Of the Miami-born-and-bred acts you won’t see performing at Floyd or Electric Pickle, Crud is among the most exciting. Since 2015, the three-piece has been consistently serving up riffs of the heaviest variety, assailing listeners’ ears — in the best way possible — with the band’s preferred blend of death doom and sludge metal.
Berlin-based electronic artist Zoè Zanias, known simply as Zanias, believes music is what separates us from other animals. She spent much of her childhood trekking through the rainforest with her mother, a tropical biologist, and falling asleep to the sounds of the jungle. Beautiful though exotic bird songs, she says, lack a key element: rhythm.
At 18 years old, DaniLeigh captured the attention of the late Prince, who recruited her to direct the music video for his 2014 single “Breakfast Can Wait.”
At the age of 16, Ash Reiter, the singer/guitarist of the dreamy psych-rock band Sugar Candy Mountain, tooled around Sonoma County while listening to impressionable music that would eventually lead her to start one of the genre’s most refreshing bands. “We would just drive out to the beach and listen to Beatles records, which is about as good as any introduction to psychedelic music you can get,” Reiter reminisces.
Last night, Dua Lipa returned to Miami, to Bayfront Park, for the first time since last year, when she was in the Magic City to film the video for her breakout hit, “New Rules.”
Lil Pump, Ski Mask the Slump God, Smokepurpp, and Wifisfuneral made the list this year.
The Pen & The Piano Tour hits Revolution Live this Friday.
Miami’s best electronic act? Get Face, a 25-year-old kid from Tampa. The city’s top dance club? Treehouse Miami. The finest band? Viniloversus, Venezuelan musicians who had “built a sizable following in their native South American nation and were already Latin Grammy winners by the time economic and political turmoil forced them to emigrate to the United States.”
Judging by its name, you might think Combichrist is a Sunday-morning church band. But then you hear those notes of super-aggro-industrial electronic music ripping through the air. It all becomes beautiful blasphemy built exclusively for raging like a maniac.
Just when you thought the pop-star wave of the past decade was on its way out, English singer and model Dua Lipa showed up with the virulently catchy breakup bop “New Rules” and ex-lover sendoff “IDGAF.” She’ll bring her single-lady sing-alongs and impeccable style to Bayfront Park this Tuesday evening. Prolific singer-songwriter Andrew McMahon will return to South Florida at Revolution Live this Friday, and Maroon 5 will hit the BB&T Center with its onslaught of slick hits Sunday.
Styles, who shot to international fame at the age of 16 with the boy band One Direction before launching his recent solo career, has spent the past eight years performing for stadiums of preteen and teenage girls.
On a recent Wednesday morning at Miami Beach’s Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, a group of 18 string musicians has gathered for a three-day intensive of lessons, mock auditions, and performance psychology seminars. After a welcome breakfast and staff introductions, JT Kane, New World Symphony’s dean of visiting faculty and orchestra manager…
After trading in frigid New York winters for sweltering Miami summers, Alyx Ander has found that the switch agrees with him — and his music career.
In composition as well as curation, Nick León considers all of the angles. Although the Miami-based producer has always demonstrated a keen ear for involved and immersive soundscapes, his latest EP, Friday’s Totem, sees the artist boil down his preexisting techniques to a previously unheard degree.
Las Rosas is celebrating its first anniversary. Kind of. “What gave us the name,” the Allapattah bar’s owner, Cesar Morales, says, “was there was a Central American bar at the same location called Las Rosas. It was a true dive bar. It was really worn-down. But the sign was there, and something about it worked.”
Fans suffered in the rain for merch that wasn’t even there at this campfire catastrophe.
It may be a listening party for his Kids See Ghost project with Kid Cudi.
The Las Vegas-based singer, songwriter, and record producer will perform during Communitea Dance, a Pride Month event to honor LGBTQ youth in South Florida.
As artists of the reggaeton and Latin-trap genres join the ranks at the top of the charts, alternative-Latin acts such as Monsieur Periné are garnering renewed attention in their own right.
The streaming service reversed a policy aimed at removing “hateful content.”
This summer is a great time to be a music fan in Miami. From Britney Spears to the Smashing Pumpkins, some of the most important tours in America are making their way to South Florida. This roundup includes a list of brave souls who are willing to endure the Miami heat and who — in our opinion — are the best. From lesser-known acts to large-scale ones hitting venues of all sizes across the region, here are the ten best concerts coming to South Florida this June through August.
For decades, Dave Daniels, the original owner of Little Haiti’s Churchill’s Pub, lived in a quaint house behind the bar. Just outside his window, live music wailed, drunken lovers humped on his washing machine, and petty fights raged. Daniels has moved on from his life in Lemon City. But his former abode will temporarily serve as a pop-up shop for work by Ahol Sniffs Glue. The artist is bringing his Cyber Trap Boutique from the internet to the real world. And in proper Miami fashion, he’s also bringing the party with his recognizable merchandise.
