lagged and just waking up. He began the week at Electric Forest in Michigan, then flew to Croatia for Hideout Festival, jetted back to Michigan for weekend two of Electric Forest, then headed to New York, and soon will hit Miami for his MK Presents Area 10 Pool Party at the Delano Beach Club this Sunday, July 1. It’s safe to say Kinchen, a veteran dance musician, is in demand.
