Music

Miami Music Week doesn’t start for a few days, but pre-MMW parties will begin taking over venues around town well before the official festivities kick off. Pace yourself, though — St. Patrick’s Day is this Saturday, and if you’re looking for live music, Las Rosas’ full night of sets by Jacuzzi Boys, the Woolly Bushmen, and Dama Vicke might do the trick. Living legends Anita Baker, Chaka Khan, and Smokey Robinson will play Hard Rock Stadium for Jazz in the Gardens, and Jason Mraz will hit the Arsht Center stage this week.

It’s been about a decade since Shaq donned the Heat jersey, but he misses Miami so much he’s coming back in the biggest way possible. Shaq’s Fun House is an invite-only, all-night dance-music throwdown that will be held during Miami Music Week at a secret warehouse in the heart of Wynwood.

It’s just past sunset in Kelly Lee Owens’ London apartment, and she’s palming a crystal while examining a pair of pigeons in the twilight when she’s asked about “Bird,” a kalimba-infused track from her eponymous 2017 album. To Owens, it’s a coincidence that gives meaning to an otherwise mundane moment.

The Woolly Bushmen, a rock outfit based in Orlando, is heavily influenced by classic rock ‘n’ roll bands such as the Animals, in addition to early rockabilly and punk.

In a public info session for downtown residents, MPD and Ultra detailed their plans for responding to a “mass casualty” situation.

Pascal Arbez-Nicolas is the legendary French electronic dance music artist known as Vitalic, but he doesn’t consider himself a producer. He’s more of a songwriter who tells stories using the sound palette of techno house, he says, filtering his personal life through four-to-the-floor bangers with big kick drums and blasts of synthesizer.

Few acts last as long as the indie-pop band Spoon has been around. The group, led by singer and lead songwriter Britt Daniel, formed 25 years ago in Austin, Texas, before the music business was thrown into an internet-induced death spiral. Though the bandmates have weathered the changing tides of…

Across Latin America, the unceasing horns and drums and vivid colors of carnival herald the arrival of spring. Traditionally, it’s a Dionysian celebration that worships our mortal forms and vices as we prepare for the Christian season of Lent, which acknowledges the beauty in our impermanence. Today, Carnaval Miami…

On the surface, Jason Mraz appears to be as pleasant as his music. But if actions speak louder than words, he might be even nicer than he sounds. How nice, you ask? As nice as a dainty, delicate kiss on the cheek from a 90-year-old grandmother who has just slipped…

More than a decade after singer Chris Daughtry’s stint on American Idol, his band Daughtry is back and going strong with a new album and tour. DMX returns to Miami at the Watsco Center, and the indie-pop rockers of Spoon makes a long-awaited stop in South Florida.

Do you ever go to a concert and find yourself wishing the band wouldn’t play the hits, that it would dispose of the popular classics that everyone wants to hear and unleash its most experimental, unsung material?

Okeechobee Music Festival co-owner and cofounder Julio talks DJ’ing and assembling an outdoor dance music paradise with Jungle 51.

Miami Music Week, AKA Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers come to life, is almost here. It’s the week when every superstar DJ/producer descends on the Magic City for seven days of nonstop partying. The parties, of course, are just the leadup to Ultra Music Festival, which is set to return to Bayfront Park March 23 through 25. But before that, there’s plenty to enjoy.

Daytime-disco duo Poolside will kick off a limited set of North American dates tonight in Miami. In addition to opening for Tycho at the Fillmore, Poolside will also perform at Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival the following day.

Guitarist and bandleader Jimmy Vivino talks about his work with the Fab Faux during a break from his late-night show duties while Conan O’Brien filmed an upcoming special episode in Italy.